Environmental Numerical Modeling and Numerical Weather Prediction
Changes in
Soil Characteristics
due to an increase in Air Temperature
with NOAH’s Land Surface Model(LSM)
Homepage Introduction
After the Industrial Revolution,
human activities and development based on fossil fuel use emitted explosive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in a short period of time. As a result, the Earth's temperature rose sharply in just over 100 years, and according to the 「6th Climate Change Evaluation Report」 of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Council on Climate Change), the global surface temperature rose 1.09℃ between 2011 and 2020 compared to before industrialization.
Climate disasters caused by global warming
are occurring more frequently around the world. Among them, the frequency and scale of forest fires are the worst every year, and last year and this year, unprecedented large-scale forest fires occurred worldwide, including Australia, the United States, Canada, Turkey, and Greece, causing enormous damage. Likewise, an unprecedented large forest fire broke out in Korea in 2021. The continuous occurrence of large-scale forest fires is due to "Climate Change," and the rise in winter temperatures is directly related to forest fires. Drought occurs not only in the atmosphere but also in the ground and vegetation according to the amount of snow accumulated in winter and changes in weather, changing the ecosystem of forests vulnerable to forest fires. In the end, global warming is changing the natural ecosystem to a condition that is more vulnerable to climate disasters, which becomes a "return effect" that accelerates global warming.
