기후변화 관측분야 연구개발 현황과 발전방안
가수현·이정은·오정진†
숙명여자대학교 지구환경연구소

Status and Strategy for the Climate Observation Science in Korea
Soohyun Ka, Jung Eun Lee, and Jung Jin Oh†
Research Institute for Global Environment, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul 140-742, Korea
Received December 4, 2012/Revised December 19, 2012/Accepted December 28, 2012

Due to the climate change in this century around the globe, various problems like global warming, and
abrupt change in climate variables have occurred. Especially, extreme weather and climate events above or
below a threshold value near the upper or lower ends of the range of observed values of variable have
increased rapidly. These extreme climate events have caused problems such as temperature rise, precipitation,
glacial retreats and elevation of sea level rise and have brought a great economic losses and indirect effects
on ecosystem services. Intergovernmental solution to the disasters due to the climate extremes has been
pursued for adaptation and risk management. The review and evaluation on the current status of our scientific
research and suggestions are discussed for the future development of climate observation science.

Key words: Climate change, Global warming, Climate extremes, Remote sensing, Atmospheric science