CURRENT RESEARCH TRENDS ON FLOODING IN SOUTH KOREA

Professor Kwansue Jung

Chungnam National University

Theeffects of climate change to our environment is sonoticeable that almost all people in the world are aware of what it is and what it does. But what is climate change?

NASA defined climate change as a change in the usual weather in a location. It may be a change in the precipitation pattern, amount, and or intensity. It can also be a change in the monthly or seasonal temperature. According to NASA, climate change is also a change in the Earth’s climate. It can be a change in the Earth’s usual temperature or it could be a change in where rain and snow usually fall on Earth. Climate change takes more than a hundred or millions years before it happens.

But how does climate change directly affect us? To put it simply, higher climate temperatures evaporates more surface water on Earth, which eventually returns to us as rain or snow. Warmer air can hold more water vapor in the atmosphere and thus causes intense rainstorms, torrential rainfall, and typhoons. These sudden and concentrated rainfall are the most common cause of water-related disasters in coastal and urban areas.

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