Abstract
전지구적 기온상승으로 인해 증발량이 증가할 것으로 예견되었으나, 다양한 지역에서 관측된 팬증발량은 지난 수십 년간 뚜렷한 감소추세를 나타내고 있다. 본 연구에서는 1960년부터 2007년까지 관측된 국내 18개 기상관측소의 팬증발량과, 증발에 관련된 강수량, 온도, 상대습도, 풍속, 일조시간, 일조율에 대한 변화를 분석하였다. 분석결과 팬증발량은 뚜렷한 감소현상을 나타내었으며, 강수량과 온도는 증가추세를, 상대습도, 풍속, 일조시간, 일조율은 감소추세를 나타내었다. 특히, 일조시간과 일조율의 감소추세는 팬증발량과 지역적으로 상당히 일치하고 있음을 확인하였다. 산점도를 그려 상관관계를 확인해본 결과, 일조시간과 일조율은 팬증발량과 양의 상관관계를 강하게 나타내고 있으며, 강수량의 경우는 팬증발량과는 음의 상관관계가 존재하였다. 강릉관측소 사례연구에서 Penman공식에 의해 추정된 개방된 수면에서의 증발량은 팬증발량에서 보인 것 같은 뚜렷한 하향추세가 검증되지 않아, 기존에 팬증발량 관측값으로부터 증발량을 추정하는 것은 장기적인 증발량 변화를 검토하기 위해서는 부적절함을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 팬증발량이 실제증발량과 서로 상호보완적 관계를 갖기 때문에, 팬증발량이 감소하더라도 실제증발량은 증가할 수 있음을 설명하였다. Evaporation over the world is expected to increase owing to increase in temperature by global warming. However, pan evaporation around the world has decreased in the past few decades. This study, which has been conducted in 18 meteorological gauging stations in Korean peninsula, investigates the changes in pan evaporation and climate variables such as precipitation, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, sunshine hours, and percentage of sunshine, which can affect evaporation processes; the changes in these variables have been recorded between 1960 and 2007. At most gauging stations, pan evaporation shows statistically significant downward trends. The relative humidity, wind speed, sunshine hours, and percentage of sunshine also show downward trends. On the other hand, precipitation and temperature show upward trends. The spatial distribution of the downward trend in sunshine hours and percentage of sunshine correspond to that of the downward trend in pan evaporation. Scatter plots imply that pan evaporation has a strong positive correlation with the sunshine hours and percentage of sunshine, while it has a negative correlation with precipitation. At the Gangneung gauging station, the open water evaporation estimated using the Penman equation does not show the significant downward trend shown by pan evaporation. This result implies that pan evaporation is not a good indicator of potential or open water evaporations during the investigation of their long-term variability. Finally, this study explains the complementary relationship between pan and actual evaporations. Decreases in the pan evaporation can act as an evidence for the ever-increasing actual evaporation.
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