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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2016, Article ID 1879024, 13 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1879024
Research Article

Assessment of Meteorological Drought in Korea under Climate Change

Jaewon Kwak,1 Soojun Kim,2 Jaewon Jung,3 Vijay P. Singh,4 Dong Ryul Lee,5 and Hung Soo Kim6

1Forecast and Control Division, Nakdong River Flood Control Office, Busan 49300, Republic of Korea
2Columbia Water Center, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
3Department of Safety and Environment Research, Seoul Institute, Seoul 06756, Republic of Korea
4Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, TX 77843, USA
5Water Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Goyang 10223, Republic of Korea
6Department of Civil Engineering, INHA University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea

Received 22 June 2016; Accepted 17 October 2016

Academic Editor: Guillermo Baigorria

Copyright © 2016 Jaewon Kwak et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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