Environment and Geography

Myung Soo Cha (), Junseok Hwang () and Heejin Park ()
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Myung Soo Cha: Yeungnam University
Junseok Hwang: Daegu Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Heejin Park: Kyungpook National University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Historical Statistics of Korea, 2022, pp 1-36 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents the climatic and geographical information for the Korean peninsula, which comprises today’s North and South Korea and lies in the temperate zone—between 33° and 43°N and between 124° and 132°E to be precise. The climatic data include precipitation, temperature, humidity, and wind speed from 1904–2015. Meteorological data are presented for five major cities on a monthly basis together with annual sums or averages and national totals. Noteworthy are the rainfall data for the capital city, Seoul, collected by the pre-colonial bureaucracy from 1777 to 1907 using ch’ŭgugi, an oil drum-shaped iron gauge. According to the temperature time series, Korea’s average temperature rose by roughly 2 ℃ over the past century.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3874-2_1

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