Korea Environment Institute

Seasonal divergence in compound heatwave–extreme precipitation events

Compound heatwave – extreme precipitation (CHWEP) events pose escalating risks in monsoon-influenced mid-latitude region across the globe, yet, long-term and seasonally-resolved observational evidence remains limited. Here, we quantify the seasonal and long-term changes, and rece...

Analysing stakeholder discourse on just transitions: the case of South Korean trade unions, academia and NGOs

Just Transition has become a pivotal concept in climate change policy, yet substantial divergence exists among non-state stakeholders regarding its practical implementation. Drawing on energy justice theory – encompassing distributive, procedural, and recognition justice – this s...

Weak Cross-Assemblage Concordance of Survey-Round Community Dissimilarity in Korean Lotic Waters: A Matched National Biomonitoring Analysis

National biomonitoring programs increasingly survey multiple biological assemblages, but whether one biological element can serve as a surrogate for the magnitude or ranking of repeated-survey compositional displacement remains unresolved under strict site-year-round matching. We...

Regional CO 2 and CH 4 inversion system using WRF-Chem (v4.4)/DART (v9.8.0) and continuous high-precision observations over the Korean Peninsula

Abstract. Quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over complex terrain remains a significant challenge for conventional inversion systems due to the high sensitivity of tracer transport to surface heterogeneity. We develop a high-resolution dual-species GHG top-down inversion...