BIAS CORRECTION METHOD FOR SIMULATED STORM SURGE HEIGHT CONSIDERING COASTLINE CHARACTERISTIC

Previous studies imply storm surge heights (SSHs) are expected to become more severe in the future climate condition because climate change is projected to increase sea surface temperature and consequently results in intensified tropical cyclones (e.g. Mori and Takemi, 2016). Therefore, The projection of potential maximum SSHs and the identification of areas vulnerable to storm surge on regional or national scales are important for policy making to prioritize where to take action and to find appropriate site-specific solutions against the SSHs in the future climate condition along the coastline (e.g. Voudoukas et al., 2016; Lapidez et al., 2015). We propose a new approach for model validation that can be applied to the projection of future SSHs on the regional scale. We first simulated SSHs on a regional scale in the Korean Peninsula (KP) for various historical typhoons and examined the performance of the model.