Open AccessContructing Climate Change Scenarios for Ho Chi Minh City
Author(s) -
Mai Van Khiem
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
tạp chí khoa học đại học quốc gia hà nội: nghiên cứu giáo dục (vnu journal of science: education research)/tạp chí khoa học đại học quốc gia hà nội: các khoa học trái đất và môi trường (vnu journal of science: earth and environmental sciences)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2615-9279
pISSN - 2588-1094
DOI - 10.25073/2588-1094/vnuees.4332
Subject(s) - ho chi minh , climate change , baseline (sea) , representative concentration pathways , christian ministry , environmental science , climatology , climate model , geography , geology , political science , scale (ratio) , cartography , oceanography , law
This article presents the results of constructing climate change scenarios for Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)based on the climate change scenarios of Vietnam published in 2016 by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Four high- resolution regional climate models include CCAM, clWRF, PRECIS, RegCM were used to downscale results of global climate models. The results show that the annual average temperature in HCMC tends to increase in the future compared to the baseline period 1986-2005, the increase depends on each RCP scenario. By the end of the century, the annual average temperature in HCMC had an increase of about 1.7÷1.9°C under the RCP4.5 scenario and 3.2÷3.6°C under RCP8.5.Meanwhile, annual rainfall in HCMC tends to increase in most periods under both of RCP scenarios. By the end of the century, annual rainfall in HCMC increases from 15% to 25% in the RCP4.5 scenario and 20-25% in the RCP8.5 scenario. Annual rainfall in coastal areas increases more than inland areas.
Keyword: Climate change scenarios, Ho Chi Minh city