Research from Seoul National University Yields New Data on Risk Management (Farmstead-Specific Weather Risk Prediction Technique Based on High-Resolution Weather Grid Distribution): Risk Management

2024 FEB 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on risk management have been presented. According to news reporting from Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “In recent years, the importance and severity of weather-related disasters have escalated, attributed to rising temperatures and the occurrence of extreme weather events due to global warming.”

Funders for this research include Rural Development Administration.

The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Seoul National University: “The focus of disaster management has shifted from crisis management (e.g., repairing and recovering from damage caused by natural disasters) to risk management (e.g., prediction and preparation) while concentrating on early warning, thanks to the development of media and communication conditions. The Rural Development Administration (Korea) has developed the “early warning service for weather risk management in the agricultural sector” that detects weather risks for crops from high-resolution weather information in advance and provides customized information to respond to possible disaster risks in advance in response to the increasing number of extreme weather events. The core technology of this service is damage prediction technology that determines the overall agricultural weather risk level by quantifying the current growth stage of cultivated crops and the probability of possible weather disasters according to the weather conditions of the farm. Agrometeorological disasters are damages caused by weather conditions that can affect crops and can be predicted by estimating the probability of damage that may occur from the interaction between hazardous weather and crop characteristics.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This review introduces the classification of possible weather risks by their occurrence mechanisms, based on the developmental stage of crops and prediction techniques that have been developed or applied to date. The accumulated crop growth and weather risk information is expected to be utilized as support material for farming decision-making, which helps farmers proactively respond to crop damage due to extreme weather events by providing highly reliable disaster forecasts through the advancement of prediction technology.”

For more information on this research see: Farmstead-Specific Weather Risk Prediction Technique Based on High-Resolution Weather Grid Distribution. Atmosphere, 2024,15(1). (Atmosphere - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/). The publisher for Atmosphere is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15010116.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Dae-Jun Kim, National Center for AgroMeteorology (NCAM), Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Jin-Hee Kim, Eun-Jeong Yun, Dae Gyoon Kang, Eunhye Ban.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the authors of this research: Dae-Jun Kim (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1334-2443), Jin-Hee Kim (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3800-8863).

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