Spring has arrived about 10 days earlier to the Korea Peninsula than four decades ago, a study showed Monday, amid escalating concerns over climate change.
According to a report published by the Korea Meteorological Administration and Konkuk University geography professor Choi Young-eun, spring has arrived 2.6 days earlier every 10 years on average, mainly due to global warming. The result was based on weather data from 43 locations across the country between 1974 and 2011.
In more northern areas and closer to the coast, spring has been slower to arrive, it said. In southern coastal areas such as Busan and Ulsan the season started in late February while other locations greeted the warm weather in March.
Researchers noted that spring arrived earlier whenever the global temperature showed a substantial rise, especially in the late 1980s.
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