The Studies on Relationship Between Forest Fire Characteristics and Weather Phase in Jeollanam-do Region

통계자료에 의한 기상과 산불특성의 관련성 -전라남도지방을 중심으로-

  • Lee, Si-Young (Graduate School of Disaster Prevention, Kangwon National Univ.) ;
  • Park, Houng-Sek (Dept. of Bio. and Environ. Sci., Dongguk Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Young-Woong (Dept. of Bio. and Environ. Sci., Dongguk Univ.) ;
  • Yun, Hoa-Young (Dept. of Bio. and Environ. Sci., Dongguk Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Jong-Kab (Div. of Environ. For. Sci., Gyeongsang National Univ(Insti. of Agric. & Life Sci.).)
  • 이시영 (강원대학교 방재전문대학원) ;
  • 박흥석 (동국대학교 바이오환경과학과) ;
  • 김영웅 (동국대학교 바이오환경과학과) ;
  • 윤화영 (동국대학교 바이오환경과학과) ;
  • 김종갑 (경상대학교 환경산림과학부)
  • Received : 2011.05.09
  • Accepted : 2011.08.25
  • Published : 2011.08.31

Abstract

A forest fire was one of the huge disasters and damaged human lifes and a properties. Therefore, many countries operated forest fire forecasting systems which developed from forest fire records, weather data, fuel models and etc. And many countries also estimated future state of forest fire using a long-term climate forecasting like GCMs and prepared resources for future huge disasters. In this study, we analyzed relationships between forest fire occurrence and meteorological factors (the minimum temperature ($^{\circ}C$), the relative humidity (%), the precipitation (mm), the duration of sunshine (hour) and etc.) for developing a estimating tools, which could forecast forest fire regime under future climate change condition. Results showed that forest fires in this area were mainly occurred when the maximum temperature was $10{\sim}200^{\circ}C$, when the relative humidity was 40~60%, and when the average wind speed was under 2m/s. And forest fires mainly occurred at 2~3 day after rainfall.

본 연구에서는 2005년부터 2009년까지 전라남도 지역의 기상변화와 산불특성과의 관련성을 파악하기 위해 기상요소와 산불 발생자료 (시간, 원인)를 분석한 결과, 최고온도 상승과 상대습도 감소로 인해 산불발생의 위험성이 높은 기후조건이 형성되었으며, 산불은 최고기온 $10{\sim}20^{\circ}C$에서, 상대습도 40~60% 에서, 평균풍속 2 m/s이하에서 주로 발생하였다. 이러한 기상조건은 강우 후에 2~3일이면 산불발생 위험이 높은 기상조건이 형성되었다.

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