• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
• /
• v.56 no.12
• /
• pp.883-893
• /
• 2023

While South Korea's dependence on imported grains is very high, droughts impacts from exporting countries have been overlooked. Using the Evaporative Stress Index (ESI), this study globally analyzed frequency, extent, and long-term trends of agricultural droughts and their relation to natural oscillations and global crop prices. Results showed that global-scale correlations were found between ESI and soil moisture anomalies, and they were particularly strong in crop cultivation areas. The high correlations in crop cultivation areas imply a strong land-atmosphere coupling, which can lead to relatively large yield losses with a minor soil moisture deficits. ESI showed a clear decreasing trend in crop cultivation areas from 1991 to 2022, and this trend may continue due to global warming. The sharp increases in the grain prices in 2012 and 2022 were likely related to increased drought areas in major grain-exporting countries, and they seemed to elevate South Korea's producer price index. This study suggests the need for drought risk management for grain-exporting countries to reduce socioeconomic impacts in South Korea.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2006.05a
• /
• pp.425-429
• /
• 2006

The understanding and prediction of the behavior of flow in open channels are important to the solution of a wide variety of practical flow problems in water resources engineering. Recently, frequent drought has increased the necessity of an effective water resources control and management of river flows for reserving instream flow. The objective of this study is to develop an efficient and accurate finite element model based on Streamline Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin(SU/PG) scheme for analyzing and predicting two dimensional flow features in complex natural rivers. Several tests were performed in developed all elements(4-Node, 6-Node, 8-Node elements) for the purpose of validation and verification of the developed model. The U-shaped channel of flow and natural river of flow were performed for tests. The results were compared with these of laboratory experiments and RMA-2 model. Such results showed that solutions of high order elements were better accurate and improved than those of linear elements. Also, the suggested model displayed reasonable velocity distribution compare to RMA-2 model in meandering domain for application of natural river flow. Accordingly, the developed finite element model is feasible and produces reliable results for simulation of two dimensional natural river flow. Also, One contribution of this study is to present that results can lead to significant gain in analyzing the accurate flow behavior associated with hydraulic structure such as weir and water intake station and flow of chute and pool.

• KCID journal
• /
• v.13 no.2
• /
• pp.236-245
• /
• 2006

Among a number of methodologies for developing groundwater supply to overcome drought events reported in the research community, an accurate estimation of the groundwater level is an important initial issue to provide an efficient method for operating groundwater. The primary objective of this paper is to develop an advanced prediction model for the groundwater level in the catchment area of the Ssangcheon groundwater dam using precipitation based period dividing algorithm and response surface methodology (RSM). A numerical example clearly shows that the proposed method can effectively forecast groundwater level in terms of correlation coefficient ($R^2$) in the upstream part of the Ssangcheon groundwater dam.

• Atmosphere
• /
• v.18 no.4
• /
• pp.355-365
• /
• 2008

Synoptic and climatological characteristics of heat waves over Korea and Europe as well as their biometeorological impacts were compared. In July of 1994, excess deaths of about 2,388 in the population of South Korea are estimated by the modified excess death calculation algorithm ofKysely (2004). The excess deaths correspond to the net mortality increase of 12.5% in July of 1994 if we compare the estimated value to the expected number of deaths in this month (i.e., about 19,171). The comparative study of heat waves in Korea and Europe shows that the record-breaking heat waves in both regions are closely associated with prolonged droughts. In particular, reduction of soil moisture, precipitation and cloud cover and enhancement of insolation during the drought periods are very likely to be related to the increase in the intensity and the duration ofheat waves. Climate models predict that the frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves in the 21 st century will be greatly enhanced in both areas. In order to reduce the biometeorological and socioeconomic impacts due to heat waves, not only the development of heat-related mortality prediction model that can be widely applied to many climate regimes, but also studies on the climatological association between extreme temperatures and abnormal hydrological cycle are needed.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
• /
• v.22 no.3
• /
• pp.135-143
• /
• 2020

Shortwave radiation and sunshine hours (SHOUR) are important variables having many applications, including crop growth. However, observational data for these variables have low horizontal resolution, rendering its application to related research and decision making on f arming practices challenging. In the present study, hourly solar radiation data were physically generated using the Land-Atmosphere Modeling Package (LAMP) at the National Center f or Agro-Meteorology, and then daily SHOUR fields were calculated through statistical downscaling. After data quality evaluation, including case studies, the SHOUR data were added to the existing publically accessible LAMP daily database. The LAMP daily dataset, newly updated with SHOUR, has been provided operationally as input data to the "Gyeonggi-do Agricultural Drought Prediction System," which predicts agricultural weather disasters and field crop growth status.

• Environmental Engineering Research
• /
• v.22 no.2
• /
• pp.162-168
• /
• 2017

Rainfall is one of the most important phenomena of the natural system. In Bangladesh, agriculture largely depends on the intensity and variability of rainfall. Therefore, an early indication of possible rainfall can help to solve several problems related to agriculture, climate change and natural hazards like flood and drought. Rainfall forecasting could play a significant role in the planning and management of water resource systems also. In this study, univariate Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model was used to forecast monthly rainfall for twelve months lead-time for thirty rainfall stations of Bangladesh. The best SARIMA model was chosen based on the RMSE and normalized BIC criteria. A validation check for each station was performed on residual series. Residuals were found white noise at almost all stations. Besides, lack of fit test and normalized BIC confirms all the models were fitted satisfactorily. The predicted results from the selected models were compared with the observed data to determine prediction precision. We found that selected models predicted monthly rainfall with a reasonable accuracy. Therefore, year-long rainfall can be forecasted using these models.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
• /
• v.35 no.2
• /
• pp.137-148
• /
• 2002

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of water quality improvement due to dredging the bottom deposit at the downstream of a urban river. The finite difference method was used to analyze the water quality variations caused by the depths of dredging and intercepting ratios of the goal years. 21 boring points were selected along the 11.2km river reach running through a metropolitan city. The pollution levels of the deposits from the bored Points were examined by the leaching test. The improvement effect of the water quality, measured as changes of COD, were carried at under drought, minimal, and normal flow. The result indicates that the dredging of the contaminated sludge contributes the improvement of the water quality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2015.05a
• /
• pp.20-20
• /
• 2015

최근 기후변화의 영향으로 전 세계적으로 홍수와 가뭄의 발생빈도가 증가하고 있다. 특히, 가뭄은 우리나라에서 겨울과 봄철을 중심으로 매년 발생되고 있다. 가뭄의 정확한 발생을 판단하기는 어려우나, 가뭄이 발생되면 그 진행속도는 홍수보다 느리기 때문에 초기에 가뭄의 발생가능성을 예측한다면 가뭄에 대한 피해를 줄일 수 있다. 따라서 최근 가뭄 예측에 대한 다양한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 가뭄발생의 불확실성을 내포하기 위하여 Bayesian Network (BN) 모형과 SPI의 자기상관성을 바탕으로 가까운 미래의 가뭄 발생확률을 예측하는 방법을 제안하였다. BN은 변수들 간의 인과관계를 확률적으로 나타낼 수 있는 네트워크 모형으로, 자연현상에 대한 위험도 분석 및 의학 분야에서 질병추정을 위한 모형으로 활용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 가까운 미래의 가뭄 예측을 위하여 APEC 기후센터(APEC Climate Center, APCC)에서 제공하는 다중모형앙상블(Multi-model Ensemble, MME) 강우예측 결과로 도출한 미래 SPI 및 과거 강우량 자료로 구축한 SPI를 부모노드로, 예측 SPI를 자식노드로 BN을 구축하였다. BN의 각각의 노드를 Gaussian 확률분포모형으로 가정한 뒤, Likelihood weighting 방법으로 주변사후분포확률(Marginal posterior distribution)을 추정하여 미래의 SPI의 발생확률을 계산하였다. 2008년부터 2013년의 BN 가뭄 예측값과 MME 강우예측 결과로 도출한 SPI를 실제 관측 강우량으로 산정한 SPI와 비교하였으며, BN이 실제 관측결과에 가까운 결과가 도출되었다. 본 연구에서는 BN을 활용하여 가까운 미래의 가뭄 발생가능성을 확률적으로 나타낼 수 있는 방법을 제시하였으며, 그 결과 가뭄상태별 가뭄 발생확률이 산정되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2016.05a
• /
• pp.151-151
• /
• 2016

하천 유역의 수자원관리에 있어서 홍수 및 가뭄 기간에 유출의 규모와 빈도와 같은 유출특성을 신뢰할 수 있도록 예측하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 수문모형은 이러한 유역의 신뢰성 있는 유출량 예측을 위해 이용되며, 수문모형의 결과물은 수문순환 과정의 공간적 표출이나 매개변수 추정방법 등 다양한 요인에 매우 민감하게 반영된다. 대부분의 수문모형 매개변수들은 해당 유역의 특성이나, 홍수 및 가뭄과 같은 극단적 유출상황에 따라 설정되어 있지 못한 실정이며, 이는 모형의 신뢰성 있는 보정 및 유출량 모의를 보다 정밀하게 수행하지 못하는 원인으로 작용하게 된다. 본 연구의 목적은 SWAT(Soil and Water Assessment Tool) 모형을 이용하여 유역의 하천 유출량을 모의함에 있어서 홍수 및 가뭄년, 평년의 유출특성이 모형의 매개변수 추정에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 하는 것이다. 이를 위해, 안성천 유역($1,658.7km^2$)을 대상으로 유역 내 3지점의 기상관측소(이천, 수원, 천안)를 대상으로 40년(1976~2015)동안의 일 기상자료를 수집하여 SWAT 모형을 구축하였다. 홍수년 및 가뭄년, 평년을 포함하는 선별된 기간에 대하여 다양한 목적함수($R^2$, NSE, RMSE, PBIAS)를 활용하여 각각의 조합된 기간의 극단적 유출특성에 초점을 맞추어 검보정을 수행하였다. 이후 홍수년 및 가뭄년, 평년을 포함하는 선별된 기간에서의 유출량의 규모와 빈도에 영향을 미치는 매개변수를 도출하고 민감도를 평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2016.05a
• /
• pp.98-98
• /
• 2016

본 연구에서는 유입량의 불확실성을 고려하여 미래 저수량을 확률론적으로 예측하였다. 월별 유입량을 표본으로 한 확률밀도함수를 핵밀도함수(kernel function)를 이용하여 추정하고, 추정된 확률분포로 월별 유입량을 모의 발생하였다. 모의 발생된 유입량을 통해 연속적인 조건부 확률을 산정하였고, 이의 누적확률분포(F(x))는 해당 저수량에 도달하지 못할 확률, 즉 실패확률을 의미하므로 1-F(x)로 해당 저수량 이상을 확보할 수 있는 확률을 산정하였다. 보령댐을 대상으로 분석한 결과 2016년 2월 말 저수량 27.8 백만$m^3$ 기준으로 3월부터 6월까지 정상용수공급환원 기준 저수량을 만족할 확률이 각각 2.3%, 12.5%, 24.2%, 33.5%로 나타났다. 지역적 가뭄에 대응하기 위해 하천유지용수 감량, 용수 대체공급, 자율 급수조정 및 금강-보령댐 도수로를 이용한 용수공급으로 20.6만$m^3/day$의 용수가 비축될 경우, 정상용수공급환원 기준 저수량을 만족할 확률이 10.2%, 40.3%, 73.8%, 78.7%로 용수비축의 효과가 크게 나타나는 것을 확인하였다. 저수량의 확률론적 예측을 통해 미래 저수량의 확률적 발생가능성을 추정할 수 있으며, 가뭄이 발생할 경우, 가뭄 대응효과를 정량적으로 나타낼 수 있어 가뭄 위험 상황 전달 및 용수공급조정 의사결정 시 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.