• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.409-418
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• 2012

A modified standardized precipitation index was developed by considering the length of dry period and surface run-off effect. The official reports and newspapers on drought from 1973 to 2009 were quantified to evaluate drought indices. The developed index was evaluated using the receiver operating characteristic analysis. In order to suggest improved drought index, we cut the precipitation amount that may do not contribute the mitigation of drought and weight dry period by considering cumulative distribution, decile distribution of dry periods. Drought detection capability of the suggested index has improved by weighting of dry period effects and considering precipitation amounts contributing drought mitigation.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.735-742
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• 2019

Drought is a social phenomenon in which the degree of perception varies depending on the affected factors, and is defined as various relative concepts such as meteorological drought, hydrological drought, agricultural drought, and climatological drought. In this study, a comparative analysis of meteorological drought among variously defined droughts was conducted and the applicability of the drought index was examined by comparing the actual drought cases and the results of meteorological drought index analysis. In order to compare the drought index, we used standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), China-Z Index (CZI), Modified CZI (MCZI) and Z-Score Index Respectively. Four drought indices were used for the Taebaek and Sokcho areas. The drought index was analyzed using the meteorological data from 1986 to 2015 for a duration of 3 months. As a result of the analysis, the SPI drought index was analyzed to be highly reproducible for the case of drought with past limited water series. In the case of CZI and MCZI drought indices, the number of extreme dry occurrences is similar to that of the past cases, but the reproducibility is low for the actual drought years. In the case of ZSI drought index, it is analyzed that the number of occurrences and the comparison with the past cases are inferior in reproducibility. For the meteorological drought index using precipitation, it would be effective to use the SPI drought index with the highest reproducibility and the past drought case.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.175-185
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• 2023

As drought risk increases due to climate change, various research works are underway around the world to respond to drought so as to minimize drought damage. In particular, in recent years, many studies are focused on analyzing regional patterns of drought in a comprehensive manner, however there is still insufficient to quantitatively identify drought-risk areas in a large river basin considering climate change in Korea. In this study, we calculated the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Modified Standardized Precipitation Index (M_SPI) as representative meteorological drought index, and performed spatial autocorrelation analysis to identify the drought hotspot region under climate change scenarios of Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 and RCP 8.5. The SPI was calculated by estimating parameters for each observation station within the study area, whereas the M_SPI was calculated by estimating parameters for the entire study area. It is more reasonable to use the M_SPI for assessing meteorological drought from an overall perspective within the study area. When the M_SPI was used, long-term droughts showed drought hotspot areas clearly larger than short-term droughts. In addition, the drought hotspot area moved from the center of the Nakdong River basin to the Seomjin River basin over time. Especially, the moving patterns of the short-term/long-term drought were apparent under the RCP 4.5, whereas the moving patterns of the long-term drought were distinct under the RCP 8.5 scenarios.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.553-567
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• 2004

This study proposes a modified standardized precipitation index (MSPI) which was developed to make up for the weakness of the SPI. Both MSPI and SPI are applied to the monthly rainfall at the Seoul station for the drought analysis. The MSPI proposed is nothing but the SPI for the normalized monthly rainfall, that is, an extra step for normalizing the monthly rainfall is included before driving the SPI. Thus, the MSPI has a structure to transfer the relative amount of rainfall to the next months, but the SPI the absolute amount of rainfall. The monthly rainfall data at the Seoul station used in this study are those collected from 1777 to 1996. The rainfall data collected before and after the long dry period around 1900 were also analyzed separately for the comparison. The results derived are as follows. (1) The MSPI was found to be more practical compared to the SPI. This was assured by comparing the analysis results of the data including and excluding the long dry period around 1900. (2) The MSPI is found to be less sensitive than the SPI to the extreme rainfall events. For the MSPI, the occurrence probabilities of moderate drought before and after the long dry period are similar, but those for the extreme drought becomes slightly decreased after the long dry period (from about 18 years of return period before the long dry period to the 16 years after the long dry period). However, the duration becomes longer after the long dry period (the duration for the extreme drought has been increased from 2 to 2.5 months after the long dry period). This results can also be compared with a rather unreasonable result derived by applying the SPI (for the extreme drought the return period has been decreased to be from 25 to 10 years after the long dry period, on the other hand the duration has been increased from 1.5 months to 3.5 months). So, we man conclude that the MSPI is more practical for the drought analysis that the SPI.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.701-701
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• 2012

장시간의 강수부족으로부터 야기되는 가뭄은 다른 자연재해에 비하여 하나의 물리적인 특성으로 표현하기에는 한계가 있다. 이러한 가뭄의 특성을 파악하기 위하여 다양한 지수들이 사용되고 있으며, 각각의 지수는 기후적 혹은 물리적 특성 등을 반영하여 가뭄을 평가하고 있다. 다양한 가뭄지수중 SPI(Standardized Precipitation Index)는 가뭄 발생에 있어 가장 중요한 요소를 차지하는 강수를 이용하여 가뭄을 평가하고 있으며, 비교적 간단한 방법으로 계산되어지며 다양한 기관에서 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 무강수일수와 선행강수조건에 따른 영향을 고려한 개선된 SPI 지수를 제시하고 가뭄감지능력을 기존의 가뭄지수와 비교 분석 하였다. 무강수일수의 고려를 위하여 월 최대 무강수일수의 확률분포를 구하고 이를 다시 누적확률분포로 나타냄으로서 기존에 가뭄지수에 무강수일수의 영향을 추가할 수 있는 가중치를 생성하였다. 또한 추가적으로 월 최대 무강수일의 시점을 전기, 중기, 후기로 구분하여 각각의 기간에 따라 가중치를 변환하여 수행하였다. 이전의 강수효과를 고려하기 위하여 15일 이전의 강수를 성수기와 비성수기로 구분하고 각각의 기간에 강수량에 따른 가중치를 세분하여 기존의 가뭄지수에 추가하였다. 기존의 가뭄지수와 새롭게 제시된 가뭄지수의 평가를 위하여 ROC분석을 사용하였으며, ROC분석은 실제 발생했던 사실과 산정된 값을 평가하는 방법으로 본 연구에서는 과거 실제 방생한 가뭄기록과 산정된 지수의 수치를 4가지의 범주로 나누어 분석하였다. 평가 기간은 1973년부터 2009년까지이며, 사용된 자료는 우리나라 기상청의 76개 지상관측지점 중 섬 지역 7개를 제외한 69개 지점의 정보를 이용하였다. 분석결과 기존의 SPI3에 비하여 전반적으로 향상된 가뭄감지능력을 보여주었다. 무강수일수와 선행강수효과를 이용한 가뭄지수의 가중치 생성은 SPI3 뿐만 아니라 다양한 지수에 적용되어 사용성이 높아 뛰어난 가뭄감지능력을 가지는 가뭄지수 개발에 효과적으로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.141-141
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• 2022

Drought is a global phenomenon that affects almost all landscapes and causes major damages. Due to non-linear nature of contributing factors, drought occurrence and its severity is characterized as stochastic in nature. Early warning of impending drought can aid in the development of drought mitigation strategies and measures. Thus, drought forecasting is crucial in the planning and management of water resource systems. The primary objective of this study is to make improvement is existing drought forecasting techniques. Therefore, we proposed an improved version of Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model (MD-SARIMA) for reliable drought forecasting with three years lead time. In this study, we selected four watersheds of Han River basin in South Korea to validate the performance of MD-SARIMA model. The meteorological data from 8 rain gauge stations were collected for the period 1973-2016 and converted into watershed scale using Thiessen's polygon method. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was employed to represent the meteorological drought at seasonal (3-month) time scale. The performance of MD-SARIMA model was compared with existing models such as Seasonal Naive Bayes (SNB) model, Exponential Smoothing (ES) model, Trigonometric seasonality, Box-Cox transformation, ARMA errors, Trend and Seasonal components (TBATS) model, and SARIMA model. The results showed that all the models were able to forecast drought, but the performance of MD-SARIMA was robust then other statistical models with Wilmott Index (WI) = 0.86, Mean Absolute Error (MAE) = 0.66, and Root mean square error (RMSE) = 0.80 for 36 months lead time forecast. The outcomes of this study indicated that the MD-SARIMA model can be utilized for drought forecasting.