• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.38 no.6_3
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• pp.1847-1859
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• 2022

Wildfires in North Korea can have a directly or indirectly affect South Korea if they go south to the Demilitarized Zone. Therefore, this study calculates the regional optimized Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) based on Local Data Assessment and Prediction System (LDAPS) weather data to obtain forest fire risk in North Korea, and applied it to the cases in Goseong-gun and Cheorwon-gun, North Korea in April 2022. As a result, the suitability was confirmed as the FFDI at the time of ignition corresponded to the risk class Extreme and Severe sections, respectively. In addition, a qualitative comparison of the risk map and the soil moisture map before and after the wildfire, the correlation was grasped. A new forest fire risk index that combines drought factors such as soil moisture, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), and Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) will be needed in the future.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.52 no.12
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• pp.1075-1086
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• 2019

Recently, as the incidence of climate warming and abnormal climate increases, the forecasting of hydrological factors such as precipitation and river flow is getting more complicated, and the risk of water shortage is also increasing. Therefore, this study aims to develop a model for predicting the amount of water intake in mid-term. To this end, the correlation between water intake and meteorological factors, including temperature and precipitation, was used to select input factors. In addition, the amount of water intake increased with time series and seasonal characteristics were clearly shown. Thus, the preprocessing process was performed using the time series decomposition method, and the support vector machine (SVM) was applied to the residual to develop the river intake prediction model. This model has an error of 4.1% on average, which is higher accuracy than the SVM model without preprocessing. In particular, this model has an advantage in mid-term prediction for one to two months. It is expected that the water intake forecasting model developed in this study is useful to be applied for water allocation computation in the permission of river water use, water quality management, and drought measurement for sustainable and efficient management of water resources.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1996.06c
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• pp.977-986
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• 1996

The uncertainty of rains at the onset of wet season (WS) and the drought risk involved hinder growing more than one rainfed lwoland rice crop per year. Establishing transplanted rice well into the WS leaves insufficient moisture in the soil for subsequent crop. Rice establishment early in the season gives the farmer better opportunities to grow a crop after rice. An experiment was conducted startign in 1993 to evaluate dry seeding of rice through slit soil seeding. It is done utilizing the vertical metering slit seeder for conserving soil moisture coming from the first rains in the early WS to sustain germination and establishment of the seeding at least until the succeeding rains under therainfed lowland (RL) environment. The treatment consisted of slit-seeding the PSBRc 14 into the tilled and nontilled plots at 100kg/ha and at depths of <10 mm (shallow seeding) and 60-70m (deep seeding). The control treatment was broadcast seeded on tilled soil and harrow to cover the seeds The superior crop establishment observed in 1995 WS experiment on nontilled, slit-seeded plots confirmed the results observed in 1993 WS and 1994 WS experiments. Emergence in deep seeding was not significantly different from shallow seeding in nontilled plots giving an average yield of 2.1 t/ha in all slit-seeded plots. This offers an advantage of reduced energy in put in nontilled shallow seeding. However, heavy weed infestation has to be addressed at the early stage of rice in nontilled soil to get the full advantage from slit seeding. The consistently better crop establishment observed in slit seeding over that of broadcast seeding in the WS of 1993, 1994 and 1995 also demonstrates that the slit seeding technology can be adopted with confidence in the rainfed lowland field condition to reduce the risks involved in broadcast seeding.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.220-237
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• 2001

Over the 20th century global temperature increase has been 0.6$^{\circ}C$. The globally averaged surface temperature is projected to increase by 1.4 to 5.8$^{\circ}C$ over the period 1990 to 2100. Nearly all land areas will have higher maximum temperature and minimum temperature, and fewer cold days and frost days. More intense precipitation events will take plate over many areas. Over most mid-latitude continental interiors will have increased summer continental drying and associated risk of drought. By 2100, if the annual surface temperature increase is 3.5$^{\circ}C$, we will have 15.9$^{\circ}C$ from 12.4$^{\circ}C$ at present. Also the annual precipitation will range 1,118-2,447 mm from 972-1,841 mm at present in Korea. Consequently the average crop periods for summer crops will be 250 days that prolonged 32 days than at present. In the case of gradual increase of global warming, an annual crop can be adapted to the changing climate through the selection of filial generations in breeding process. The perennial crops such as an apple should be shifted the chief producing place to northern or high latitude areas where below 13.5$^{\circ}C$ of the annual surface temperature. If global warming happens suddenly over the threshold atmospheric greenhouse gases, then all ecosystems will have tremendous disturbance. Agricultural land-use plan, which state that farmers decide what to plant, based on their climate-based advantages. Therefore, farmers will mitigate possible negative imparts associated with the climate change. The farmers will have application to use agricultural meteorological information system, and agricultural long-range weather forecast system for their agroecosystems management. The ideal types of crops under $CO_2$ increase and climate change conditions are considered that ecological characteristics need indispensable to accomplish the sustainable agriculture as the diversification of genetic resources from yield-oriented to biomass-oriented characteristics with higher potential of $CO_2$ absorption and primary production. In addition, a heat-and-cold tolerance, a pest resistance, an environmental adaptability, and production stability should be also incorporated collectively into integrated agroecosystem.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.612-616
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• 2006

In recent years, there has been increasing concerns in gene flow from GM crops to wild or weedy relatives as a potential risk in the commercialization of GM crops. To access the possibility of the environmental impacts by GM rice, small-scale experiments of gene transfer were carried out. Herbicide and drought stress resistant GM rice and non-GM rice Nakdongbyeo, wild rice Oryza nivara, and weedy rice Sharebyeo were used for artificial pollination experiments and bar gene was used as a tractable marker after pollination. The harvested putative hybrid seeds after artificial pollination were germinated and true hybrid plants were selected by basta treatment. The hybrid plants were verified again by PCR amplification of bar and trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (TPP) genes and RAPD PCR analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.263-263
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• 2016

기후변화 등에 따른 가뭄위험을 평가하기 위한 다양한 방법이 연구되어 왔으며, 기상학적인 가뭄이나 생물학적인 가뭄 등으로 정의되는 가뭄지수들이 개발되어졌다. 그러나 궁극적으로 가뭄의 판정은 수원으로부터 더 이상의 용수를 공급할 수 없는 상황에 처해졌을 때 비로소 결정되는 것이므로, 수원공의 가뭄위험에 대한 평가가 우선적일 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 수도권의 생공용수 공급을 책임지고 있다고 해도 과언이 아닌 다목적댐인 소양강댐과 충주댐의 가뭄위험을 평가하기 위하여 월강우량 자료로부터 특정시기의 저수율을 예측할 수 있는 방법을 개발하도록 하였다. 월강우량 변화에 따른 저수율의 변화양상을 예측하기 위하여 저수지 유입량과 방류량에 따른 물수지 분석이 정교하게 이루어져야 하지만, 실질적으로 상류에 또 다른 댐이 존재하는 상황에서 유입량을 정확하게 예측하는 것도 어렵지만 수시로 상황에 따라 이루어지는 방류량을 적절히 예측하는 것은 거의 불가능하므로, 물수지 분석에 의한 저수율 예측은 어느 정도의 불확실성을 가질수밖에 없을 것으로 판단되어 댐 관리관행에 따라 나타나는 월강우량과 저수율 사이의 회귀분석을 통하여 일정한 법칙을 만들 수 있는지 시도하였다. 다목적 댐인 소양강댐과 충주댐의 1984-2013년의 일별 저수율 자료로부터 저수율 관리관행을 파악할 수 있었는데, 다목적 댐인 관계로 호우시의 홍수피해 예방을 위하여 6월말에는 25-35% 정도의 저수율을 유지하도록 관리가 이루어지고 있었으며 호우가 발생된 이후에는 일정량을 수시로 방류하여 다음 호우를 준비하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 각 댐의 최저 저수율은 3월말 - 4월에 발생하는 것으로 나타났으며, 4월과 5월에 일정 정도의 강우량만 존재한다면 가뭄피해는 발생하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 저수율 관리 관행을 적용하여 예측되는 강우량 패턴에 따른 저수율 변화를 예측하기 위하여 월강우량 자료와 4월 1일 기준의 저수율 자료 사이의 회귀분석을 실시하여 전년의 7월부터 당해 3월까지의 월강우량으로부터 4월 1일의 저수율을 예측할 수 있는 의미 있는 결과를 도출하였다. 이러한 결과는 기후변화 등에 따른 미래에 예측되는 월강우량 자료로부터 각 댐의 4월 1일 기준 저수율 자료를 예측할 수 있으며, 4월 및 5월의 월강우량과 함께 분석함으로써 가뭄위험을 평가할 수 있는 한 방법으로 적절한 활용이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.33-44
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• 2019

Due to the recent climate change realization (timing, rainfall pattern changes), the flow regime is changing according to the watershed. The long-term change of flow regime is causing a significant change in structure and function of aquatic ecosystems. However, there is no analysis from the viewpoint of the aquatic ecosystem including flow rate alteration and ecological characteristics as well as the climate change connection in Korea yet. Therefore, We quantitatively assessed the impact of present-future flow regime alteration due to climate change on the Pseudopungtungia nigra habitat in the Mankyung river and floodplain area. As a result, it was confirmed that extreme hydrological conditions such as flood and drought are intensified in the future than the present. Especially, the changes of flow regime characteristics were clarified by comparing and analyzing the magnitude, frequency, duration, rate of change, and by linking flow regime characteristics with physical habitat analysis, it could be suggested that climate change would significantly increase the risk of future ecological changes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.199-199
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• 2023

최근 기후변화의 영향으로 가뭄, 홍수 등 재해의 발생 빈도 및 강도가 증가하고 있다. 미래에는 온실가스 배출량의 증가로 극한 기상현상은 더욱 심화될 전망이다. 이러한 위험에 효율적으로 대비하기 위해 기후변화 시나리오를 고려하여 미래를 전망하는 것은 매우 중요하며, 최근 연구자들은 불확실성을 고려하기 위해 다양한 시나리오를 적용하고 있는 추세이다. 다만, 기후변화 시나리오를 입력자료로 하여 분석을 수행하는 경우, 새로운 기후변화 시나리오가 생성될 때 기존 기후변화 영향 평가는 무의미해지며, 기존 결과의 신뢰도 또한 감소하게 된다. 지금까지 사용된 시나리오 기반 접근법의 한계를 보완하여 시나리오 중립(Scenario Neutral, SN) 접근법이 개발되었고, 이는 다양한 기후변화 시나리오에 대한 시스템의 반응을 평가하는데 유용하다. 본 연구에서는 시나리오 중립 접근법을 활용하여 가뭄 위험도를 분석하였으며, 이를 위해 금강 유역 내 용담댐 유역을 대상으로 분석을 수행하였다. 입력자료로는 용담댐 유역의 1966~2020년 일단위 강수량 자료를 사용하였고, 문헌 조사를 통해 미래 기후변화에 따른 강수량 변화 추이를 파악하였다. 연평균 강수량의 증가와 여름 강수량의 증가를 기준으로 삼아 증가 비율에 따른 노출 공간을 생성했으며, 목표 변화에 따른 교란된 시계열을 도출해냈다. 이후, 각각의 시계열에 대한 이변량 가뭄빈도분석을 수행하여 재현기간을 산정한 뒤, 목표 변화에 따른 위험도를 비교하였다. 그 결과, 연평균 강수량과 여름 강수량이 현재와 유사한 경우 100년 빈도 가뭄이 발생할 확률은 0.84, 연평균 강수량의 증가가 110%, 여름 강수량의 증가가 115%일 경우 100년 빈도 가뭄이 발생할 확률은 0.79이었다. 추후 실제 미래 기후변화 시나리오를 적용하여 기준치에 따른 만족도를 분석한다면, 가뭄 대응에 유용한 의사결정 도구로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.516-516
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• 2022

Agricultural reservoirs are critical water resources structures to ensure continuous water supplies for rice cultivation in Korea. Climate change has increased the risk of reservoir failure by exacerbating discrepancies in upstream runoff generation, downstream irrigation water demands, and evaporation losses. In this study, the variations in water balance components of 400 major reservoirs during 1973-2017 were examined to identify the reservoirs with reliable storage capacities and resilience. A conceptual lumped hydrological model was used to transform the incident rainfall into the inflows entering the reservoirs and the paddy water balance model was used to estimate the irrigation water demand. Historical climate data analysis showed a sharp warming gradient during the last 45 years that was particularly evident in the central and southern regions of the country, which were also the main agricultural areas with high reservoir density. We noted a country-wide progressive increase in average annual cumulative rainfall, but the forcing mechanism of the rainfall increment and its spatial-temporal trends were not fully understood. Climate warming resulted in a significant increase in irrigation water demand, while heavy rains increased runoff generation in the reservoir watersheds. Most reservoirs had reliable storage capacities to meet the demands of a 10-year return frequency drought but the resilience of reservoirs gradually declined over time. This suggests that the recovery time of reservoirs from the failure state had increased which also signifies that the duration of the dry season has been prolonged while the wet season has become shorter and/or more intense. The watershed-irrigated area ratio (W-I_ratio) was critical and the results showed that a slight disruption in reservoir water balance under the influence of future climate change would seriously compromise the performance of reservoirs with W-I_ratio< 5.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.109 no.3
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• pp.259-270
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• 2020

Extreme weather events, such as heat and drought, have occurred frequently over the past two decades. This has led to continuous reports of cases of forest damage due to physiological stress, not pest damage. In 2014, pine trees were collectively damaged in the forest genetic resources reserve of Sogwang-ri, Uljin, South Korea. An investigation was launched to determine the causes of the dieback, so that a forest management plan could be prepared to deal with the current dieback, and to prevent future damage. This study aimedto 1) understand the topographic and structural characteristics of the area which experienced pine tree dieback, 2) identify the main causes of the dieback, and 3) predict future risk areas through the use of machine-learning techniques. A model for identifying risk areas was developed using 14 explanatory variables, including location, elevation, slope, and age class. When three machine-learning techniques-Decision Tree, Random Forest (RF), and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were applied to the model, RF and SVM showed higher predictability scores, with accuracies over 93%. Our analysis of the variable set showed that the topographical areas most vulnerable to pine dieback were those with high altitudes, high daily solar radiation, and limited water availability. We also found that, when it came to forest stand characteristics, pine trees with high vertical stand densities (5-15 m high) and higher age classes experienced a higher risk of dieback. The RF and SVM models predicted that 9.5% or 115 ha of the Geumgang Pine Forest are at high risk for pine dieback. Our study suggests the need for further investigation into the vulnerable areas of the Geumgang Pine Forest, and also for climate change adaptive forest management steps to protect those areas which remain undamaged.