• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.193-200
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• 2020

Hydrological drought is directly associated with lack of available water in rivers, reservoirs, and groundwater. It is important to analyze hydrological drought for efficient water resource management because most of rainfall is concentrated in wet seasons and water supply is highly dependent on dams and reservoirs in South Korea. Generally, a threshold level method is useful for defining hydrological droughts. However, this method causes interdependent problems between drought events which result in skewed results in further statistical analysis. Therefore, it is necessary to determine a proper threshold level to represent regional drought characteristics. In this study, applying 50~99 percentiles of daily flow-duration curve, hydrological drought events were extracted, and independence tests were conducted for 12 watersheds. The Poisson independence test showed that 87~99 percentiles were available for most stations except for Yeoju and Pyeongtaek. The generalized Pareto independence test showed that 80~90 percentiles were the most common. Mean excess plot showed that 80 ~ 90 percentiles were the most common. Therefore, the common ranges of the three independent tests were determined for each station and proper threshold levels were recommended for large river basins; 70~76 percentiles for the Han River basin, 87~91 percentiles for the Nakdong River basin, 86~98 percentiles for the Geum River basin, and 85~87 percentiles for the Youngsan and Seomjin River basin.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.385-397
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• 1982

The climatic impacts have been the environmental constraints with soil characteristics to achieve self sufficiency of food production in Korea. In this paper, the distribution and appearance of impacts and the changes in climatological status due to recent trend of early transplanting of rice are widely discussed to derive some countermeasures against the impacts, being focussed on cultural A long term analysis of the climatic impact appearances of the last 74 years showed that drought, strong wind, flood, cold spell and frost were the major impacts. Before 1970's, the drought damage was the greatest among the climatic impacts; however, the expansion and improvement of irrigation and drainage system markedly decreased the damage of drought and heavy rain. The appearance of cold damage became more frequent than before due to introduction of early transplanting for more thermophilic new varieties. Tongillines which were from Indica and Japonica crosses throw more attention to cold damage for high yields to secure high temperature in heading and ripening stages and lead weakness to cold and drought damage in early growth stage after transplanting. The plants became subject to heavy rain in ripening stage also. For the countermeasures against cold damage, the rational distribution of adequate varieties according to the regional climatic conditions and planting schedule should be imposed on the cultivation. A detoured water way to increase water temperature might be suggestable in the early growth stage. Heavy application of phosphate to boost rooting and tillering also would be a nutritional control method. In the heading and ripening stages, foliar application of phosphate and additional fertilization of silicate might be considerable way of nutritional control. Since the amount of solar radiation and air temperature in dry years were high, healthy plants for high yield could be obtained; therefere, the expansion of irrigation system and development of subsurface water should be performed as one of the national development projects. To minimize the damage of strong wind and rainfall, the rational distribution of varieties with different growing periods in the area where the damage occurred habitualy should be considered with installation of wind breaks. Not only vertical windbreaks but also a horizontal wind break using a net might be a possible way to decrease the white heads in rice field by dry wind. Finally, to establish the integrated countermeasures against the climatic impacts, the detailed interpretation on the regional climatic conditions should be conducted to understand distribution and frequency of the impacts. The expansion of observation net work for agricultural meteorology and development of analysis techniques for meteorological data must be conducted in future together with the development of the new cultural techniques.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.972-978
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• 2009

This study modifies the present total maximum daily load (TMDL) system of Ministry of Environment and applies to the Anyangcheon watershed. Hydrologic Simulation Program-FORTRAN (HSPF) model is used to simulate both runoff and non-point source pollution, simultaneously, instead of QUAL2E. The drought flow (355th daily flow) is proposed for the target water quantity since it is easier to satisfy low flow (275th daily flow) for the target water quality than drought flow. The increase of discharge is more than the increase of pollutant load except for the period under low flow. The measured unit loads for non-point source are used to consider the regional runoff characteristics. The measured water quantity and quality data are used since the ministry of environment supports only water quality. This analysis results show some reasons for the improvement of the present TMDL system of Korea.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.581-587
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• 2004

An experimental watershed was selected and sustainable yield was evaluated. The study area(3.89$\textrm{km}^2$) was located in Kyungpook Sangju Yangchon-dong. The visual MODFLOW was verified by comparing the observed and estimated groundwater table. The analysis of the observed and estimated groundwater table from 19 March 2003 to 18 March 2004 showed that the average error was 0.0009m, the error sum of squares 7.245$m^2$, absolute mean error 0.094 m, root mean square error 0.141m, and the model efficiency was 92%. The normal, 10- and 30- year drought frequency years were selected and sustainable yield was evaluated in these periods. Ratios of sustainable yield to the annual infiltration were 14.5% for the normal year(1992), 15.1% for the 10-year(1994), and 15.2% for the 30-year drought frequency year(1982). The results of this study can be used as a basic information for groundwater development and management planning considering regional characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.365-365
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• 2019

가뭄은 전 세계적으로 농업을 비롯한 사회, 경제적으로 큰 피해를 주는 자연 재해이며, 향후 피해 저감을 위해 가뭄의 경향을 파악하고 지역별 가뭄 특성을 파악할 필요가 있다. 위성영상을 활용한 가뭄 판단은 광역적 범위를 대상으로 다양한 밴드를 활용한 데이터를 주기적이고 일정한 수준으로 취득 가능하다는 장점이 있다. 농업 가뭄 분야의 위성영상 활용은 미계측 지역에 대한 정확한 데이터 취득이 어려운 지점데이터의 단점을 보완할 수 있다. 위성영상을 활용한 가뭄 지수로는 Leaf Area Index (LAI), Vegetation Health Index (VHI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) 등 다양한 지수들이 있으며, 본 연구에서는 단기 가뭄 판단에 활용되고 있는 Evaporative Stress Index (ESI)를 활용하였다. 국내 행정구역 기반의 가뭄 판단을 위해 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectramadiometer (MODIS)위성의 MOD16A2 영상을 사용하였다. MOD16A2는 land surface temperature (LST)과 LAI의 계산을 통한 실제 증발산량과 FAO-56 Penman-Monteith 공식을 사용한 잠재증발산량을 포함한 다양한 데이터를 8일 주기의 500m 해상도로 제공하고 있다. 2001년부터 2018년까지 500m 해상도의 ESI를 산정하였으며, 국내의 과거 가뭄 경향 분석과 지역별 특성 파악을 위한 표준화를 수행하였다. 그 결과 과거 극심한 가뭄이 있었던 해 (2000-2001년, 2015-2017년 등)에 대한 농업 가뭄 경향 분석이 가능하였으며, 지역별 특성을 파악한 결과 상습가뭄 지역에서 가뭄 경향을 확인하였다. 농업 가뭄 분야에서 ESI의 활용은 가뭄 조기 경보 시스템 개발 및 위성영상 기반 가뭄 모니터링 기술 개발 등에 활용 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.149-149
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• 2016

최근 전 세계적으로 이상기후가 발생하고 있으며, 국내에서도 과거에 경험하지 못했던 자연재해가 빈번하게 발생하고 있는 추세이다. 가뭄은 홍수와 더불어 그 피해가 가장 큰 자연재해 중 하나이며, 장주기적이고 광역적으로 발생함에 따라 구체적인 발생시기, 장소, 원인을 파악하는 것이 어렵다. 그동안 국내에서는 가뭄극복을 위해 다양한 대책을 마련해 왔음에도 불구하고 가뭄피해는 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 실례로 2014~2015 가뭄으로 소양강 댐은 역대 최저수위를 기록하였으며, 일부 지역에서는 제한급수, 농업용수 부족 피해가 발생한 바 있다. 이처럼 가뭄으로 인한 피해는 기후 변화의 영향으로 더욱 빈번할 것이라는 보고가 있어 가뭄해석을 위한 지속적인 노력이 필요하다. 가뭄해석에는 일반적으로 가뭄의 시작, 끝, 지속기간, 발생간격, 누적심도 등을 사용하며, 이를 가뭄특성인자라고 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 인위적인 시설물의 영향을 배제한 자연가뭄지수(Natural Drought Index, NDI)를 이용하여 국내 5개 행정구역의 지역별 가뭄특성을 분석하였다. 자연가뭄지수의 산정을 위해 입력자료는 3개월 누적강수량, 누적유출량, 평균토양수분량을 사용하였으며, 강수량은 국내 ASOS 59개 지점 자료, 유출량 및 토양수분량은 지표수문해석모형의 결과를 이용하였다. 가뭄특성 분석기간은 1977~2012년이며, 가뭄특성인자는 가뭄의 시작, 끝, 지속기간, 발생간격을 활용하였다. 과거 가뭄피해사례와, SPI, SRI, SSI 및 NDI의 가뭄특성인자를 비교하였으며, 정량적 비교를 위해 평균오차, 평균절대오차를 사용하였다. 가뭄특성인자 분석 결과 NDI는 가뭄의 시작과 끝을 가장 정확하게 반영하였다. 가뭄의 지속기간은 NDI, 발생간격은 NDI와 SPI가 정확한 것으로 나타났다. 자연가뭄지수는 단일변량 가뭄지수에 비해 지역적 가뭄특성을 정확하게 재현한다는 점에서 추후 가뭄감시에 유용하게 활용될 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.27-38
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• 2016

More severe and frequent flood and drought have increased the attentions on the river management. In particular, baseflow is an important element among many streamflow characteristics because streamflow is mainly consisted of direct runoff and baseflow. In this regard, this study attempted to analyze the relationship between streamflow variability and baseflow contributions on Nakdong river basin. For this, two Streamflow Variability Indices (SVI) were used: Coefficient of Variation (CV) and Coefficient of Flow Regime (CFR). Furthermore, baselow separation was individually conducted by three methods (PART, WHAT and BFLOW), and based on this, Baseflow Index (BFI) was calculated. Also, we used the daily streamflow data retrieved from 27 gauge stations in Nakdong river basin for baseflow separation. The results showed that BFI calculated by three models ranges from 0.14 to 0.90 for 27 gauge stations. For SVI, BFI has much higher correlation with CV than with CFR. Also, the inversely proportional relationship between BFI and CV showed that higher baseflow contribution, less streamflow variability.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.81-90
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• 2012

Groundwater is our invaluable asset because it takes action in the case of climates changes like drought or floods. But the Korean government has formulated water-resource policies mostly focused on surface water. As a result, the groundwater that will be more important resource in the future has been treated carelessly, caused neglect of maintenance and resulted many abandoned wells. This poor management of groundwater is because of lack of organization on our asset, manpower, unclearness of managing body, shoddy construction and lack of supervision. In order to solve this problem, we need a special agency of groundwater that contribute people's awareness by promotion importance of groundwater, dissemination of technical education and professionals. To do that, we have to establish a specific groundwater management plan based on regional characteristics of watersheds and specialized institution need to promote responsible development and usage in groundwater.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2002

So far, the water management have separately been accomplished by water supply, flood control, and environmental river management. In spite of sustainable policy of water resource development, flood & drought damage, poor water accident, and deterioration of river ecosystem have continuously occurred. It means that it is difficult to improve those problems with the present systems and institutions. So, it is time to discuss to change the present water management system of administrative sense into the one classified by the watershed in order to understand problems of water resource in the regional basis. First, a integration of similar branch office in organization and a work specialization should be driven in the government. Second, it is desirable to develop the water resources according to the inherent characteristics of the watershed.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.59 no.6
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• pp.29-37
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• 2017

In this study, we analyzed the impacts of land surface characteristics on spatially and temporally distributed soil moisture values at the Yongdam and Soyang-river dam watersheds in 2014 and 2015. The soil moisture, NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and temperature values at the spatio-temporal scales were estimated using satellite-based MODIS (MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) products. Then the Pearson correlations between soil moisture and land surface characteristics (NDVI, temperature and DEM-digital elevation model) were estimated and analyzed, respectively. Overall, the monthly soil moisture values at the time step were highly influenced by the precipitation amounts. Also, the results showed that the soil moisture has the strong correlation with DEM while the temperature was inversely correlated with the soil moisture. However the monthly correlations between NDVI and soil moisture were highly varied along the time step. These findings indicated that water loss near the land surface are highly occurred by soil and plant activities as evapotranspiration and infiltration during the no/less precipitation period. But the high precipitation amounts reduce the impacts of land surface characteristics because of saturated condition of land surface. Thus these results demonstrated that soil moisture values are highly correlated with land surface characteristics. Our findings can be useful for water resources/environmental management, agricultural drought, etc.