• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.437-448
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• 2004

The traditional fixed areal DAD(rainfall Depth-Area-Duration) method, generally quoted in most hydrology texts, is a simple and useful procedure when watersheds are small and storm movement is not an important factor of consideration. However, it is difficult to obtain satisfactory results for the more apparent forms of storm movement such as typhoons, or for large watershed. In the latter case, especially the margin of error for the areal average rainfall increases proportionally to the area of study, causing biased result. To overcome these limitations, this study focuses on the storm-centered DAD analysis(moving area DAD method) developed and programmed by the isohyetal concept to obtain accurate and objective results. By comparing and analyzing the observed rainfall rates through both method, it was proved that the currently Proposed method more accurately reflected the average rainfall rate. In short, through this new method, approximately 130 storm events nationwide from 1969 to 1999 was analyzed and compared with the fixed areal method results.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.425-435
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• 2004

Mainly, observed maximum rainfall has been evaluated by point rainfall, but actually it should be considered by means of average areal rainfall. Average areal rainfall is an estimated value computed through DAD(rainfall Depth-Area-Duration) analysis. By using this value, an average and maximum areal rainfall according to area-duration relationship could be computed. In this study, we assume that the whole Korea region is hydrologically homogeneous, and then analyze using the storm-centered DAD(moving-area DAD) method for the past century data. From this analysis, we evaluate the yearly variation of observed maximum areal rainfall through area-duration relationship. And we also construct an IDF(rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency) curve by using the annual time series data which is composed of maximum areal rainfall. The characteristics of IDF and observed maximum areal rainfall is also evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.68-81
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• 2014

This study aims to apply and evaluate the automatic DAD analysis method, which is able to establish the depth-area relationship more efficiently and accurately for point-to-areal rainfall conversion. First, the proposed automatic DAD analysis method tracks the expansion route of area from the storm center, and it is divided into Box-tracking, Point-tracking, Advanced point-tracking according to tracking method. After applying the proposed methods to 10 events occurred in Yongdam-watershed area, we confirmed that the Advanced point-tracking method makes it possible to estimate the maximum average areal rainfal(MAAR) more accurately with consideration of the storm movement and the multi-centered storm. In addition, Advanced point-tracking could reduce the errors of the estimated MAAR induced by increasing the area because it can estimate MAAR for each storm center and compare them at the same time. Finally, the DAD curve for the study area could be derived based on the DAD analysis of the selected 10 events.