Abstract
In this study, to evaluate the effect of forest vegetation on the long-term water balance in a watershed, semi-distributed and physically based parameter model, SWAT was applied to the Bocheong watershed, and the variation of hydrological components such as evapotranspiration, surface flow, lateral flow, base flow, and total runoff was investigated with coniferous and deciduous forests, respectively. First, SWAT model was modified to simulate the actual plant growth pattern of coniferous trees which have the uniform value of leaf area index all the seasons of the year. The modified model was applied to the watershed that is assumed to have only one land cover in the whole watershed, and the variation of the water balance components was investigated for each land cover. It was found that coniferous forest affected the increase in evapotranspiration and decrease in runoff more than deciduous forest. However, the age and the density of stand, the location, and soil characteristics and meteorological conditions including the tree species should be also considered to examine the effect more quantitatively and to reduce the uncertainties in simulated output from the hydrological model.
본 연구에서는 산림식생에 따른 장기적인 측면에서의 유역 물수지 영향을 살펴보기 위하여 보청천 유역을 대상유역으로 선정하고, 준분포형 매개변수 모형인 SWAT 모형을 적용하여, 침엽수와 활엽수에 따른 증발산, 지표유출, 중간유출, 기저유출, 총 유출의 차이를 검토하였다. 먼저 SWAT 모형내 식생 생장 알고리즘을 수정하여 연중 일정한 엽면적지수를 갖는 국내 침엽수림의 생장 특성을 반영할 수 있도록 하였으며, 대상유역을 하나의 토지피복을 갖는 가상의 유역으로 설정한 후, 수정된 SWAT 모형을 적용하여 각 물수지 요소 변화를 모의한 결과, 침엽수가 활엽수에 비해 증발산 증가 및 유출 감소에 더 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나, 보다 정량적인 규명과 유출모형의 불확실성을 보완하기 위해서는 수종 외에 수령, 식재밀도, 식재위치, 토양특성자료 등 다양한 조건이 충분히 고려되어야 할 것이다.
