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Agrometeorological Early Warning System: A Service Infrastructure for Climate-Smart Agriculture

농업기상 조기경보체계: 기후변화-기상이변 대응서비스의 출발점

  • Yun, Jin I. (College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University)
  • Received : 2014.10.07
  • Accepted : 2014.10.27
  • Published : 2014.12.30

Abstract

Increased frequency of climate extremes is another face of climate change confronted by humans, resulting in catastrophic losses in agriculture. While climate extremes take place on many scales, impacts are experienced locally and mitigation tools are a function of local conditions. To address this, agrometeorological early warning systems must be place and location based, incorporating the climate, crop and land attributes at the appropriate scale. Existing services often lack site-specific information on adverse weather and countermeasures relevant to farming activities. Warnings on chronic long term effects of adverse weather or combined effects of two or more weather elements are seldom provided, either. This lecture discusses a field-specific early warning system implemented on a catchment scale agrometeorological service, by which volunteer farmers are provided with face-to-face disaster warnings along with relevant countermeasures. The products are based on core techniques such as scaling down of weather information to a field level and the crop specific risk assessment. Likelihood of a disaster is evaluated by the relative position of current risk on the standardized normal distribution from climatological normal year prepared for 840 catchments in South Korea. A validation study has begun with a 4-year plan for implementing an operational service in Seomjin River Basin, which accommodates over 60,000 farms and orchards. Diverse experiences obtained through this study will certainly be useful in planning and developing the nation-wide disaster early warning system for agricultural sector.

기상이변의 증가추세는 인류가 직면한 기후변화의 또 다른 속성이며 농업부문에서는 이미 심각한 재해로 이어지고 있다. 기상이변은 다양한 공간규모에 걸쳐 일어나지만 그 영향을 완화시킬 처방은 국지적인 규모에서만 가능하다. 따라서 기후변화 대응을 위한 조기경보체계는 반드시 '위치와 장소'를 기반으로 그곳의 영농정보를 바탕으로 할 때만 효율적이다. 기존 조기경보체계는 다양한 영농현장에 대한 구체적 위험을 알려주지 못하며, 농가의 개별적 상황이 대응조치에 반영되지 못하고, 악기상의 장기 누적효과에 의해 발생하는 '지발재해'나 둘 이상의 기상요소가 동시에 작용하는 '복합재해'에 대한 고려가 없다. 본 강좌에서는 선행연구들에 의해 확보된 '농가맞춤형 기상위험 관리기술'을 토대로, 필지단위 국지기상조건을 재배중인 작물의 종류와 발육단계에 맞춘 '재해위험지수'로 정량화하고, 이를 평년기준과 비교하여 재해발생 가능성을 판단하며, 적절한 대응방안과 함께 재배농가에게 일대일로 전달하는 '맞춤형 농업기상서비스' 구축에 관하여 논의한다. 이 서비스를 현업화하기 위한 1단계 4년의 조기경보체계 실증연구가 2014년에 시작되었고, 2017년까지는 남한 21개 대권역 가운데 하나인 유역면적 $4,914km^2$에 60,202호의 농가로 이루어진 섬진강권역을 대상으로 현업서비스를 구축하게 된다. 연구수행과정에서 얻어지는 경험은 2단계 전국 대상 사업으로 확대되어 기후변화와 기상이변 증가에 따른 농업부문 재해위험을 개별농가 차원에서 실질적으로 경감시키는 데 기여할 것이다. 금세기 농업분야 최대의 도전인 기후변화를 슬기롭게 극복하기 위해 '기후스마트농업'이 학계의 대안으로 자리 잡았지만, 국내 성공의 전제조건으로서 농업기상 조기경보체계의 지속적인 개발과 이를 토대로 한 맞춤형 농업기상서비스의 전국 확대가 필요하다.

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