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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.1.801

Estimation of the Flood Warning Rainfall with Backwater Effects in Urban Watersheds  

Kim, Eung-Seok (Department of Civil Engineering, Sunmoon University)
Lee, Seung-Hyun (Department of Civil Engineering, Sunmoon University)
Yoon, Ki-Yong (Department of Civil Engineering, Sunmoon University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.1, 2015 , pp. 801-806 More about this Journal
Abstract
The incidence of flood damage by global climate change has increased recently. Because of the increased frequency of flooding in Korea, the technology of flood prediction and prevalence has developed mainly for large river watersheds. On the other hand, there is a limit on predicting flooding through the most present flood forecasting systems because local floods in small watersheds rise quite quickly with little or no advance warning. Therefore, this study estimated the flood warning rainfall using a flood forecasting model at the two alarm trigger points in the Suamcheon basin, which is an urban basin with backwater effects. The flood warning rainfall was estimated to be 25.4mm/120min ~ 78.8mm/120min for the low water alarm, and 68.5mm/120min ~ 140.7mm/120min for the high water alarm. The frequency of the flood warning rainfall is 3-years for the low water alarm, and 80-years for the high water alarm. The results of this analysis are expected to provide a basic database in forecasting local floods in urban watersheds. Nevertheless, more tests and implementations using a large number of watersheds will be needed for a practical flood warning or alert system in the future.
Keywords
Flood damages; flood warning rainfall; flood forecasting model;
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