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http://dx.doi.org/10.3741/JKWRA.2016.49.4.275

Determination of drought events considering the possibility of relieving drought and estimation of design drought severity  

Yoo, Ji Young (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
Yu, Ji Soo (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kwon, Hyun-Han (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
Kim, Tae-Woong (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of Korea Water Resources Association / v.49, no.4, 2016 , pp. 275-282 More about this Journal
Abstract
The objective of this study is to propose a new method to determine the drought event and the design drought severity. In order to define a drought event from precipitation data, theory of run was applied with the cumulative rainfall deficit. When we have a large amount of rainfall over the threshold level, in this study, we compare with the previous cumulative rainfall deficit to determine whether the drought is relieved or not. The recurrence characteristics of the drought severity on the specific duration was analyzed by the conditional bivariate copula function and confidence intervals were estimated to quantify uncertainties. The methodology was applied to Seoul station with the historical dataset (1909~2015). It was observed that the past droughts considered as extreme hydrological events had from 10 to 50 years of return period. On the other hand, the current on-going drought event started from 2013 showed the significantly higher return period. It is expected that the result of this study may be utilized as the reliable criteria based on the concept of return period for the drought contingency plan.
Keywords
Bivariate Frequency Analysis; Copula Function; Drought Event; Return Period;
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