• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.347-352
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• 2001

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.657-674
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• 2012

This paper presents the effect of spatially-distributed rainfall on both rainfall-sediment-runoff and erosion or deposition in the experimental Cheoncheon catchment: upstream of Yongdam dam basin. The rainfall fields were generated by three rainfall interpolation techniques (Thiessen polygon: TP, Inverse Distance Weighting: IDW, Kriging) based only on ground gauges and two radar rainfall synthetic techniques (Gauge-Radar ratio: GR, Conditional Merging: CM). Each rainfall field was then assessed in terms of spatial feature and quantity and also used for rainfall-sediment-runoff and erosion-deposition simulation due to the spatial difference of rainfall fields. The results showed that all the interpolation methods based on ground gauges provided very similar hydrologic responses in spite of different spatial pattern of erosion and deposition while raw radar and GR rainfall fields led to underestimated and overestimated simulation results, respectively. The CM technique was acceptable to improve the accuracy of raw radar rainfall for hydrologic simulation even though it is more time consuming to generate spatially-distributed rainfall.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.335-346
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• 2017

This study generated the radar-based forecasted rainfall using spatial-scale decomposition method (SCDM) and evaluated the hydrological applicability with forecasted rainfall by KMA (MAPLE, KONOS) in terms of urban flood forecasting. SCDM is to separate the small-scale field (convective cell) and large-scale field (straitform cell) from radar rainfield. And each separated field is forecasted by translation model and storm tracker nowcasting model for improvement of QPF accuracy. As the evaluated results of various QPF for three rainfall events in Seoul and Metropolitan area, proposed method showed better prediction accuracy than MAPLE and KONOS considering the simplicity of the methodology. In addition, this study assessed the urban hydrological applicability for Gangnam basin. As the results, KONOS simulated the peak of water depth more accurately than MAPLE and SCDM, however cannot simulated the timeseries pattern of water depth. In the case of SCDM, the quantitative error was larger than observed water depth, but the simulated pattern was similar to observation. The SCDM will be useful information for flood forecasting if quantitative accuracy is improved through the adjustment technique and blending with NWP.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.49 no.7
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• pp.625-634
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• 2016

Three leading agencies under different ministries - Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) in the ministry of Environment, Han river control office in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and Weather Group of ROK Air Force in the Ministry of National Defense (MND) - have been operated radars in the purpose of observing weather, hydrology and military operational weather in Korea. Eight S-band dual-pol. radars have been newly installed or replaced by these ministries over different places by 2015. However each ministry has different aims of operating radars, observation strategies, data processing algorithms, etc. Due to the differences, there is a wide level of accuracy on observed radar data as well as the composite images made of the cross governmental radar measurement. Gaining fairly high level of accuracy on radar data obtained by different agencies has been shared as a great concern by the ministries. Thus, "an agreement of harmonizing weather and hydrological radar products" was made by the three ministries in 2010. Particularly, this is very important to produce better rainfall estimation using the cross governmental radar measurement. Weather Radar Center(WRC) in KMA has been developed an empirical method using measurements observed by Yongin testbed radar. This study is aiming to examine the efficiency of the empirical method to improve the accuracies of radar rainfalls estimated from cross governmental dual-pol. radar measurements. As a result, the radar rainfalls of three radars (Baengnyeongdo, Biseulsan, and, Sobaeksan Radar) were shown improvement in accuracy (1-NE) up to 70% using data from May to October in 2015. Also, the range of the accuracies in radar rainfall estimation, which were from 30% to 60% before adjusting polarimetric variables, were decreased from 65% to 70% after adjusting polarimetric variables.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.531-535
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 한반도 관측 공백지역인 북한지역에 대하여 레이더와 위성 원격탐사자료를 활용하여 강수량과 토양수분 등 수문기상정보를 생산 및 검증하고 효율적인 수문 모니터링 및 수문 기상 재해 감시와 평가 방안을 수립하고자 한다. 또한, 북한지역의 수문 기상 정보 수집 및 통합 DB를 마련하고 북한 수문기상 포털시스템을 구축함으로써 부처 간 자료를 공유할 수 있는 매개체를 마련하여 일관된 정책 수립과 효율적인 물관리를 도모하고자 한다. WPMM(Window Probability Matching Method)방법을 기반으로 구성된 RAD-RAR(Rain rate system) 산정 알고리즘(Rosenfeld et al., 1993)을 활용하여 산출된 합성 강우장 데이터의 정확성을 비교 분석하기 위해 접경지역 AWS 강수량과 세계기상통신망(GTS)기반 강수량을 산출하여 각각 레이더 강수량과 검증분석을 실시하였다. 연구기간은 2012년과 2013년 여름철 기간 중 5개의 기간을 선별하였다. 연구 기간 동안의 RAR 합성 강우장 데이터를 이용하여, 기간 중 1시간 동안 누적된 강수량을 산출하고 접경지역 AWS 강수량과 비교하였고 12시간 누적 강수량을 산출하여 GTS 강수량과 비교 분석을 실시하였다. 전반적으로 레이더 강수량에 비해 AWS 강수량이 더 높게 나타났으며 마찬가지로 레이더 강수량과 GTS 강수량의 비를 통해 레이더 자료가 상대적으로 과소추정되고 있음을 확인 할 수 있었다. 미항공우주국(NASA)과 일본항공우주국(JAXA)을 중심으로 진행된 GPM(Global Precipitation Measurement)미션은 한 개의 핵심위성과 마이크로파 복사계를 탑재한 10여개의 보조위성으로 구성되어 있으며, 매 3시간 간격의 전구 강수량 자료 생산에 목적이 있다. 이는 홈페이지를 통해 Level 1, 2, 3의 GPM 데이터를 배포하고 있다. 특히 Level 2 데이터는 언급된 3시간 간격의 전구 강수량 데이터를 제공한다. 이 경우 복사량을 강수량으로 변환하는 번거로움을 덜 수 있으며 NASA가 제공하는 Panoply라는 프로그램을 이용하여 한반도 강수 자료 가시화가 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.1206-1210
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 분포형 강우와 면적평균강우의 적용에 따른 유출해석 결과의 분석을 위해서 물리적 분포형 모형인 HyGIS-GRM을 이용하여 유역 대부분이 산지로 이루어져 있는 낙동강 위천 유역을 대상으로 유출모의를 수행하였다. 강우자료는 지상 강우관측소의 지점강우 자료를 이용하여 생성한 면적평균강우와 면봉산 레이더 관측소 강우 자료를 조전부합성법으로 보정한 분포형 강우자료를 이용하였다. 위천 유역의 무성수위관측소와 미성 수위관측소 지점에 대해서 유출모의를 수행하고 관측 수문곡선과 비교하였으며, 면적평균강우과 분포형 강우가 GRM을 이용한 유출모의에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 연구결과 분포형 강우를 이용한 경우가 면적평균강우를 이용한 경우에 비해서 첨두유량, 첨두시간, 총유출량에서 상대오차가 감소하는 경향을 나타내었으며, 따라서 물리적 분포형 모형을 이용한 유출모의시 분포형 강우는 면적평균강우에 비해서 실제의 강우현상을 좀 더 잘 유출해석에 반영할 수 있는 것으로 평가되었다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.1159-1172
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• 2020

This study applied deep convolution neural network based on U-Net and SegNet using long period weather radar data to very short-term rainfall prediction. And the results were compared and evaluated with the translation model. For training and validation of deep neural network, Mt. Gwanak and Mt. Gwangdeoksan radar data were collected from 2010 to 2016 and converted to a gray-scale image file in an HDF5 format with a 1km spatial resolution. The deep neural network model was trained to predict precipitation after 10 minutes by using the four consecutive radar image data, and the recursive method of repeating forecasts was applied to carry out lead time 60 minutes with the pretrained deep neural network model. To evaluate the performance of deep neural network prediction model, 24 rain cases in 2017 were forecast for rainfall up to 60 minutes in advance. As a result of evaluating the predicted performance by calculating the mean absolute error (MAE) and critical success index (CSI) at the threshold of 0.1, 1, and 5 mm/hr, the deep neural network model showed better performance in the case of rainfall threshold of 0.1, 1 mm/hr in terms of MAE, and showed better performance than the translation model for lead time 50 minutes in terms of CSI. In particular, although the deep neural network prediction model performed generally better than the translation model for weak rainfall of 5 mm/hr or less, the deep neural network prediction model had limitations in predicting distinct precipitation characteristics of high intensity as a result of the evaluation of threshold of 5 mm/hr. The longer lead time, the spatial smoothness increase with lead time thereby reducing the accuracy of rainfall prediction The translation model turned out to be superior in predicting the exceedance of higher intensity thresholds (> 5 mm/hr) because it preserves distinct precipitation characteristics, but the rainfall position tends to shift incorrectly. This study are expected to be helpful for the improvement of radar rainfall prediction model using deep neural networks in the future. In addition, the massive weather radar data established in this study will be provided through open repositories for future use in subsequent studies.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.193-199
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• 2006

This article reviews several microwave instruments employed in observation and analysis of tropical cyclones (TCs), typhoon, and hurricanes. Microwave signals are useful for observing tropical cyclones with severe storms since it isn't severely absorbed by the clouds and rain in the storm. The instruments discussed include scatterometers, microwave radiometers, synthetic aperture radars (SARs), and rain radar from space. The date such as winds, rainfall and cloud-distribution in the TCs obtained by microwave instruments provide important informations for forecasting the intensity and path of the typhoon. For example, there're wind-distribution provided by SSM/I which has a wide swath, detailed wind fields from ERS-1, 2 scatterometers and RADARSAT-1 SAR and TRMM's rain radar pro 떠 ding high resolution. Operational satellite instruments lunched recently have improved upon the problems of low resolution and narrow swath indicated at the beginning microwave remote sensing. Understanding and practical using sufficiently about the microwave instruments will serve for searching the features such as generation and development of the TCs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.417-417
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• 2023

도시홍수는 도시의 주요 기능을 마비시킬 수 있는 수재해로서, 최근 집중호우로 인해 홍수 및 침수 위험도가 증가하고 있다. 집중호우는 한정된 지역에 단시간 동안 집중적으로 폭우가 발생하는 현상을 의미하며, 도시 지역에서 강우 추정 및 예보를 위해 레이더의 활용이 증대되고 있다. 레이더는 수상체 또는 구름으로부터 반사되는 신호를 분석해서 강우량을 측정하는 장비이다. 기상청의 기상레이더(S밴드)의 주요 목적은 남한에 발생하는 기상현상 탐지 및 악기상 대비이다. 관측반경이 넓기에 도시 지역에 적합하지 않는 반면, X밴드 이중편파레이더는 높은 시공간 해상도를 갖는 관측자료를 제공하기에 도시 지역에 대한 강우 추정 및 예보의 정확도가 상대적으로 높다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 딥러닝 기반 초해상화(Super Resolution) 기술을 활용하여 저해상도(Low Resolution. LR) 영상인 S밴드 레이더 자료로부터 고해상도(High Resolution, HR) 영상을 생성하는 기술을 개발하였다. 초해상도 연구는 Nearest Neighbor, Bicubic과 같은 간단한 보간법(interpolation)에서 시작하여, 최근 딥러닝 기반의 초해상화 알고리즘은 가장 일반화된 합성곱 신경망(CNN)을 통해 연구가 이루어지고 있다. X밴드 레이더 반사도 자료를 고해상도(HR), S밴드 레이더 반사도 자료를 저해상도(LR) 입력자료로 사용하여 초해상화 모형을 구성하였다. 2018~2020년에 발생한 서울시 호우 사례를 중심으로 데이터를 구축하였다. 구축된 데이터로부터 훈련된 초해상도 심층신경망 모형으로부터 저해상도 이미지를 고해상도로 변환한 결과를 PSNR(Peak Signal-to-noise Ratio), SSIM(Structural SIMilarity)와 같은 평가지표로 결과를 평가하였다. 본 연구를 통해 기존 방법들에 비해 높은 공간적 해상도를 갖는 레이더 자료를 생산할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.155-169
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• 2016

In this study, we developed a multi-sensor blending short-term rainfall forecasting technique using radar and satellite data during extreme rainfall occurrences in Busan and Gyeongnam region in August 2014. The Tropical Z-R relationship ($Z=32R^{1.65}$) has applied as a optimal radar Z-R relation, which is confirmed that the accuracy is improved during 20mm/h heavy rainfall. In addition, the multi-sensor blending technique has applied using radar and COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) data for quantitative precipitation estimation. The very-short-term rainfall forecasting performance was improved in 60 mm/h or more of the strong heavy rainfall events by multi-sensor blending. AWS (Automatic Weather System) and MAPLE data were used for verification of rainfall prediction accuracy. The results have ensured about 50% or more in accuracy of heavy rainfall prediction for 1-hour before rainfall prediction, which are correlations of 10-minute lead time have 0.80 to 0.53, and root mean square errors have 3.99 mm/h to 6.43 mm/h. Through this study, utilizing of multi-sensor blending techniques using radar and satellite data are possible to provide that would be more reliable very-short-term rainfall forecasting data. Further we need ongoing case studies and prediction and estimation of quantitative precipitation by multi-sensor blending is required as well as improving the satellite rainfall estimation algorithm.