• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
• /
• v.31 no.6
• /
• pp.795-806
• /
• 1998

Soil moisture is affected by regional climate, soil characteristics and land surface condition, etc,. Especially, the changes in land surface condition is more than other factors, which is mainly due to rapid urbanization and industrialization. This study is to evaluate how the change of land surface condition impacts on soil moisture field evolution using a simple model of soil moisture dynamics. For the quantification of soil moisture field, the first half of the paper is spared for the statistical characterization based on the first- and second-order statistics of Washita '92 and Monsoon '90 data. The second half is for evaluating the impact of land cover changes through simulation study using a model for soil moisture dynamics. The model parameters, the loss rate and the diffusion coefficient, have been estimated using the observed data statistics, where the changes of surface conditions are considered into the model by applying various parameter sets with different second-order statistics. This study is concentrated on evaluating the impact due to the changes of land surface condition variability. It is because we could easily quantify the impact of the changes of its areal mean based on the linear reservoir concept. As a result of the study, we found; (1)as the variability of land surface condition, increases, the soil moisture field dries up more easily, (2)as the variabilit y of the soil moisture field is the highest at the beginning of rainfall and decreases as time goes on to show the variability of land surface condition, (3)the diffusion effect due to surface runoff or water flow through the top soil layer is limited to a period of surface runoff and its overall impact is small compared to that of the loss rate field.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2015.05a
• /
• pp.474-474
• /
• 2015

Horton 지수는 유역에 대한 수문순환의 특성을 정량화하는 지수로서 유역의 습윤량과 기화량의 비로 산출된다. 습윤량과 기화량은 토양 수분과 밀접한 관계를 가지므로 추계학적 거동에 따른 토양수분의 동역학모형을 파악하여 Horton 지수를 산출할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 추계학적인 토양수분수지 모형을 이용하여 서울, 부산, 대구, 제주 지역을 대상으로 30년간 일 기상자료(강우량, 일 평균기온, 풍속, 상대습도, 일조시간)을 이용하여 Horton 지수를 각각 산출하였으며 Horton 지수에 대한 변동성 분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, 모든 대상 유역에서 기후의 계절성에 의하여 Horton 지수가 작아짐을 확인할 수 있었다. 하지만 습윤한 기후를 가진 서울과 건조한 기후를 가진 대구에서는 각각 연 강우량이 많거나 연 강우량이 적은 해에 Horton 지수에 미치는 기후의 계절성의 영향력이 줄어듦을 살펴볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
• /
• v.42 no.6
• /
• pp.433-443
• /
• 2009

For the better understanding of the temporal characteristics of soil water, this study is to suggest a stochastic soil water model and to apply it for impact assessment of climate change. The loss function is divided into 3 stages for more specified comprehension of the probabilistic behavior of soil water, and especially, the soil water model considering the stochastic characteristics of precipitation is developed in order to consider the variation of climatic factors. The simulation result of soil water model confirms that the proposed soil water model can re-generate the observation properly, and it also proves that the soil water behaves with consistent cycle based on the precipitation pattern. Moreover, with the simulation results with a climate change scenario, it can be predicted that the future soil water will have higher variations than present soil water.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2009.05a
• /
• pp.52-56
• /
• 2009

In this study a dynamic modeling scheme is presented to derive the probabilistic structure of soil water and plant water stress when subject to stochastic precipitation conditions. The newly developed model has the form of the Fokker-Planck equation, and its applicability as a model for the probabilistic evolution of the soil water and plant water stress is investigated under climate change scenarios. This model is based on the cumulant expansion theory, and has the advantage of providing the probabilistic solution in the form of probability distribution function (PDF), from which one can obtain the ensemble average behavior of the dynamics. The simulation result of soil water confirms that the proposed soil water model can properly reproduce the results obtained from observations, and it also proves that the soil water behaves with consistent cycle based on the precipitation pattern. The plant water stress simulation, also, shows two different PDF patterns according to the precipitation. Moreover, with all the simulation results with climate change scenarios, it can be concluded that the future soil water and plant water stress dynamics will differently behave with different climate change scenarios.