• KIEAE Journal
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.69-75
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• 2016

Climate change has resulted in the urban heat island (UHI) effect throughout the globe, contributing to heat-related illness and fatalities. In order to reduce such damage, it is necessary to improve the climate observation network for precise observation of the urban thermal environment and quick UHI forecasting system. Purpose: This study analyzed the effective range of the climate observation network and the distribution of the existing Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) in Seoul to propose optimal locations for additional installment of AWS. Method: First, we performed quality analysis to pinpoint missing values and outliers within the high-density temperature data measured. With the result from the analysis, a spatial autocorrelation structure in the temperature data was tested to draw the effective range and correlation distance for each major time period. Result: As a result, it turned out that the optimal effective range for the climate observation network in Seoul in July was a radius of 2.8 kilometers. Based on this result, population density, and temperature data, we selected the locations for additional installment of AWS. This study is expected to be used to generate urban temperature maps, select and move measurement locations since it is able to suggest valid, specific spatial ranges when the data measured in point is converted into surface data.

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference
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• 2016.09a
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• pp.25-28
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• 2016

Recently, because of the weather forecasts through the low-resolution data has been limited, the demand of the high-resolution data is sharply increasing. Therefore, in this study, we restore the ultra-high resolution synthetic precipitation and temperature data for 2000-2014 due to small-scale topographic effect using the QPM (Quantitative Precipitation Model)/QTM (Quantitative Temperature Model). First, we reproduce the detailed precipitation and temperature data with 1km resolution using the distribution of Automatic Weather System (AWS) data and Automatic Synoptic Observation System (ASOS) data, which is about 10km resolution with irregular grid over South Korea. Also, we recover the precipitation and temperature data with 1km resolution using the MERRA reanalysis data over North Korea, because there are insufficient observation data. The precipitation and temperature from restored current climate reflect more detailed topographic effect than irregular AWS/ASOS data and MERRA reanalysis data over the Korean peninsula. Based on this analysis, more detailed prospect of regional climate is investigated.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.773-784
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• 2018

In this study, we examined the UA (upwelling age) using wind data of AWS/ASOS in the East Sea coast and the correlation between UA and SST (sea surface temperature) from May to August in 1995 to 2016. The data used the 6 observations of the wind data of AWS/ASOS and the SST data of the COD/RISA provided by the National Institute and Fisheries Science near the East Sea coast. The UA was calculated quantitatively low but it rose when the actual cold water mass occurred. Correlation analysis between UA and SST showed the negative (-) r (correlation coefficient) predominately. At the time of cold-water mass in June to August 2013, the r had a very high negative value of -0.65 to -0.89 in the 6 observations. It proved that as the UA increases, the SST is lower. By knowing the UA, we were able to evaluate the trend of upwelling in the cold-water mass of the East Sea coast in the long term and it will contribute to minimizing the damage to aquatic organisms according to the size and intensity of the upwelling.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.122-133
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• 2021

Cultivar parameter calibration can be affected by the reliability of the input data to a crop growth model. In South Korea, two sets of weather stations, which are included in the automated synoptic observing system (ASOS) or the automatic weather system (AWS), are available for preparation of the weather input data. The objectives of this study were to estimate the cultivar parameter using those sets of weather data and to compare the uncertainty of these parameters. The cultivar parameters of CERES-Rice model for Shindongjin cultivar was calibrated using the weather data measured at the weather stations included in either ASO S or AWS. The observation data of crop growth and management at the experiment farms were retrieved from the report of new cultivar development and research published by Rural Development Administration. The weather stations were chosen to be the nearest neighbor to the experiment farms where crop data were collected. The Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) method was used to calibrate the cultivar parameters for 100 times, which resulted in the distribution of parameter values. O n average, the errors of the heading date decreased by one day when the weather input data were obtained from the weather stations included in AWS compared with ASO S. In particular, reduction of the estimation error was observed even when the distance between the experiment farm and the ASOS stations was about 15 km. These results suggest that the use of the AWS stations would improve the reliability and applicability of the crop growth models for decision support as well as parameter calibration.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.633-645
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• 2004

A critical component of air pollution modeling is the representation of meteorological fields within a model domain, since an accurate air quality simulation requires an accurate portrayal of the three-dimensional wind fields. The present study investigated data assimilation using surface observational data in the complex coastal regions to simulate an accurate meteorological fields. Surface observational data were categorized into three groups(Near coastal region, Far coastal regiln 1, Far costal region 2) by the locations where the data are. Experiments were designed and MM5 was used in each case of regions. Case 1 is an experiment without data assimilation, Case N is executed with data assimilation using observational data by meteorological stations and AWS data located in the near coastal region, within 1 km. Case F1 is also an experiment with data assimilation using observational data by meteorological stations and AWS data located in the far coastal regiln 1, more than 1km and less than 5km from the coastal lines. Case F2 is appled to data assimilation using observational data by meteorological stations and AWS data located in the far coastal region 2, beyond 5km from the coastal lines. The result of this study indicated that data assimilation using data in the far coastal region 1 and 2 provided an attractive method for generating accurate meteorological fields, especially in the complex coastal regions.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.639-639
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• 2012

물 수요 및 공급 체계를 바탕으로 수급 상황에 대한 판단을 위해 일반적으로 물수지 분석을 이용하고 있다. 물 수급 체계를 기반으로 하는 물수지 분석은 분석 대상유역의 물 수요를 고려하여 공급 가능량을 판단한 후 두 가지 인자 간 상호 비교를 통해 물 부족 여부를 판단하는 과정이라 할 수 있으며, 가장 대표적인 사례는 수자원장기종합계획에서의 물 수급 전망 분석 과정이라 할 수 있다. 수자원장기종합계획의 물 수급 전망에서는 미래 우리나라에서 예상되는 물 수요를 예측하고 수문조건에 따른 공급 상황과의 비교 검토를 통해 시공간적 물 부족 현황을 제시하고 있다. 수자원장기종합계획에서는 공급량 조건을 검토하기 위한 방법으로 기상청, 국토해양부, 한국수자원공사 등 다양한 기관에서 관측된 강우자료를 강우-유출모형에 적용한 후 산정된 자연유출량을 기반으로 물수지 분석을 수행하고 있다. 수자원장기종합계획과 같이 미래 우리나라의 물 수급 상황을 분석하고 이를 바탕으로 제시된 시공간적 물 부족 정보의 신뢰성을 높이기 위해서는 기본적으로 지역 또는 유역별 강우 발생 특성에 대한 정확한 고려가 기반이 되어야 한다. 그러나 현재 수자원장기종합계획 수립 과정에서 이용하고 있는 강우 관측지점의 공간적 분포를 살펴보면, 도서 및 해안지역의 경우 관측소의 밀도가 상대적으로 매우 빈약한 한계를 포함하고 있으며, 대부분 내륙 지역에 관측소가 집중된 현상을 보이고 있다. 이와 같은 상황에서 강우 관측자료를 이용한 분석을 수행할 경우 도서 및 해안지역에 대한 강우 발생 특성의 정확한 반영이 어려울 수 있으며, 이는 물 부족 분석 결과의 정확도 측면에서도 문제점으로 지적될 수 있다. 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위한 방안으로 기상청에서 운영 중인 자동기상관측지점(Automated Weather Station, AWS)의 관측자료를 이용하는 방안을 검토해볼 수 있다. AWS 지점은 내륙 및 도서 해안지역에 관계없이 고른 관측소 분포를 보이고 있으므로 이를 고려할 경우 기존 관측지점에서 한계로 지적된 부분을 충분히 극복할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기상청에서 생산되고 있는 AWS 관측자료를 수집한 후 이를 수자원장기종합계획의 물수지 분석과 동일한 분석 과정에 적용하였으며, 그 결과에 대한 검토를 통해 국가 수자원계획의 신뢰도를 높일 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.64 no.1
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• pp.107-112
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• 2015

This paper introduces an evolutionary nonlinear regression based compensation technique for the short-range prediction of wind speed using AWS(Automatic Weather Station) data. Development of an efficient MOS(Model Output Statistics) is necessary to correct systematic errors of the model, but a linear regression based MOS is hard to manage an irregular nature of weather prediction. In order to solve the problem, a nonlinear and symbolic regression method using GP(Genetic Programming) is suggested for a development of MOS wind forecast guidance. Also FCM(Fuzzy C-Means) clustering is adopted to mitigate bias of wind speed data. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of the estimation by a GP based nonlinear MOS for 3 days prediction of wind speed in South Korean regions. This method is then compared to the UM model and has shown superior results. Data for 2007-2009, 2011 is used for training, and 2012 is used for testing.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1171-1173
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• 2003

There are two datasets to estimate the area-mean and time-mean precipitation rate. For one, an array of surface rain gauges represents a series of rods that have to the time axis of the volume. And another data is that of a remote sensing make periodic overpasses at a fixed interval such as radar. The problem of optimally combining data from surface rain gauge data and remote sensed data is considered. In order to combining remote sensed data with Automatic Weather Station (AWS), we use optimal weighting method, which is similar to the method of [2]. They had suggested optimal weights that minimized value of the mean square error. In this paper, optimal weight is evaluated for the cases such as Changma, summer Monsoon, Typhoon and orographic rain.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.511-525
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• 2010

Rainfall intensity was estimated using the MTSAT-1R infrared channels and the microwave satellite precipitation data. Brightness temperature of geostationary satellite is matched temporal and spatial to a variety of microwave satellite(SSM/I, SSMIS, AMSU-B, AMSRE, TRMM) precipitation data. Rainfall intensity was calculated by the look -up table using relationships of MTSAT-1R brightness temperature and microwave precipitation. Estimated rainfall is verified using by precipitation of TRMM satellite(TRMM3B42) and ground rainfall as AWS from Jul. 21 2008 to Jul. 25 2008. The results of rainfall estimated TRMM 2A12(TMI) that validated by AWS and TRMM3B42 precipitation are represented highly 0.38 and 0.61 by correlation coefficient, 5.81 mm/hr and 2.44 mm/hr by RMSE, 0.79 and 0.84 by POD and 0.65 and 0.87 by PC, respectively. Overall, estimated rainfall using by microwave satellite calculated 5 mm/hr or more comparing by AWS and 5 mm/hr or more comparing by TRMM3B42 precipitation, respectively. Validation results of correlation coefficient are shown series of TRMM 2A12, AMSRE, SSM/I, AMSU-B and SSMIS.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.366-374
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• 2017

The objective of this study is to explore the applicability of very short-range-forecast rainfall for the early warning of mud-debris flows. An artificial neural network was applied to use the very short-range-forecast rainfall data. The neural network is learned by using the relationship between the radar and the AWS, and forecasted rainfall is estimated by replacing the radar rainfall with the MAPLE data as the very short-range-forecast rainfall data. The applicability of forecasted rainfall by the MAPLE was compared with the AWS rainfall at the test-bed using the rainfall criteria for cumulative rainfall of 6hr, 12hr, and 24hr respectively. As a result, it was confirmed that forecasted rainfall using the MAPLE can be issued prior to the AWS warning.