• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.3B
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• pp.257-267
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• 2010

A flood event can be characterized by three attributes such as peak discharge, total flood volume, and flood duration, which are correlated each other. However, the amount of peak discharge is only used to evaluate the flood events for the hydrological plan and design. The univariate analysis has a limitation in describing the complex probability behavior of flood events. Thus, the univariate analysis cannot derive satisfying results in flood frequency analysis. This study proposed bivariate flood frequency analysis methods for evaluating flood events considering correlations among attributes of flood events. Parametric distributions such as Gumbel mixed model and bivariate gamma distribution, and a non-parametric model using a bivariate kernel function were introduced in this study. A time series of annual flood events were extracted from observations of inflow to the Soyang River Dam and the Daechung Dam, respectively. The joint probability distributions and return periods were derived from the relationship between the amount of peak discharge and the total volume of flood runoff. Applicabilities of bivariate flood frequency analysis were examined by comparing the return period acquired from the proposed bivariate analyses and the conventional univariate analysis.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.42 no.9
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• pp.725-736
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• 2009

A flood event can be defined by three characteristics; peak discharge, total flood volume, and flood duration, which are correlated each other. However, a conventional flood frequency analysis for the hydrological plan, design, and operation has focused on evaluating only the amount of peak discharge. The interpretation of this univariate flood frequency analysis has a limitation in describing the complex probability behavior of flood events. This study proposed a bivariate flood frequency analysis using a Gumbel mixed model for the flood evaluation. A time series of annual flood events was extracted from observations of inflow to the Soyang River Dam and the Daechung Dam, respectively. The joint probability distribution and return period were derived from the relationship between the amount of peak discharge and the total volume of flood runoff. The applicability of the Gumbel mixed model was tested by comparing the return periods acquired from the proposed bivariate analysis and the conventional univariate analysis.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.55 no.10
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• pp.737-748
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• 2022

Due to the lack of flood data, the water engineering practice calculates the design flood using rainfall frequency analysis and rainfall-runoff model. However, the rainfall frequency analysis for arbitrary duration does not reflect the regional characteristics of the duration and amount of storm event. This study proposed a practical method to calculate the design flood in a watershed considering the characteristics of storm event, based on the bivariate rainfall frequency analysis. After extracting independent storm events for the Pyeongchang River basin and the upper Namhangang River basin, we performed the bivariate rainfall frequency analysis to determine the design storm events of various return periods, and calculated the design floods using the HEC-1 model. We compared the design floods based on the bivariate rainfall frequency analysis (DF_BRFA) with those estimated by the flood frequency analysis (DF_FFA), and those estimated by the HEC-1 with the univariate rainfall frequency analysis (DF_URFA). In the case of the Pyeongchang River basin, except for the 100-year flood, the average error of the DF_BRFA was 11.6%, which was the closest to the DF_FFA. In the case of the Namhangang River basin, the average error of the DF_BRFA was about 10%, which was the most similar to the DF_FFA. As the return period increased, the DF_URFA was calculated to be much larger than the DF_FFA, whereas the BRFA produced smaller average error in the design flood than the URFA. When the proposed method is used to calculate design flood in an ungauged watershed, it is expected that the estimated design flood might be close to the actual DF_FFA. Thus, the design of the hydrological structures and water resource plans can be carried out economically and reasonably.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.51 no.10
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• pp.875-886
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• 2018

This study evaluated drought severity by bivariate frequency analysis using drought magnitude and precipitation deficit. A drought event was defined by Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the precipitation deficit was estimated using reference precipitation corresponding to the SPI -1. In previous studies, drought magnitude and duration were used for bivariate frequency analysis. However, since these two variables have a largely linear relationship, extensibility of drought information is not great compared to the univariate frequency analysis for each variable. In the case of drought in 2015, return periods of 'drought magnitude-precipitation deficit' in the Seoul, Yangpyeong, and Chungju indicated severe drought over 300 years. However, the result of 'drought magnitude-duration' showed a significant difference by evaluating the return period of about 10, 50, and 50 years. Although a drought including the rainy season was seriously lacking in precipitation, drought magnitude did not adequately represent the severity of the absolute lack of precipitation. This showed that there is a limit to expressing the actual severity of drought. The results of frequency analysis for 'drought magnitude-precipitation deficit' include the absolute deficit of precipitation information, so which could consider being a useful indicator to cope with drought.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.713-727
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• 2012

In this study, the bivariate frequency analysis of the independent annual rainfall event series was done to be used for the runoff analysis, whose results were also compared with those from the conventional univariate frequency analysis. This study was applied to three differently-sized basins such as the Joongryang Stream, Chunggye Stream, and Ooyi Stream. The Clark model was used as the runoff model, and the SCS method was applied for the calculation of the effective rainfall. The alternating block method and the Huff method were considered to be compared for the temporal distribution of rainfall event. Summarizing the results are as follows. (1) The difference between the univariate and bivariate frequency analysis results were large when the rainfall duration was short, but significantly decreased as the rainfall duration increased. The univariate frequency analysis results were bigger when the rainfall duration was short, but smaller in opposite case. (2) The peak flow derived by applying the alternating block method was bigger than that by the Huff method. Also, the peak flow when applying the alternating block method increased as the rainfall duration increased, but converged smoothly around the rainfall duration of 24 hours. (3) For the Joongryang Stream, when applying the Huff method, the peak flow derived for the bivariate frequency analysis was bigger than that for the univariate case, but for the other two basins, the results were opposite. When applying the alternating block method, the results were consistent for all three basins that the peak flow derived by applying the bivariate frequency analysis was bigger than those by the univariate frequency analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1467-1471
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• 2009

홍수사상은 크게 첨두홍수량, 홍수용적, 지속기간 등과 같은 서로 상관된 세 가지 요소로 구성되어 있다. 그러나 그동안 홍수의 규모와 크기를 판단하고 예측하기 위하여 수행되어 온 홍수빈도 해석에서는, 서로 상관되어있는 요소들 간의 관계를 고려하지 않은 채 주로 첨두홍수량 하나만을 가지고 단변량 빈도 해석을 수행하였다. 이와 같은 단변량 홍수빈도 해석은 특정 홍수의 특성을 종합적으로 표현하는 데 한계를 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 홍수빈도 해석에 있어 첨두홍수량뿐만 아닌 홍수용적까지도 함께 고려하였다. 소양강댐의 35개년 일유입량 자료를 대상으로 홍수사상을 각각의 강우량 자료와 연계하여 분리한 후 Gumbel 혼합모형을 적용하여 이변량 홍수빈도 해석을 수행함으로써 과거의 극한 홍수사상을 평가 분석하였다. 이변량 빈도해석을 수행하여 홍수사상 요소들 간의 결합분포, 결합 재현기간 등을 추정하였다. 단변량 홍수빈도 해석 결과와 비교함으로써 특정 홍수에 대한 홍수심도를 분석하는 등 극한 홍수사상 평가를 위한 이변량 홍수빈도 해석기법의 적용성에 관하여 검토하였다. 이러한 연구 결과는 기존의 제방 중심 치수사업의 대안으로 제시된 유역종합치수계획에서 선정된 다양한 홍수방어 시설들의 설계 및 운영, 치수효과 평가 등에 유용하게 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.106-106
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 독립 호우사상을 이용하여 이변량 빈도해석 및 유출해석을 수행하고, 이로부터 산정된 설계홍수량을 기존 단변량 빈도해석 결과와 비교하였다. 추가로 빈도해석 결과를 유출모형에 적용하기 위한 강우의 시간분포 모형으로 교호블록 방법 및 Huff 방법을 이용하여 그 특성이 비교될 수 있도록 하였다. 본 연구에서 고려한 빈도해석 결과로부터 산정된 설계홍수량을 비교하기 위해 Clark 모형을 유출모형으로 이용하였으며, 유효우량을 산정하기 위한 방법으로 SCS 방법을 동일하게 적용하였다. 이러한 특성은 유역 크기가 다른 세 유역(중랑천, 청계천, 우이천)에 적용한 결과로부터 비교될 수 있도록 하였다. 그 결과를 정리하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 연 최대치 독립 호우사상에 대한 이변량 빈도해석 결과, 지속기간이 짧은 경우에는 단변량 빈도해석 결과와의 차이가 매우 크나 지속기간이 길어짊에 따라서 그 차이가 현저히 줄어드는 것으로 나타났다. 아울러 지속기간이 짧은 경우, 단변량 빈도해석 결과가 이변량 빈도해석 결과보다 더욱 크게 나타났으나 특정 지속기간 이상부터는 그 결과가 역전되어 나타났다. 둘째, 강우 시간분포 모형으로 교호블록 방법을 적용하는 경우가 Huff 방법을 적용한 경우보다 더욱 큰 첨두유출량을 발생시키는 것으로 나타났다. 아울러 교호블록 방법을 적용하는 경우에는 강우 지속기간의 증가에 따라서 첨두 유출량이 점차 증가하는 것으로 나타났으나, 강우 지속기간이 대략 24시간 정도 되었을 때 그 값이 거의 수렴하는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 중랑천 유역에 대해 Huff 방법을 적용하여 유출해석을 수행한 결과에서는 이변량 설계강우를 적용한 경우가 단변량 설계강우를 적용한 경우보다 더욱 큰 홍수량을 발생시키는 것으로 나타났다. 반면에 청계천 및 우이천 유역의 경우에는 이변량 설계 강우를 적용한 경우보다 단변량 설계강우를 적용한 경우의 홍수량이 다소 큰 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 교호블록 방법을 적용하여 유출해석을 수행한 경우, 본 연구에서 고려한 모든 유역에 대해 이변량 설계강우를 적용한 경우가 단변량 설계강우를 적용한 경우보다 더 큰 홍수량을 발생시키는 것으로 나타났다.