• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.22-27
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• 2006

Many aspects of climate have been observed to be increasingly volatile during the past several decades. Episodic climate change is not considered to be uncommon. However, there are substantial environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with climate variability that can be managed if the climate and its impacts are properly understood. Plants and natural communities exhibit several types of adaptive strategy to climate change. There is ample reason to relate increasingly erratic weather with a warming climate. Historic climate extremes, the adaptive mechanisms plants exhibit, and how people have (or have not) responded with strategically sound concepts and policy to facilitate a sustainable environmental ethic are reviewed with a vision of international needs and economic stability.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.361-361
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• 2020

우리나라의 경우 강수량이 지역별로 편중되면서 국지적 가뭄이 발생하고, 지형적 특성으로 상습가뭄지역 피해가 확대되고 있다. 더불어 강수의 시기별 편차가 커지면서 봄 가뭄 증가 및 장기 기후변화 시나리오도 가뭄 발생 가능성 증가를 전망하고 있다. 그러나 우리나라의 경우 가뭄대응 대책 마련시 선제적인 가뭄대응 대책 마련보다, 사후복구·단기대책을 중심으로 가뭄대응능력을 추진하고 있어 예방중심의 가뭄대응능력의 한계점을 지니고 있다. 본 연구에서는 선제적 예방 중심의 가뭄대응 전략을 위해 물순환 모델을 기반으로 수원별 가뭄대응능력을 평가하고, 지역별로 산정된 용수공급가능일수를 기반으로 수문학적 가뭄취약지도를 작성하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이때 용수공급가능일수는 가뭄시나리오(20년, 30년, 50년 등)를 설정하여 시나리오별 공급가능일수를 평가하여 시공간적 가뭄취약성 분석이 가능한 모형으로 확장하였다. 수문학적 가뭄취약지도의 경우 정책결정자, 업무사용자 등 효율적 정보 제공이 가능할 것으로 판단되며, 지역별로 현안사항 도출 및 개선방안을 위한 기초자료로 활용 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.254-254
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• 2020

우리나라의 주요 식량은 쌀이기 때문에 논 경작이 매우 활발한 국가이며 국토전체면적의 약 8.27%가 논으로 구성되어 있다. 그렇기 때문에 우리나라 유역을 대상으로 수문 모델을 모의함에 있어서 유역 내 논에서의 수문학적 반응을 살펴보는 것은 정확한 유출분석을 위해 반드시 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 물리적 매개변수 기반의 물 순환 해석 모형인 CAT(Catchment Hydrologic cycle Assessment Tool)을 이용하여 충청남도 보령시에 위치한 보령댐 유역을 대상으로 일 자료기반의 유출모의를 수행하였다. CAT은 논에서의 담수심과 물꼬높이 등을 고려한 모듈을 포함하고 있기 때문에 우리나라 논에서의 유출특성을 반영한 유역 유출 모의가 가능하다. 연구기간은 2000년부터 2017년으로 총 18년의 강우, 유출 및 기상자료를 수집하여 전체 기간에 대해 모의하였다. 전체 기간 모의 결과에 대한 유출률과 토양수분을 분석하여 연속된 평년기간(2003년 - 2005년)과 연속된 가뭄년 기간(2015년 - 2017년)으로 시나리오를 구분하였으며, 각 3년 기간으로 구분된 두 가지 시나리오에 대한 논에서의 수문학적 거동 변화를 토양수분과 지하수수위를 중심으로 비교 및 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.363-363
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• 2020

최근 기후변화에 따른 가뭄과 홍수 등 극한사상 발생빈도가 증가하고 있으며, 환경, 생태, 사회, 경제적 측면에 영향을 미치는 심각한 재해로 인식되어 이로 인한 피해를 줄이기 위하여 다양하고 활발한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 극한 가뭄시에는 최소한의 유량만을 제외하고 사용하는 경우가 많다. 대부분 하천 주변에서는 생공·농업용수를 위하여 지하수를 양수하고 있다. 이에 대한 명확한 기준에 정해져 있지 않아, 무분별한 양수는 하천 생태계를 위협하기도 한다. 본 연구에서는 유역 물순환 해석 플랫폼(Catchment Hydrologic Cycle Assessment Tool, CAT) 모형을 이용하여 조천천 유역에 지하수 변화 등 인위적 물이용량을 고려했을 때의 하천유량 변화를 분석하였다. CAT은 기후변화나 토지이용변화에 따른 유역의 수문환경특성 변동성을 정량적으로 평가하기 위하여 개발된 모형이며, 인위적인 물이용체계 즉, 광역급수, 용수재이용, 지하수 취수, 하천수 취·배수 등을 고려하여 분석이 가능하다. CAT을 통한 인위적 물이용 시나리오를 달리하여 하천유량 변화를 분석한 결과를, 중소하천 가뭄 대책 및 효율적인 의사결정 자료로 활용이 가능할 것으로 판단되었다.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2013.01a
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• pp.386-389
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• 2013

Under climate change and urbanization, rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems are emerging as an alternative source of water supply because of growing concern about water sustainability. RWH systems can satisfy the various watering needs and provide the environmental benefits of lessening the damages from flood, drought, and runoff. The economic success of a RWH system is vitally concerned with the determination of the design capacity of storage tank to be built in the system. The design capacity is determined by the factors of average annual rainfall, period of water scarcity, and water price during the whole life-cycles. Despite the high uncertainties inherent in these factors, the current engineering design of RWH system construction often assumes that storage tanks should be built all at once. This assumption implicitly ignores the managerial flexibility in responds to the future as new information comes out-the right to build storage tanks stage by stage depending on the evolution of demand. This study evaluates the value of a multistage storage tank construction using a real option approach. A case study involving a typical RWH system construction in Jeonju, the Republic of Korea is conducted. The managerial flexibility obtained from the real option perspective allows engineers to develop investment strategies to better cope with the issue of water sustainability.

• Clean Technology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.449-456
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• 2014

There has been increasing concerns for the problems of water security in countries, caused by the frequent occurrence of localized drought due to the climate change and uncertainty of water balance. The importance of fresh water is emphasized as considerable amount of usable fresh water is utilized for power generation sector producing electricity. PV power system, the source of renewable energy, consumes water for the every steps of life cycle: manufacturing, installation, and operation. However, it uses relatively less water than the traditional energy sources such as thermal power and nuclear power sources. In this study, to find out the use of water for the entire process of PV power system from extracting raw materials to operating the system, the footprint of water in the whole process is measured to be analyzed. Measuring the result, the PV water footprint of value chain was $0.989m^3/MWh$ and the water footprint appeared higher specially in poly-Si and solar cell process. The following two reasons explain it: poly-Si process is energy-intensive process and it consumes lots of cooling water. In solar cell process, deionized water is used considerably for washing a high-efficiency crystalline silicon. It is identified that PV system is the source using less water than traditional ones, which has a critical value in saving water. In discussing the future energy policy, it is vital to introduce the concept of water footprint as a supplementary value of renewable energy.

• Journal of Climate Change Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.319-324
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• 2018

Due to climate change, water shortages and water-related disasters will be serious. Since the damage and frequency of drought are increasing, the importance of water resource management technology is increasing. In this study, we analyzed the amount of greenhouse gas and the environmental impact caused by the production and operation system technologies of movable weir among various water resource management technologies. The research subjects were air inflatable rubber dams widely used in rivers and upright type rubber dams, which are an improvement on the existing rubber type. Each type of dam was studied at sizes of $1,500H{\times}10,000L\;mm$ and $3,000H{\times}20,000L\;mm$, and the two types and two sizes were compared and analyzed. Using life cycle assessment, we examined the environmental impacts using the amount of electricity required for operation and the discretionary amount required for production. In the '$1,500H{\times}10,000L$' dams, the global warming indexes were $9.35E+04kg\;CO_2-eq$. for upright type and $7.36E+04kg\;CO_2-eq$. for inflatable type. At size of '$3,000H{\times}20,000L$' the global warming indexes were $9.09E+05kg\;CO_2-eq$. for upright type and $1.07E+06kg\;CO_2-eq$. for inflatable type. Analysis of the life cycle environmental impact showed that the environmental impact of the air inflatable rubber dam was reduced by 39.8% at '$1,500H{\times}10,000L$' compared to the larger size. At the larger '$3,000H{\times}20,000L$' size, the upright dam showed a 10.1% smaller impact than the air inflatable rubber dam. Selection of water resource management system should consider climate change, not only management purpose and cost. Additional studies and improvements on rubber dam systems should be made.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.55 no.12
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• pp.1137-1147
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• 2022

River and groundwater stages are the main elements in the hydrologic cycle. They are spatially correlated and can be used to evaluate hydrological and agricultural drought. Stochastic simulation is often performed independently on hydrological variables that are spatiotemporally correlated. In this setting, interdependency across mutual variables may not be maintained. This study proposes the Bayesian vector autoregression model (VAR) to capture the interdependency between multiple variables over time. VAR models systematically consider the lagged stages of each variable and the lagged values of the other variables. Further, an autoregressive model (AR) was built and compared with the VAR model. It was confirmed that the VAR model was more effective in reproducing observed interdependency (or cross-correlation) between river and ground stages, while the AR generally underestimated that of the observed.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.105-109
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• 2010

The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) (2000/60/EC) was transposed into Irish law by Statutory Instrument Nos. 722 of 2003, 413 of 2005 and 218 of 2009, which set out a new strategy and process to protect and enhance Ireland's water resources and water-dependent ecosystems. The Directive requires a novel, holistic, integrated, and iterative process to address Ireland's natural waters based on a series of six-year planning cycles. Key success factors in implementing the Directive include an in-depth and balanced treatment of the ecological, economic, institutional and cultural aspects of river basin management planning. Introducing this visionary discipline for the management of sustainable water resources requires a solemn commitment to a new mindset and an overarching monitoring and management regime which hitherto has never been attempted in Ireland. The WFD must be implemented in conjunction with a myriad of complimentary directives and associated legislation, addressing such key related topics as flood/drought management, biodiversity protection, land use planning, and water/wastewater and diffuse pollution engineering and regulation. The critical steps identified for river basin management planning under the WFD include: 1) characterization and classification of water bodies (i.e., how healthy are Irish waters?), 2) definition of significant water pressures (e.g., agriculture, forestry, septic tanks), 3) enhancement of measures for designated protected areas, 4) establishment of objectives for all surface and ground waters, and 5) integrating these critical steps into a comprehensive and coherent river basin management plan and associated programme of measures. A parallel WFD implementation programme critically depends on an effective environmental management system (EMS) approach with a plan-do-check-act cycle applied to each of the evolving six-year plans. The proactive involvement of stakeholders and the general public is a key element of this EMS approach.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.61-70
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• 2010

The increase of impervious cover (IC) in a watershed is known as an important factor causing alteration of water cycle, deterioration of water quality and biological communities of urban streams. The study objective was to assess the impact of IC changes on the surface runoff characteristics of Kap Stream basin located in Geum river basin (Korea) using the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). SWMM was calibrated and verified using the flow data observed at outlet of the watershed with 8 days interval in 2007 and 2008. According to the analysis of Landsat satellite imagery data every 5 years from 1975 to 2000, the IC of the watershed has linearly increased from 4.9% to 10.5% during last 25 years. The validated model was applied to simulate the runoff flow rates from the watershed with different IC rates every five years using the climate forcing data of 2007 and 2008. The simulation results indicated that the increase of IC area in the watershed has resulted in the increase of peak runoff and reduction of travel time during flood events. The flood flow ($Q_{95}$) and normal flow ($Q_{180}$) rates of Kap Stream increased with the IC rate. However, the low flow ($Q_{275}$) and drought flow ($Q_{355}$) rates showed no significant difference. Thus the subsurface flow simulation algorithm of the model needs to be revisited for better assessment of the impact of impervious cover on the long-term runoff process.