• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.285-291
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• 2020

The Noah 3.3 Land Surface Model (LSM) was used to estimate the global soil moisture in this study and these soil moisture datasets were assessed against satellite-based and reanalysis soil moisture products. The Noah 3.3 LSM simulated soil moistures in four soil layers and root-zone soil moistures defined as a depth-weighted average in the first three soil layers (i.e., up to 1.0 m deep). The Noah LSM soil moisture products were then compared with a satellite-based soil moisture dataset (European Space Agency Climate Change Initiatives (ESA CCI) SM v04.4) and reanalysis soil moisture datasets (ERA-interim). In addition, the five major basins (Yangtze, Mekong, Mississippi, Murray-Darling, Amazon) were selected for the assesment with the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)-based Total Water Storage Anomaly (TWSA) and TWS Change (TWSC). The results revealed that high anomaly correlations were found in most of the Asia-Pacific regions including East Asia, South Asia, Australia, and Noth and South America. While the anomaly correlations in the Murray-Darling basin were somewhat low, relatively higher anomaly correlations in the other basins were found. It is concluded that this study can be useful for the development of soil moisture based drought indices and subsequently can be helpful to reduce damages from drought by timely providing an efficacious strategy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.46-46
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• 2023

돌발가뭄 (Flash drought)은 일반적인 가뭄과 달리 기후변화에 따른 기상 이상으로 인해 단기간 급속하게 발생하는 가뭄이다. 짧은 기간에 식생 스트레스가 증가하며, 작물생산량의 감소로 인해 농업 생태계에 피해를 야기하며, 과도한 증발 수요 및 급격한 토양수분의 감소는 수문학적 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구에서는 최근 개발된 Flash Drought Intenisty Index (FDII, 2021)를 활용하여 2014년부터 2018년까지 5년간 발생한 돌발가뭄에 분석하였다. FDII는 가뭄 심화속도, 평균 심각도의 두 가지 요소를 곱하여 나타내며, 일반적으로 가뭄 및 비가뭄에 대한 정도를 나타내는 아노말리 (Anomaly) 대신 백분위수 (Percentile)를 활용한다. 국내 돌발가뭄 분석을 위하여 Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) 위성영상 기반 근역층 토양수분 자료를 활용하였다. 2014년부터 2018년까지 전국 8도 (경기, 강원, 충남, 충북, 전남, 전북, 경남, 경북)를 대상으로 돌발가뭄 사상에 대하여 토양수분 백분위수의 월별 공간분포 및 FDII를 산정하여 국내 돌발가뭄의 강도를 정량화하였다. 지역 및 시기별로 다르게 발생하는 돌발가뭄을 대상으로 FDII를 활용하여 돌발가뭄의 초기 발생, 가뭄 전이 현상 등 시공간적 특성을 분석하고자 한다. 향후 대상 지역의 세분화 및 장기적인 관점에서의 FDII 적용으로 신뢰성 높은 국내 돌발가뭄 모니터링 및 분석 기술로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.473-482
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• 2018

During the period of 2002 to 2017, the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) had observed time-varying gravity changes with unprecedented accuracy. The GRACE science data centers provide the monthly gravity solutions after removing the sub-monthly mass fluctuation using geophysical models. However, model misfit makes the solutions to be contaminated by aliasing errors, which exhibits peculiar north-south stripes. Two conventional filters are used to reduce the errors, but signals with similar spatial patterns to the errors are also removed during the filtering procedure. This would be particularly problematic for estimating the ice mass changes in Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and Antarctic Peninsula (AP) due to their similar spatial pattern to the elongated north-south direction. In this study, we introduce an alternative filter to remove aliasing errors using the Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOF) analysis. EOF can decompose data into different modes, and thus is useful to separate signals from noise. Therefore, the aliasing errors are effectively suppressed through EOF method. In particular, the month-to-month mass changes in WAIS and AP, which have been significantly contaminated by aliasing errors, can be recovered using EOF method.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.8
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• pp.805-814
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• 2012

Most hydrologic data are obtained by ground observations. New observation methods are needed for some regions to overcome difficulties in accessibility and durability of long-term observation. In 2002, NASA launched twin satellites named GRACE which were designed to measure the gravitational field of the earth. Using the GRACE monthly gravity level-2 data, we calculated terrestrial water storage change (TWSC) of the Korean peninsula in various spatial smoothing radii (0 km, 300 km, 500 km). For the validation of GRACE-based TWSC, we compared it with land-based TWSC which was obtained using the ground observation data: precipitation and evaporation from WAMIS, and runoff from GLDAS. According to the mean square-error test, GRACE-based TWSC best fits the land-based one at 500 km smoothing radius. The variation of the terrestrial water storage in the Korean peninsula turned out to be 0.986 cm/month, which means that appropriate measures should be prepared for sustainable water resources management.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.377-381
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• 2011

지구는 지속적으로 변화하는 동력학적 시스템이며, 지표면 형상 및 지구 내부의 질량분포도 계속 변화하고 있다. 지구시스템의 질량재분배 과정에서 발생되는 밀도 차이는 중력장의 미세한 변이를 초래한다. 미 항공우주센터(NASA)와 독일 국립 항공우주연구센터(DLR)에서 공동으로 개발한 GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) 인공위성은 지구의 중력장을 측정하는 위성으로, 2002년부터 현재까지 9년 동안 활동해왔다. 본 연구에서는 한반도(북위 $37.5^{\circ}\sim41.5^{\circ}$, 동경 $125.5^{\circ}\sim130.5^{\circ}$)의 월평균 수자원변화량(TWSC: Terrestrial Water Storage Change)을 산정하기 위해 미국 텍사스대학교 공간연구센터(CSR)에서 가우시안 필터링을 통해 구면조화함수의 계수 형태로 제공된 총 94개월(2002 년 8월~2010년 6월)의 자료(Level-2)를 이용하였다. Level-2 자료는 해양조석, 고체지구조석 및 지구자전으로 인한 극조석 등 조석의 영향과 대기와 해양의 변동성으로 인한 비조석 영향을 보정한 것이다. 이렇게 산정한 TWSC를 수자원관리정보시스템(WAMIS)과 전지구지표동계화시스템(GLDAS)을 통해 제공되는 자료와 비교 분석하였다. 본 연구를 통해 GRACE 중력장 자료가 수자원총량의 산정과 검증을 위한 대안으로 활용될 수 있음과, 수문요소의 불확실성을 낮출 수 있는 새로운 수문자료로의 활용 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.59-59
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• 2004

최근에 발사되어 임무를 수행중인 GRACE(Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) 위성사업은 편대비행하는 두 개의 저궤도 위성 간 거리를 측정하여 지구중력장을 관측하는 연구인데, 여기에 사용되는 위성간 거리측정기 성능분석을 위한 기본연구단계로, 해석식을 이용하여 외력과 위성간 거리변화와의 관계를 연구하였다. 원궤도에 근접한 궤도를 비행하는 위성의 운동은 Hill's 방정식을 사용하여 나타낼 수 있는데, 이로부터 위성에 가해지는 외력에 의한 위성의 운동 관계식을 얻을 수 있다. (중략)

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.265-277
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• 2019

Changes in the amount, intensity, frequency, and type of precipitation, in conjunction with global warming and climate change, critically impact groundwater recharge and associated groundwater level fluctuations. Monthly gravity levels by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) are acquired to monitor total water storage changes at regional and global scales. However, there are inherent difficulties in quantitatively relating the GRACE observations to groundwater level data due to the difficulties in spatially representing groundwater levels. Here three local interpolation methods (kriging, inverse distance weighted, and natural neighbor) were implemented to estimate the areal distribution of groundwater recharge changes in South Korea during the 2002-2016 period. The interpolated monthly groundwater recharge changes are compared with the GRACE-derived groundwater storage changes. There is a weak decrease in the groundwater recharge changes over time in both the GRACE observations and groundwater measurements, with the rate of groundwater recharge change exhibiting mean and median values of -0.01 and -0.02 cm/month, respectively.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.25.3-25.3
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• 2011

지구 또는 우주 원격탐사 및 관측에서 진일보한 임무 수행을 위해 위성 편대 비행의 필요성이 점차 부상하고 있다. 편대 비행은 단일 위성으로는 실현하기가 어렵거나 불가능한 과학적인 임무를 수행할 수 있다. 다양한 위성 편대 비행 기술에서 중요한 기술 중에 하나는 편대 위성간의 정밀기선결정 기술이며, 정밀도 검증 기술도 함께 동반되어야 한다. 이 논문에서는 Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment(GRACE) 위성의 실제 Global Positioning System(GPS) 데이터를 사용하여 GRACE A와 B 두 위성의정밀기선결정을 수행하였다. 그리고 K/Ka-Band Ranging system(KBR) 바이어스 거리측정값으로 일괄처리 및 순차처리 방법을 통해 정밀도를 검증하였다. 제안된 순차처리 방법은 KBR 바이어스를 추정하는 대신에 기산점 차분으로 이를 제거하여 정밀도를 검증하기 때문에 검증자(KBR baised range)가 피검증자(GPS-baseline)와 독립적이고 실시간 정밀도 검증에 적용이 가능하다. 그 결과 일괄처리 검증방법과 유사한 1.5 ~ 3.0 mm의 순차처리 정밀도 검증 결과를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.467-467
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• 2015

Sustainable water resource management requires the assessment of hydrological variability in response to climate fluctuations and anthropogenic activities. Determining quantitative estimates of water balance and total basin discharge are of utmost importance to understand the variations within a basin. Hard-to-reach areas with few infrastructures, coupled with lengthy administrative procedures makes in-situ data collection and water management processes very difficult and unreliable. In this study, the hydrological behavior of Lake Chad whose extent, extreme climatic and environmental conditions make it difficult to collect field observations was examined. During a 10 year period [January 2003 to December 2013], dataset from space-borne and global hydrological models observations were analyzed. Terrestial water storage (TWS) data retrieved from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), lake level variations from Satellite altimetry, water fluxes and soil moisture from Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) were used for this study. Furthermore, we combined altimetry lake volume with TWS over the lake drainage basin to estimate groundwater and soil moisture variations. This will be validated with groundwater estimates from WaterGAP Global Hydrology Model (WGHM) outputs. TWS showed similar variation patterns Lake water level as expected. The TWS in the basin area is governed by the lake's surface water. As expected, rainfall from GLDAS precedes GRACE TWS with a phase lag of about 1 month. Estimates of groundwater and soil moisture content volume changes derived by combining altimetric Lake Volume with TWS over the drainage basin are ongoing. Results obtained shall be compared with WaterGap Hydrology Model (WGHM) groundwater estimate outputs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.204-204
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• 2021

Terrestrial water storage (TWS) includes all components of water (e.g., surface water, groundwater, snow and ice) over the land. So accurately predicting and estimating TWS is important in water resource management. Although many land surface models are used to predict the TWS, model output has errors and biases in comparison to the observation data due to the model deficiencies in the model structure, atmospheric forcing datasets, and parameters. In this study, Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) satelite TWS data is assimilated in the Community Land Model version 5 with a biogeochemistry module (CLM5.0-BGC) over East Asia from 2003 to 2010 by employing the Ensemble Adjustment Kalman Filter (EAKF). Results showed that TWS over East Asia continued to decrease during the study period, and the ability to simulate the surface water storage, which is the component of the CLM derived TWS, was greatly improved. We further investigated the impact of assimilated TWS on the vegetated and carbon related variables, including the leaf area index and primary products of ecosystem. We also evaluated the simulated total ecosystem carbon and calculated its correlation with TWS. This study shows that how the better simulated TWS plays a role in capturing not only water but also carbon fluxes and states.