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Vegetation structure of Mountain Ridge from Jeongryeongchi to Bokseongijae in the Baekdudaegan. (백두대간 정령치-복성이재 구간의 능선부 식생구조)

  • 최송현;오구균
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.421-432
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    • 2003
  • To investigate the vegetation structure of mountain ridge from Jeongryongchi to Bokseongiiae in Baetdudaegan, thirty few sites(size 500$m^2$) were set up and surveyed. By using TWINSPAN and DCA technique, the Plants community was divided into four groups, those are Pinus densiflora - P. rigida community, P. denisiflora community, P. densiflora -Larix leptolepis community, Quercus mongolica cummunity. P densiflora is turned out as a dominant woody species in the ridge area. Diversity index of the species in ridge area which is semi mountainous one, is lower than one of mountainous ridge area.

Agricultural land use in less favored areas in Japan and Measures against Abandoned cultivated land

  • Takuya, Hashiguchi
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 2009
  • It may be said that a farmer's crisis deepens from the number of farm households and a trend of the number of cultivated land of the farmer attracting attention for the most fundamental numerical value of the Census of Agriculture 2005. A rate of decline of number of farm households seems to have been stopped, but expansion lasts a number of farm households rate of decline. I can, so to speak, watch weakening of flatland area and luck of mountainous areas and a situation to say if I look in that according to classification agricultural area. I can nominate the effect of a direct payment system for farmers in hilly and mountainous areas enforced in 2000 for the background. It is located in case of the policy introduced preceding it while the rural community and the community including the urban area being paid attention as the last resort of a regional reproduction now. In particular, the character as the village activation subsidy has been strengthened in case of the 2nd stage institutional revise.

Simulation of Atmospheric Dispersion over the Yosu Area -II. Diurnal Variations by Solar Radiation- (여수지역 대기확산의 수치 모사 -II. 일사에 의한 일변화-)

  • 오현선;김영성
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.225-236
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    • 2000
  • Diurnal variations of wind field and pollutant dispersion over the Yosu area under the insolation conditions of summer and winter were investigated by using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). Initially, horizontally homogeneous wind field were assumed on the basis of sounding data at the Kwangju upper-air station for days whose morning wind speeds were below 2m/s. In these days, the sea breeze prevailed in summer while the land breeze lasted for a few hours in the morning; the effect of synoptic winds was strong in winter with some inclusion of wind variations owing to the interaction between sea and land. The predicted wind direction at the location of the Yosu weather station captured an important change of the sea-land breeze of the observed one. The predicted wind speed and the air temperature agreed with observed ones in a reasonable range. In the morning, both in summer and winter, winds around the source location were diverged and became weak between the mountainous area to the southeast and the Kwangyang Bay to the north. Winds, however, accelerated while blowing to the east and south and blowing on the mountainous area. Complicated wind fields resulted in high pollutant concentrations at almost all receptors considered. These high concentrations in the morning were even comparable to the ISCST3 calculations with the worst-case and typical meteorological conditions designated by USEPA(1996). On the other hand, in the afternoon, the wind field was rather uniform even in the mountainous area with development of mixing layer and the concentration distributions being close to the Gaussian distributions.

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Spatial Downscaling Method for Use of GCM Data in A Mountainous Area (산악지역에 GCM 자료를 이용하기 위한 공간 축소방법 개발)

  • Kim, Soojun;Kang, Na Rae;Kim, Yon Soo;Lee, Jong So;Kim, Hung Soo
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.115-125
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    • 2013
  • This study established a methodology for the application of downscaling technique in a mountainous area having large spatial variations of rainfall and tried to estimate the change of rainfall characteristics in the future under climate change using the established method. The Namhan river basin, which is in the mountainous area of the Korean peninsula, has been chosen as the study area. Artificial Neural Network - Simple Kriging with varying local means (ANN-SKlm) has been built by combining artificial neural network, which is one of the general downscaling techniques, and SKlm technique, which can reflect the geomorphologic characteristics like elevation of the study area. The evaluation of SKlm technique was done by using the monthly rainfalls at six weather stations which KMA(Korea Meteorological Administration) is managing in the basin. The ANN-SKlm technique was compared with the Thiessen technique and ordinary kriging(OK) technique. According to the evaluation result of each technique the SKlm technique showed the best result.

Applicability evaluation of radar-based sudden downpour risk prediction technique for flash flood disaster in a mountainous area (산지지역 수재해 대응을 위한 레이더 기반 돌발성 호우 위험성 사전 탐지 기술 적용성 평가)

  • Yoon, Seongsim;Son, Kyung-Hwan
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.313-322
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    • 2020
  • There is always a risk of water disasters due to sudden storms in mountainous regions in Korea, which is more than 70% of the country's land. In this study, a radar-based risk prediction technique for sudden downpour is applied in the mountainous region and is evaluated for its applicability using Mt. Biseul rain radar. Eight local heavy rain events in mountain regions are selected and the information was calculated such as early detection of cumulonimbus convective cells, automatic detection of convective cells, and risk index of detected convective cells using the three-dimensional radar reflectivity, rainfall intensity, and doppler wind speed. As a result, it was possible to confirm the initial detection timing and location of convective cells that may develop as a localized heavy rain, and the magnitude and location of the risk determined according to whether or not vortices were generated. In particular, it was confirmed that the ground rain gauge network has limitations in detecting heavy rains that develop locally in a narrow area. Besides, it is possible to secure a time of at least 10 minutes to a maximum of 65 minutes until the maximum rainfall intensity occurs at the time of obtaining the risk information. Therefore, it would be useful as information to prevent flash flooding disaster and marooned accidents caused by heavy rain in the mountainous area using this technique.

Cast Shadow Extraction of Mountainous Terrain in Satellite Imagery (위성영상에서 산악지역의 그림자 추출)

  • 손홍규;윤공현;송영선
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.309-312
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    • 2004
  • In mountainous area with high relief, topography may cause cast shadows due to the blocking of direct solar radiation. Remote sensing images of these landscapes display reduced values of reflectance for shadowed areas compared to non-shadowed areas with similar surface cover characteristics. A variety of approaches are possible, though a common step in various active approaches is first to delineate the shadows using automated algorithm and digital surface model (or digital elevation model). This articles demonstrates a common confusion caused by cast shadows

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A Study on the Cause Analysis of Viewscape Preference on Observers Using GSIS & ANN (GSIS와 인공신경망을 이용한 다중관찰자의 경관선호도 원인분석에 관한 연구)

  • 고제웅;이환주;조기성;정영동
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.157-168
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    • 2000
  • MDD(Mountainous District Development) has more available area than flatland come into solution for many urban problem arisen from the insufficiency of urban-purpose land and space. When develope the mountainous district, the development must be a development considered the viewscape. To efficiently accomplish the MDD viewscape was considered, firstly we have to know which viewscape element effect on many observers when they rate the viewscpe preference. As a basical study for MDD viewscape was considered, we used GSIS and ANN(Artificial Neural Network) in cause analysis of viewscape preference. Many observers firstly influenced by“height difference”that represent the difference between elevation of a mountainous and buildings, and secondly floor-area-ratio has influence on viewscape preference, thirdly many observer affected by building coverage among many viewscape elecments considered in this study.

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Spatial Distribution and Casual Causes of Shallow Landslides in Jinbu Area of Korea

  • Park, Jin Woo;Choi, Byoung Koo;Kim, Myung Hwan;Cha, Du Song
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.130-135
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    • 2017
  • In temperate monsoon regions, extensive shallow landslides triggered by heavy rainfall are recurrent phenomena in mountainous areas. 1,357 landslides over Jinbu area, Korea that totaled 127 km2 were identified from aerial photographs and field survey. We examined characteristics of rainfall-induced shallow landslides and casual factors affecting landslide distribution with respect to topographic and forest settings, and land use. Most landslides occurred in the study area were the results of a complex combination of precondition, preparatory factors and triggering factors. Cumulative rainfall and high intensity rainfall during short period of time made the study area very sensitive to landslides and played as catalysts to enable other factors including topographic and forest settings, and land use to act more effectively. In addition, some landslides at lower elevation involved channel incision or bank erosion influenced by land use changes such as deforestation and intensification of agriculture surrounding riparian forests or hillslopes. The results suggest that most of landslide were triggered by heavy rainstorms while topographic, forest settings, and land use affected landslide distribution occurred in the study area.

A NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE WIND EFFECTS OF MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN FOR THE SKI RESORT (스키장의 풍환경 개선을 위한 수치해석 연구)

  • Jung, Jae-Hyuk;Hur, Nahm-Keon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.493-495
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    • 2010
  • A three-dimensional flow simulation is performed to investigate the flow field in the ski resort on complex terrain. The present paper aims to study the wind effects of mountainous terrain on the gondola safety. Strong wind happens in the ski resort on the mountain by complex terrain and it causes the dangerous accident of gondola. A digital map around the ski resort area is used to model the actual complex terrain for a 3-D analysis domain. Wind direction and speed to be used as a boundary condition are taken from local meteorological reports. The numerical results show details of the velocity distribution around a ski resort. From the results, we can suggest the modification of the installation of gondola for the safety due to strong wind.

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