• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.167-177
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• 2005

In this study, the PRMS(Precipitation and Runoff Modeling System), developed by USGS(United States Geological Survey), was applied to the Yongdam dam watershed in the Geum River basin. The efficiency for runoff simulation and spatial characteristics of PRMS were evaluated. The runoff changes with the changes of subcatchments and HRUs were estimated. As results, the size of the subcatchment and HRV did not significantly affect the runoff at the exit of watershed. Consequently, the spatial characteristic of PRMS was shown as lumped type rather than semi-distributed. The geographical input data for Yongdam dam watershed were converted to the USGS Input type, and the parameters were calibrated using Rosenbrock optimization method, validated with the observed runoff data. The PRMS showed resonable agreements in the long-term continuous runoff simulation, if the accuracy of observed data is ensured.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.217-229
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• 2001

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the hydrologic changes and the effect of runoff characteristics of a large river basin due to construction of a dam. The changes of land use and vegetation are quantified from remote sensing film taken before and after dam construction. Evapotranspiration, runoff and soil moisture were calculated using water balance equation. It was found that the albedo of watershed upstream of the dam is decreasing due to the decreasing of vegetation and the increasing of water surface and forest, and the increasing of potential evpotranspiration and soil moisture led to increasing actual evpotranspiration and runoff ratio after dam construction.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1019-1032
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• 2004

Flood frequency estimate is an essential index for determining the scale of small and middle hydraulic structure. However, this flood quantity could not be estimated directly for practical design purpose due to the lack of available flood data, and indirect method like design rainfall-runoff method have been used for the estimation of design flood. To give the good explain for design flood estimates, regional flood frequency analysis was performed by flood index method in this study. First, annual maximum series were constructed by using the collected data which covers from Japanese imperialism period to 1999. Wakeby distribution recommended by WMO(1989) was used for regional flood frequency analysis and L-moment method by Hosking (1990) was used for parameter estimation. For the homogeneity of region, the discordance and heterogeneity test by Hosking and Wallis(1993) was carried for 4 major watersheds in Korea. Physical independent variable correlated with index flood was watershed area. The relationship between specific discharge and watershed area showed a type of power function, i.e. the specific discharge decreases as watershed area increases. So flood quantity according to watershed area and return period was presented for each watershed(Han rivet, Nakdong river, Geum river and Youngsan/Seomjin river) by using this relation type. This result was also compared with the result of point frequency analysis and its regionalization. It was shown that the dam construction couldn't largely affect the variation of peak flood. The property of this study was also examined by comparison with previous studies.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.389-399
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• 1997

The heavy strom of July 26-28, 1996, which occurred over the Northern Kyungi Province and Western Kangwon Province, is analyzed to investigate the hydrometeorological characteristics and frequency of occurrences of the storm. The study region is limited to the watershed area of Hantan River on which the partially destructed Yeonchon Dam is located. Hourly rainfall data at 21 rain gauging stations in and near the Hantan river basin are collected and the cumulative rainfall mass curves constructed and compared each other to judge the credibility and consistency of rainfall data at nearby stations. In order to analyze the spatially moving characteristics of rain storm the isochrones based on real time are constructed using the several fixed-percentage cumulative rainfalls at the stations. The basin average rainfalls of various durations are computed for Yeonchon dam and the return period of July/1996 storm are evaluated based on the rainfall frequency curves at Cheolwon and Yeonchon rain gauging stations. A comparison is also made between the July/1996 storm and PMP of the region, which demonstrated the severity of the heavy storm.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.1069-1077
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• 2009

Lately, it is an important concern in water resources research to maintain a stable water supply according to a future climate change and an increase in water use. In Han-River basin, approximately 10 % of water resources that is provided the capital region (Gyeonggi, Seoul etc.) has been reduced as a consequence of the construction of Imnam Dam (storage volume: 27 billion $m^3$) located in the upper Hwacheon Dam upstream area. Therefore, streamflows have decreased in Bukhangang basin, but it could not be evaluated quantitatively. In this study, SWAT-K which is the physically based long-term runoff simulation model, was used in order to evaluate the effect of Imnam Dam on the reduced inflow to Hwacheon Dam according to the change of hydrological condition in the upstream area of Hwacheon Dam. For the model input data of North Korea area, meteorological data of GTS (Global Telecommunication System) were used, and soil maps by FAO/UNESCO (2003) were applied. Temporal variations of water resources is investigated with comparison of observed and simulated inflows at Hawcheon Dam site. Also, annual, monthly, seasonal decreases in water resources were evaluated using the flow duration analysis of simulated streamflows with or without Imnam dam.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.301-316
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• 2012

Two models, TANK and SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) were compared for simulating natural flows in the Paldang Dam upstream areas of the Han River basin in order to understand the limitations of TANK and to review the applicability and capability of SWAT. For comparison, simulation results from the previous research work were used. In the results for the calibrated watersheds (Chungju Dam and Soyanggang Dam), two models provided promising results for forecasting of daily flows with the Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency of around 0.8. TANK simulated observations during some peak flood seasons better than SWAT, while it showed poor results during dry seasons, especially its simulations did not fall down under a certain value. It can be explained that TANK was calibrated for relatively larger flows than smaller ones. SWAT results showed a relatively good agreement with observed flows except some flood flows, and simulated inflows at the Paldang Dam considering discharges from upper dams coincided with observations with the model efficiency of around 0.9. This accounts for SWAT applicability with higher accuracy in predicting natural flows without dam operation or artificial water uses, and in assessing flow variations before and after dam development. Also, two model results were compared for other watersheds such as Pyeongchang-A, Dalcheon-B, Seomgang-B, Inbuk-A, Hangang-D, and Hongcheon-A to which calibrated TANK parameters were applied. The results were similar to the case of calibrated watersheds, that TANK simulated poor smaller flows except some flood flows and had same problem of keeping on over a certain value in dry seasons. This indicates that TANK application may have fatal uncertainties in estimating low flows used as an important index in water resources planning and management. Therefore, in order to reflect actually complex and complicated physical characteristics of Korean watersheds, and to manage efficiently water resources according to the land use and water use changes with urbanization or climate change in the future, it is necessary to utilize a physically based watershed model like SWAT rather than an existing conceptual lumped model like TANK.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.161-168
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the variation of probability flood according to the flow regulation by multi-purpose dams (Soyang and Chungju) in the Han-river basin, Korea. SWAT-K (Soil and Water Assessment Tool-Korea) was used in order to generate regulated and unregulated daily streamflows upstream of Paldang dam. Simulated flow regulated by the Soyang and Chungju dams was calibrated by comparison with the observed inflow data at Paldang reservoir. Generally the ratio of flood flows to daily streamflows is known to decrease with drainage area in a watershed. Regulated and unregulated flood flows were obtained from the relationship between flood flows and daily streamflows. Extreme Type-I distribution was applied for flood frequency analysis and L-moment method was used for parameter estimation. This is a novel approach capable of understanding the variation in flood frequency with dam operation for the relatively large watershed scale, and this will helps improve the applicability of daily stream flow data for use in flood control as well as in water utilization.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.400-400
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• 2011

영산강 유역은 한강, 낙동강, 금강과 더불어 우리나라 4대강 유역 중의 하나로 전라 남 북도에 걸쳐 위치하고 있어 우리나라 남서부의 수자원 공급 및 용수이용의 큰 비중을 차지하고 있다. 유역 특성상 나주평야와 같이 하천을 따라 평야가 발달되어 곡창지대를 이루고 있으며, 타 유역에 비하여 농경지의 비율이 높기 때문에 용수 이용에 있어 농업용수가 큰 비중을 차지한다. 따라서 영산 본류 및 지천 상류에는 농업용수의 안정적인 공급을 목적으로 제 1단계 영산강수계 대단위 농업종합개발사업에 의하여 4개의 농업전용 댐(장성댐, 나주댐, 담양댐, 광주댐)이 건설되었다. 이들 댐은 농업전용 댐으로 건설되었으나 댐의 규모와 저수 용량을 기준으로 장성댐, 나주댐, 담양댐은 대규모, 광주댐은 중규모의 댐에 속하기 때문에 농업용수의 안정적인 공급뿐만 아니라 시 공간적으로 유역 전체의 유출 변화에 영향을 미칠 것으로 판단된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 유역모형인 SWAT-K 모형을 이용하여 영산강 유역의 댐 운영이 유역 유출 변화에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 한다. 장기간의 유출 분석을 바탕으로 모형의 댐 모의기작에 의하여 댐 모의를 제한하여 유역 내에 댐이 없는 상태를 가상으로 모의하여 유역의 자연유량을 산정하고, 이에 따른 유역의 전체 유출 변화에 댐이 미치는 영향을 시 공간적으로 분석하여 유역의 효율적인 수자원 관리에 도움이 되고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2016

남강은 낙동강 주요 지류인 동시에 낙동강 하류지역의 유지용수, 생활, 공업, 농업용수 공급 등에 중요 역할을 하고 있어 오염원 및 수질관리가 매우 중요하다고 볼 수 있다. 최근 남강댐 하류 및 남강합류 후 낙동강 본류인 창녕함안보 지점에서의 녹조 발생이 빈번해지고 있으며, 녹조현상에 대한 관심과 우려가 높아지고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 기존 호소의 녹조관리는 '조류경보제'에 의해서 관리되고 있지만 4대강 16개의 보 건설 이후 '수질예보제'와 같이 녹조관리를 위한 제도 및 정책이 시행되면서 조류관리의 중요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 많은 문헌들을 참고하여 조류의 영향인자를 파악하였으며, 남강유역의 물관리 기초자료를 수집하고 구축된 데이터 기반의 각 항목별 주요항목 영향인자 분석을 위한 상관성 분석을 실시하여 영향인자별 상관관계 우선순위를 선정하여 입력변수로 이용하였다. 그에 따른 데이터 마이닝을 통한 조류 발생특성을 고려하여 예측 모형인 다중회귀분석(Multiple Regression Analysis)을 구현하였다. 회귀분석 과정에서 다중공선성이 발생하는 변수에 대해서는 모형에서 제거하였으며, 잔차분석을 통해 이상치와 영향치를 검토하여 고려하였다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.151-163
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• 2023

This study explored the 2022 drought over the Nakdong River watershed. Here, we developed a bivariate regional frequency analysis method to evaluate the risk of hydrological drought. Currently, natural streamflow data are generally limited to accurately estimating the drought frequency. Under this circumstance, the existing at site frequency analysis can be problematic in estimating the drought risk. On the other hand, a regional frequency analysis could provide a more reliable estimation of the joint return periods of drought variables by pooling available streamflow data over the entire watershed. More specifically, the Copula-based regional frequency analysis model was proposed to effectively take into account the tail dependencies between drought variables. The results confirmed that the regional frequency analysis model showed better performance in model fit by comparing the goodness-of-fit measures with the at-site frequency analysis model. We find that the estimated joint return period of the 2022 drought in the Nakdong River basin is about eight years. In the case of the Nam river Dam, the joint return period was approximately 20 years, which can be regarded as a relatively severe drought over the last three decades.