• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.61-61
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• 2020

최근 수문기상학 분야에서 레이더 강수량을 활용한 응용연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 하지만 레이더 강수량은 대류성 및 층상형 등과 같이 강수특성을 기준으로 레이더 반사도-강수량(Reflectivity-Rainfall, Z-R) 관계식 매개변수를 시공간적으로 동일하게 적용하여 레이더 강수량을 산정하는 방법론은 지상관측 강수량과 정량적인 편의 오차(systematic error)를 발생시킬 수 있는 문제점이 있다. 본 연구는 장기간의 레이더 합성장 반사도를 활용하여 Z-R 관계식 매개변수를 산정하였으며, 이 과정에서 Bayesian 추론 기법을 도입하여 Z-R 관계식 매개변수의 불확실성을 정량화하였다. 추가적으로 편의 오차를 최소화하기 위하여 계절성을 고려한 Z-R 관계식을 산정하였다. 건기와 우기로 구분하여 산정된 Z-R 관계식 매개변수의 공간적으로 변동성과 더불어 강수의 계절적 특성에 기인하는 Z-R 관계식 매개변수의 역비례 관계를 확인하였다. 최종적으로, 제안된 방법론으로 산정된 레이더 강수장은 일반적으로 레이더 강수량 산정에 널리 이용되는 Marshall-Palmer Z-R 관계식으로 산정된 강수장에 비하여 우수한 통계지표를 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.371-371
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• 2020

도시 및 소규모 산지 유역에서와 같이 지체시간이 짧은 유역에서 발생하는 돌발홍수는 더 이상 우량계만으로 예보가 불가능하다. 그리고 지역에 따라 침수시간이나 침수심이 달라지기 때문에 지역에 따른 침수특성과 유속특성의 관계식을 산정하여 홍수예보 기준을 설정하였다. 더불어 도달시간이 짧은 도시 및 산지에서는 지체시간 외에 강수 예측을 통한 홍수예보 선행시간을 확보하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 한강홍수통제소의 강우레이더 기반 초단기 외삽 예측을 입력자료로 활용하여 돌발홍수 예측 시스템을 구축하였다. 강우레이더 기반 초단기 외삽 예측은 강우강도를 입력으로 사용하기 때문에 예측에 별도의 정량 보정이 필요하지 않다는 장점이 있다. 2019년도에 발생한 다양한 홍수 사고 사례를 분석하여 본 시스템에 대한 정확도를 평가하였다. 본 시스템은 동(읍/면) 단위로 1시간 선행 예보를 3단계 위험 정보(주의/경계/심각)로 제공할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.55 no.9
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• pp.679-686
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• 2022

As the occurrences of flash floods have increased due to climate change, faster and more accurate precipitation observation using X-band radar has become important. Therefore, the Ministry of Environment installed two dual-pol X-band radars at Samcheok and Uljin. The radar data used in this study were obtained from two different elevation angles and composed to reduce the shielding effect. To obtain quantitative rainfall, quality control (QC), K_DP retrieval, and Hybrid Surface Rainfall (HSR) methods were sequentially applied. To improve the accuracy of the quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) of the X-band radar, we retrieved parameters for the relationship between rainfall rate and specific differential phase, which is commonly called the R-K_DP relationship; hence, an empirical approach was developed using multiple rain gauges for those two radars. The newly suggested relationship, R = 27.4K^0.81_DP, slightly increased the correlation coefficient by 1% more than the relationship suggested by the previous study. The root mean square error significantly decreased from 3.88 mm/hr to 3.68 mm/hr, and the bias of the estimated precipitation also decreased from -1.72 mm/hr to -0.92 mm/hr for overall cases, showing the improvement of the new method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2016

The Korea Meteorological Administration has operated the Automatic Weather Stations, of the average 13 km horizontal resolution, to observe rainfall. However, an additional RADAR network also has been operated in all-weather conditions, because AWS network could not observed rainfall over the sea. In general, the rain rate is obtained by estimating the relationship between the radar reflectivity (Z) and the rainfall (R). But this empirical relationship needs to be optimized on the rainfall over the Korean peninsula. This study was carried out to optimize the Z-R relationship in the summer of 2014 using a parallel Micro Genetic Algorithm. The optimized Z-R relationship, $Z=120R^{1.56}$, using a micro genetic algorithm was different from the various Z-R relationships that have been previously used. However, the landscape of the fitness function found in this study looked like a flat plateau. So there was a limit to the fine estimation including the complex development and decay processes of precipitation between the ground and an altitude of 1.5km.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.293-306
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• 2013

Hydrometeor type and Drop Size Distribution (DSD) in cloud are the fundamental properties that may help explain the rain formation processes and determine the parameters of radar meteorology. This study presents a preliminary analysis of hydrometeor types and DSD data of cloud measured with a PARSIVEL (PARticle SIze and VELocity) optical disdrometer at the site of Cloud Physics Observation System (CPOS, $37^{\circ}41^{\prime}N$, $128^{\circ}45^{\prime}E$, 843 m from sea level) in Daegwallyeong mountainside of Korea. The method has been validated by comparing the observed rainfall rates with the computed ones from the fitted distribution, using the physical data such as DSD, terminal velocity, and rain intensity which were measured by a Micro-Rain Radar (MRR) and a PARSIVEL optical disdrometer. The analysis period started in three cases: on rainy days with light rain (15.5 mm), moderate rain (76 mm), and heavy rain (121 mm), from March to November 2007, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.985-996
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• 2000

In the coastal zone, to draw up short and medium range weather forecasts, mesoscale pluviogenic systems coming from the sea have to be observed in real time. These observations use remote sensing. However, satellite remote sensing is not sufficient to describe pluviogenic systems; reference to radar long distance observations is indispensable. This paper deals with the corrections, which must be made to long distance radar data if the rainfall field is to be both accurately and quantitatively defined. The error due to vertical variation in the reflectivity factor can be corrected from estimation of the mean profiles or by a climatic adjustment method. Atten-uation in the propagation can be corrected by an iterative polarimetric method. These various correc-tions permit the distance validity limits of radar data to be extended.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.79-87
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• 2019

Radar detection range is decreased with an increase in the noise levels and detection thresholds in adaptive CFAR of a radar signal processor to the weather clutter reflection signal in the rain. When a high-velocity plot is generated in weather clutter, what are detected are not targets but false plots. Detection opportunity is reduced by radar time resource consumption from additional confirmations regarding the false plots. In this paper, the received signals are saved using a radar-received signal storage device. Based on the analysis of the received signals from weather clutter, the influence of the rainfall reflection has been mitigated by front-end attenuation of the signal processor. The improvement in the detection performance is verified through received signal and simulation results.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.783-791
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• 2018

The biased estimation of low density rainfall network and radar rainfall has limited application to extreme rainfall in a small area. To improve this, more rainfall information needs to be produced. In this study, we analyzed the applicability of the vehicle rainfall sensor developed and used recently. The developed rainfall sensor was attached to the vehicle to observe the rainfall according to the movement of the vehicle. The analytical method used time series and average rainfall values for observations of rainfall sensors and nearby rainfall stations. The results show that the trend of observed values according to rainfall events shows a certain pattern. It is analyzed that it is caused by various causes such as the difference between the observation position of the rainfall sensor and the nearby rainfall station, the moving speed of the vehicle, and the rainfall observation method. This result shows the possibility of rainfall observation using a rainfall sensor for a vehicle, and it is possible to observe rainfall more precisely through experiments and improvement of rainfall sensors in various conditions in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.149-153
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• 2006

Precipitation is the most important component and critical to the study of water and energy cycle. This study investigates the propagation of precipitation retrieval uncertainty in the simulation of hydrologic variables for varying spatial resolution on two different vegetation cover. We explore two remotely sensed rain retrievals (space-borne IR-only and radar rainfall) and three spatial grid resolutions. An offline Community Land Model (CLM) was forced with in situ meteorological data In turn, radar rainfall is replaced by the satellite rain estimates at coarser resolution $(0.25^{\circ},\;0.5^{\circ}\;and\;1^{\circ})$ to determine their probable impact on model predictions. Results show how uncertainty of precipitation measurement affects the spatial variability of model output in various modelling scales. The study provides some intuition on the uncertainty of hydrologic prediction via interaction between the land surface and near atmosphere fluxes in the modelling approach.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.39 no.4 s.165
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• pp.347-362
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• 2006

In this study, a 2-D flood inundation model was developed to evaluate the impact of levee failure in a natural basin for flood analysis. The model was applied to analyze the inundation flow from the levee break of Gamcheon river during the typhoon Rusa on October 31 through September 1, 2002. To verify the simulated results, wide range field surveys have been performed including the collection of NGIS database, land use condition, flooded area, and flow depths. Velocity distributions and inundation depths were presented to demonstrate the robustness of the model. Model results have good agreements with the observed data in terms of flood level and flooded area. The model is able to compute maximum stage and peak discharge efficiently in channel and protected lowland. Methodology considering radar-rainfall estimation using cokriging scheme, flood-runoff and inundation analysis in this study will contribute to the establishment of the national integrated flood disaster prevention system and the river or protect lowland management system.