• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.53 no.11
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• pp.961-971
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• 2020

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that the amount of precipitation in South Korea would increase regardless of the reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Moreover, the temporal and spatial rainfall variation would also increase in the future. Due to the geographic allocation of Korea, more than 80% of the annual precipitation occurs in the wet season from early July to late September. It is expected that the average precipitation in this period will increase from the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) scenario projections. These predictions imply an increased variability of available water resources. Rainwater harvesting system is widely used as an alternative water resources today. This study introduces a RBSN (rain barrel sharing network) as an efficient way to utilize alternative water resources under the RCP scenarios. The concept of RBSN combines individual rainwater harvesting system to a sharing network, which make the whole system more reliable. This study evaluated a RBSN in South Korea composed of four users based on a storage-reliability-yield (SRY) relationship. The study area comprises all 17 provincal areas in South Korea. The result showed a huge benefit from a RBSN in Korea under the historical rainfall condition. Even in the climate change condition, the results showed that a RBSN is still beneficial but the changes in reliability are different depending on provinces in Korea. The results of this study shows that a RBSN is a very effective and alternative measure that can deal with the impacts of climate change in the near future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.124-124
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 과거 강우자료 (1971-2000)와 대표농도경로 RCP 4.5와 8.5 (2071-2100)를 사용하여 RBSN(Rain Barrel sharing Network)의 효과를 비교 검토 하였다. IPCC 5차 평가 보고서에 의하면 앞으로의 기후변화에 있어 우리나라의 강수량은 온실가스 배출량을 저감에 관계없이 증가할 것으로 예상된다. 이것은 활용가능한 수자원이 늘어나지만, 장마와 집중호우로 인한 피해가 증가할 수도 있는 점을 나타낸다. 이와 같은 미래 기후 변화에 효과적으로 대응하기 위한 방법으로 RBSN을 적용하여 과거 강우자료와 온실가스 시나리오 하에서의 성능을 비교하였다. RBSN의 성능을 평가하는 기준으로 신뢰성, 복원탄력성, 취약성을 사용하였다. 분석 결과 RBSN 적용 시 네트워크의 증가에 따른 신뢰성과 취약성은 기후변화 시나리오 하에서 각각 3.44%, 49.18% 향상되었고, 복원 탄력성이 16.73% 감소하는 것으로 나타났다.