• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
• /
• v.23 no.1
• /
• pp.39-50
• /
• 2014

In recent years, the frequency and scale of the natural disasters are growing rapidly due to the global climate change. In case of the urban flooding, high-density of population and infrastructure has caused the more intensive damages. In this study, we analyzed the spatial characteristics of urban flooding damage factors using GWR(Geographically Weighted Regression) for effective disaster prevention and then, classified the causes of the flood damage by spatial characteristics. The damage factors applied consists of natural variables such as the poor drainage area, the distance from the river, elevation and slope, and anthropogenic variables such as the impervious surface area, urbanized area, and infrastructure area, which are selected by literature review. This study carried out the comparative analysis between OLS(Ordinary Least Square) and GWR model for identifying spatial non-stationarity and spatial autocorrelation, and in the results, GWR model has higher explanation power than OLS model. As a result, it appears that there are some differences between each of the flood damage areas depending on the variables. We conclude that the establishment of disaster prevention plan for urban flooding area should reflect the spatial characteristics of the damaged areas. This study provides an improved understandings of the causes of urban flood damages, which can be diverse according to their own spatial characteristics.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
• /
• v.30 no.5
• /
• pp.549-558
• /
• 2014

Occurrence frequency of flood and drought tends to increase in last a few decades, leading to social and economic damage since the abnormality of climate changes is one of the causes for hydrologic facilities by exceedance its designed tolerance. Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was used in the study to estimate temporal variance of groundwater recharge and baseflow. It was limited to consider recession curve coefficients in SWAT model calibration process, thus the recession curve coefficient was estimated by the Baseflow Filter Program (BFLOW) before SWAT model calibration. Precipitation data were estimated for 2014 to 2100 using three models which are GFDL-ESM2G, IPSL-CM5A-LR, and MIROC-ESM with Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) scenario. SWAT model was calibrated for the Soyang watershed with NSE of 0.83, and $R^2$ of 0.89. The percentage to precipitation of groundwater recharge and baseflow were 27.6% and 17.1% respectively in 2009. Streamflow, groundwater recharge, and baseflow were estimated to be increased with the estimated precipitation data. GFDL-ESM2g model provided the most large precipitation data in the 2025s, and IPSL-CM5A-LR provided the most large precipitation data in the 2055s and 2085s. Overall, groundwater recharge and baseflow displayed similar trend to the estimated precipitation data.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
• /
• v.24 no.3
• /
• pp.351-359
• /
• 2010

Recently, there have been flood damages due to the climate change and the flash flood continuously in Korea and there are several flood disaster mitigation plans that are normally most of management plan for water related disasters even though drought disasters are as important as flood disasters. In this study, it is underlined that the research on solution of water shortness due to the drought disasters is currently required since the frequency of drought damage is not very many but continuously increasing. There was big drought damage in TaeBaek City of Kangwon province due to the serious lack of water during autumn, 2008 to spring, 2009. This study therefore analyses the characteristics of hydrometeorological conditions by rainfall frequency analysis and the operations of Gwangdong dam that is a source of multi-regional water supply by analysing water demand. As results of study, there was a drought with 20 years returning period which is not really available to fill the reservoir as usual and which could only filled 52% of reservoir. The rainfall during the dry season was less than normal, however, the water demand from the TaeBaek City was higher than normal. As researching several reasons of water shortness including the reasons described above, this study might be useful for drought mitigation plan.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
• /
• v.42 no.5
• /
• pp.617-626
• /
• 2022

In Korea, annual precipitation and its variability have gradually increased since modern meteorological observations began, and the risk of disasters has also been increasing due to significant regional variations and recent abnormal climate conditions. Given that damage from storms and floods mainly occurs around rivers, it is crucial to determine the appropriate design frequency for river-related projects. This study examined existing design practices used to determine hydrological design frequencies and suggested a new method to determine appropriate design frequencies. The study collected available data pertaining to seven evaluation factors, specifically the basin areas, shape parameters, channel slopes, stream orders, backwater effect reaches, extreme rainfall frequencies, and urbanized flood inundation areasfor 413 local rivers in Chungcheongnam-do in Korea. The estimated weights for areas of extreme rainfall frequencies and urbanized flood inundation were found to be 18, having a great effect on determining the design frequency. Compared with the established design frequency in previous government reports, the estimated design frequency increased for 255 rivers and decreased for 158 rivers.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
• /
• v.25 no.1
• /
• pp.41-56
• /
• 2016

In recent localized heavy rainfalls have been arising from abnormal climate change. People are concerning about damages with increasing the frequency of flooding. Therefore, we need to understand river hydraulic characteristics and management to reduce damage from flooding. To study hydraulic characterization of Sincheon experimental catchment HEC-RAS (Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis System) model which provided by U.S Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) was applied. This study analyzed and compared water level the frequency flood for 100 years and 200 years by clark unit Hydrography. The change of the water level of Daejeon bridge, Sincheon bridge and Singi bridge showed increased for all conditions. The flow rate for the Daejeon bridge and the Sincheon bridge showed an increase, but the Sinki bridge showed a decreasing flow rate overally, except for 1hour-100 years. The verification result showed that the model was able to simulate the water level with 0.4709 coefficient of determination and error ration ranging from 1 to 3%.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
• /
• v.17 no.3
• /
• pp.163-189
• /
• 2010

The purpose of this research is to develop a decision-making model for the calculation of the National Disaster Management System's standard prevention workforce quota. The final purpose of such model is to support in arranging a rationally sized prevention workforce for local authorities by providing information about its calculation in order to support an effective and efficient disaster management administration. In other words, it is to establish and develop a model that calculates the standard disaster prevention workforce quota for basic local governments in order to arrange realistically required prevention workforce. In calculating Korea's prevention workforce, it was found that the prevention investment expenses, number of prevention facilities, frequency of flood damage, number of disaster victims, prevention density, and national disaster recovery costs have positive influence on the dependent variable when the standard prevention workforce was set as the dependent variable. The model based on the regression analysis-which consists of dependent and independent variables-was classified into inland mountainous region, East coast region, Southwest coastal plain region to reflect regional characteristics for the calculation of the prevention workforce. We anticipate that the decision-making model for the standard prevention workforce quota will aid in arranging an objective and essential prevention workforce for Korea's basic local authorities.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
• /
• v.48 no.6
• /
• pp.451-461
• /
• 2015

This study aimed to estimate the future design rainfall through a non-stationary frequency analysis using the rainfall separation technique. First, we classified rainfall in the Korean Peninsula into local downpour and TC-induced rainfall through rainfall separation technique based on the path and size of a typhoon. Furthermore, we performed the analysis of regional rainfall characteristics and trends. In addition, we estimated the future design rainfall through a non-stationary frequency analysis using Gumbel distribution and carried out its quantitative comparison and evaluation. The results of the analysis suggest that the increase and decrease rate of rainfall in the Korean Peninsula were different and the increasing and decreasing tendencies were mutually contradictory at some points. In addition, a non-stationary frequency analysis was carried out by using the rainfall separation technique. The outcome of this analysis suggests that a relatively reasonable future design rainfall can be estimated. Comparing total rainfall with the future design rainfall, differences were found in the southern and eastern regions of the Korean peninsula. This means that climate change may have a different effect on the typhoon and local downpour. Thus, in the future, individual assessment of climate change impacts needs to be done through moisture separation. The results presented here are applicable in future hydraulic structures design, flood control measures related to climate change, and policy establishment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2019.05a
• /
• pp.337-337
• /
• 2019

지구 온난화에 따른 기후변화로 인하여 태풍, 폭염, 홍수 및 가뭄 등과 같은 다양한 자연재해는 해마다 증가하고 있으며, 이에 따른 사회적 우려의 목소리가 커지고 있다. 특히 극한 강우와 홍수는 막대한 재산피해와 인명사고 등과 같은 재난에 직결된다. 자연재해에 대한 피해를 사전에 방지하기 위해서는 수자원 시스템을 이해하고, 미래 기후변화를 고려하는 것이 중요하다. 이미 많은 국가들은 기후변화에 대한 영향을 분석하고, 이에 적응하기 위한 노력을 하고 있다. 일반적으로 기후 모델로부터 생산된 모의자료를 이용하여 현재기간에 대비한 미래기간의 변화를 분석하게 되며, 이미 수문통계학 분야에서는 미래 강수량 변화를 살펴보기위해 다양한 연구가 수행되었다. 본 연구는 HadGEM3-RA 기후 모델의 강수 자료에서 연최대 자료를 추출하였고, 이를 이용하여 비정상성 지역빈도해석을 수행하였다. 지역빈도해석 방법은 홍수지수법(index flood method)을 이용하였고, 대상유역으로 한강유역을 선정하여 적용하였다. 또한 RCP(Representative Concentration Pathways) 시나리오는 RCP 4.5와 RCP 8.5를 적용하였으며, 각 시나리오에 따른 강수량 변화율은 전망 기간(S0:1979-2005, S1:2011-2040, S2: 2041-2070, S3:2071-2100)에 따라 비교 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
• /
• 2021.06a
• /
• pp.405-405
• /
• 2021

지점빈도해석은 수문자료의 관측기간이 짧은 경우 확률수문량 산정의 신뢰도가 낮은 경향이 있으므로, 지점 내 충분한 수의 자료확보가 선행되어야 한다. 지역빈도해석은 지점 자료가 부족한 경우 또는 미계측 지점에서 확률수문량을 결정하기 위하여 제안된 방법으로서, 자료수가 부족한 경우 지역빈도해석을 사용하면 효율적이고 안정적으로 확률수문량을 산정할 수 있는 것으로 알려져 있다. 그간 국내 수문자료를 적용한 지역빈도해석에 대해 많은 검토가 이루어져 왔으나, 해외 수문자료에 대해서는 구하기 어려운 점 등의 이유로 상대적으로 검토가 부족했던 바, 본 검토에서는 해외 수문자료를 이용하여 지점빈도해석 및 지역빈도해석을 수행하여 결과를 비교하였다. 지역빈도해석의 기법으로는 지수홍수법 및 지역형상추적법을 적용하였으며, 적용한 지점의 L-변동계수, L-왜곡도계수의 차이에 따라 다른 결과가 나타났다. 일반적으로는 지역형상추적법이 지점빈도해석과 지수홍수법의 절충형으로, 확률수문량 산정결과도 지역형상추적법의 결과가 지점빈도해석과 지수홍수법의 사이에 위치할 것으로 예상하였으나, 어떤 경우에서는 그렇지 않은 결과를 도출하기도 하였다. 따라서, 지역빈도해석은 가급적 두 가지 이상의 방법을 적용한 뒤, 설계자가 자료의 특성에 따라 판단하여 적용해야 할 것으로 판단된다. 향후 국내에 비해 자료가 상대적으로 부족한 해외 수자원사업의 경우, 적은 자료수에서도 안정적인 결과를 산출하는 지역빈도해석의 적용이 필수적으로 판단되며, 해외 자료를 이용한 관련 연구가 지속적으로 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
• /
• v.48 no.12
• /
• pp.1011-1021
• /
• 2015

This study aims to investigate droughts from the magnitude perspective based on the SPI (Standardized Precipitation Index) and the theory of runs applicable to quantitative analysis of drought in South Korea. In addition, the dry spell analysis was conducted on the drought history in the five major river basins of South Korea to obtain the magnitude, duration and severity of drought, and the quantitative evaluation has been made on historical droughts by estimating the return period using the SDF (Severity-Duration-Frequency) curve gained through drought frequency analysis. The analysis results showed that the return periods for droughts at the regional and major river basin scales were clearly identified. The return periods of severe drought that occurred around the major river basins in South Korea turn out to be mostly 30 to 50 years with the years of the worst drought in terms of severity being 1988 and 1994. In particular, South Korea experienced extremely severe droughts for two consecutive years during the period between 1994 and 1995. Drought in 2014 occurred in the Han River basin and was evaluated as the worst one in terms of severity and magnitude.