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Vulnerability assessment of drought of small island areas in Korea (읍면 단위 도서지역의 가뭄 취약성 평가)

  • Shim, Intae;Hong, Bongchang;Kim, Eunju;Hwang, Tae-Mun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.341-351
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate vulnerability of drought in small island areas. Vulnerability assessment factors of drought were selected by applying the factor analysis. Ninety Eup/Myon areas in small island were evaluated to vulnerability of drought by entropy method adapting objective weights. Vulnerability consisted of climate exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. A total of 22 indicators were used to evaluate and analyze vulnerability of drought in small island areas. The results of entropy method showed that winter rainfall, no rainfall days, agricultural population rate, cultivation area rate, water supply rate and groundwater capacity have a significant impact on drought assessment. The overall assessment of vulnerability indicated that Seodo-myeon Ganghwa-gun, Seolcheon-myeon Namhae-gun and Samsan-myeon Ganghwa-gun were the most vulnerable to drought. Especially Ganghwa-gun should be considered policy priority to establish drought measures in the future, because it has a high vulnerability of drought.

Estimating Worst Case Flood and Inundation Damages under Climate Change

  • Kim, Sunmin;Tachikawa, Yasuto;Nakakita, Eiichi
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.189-189
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    • 2016
  • To generate information that contributes to climate change risk management, it is important to perform a precise assessment on the impact in diverse aspects. Considering this academic necessity, Japanese government launched continuous research project for the climate change impact assessment, and one of the representative project is Program for Risk Information on Climate Change (Sousei Program), Theme D; Precise Impact Assessment on Climate Change (FY2012 ~ FY2016). In this research program, quantitative impact assessments have been doing from a variety of perspectives including natural hazards, water resources, and ecosystems and biodiversity. Especially for the natural hazards aspect, a comprehensive impact assessment has been carried out with the worst-case scenario of typhoons, which cause the most serious weather-related damage in Japan, concerning the frequency and scale of the typhoons as well as accompanying disasters by heavy rainfall, strong winds, high tides, high waves, and landslides. In this presentation, a framework of comprehensive impact assessment with the worst-case scenario under the climate change condition is introduced based on a case study of Theme D in Sousei program There are approx. 25 typhoons annually and around 10 of those approach or make landfall in Japan. The number of typhoons may not change increase in the future, but it is known that a small alteration in the path of a typhoon can have an extremely large impact on the amount of rain and wind Japan receives, and as a result, cause immense damage. Specifically, it is important to assess the impact of a complex disaster including precipitation, strong winds, river overflows, and high tide inundation, simulating how different the damage of Isewan Typhoon (T5915) in 1959 would have been if the typhoon had taken a different path, or how powerful or how much damage it would cause if Isewan Typhoon occurs again in the future when the sea surface water temperature has risen due to climate changes (Pseudo global warming experiment). The research group also predict and assess how the frequency of "100-years return period" disasters and worst-case damage will change in the coming century. As a final goal in this research activity, the natural disaster impact assessment will extend not only Japan but also major rivers in Southeast Asia, with a special focus on floods and inundations.

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Application of Inventory Construction for GIS-based Bamboo Resource Assessment (GIS기반 국내 대나무 자원 평가 인벤토리 구축과 활용 방안)

  • YOO, Byung-Oh;PARK, Joon-Hyung;PARK, Yong-Bae;JUNG, Su-Young;LEE, Kwang-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.77-88
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    • 2017
  • This study developed an inventory, using GIS-based resource assessment, for assisting forest management planning. The major inventory contents were relationally integrated, using field sample plots, to extract and calculate attributes such as general status, forest stand condition, forest site condition, forest site and soil area (ha) and growing stock (weight, in tons). Evaluating the efficiency of forest management plan implementations is critical to effective health and sustainability at a larger functional level, specifically in bamboo forests. This inventory is a valuable tool for decision-making, such as developing a long-term management plan for sustainably managing bamboo resources.

Development of the vulnerable period assessment method for the weekly groundwater resources management in Yeongsan river basin considering the critical infiltration concept and the correlation between hydrological data sets (한계침투량 개념과 수문자료 간 상관관계를 고려한 영산강 유역의 주 단위 지하수자원 관리 취약 시기 평가 방법 개발)

  • Lee, Jae-Beom;Kim, Il-Hwan;Yang, Jeong-Seok
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.195-206
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    • 2019
  • In this study, the vulnerable period assessment method for weekly groundwater resources management was developed considering correlation between data of groundwater level, river level, precipitation applying critical infiltration concept. The vulnerable periods of 3 case study were assessed using data of groundwater, precipitation, river level, and results were compared. The weights for between observation stations were calculated using correlation of groundwater, precipitation, river level data, and weights that could be considered recently trend of data for each observation station. The vulnerable period was assessed using final calculated weights and multi criteria decision method, compared result for each case study. The developed method can be a quantitative basis for the establishment of efficient groundwater resources management and the decision of specific countermeasure applyment.

RNA-Seq De Novo Assembly and Differential Transcriptome Analysis of Korean Medicinal Herb Cirsium japonicum var. spinossimum

  • Roy, Neha Samir;Kim, Jung-A;Choi, Ah-Young;Ban, Yong-Wook;Park, Nam-Il;Park, Kyong-Cheul;Yang, Hee-sun;Choi, Ik-Young;Kim, Soonok
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.34.1-34.9
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    • 2018
  • Cirsium japonicum belongs to the Asteraceae or Compositae family and is a medicinal plant in Asia that has a variety of effects, including tumour inhibition, improved immunity with flavones, and antidiabetic and hepatoprotective effects. Silymarin is synthesized by 4-coumaroyl-CoA via both the flavonoid and phenylpropanoid pathways to produce the immediate precursors taxifolin and coniferyl alcohol. Then, the oxidative radicalization of taxifolin and coniferyl alcohol produces silymarin. We identified the expression of genes related to the synthesis of silymarin in C. japonicum in three different tissues, namely, flowers, leaves, and roots, through RNA sequencing. We obtained 51,133 unigenes from transcriptome sequencing by de novo assembly using Trinity v2.1.1, TransDecoder v2.0.1, and CD-HIT v4.6 software. The differentially expressed gene analysis revealed that the expression of genes related to the flavonoid pathway was higher in the flowers, whereas the phenylpropanoid pathway was more highly expressed in the roots. In this study, we established a global transcriptome dataset for C. japonicum. The data shall not only be useful to focus more deeply on the genes related to product medicinal metabolite including flavolignan but also to study the functional genomics for genetic engineering of C. japonicum.

Stock assessment and management of blackthroat seaperch Doederleinia seaperch using Bayesian state-space model (베이지안 State-space 모델을 이용한 눈볼대 자원평가 및 관리방안)

  • CHOI, Ji Hoon;KIM, Do Hoon;CHOI, Min-Je;KANG, Hee Joong;SEO, Young Il;LEE, Jae Bong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.55 no.2
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    • pp.95-104
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    • 2019
  • This study is aimed to take a stock assessment of blackthroat seaperch Doederleinia seaperch regarding the fishing effort of large-powered Danish Seine Fishery and Southwest Sea Danish Seine Fishery. For the assessment, the state-space model was implemented and the standardized catch per unit effort (CPUE) of large powered Danish Seine Fishery and Southwest Sea Danish Seine Fishery which is necessary for the model was estimated with generalized linear model (GLM). The model was adequate for stock assessment because its r-square value was 0.99 and root mean square error (RMSE) value was 0.003. According to the model with 95% confidence interval, maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of Blackthroat seaperch is from 2,634 to 6,765 ton and carrying capacity (K) is between 33,180 and 62,820. Also, the catchability coefficient (q) is between 2.14E-06 and 3.95E-06 and intrinsic growth rate (r) is between 0.31 and 0.72.