• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.609-618
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• 2013

Curve number (CN), originally developed, compiled by 'The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)', and has been widely used throughout the world. However, there is the uncertainty of CN derived from the use of antecedent moisture condition (AMC)/Antecedent Runoff Condition (ARC). As in Korea where nearly 70% covered by mountainous area, it is still not sufficient handbook precedent to guide or support the estimation of AMC/ARC. The failure to develop formal criteria of applying AMC/ ARC will be a gaping profession and results not only in uncertainty of CN estimation in particular, but also in designing appropriate structures in Korea as a whole. This paper is aiming at presenting a critical review of AMC/ARC and deriving a procedure to deal more realistically with event rainfall-runoff over wider variety of initial conditions. Proposed methods have been developed. It is based on modifying estimated runoff to observed runoff with coefficient of determination and then applying different algebraic expression with the verification of AMC by antecedent rainfall table of NEH-1964. The result shows that algebraic expression by Arnold et al. (1996) is the most appropriate for AMC/ARC and the results of AMC/ARC estimation criteria are generally very close to each other. Therefore, this algebraic expression might be applied in South Korea condition properly.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.53 no.5
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• pp.9-16
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• 2011

Curve Numbers (CN) for the combination of land use and hydrologic soil group were regionalized at Imha Watershed using Long-term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) coupled with SCE-UA. The L-THIA was calibrated during 1991-2000 and validated during 2001-2007 using monthly observed direct runoff data. The Nash-Sutcliffe (NS) coefficients for calibration and validation were 0.91 and 0.93, respectively, and showed high model efficiency. Based on the criteria of model calibration, both calibration and validation represented 'very good' fit with observe data. The spatial distribution of direct surface runoff by L-THIA represented runoff from Thiessen pologen at Subi and Sukbo rain gage station much higher than other area due to the combination of poor hydrologic condition (hydrologic soil C and D group) and locality heavy rainfall. As a results of hydrologic condition and treatment for land use type based on calibrated CNs, forest is recommended to be hydrologically modelled dived into deciduous, coniferous, and mixed forest due to the hydrological difference. The CNs for forest and upland showed the poor hydrologic condition. The steep slope of forest and alpine agricultural field make high runoff rate which is the poor hydrologic condition because CN method can not consider field slope. L-THIA linded with SCE-UA could generated a regionalized CNs for land use type with minimized time and effort, and maximized model's accuracy.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.633-645
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• 2003

The techniques of GIS and remote sensing are being applied to hydrology, geomorphology and various field of studies are performed by many researcher, related those techniques. In this paper, curve number change detection is tested according to soil map and land cover in mountain area. Neural networks method is applied for land cover classification and GIS for curve number calculation. The first, sample area are selected and tested land cover classification, NN(84.1％) is superior to MLC(80.9％). So we selected NN with land cover classifier. The second, curve number from the land cover by neural network classifier(57) is compared with that(curve number) from the land cover by manual work(55). Two values are so similar. The third, curve number classified by NN in sample area was applied and tested to whole study area. As results of this study, it is shown that curve number is more exact and efficient by using NN and GIS technique than by (using) manual work.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.34-40
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• 1998

The existing flood runoff models, Complex Hydrograph and HEC-1, have some problems which do not properly represent runoff characteristics on the Korean paddy basin and their basin slopes. In this study, FAS(Flood Analysis System) was developed in order to supplement those problems, which was built calibrating runoff curve number for paddy basin and applying basin slopes to classify 5 levels. And also the FAS can synthesize the flood hydrographs of subbasin and analyze flood routing along a stream. To verify the applicability of the FAS, the computed flood hydrographs were compared with the observed hydrographs from the four watersheds. In the small basin smaller than 10$\textrm{km}^2$, the results of the FAS did not completely agree with the observed ones due to concentration time delay of paddy storage effect while in the medium and large size basin showed good agreements between the observed and computed ones. Therefore, it was concluded that the FAS could be applied for the flood analysis of Korean watershed which was characterized by paddy storage effect.

• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.56-62
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• 2000

The NRCS curve number (CN) method has been widely adopted in practice to synthesize runoff hydrographs from small watersheds with complex land use. It may not be valid to apply this model for irrigated paddies, since hydrological characteristics of irrigated rice paddies are not sufficiently considered in CN method. This paper attempts to extend the capability of the well-known SCS TR-20 model to local conditions by formulating a submodel for the runoff-processes in paddies. The modified model was tested with field data from the Baran watershed. The results were in good agreement with field data. It was also applicable to simulate runoff changes resulting from land use changes within the watershed.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 2007

This study is to apply QuickBird satellite image for the simulation of storm runoff in a small rural watershed. For a $1.05km^2$ watershed located in Goesan-Gun of Chungbuk Province, the land use from the QuickBird image was produced by on-screening digitising after ortho-rectifying using 2 m DEM. For 3 cases of land use, soil and elevation scale (1:5,000, 1:25,000 and 1:50,000), SCS-CN and the watershed physical parameters were prepared for the storm runoff model, HEC-HMS (Hydrologic Modelling System). The model was evaluated for each case and compared the simulated results with couple of selected storm events.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.107-113
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to estimate the design flood runoff for ungaged forest watershed to reduce the flood damage in national park. Daewonsa watershed in Jirisan National Park was selected as study watershed, of which characteristic factors were obtained from GIS data. Flood runoff was simulated using SCS unit hydrograph module in HEC-HMS model. SCS Curve Number (CN) was calculated from forest type area weighted average method. Huff's time distribution of second-quartile storm of the Sancheong weather station, which is nearest from study watershed, was used for design flood runoff estimation. Critical storm duration for the study watershed was 3 hrs. Based on the critical duration, the peak runoff for each sub-watershed were simulated. It is recommended to monitor the long-term flow data for major stream stations in National Park for a better reliable peak runoff simulation results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.288-288
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• 2011

최근 들어 관측된 강우-유출 사상으로부터 유출곡선지수(Runoff curve number, CN)를 계산하는 연구가 수행되어왔으며, 이것은 기존 선행토양함수조건(Antecedent Moisture Condition; AMC) 을 이용한 유출곡선지수 적용에 대한 여러 문제점(AMC 기준의 타당성, 초기손실우량과 최대잠재보유수량의 비($I_a$ S=0.20의 적정성))이 부각되면서 선행유출조건을 이용한 유출곡선지수가 제안되었다. 본 연구에서는 선행유출조건(Antecedent Runoff Condition, ARC) 방법을 적용하여 IHP유역인 방림과 상안미 유역의 강우-유출자료로부터 CN을 직접 산정하였다. 먼저 방림과 상안미 유역에서 각각 12개, 10개의 관측된 강우-유출 사상을 통해 초기손실우량과 최대잠재보유수량의 비($I_a$/S)가 기존 가정의 0.20보다 작은 것을 확인하고 수정된 $I_a$/S비를 고려하여 대상 유역에서의 적정 CN을 산정하였다. 실제 강우-유출 사상에서 산정한 각 사상별 CN의 대표값을 찾기 위해 ARC-II의 평균유출조건으로 가정하여 각 사상별 단순평균과 4개의 지속기간(4시간, 3시간, 2시간, 1시간)별로 구분하여 평균한 CN을 구분하였다. 이를 통해 계산된 유효우량과 관측 유효우량과 비교를 실시하였으며 각 사상을 단순 평균한 ARC-II 조건으로 가정하여 계산된 CN의 오차가 가장 작은 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 기존의 선행토양함수조건(Antecedent soil moisture condition, AMC)의 CN으로 산정된 유효우량과 ARC조건으로 산정된 유효우량을 비교한 결과 방림유역에서 는 오차가 ARC 방법의 경우 37.76%, AMC 방법의 경우 51.27%로 평가되었고 상안미 유역에서는 오차가 ARC의 경우 31.97%, AMC 방법의 경우43.08%로 두 유역에서 모두 ARC 방법으로 산정된 CN이 더 적은 오차값을 주었다. 따라서 방림과 상안미 유역에서의 ARC로 산정된 CN값은 유효우량 산정의 정확성을 향상시킬 수 있으리라 판단된다.

• Water for future
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.53-70
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• 1977

The analysis performed here is aimed to increase the familiarity of hydrologic process especially for the small basins which are densely gaged. Kyung An and Mu Shim river basins are selected as a representative basin according to the criteria which UNESCO has established back in 1964 and being operated under the auspice of Ministry of Construction. The data exerted from these basins is utilized for the determination of characteristics of procipitation and runoff phenomena for the small basin, which is considered as a typical Korean samall watershed. The study found that the areal distribution of preciptation did not show any significant deviation from the point rainfall. Since the area studied is less than 20 km#, the pointrainfall may be safely utilized as a representative value for the area. Also the effect of elevation on the precipitation has a minor significance in the small area where the elevation difference is less than 200m. The methodology developed by Soil Conservation Service for determination of runoff value from precipitation is applied to find the suitability of the method to Korean river basin. The soil cover complex number or runoff curve number was determined by comsidering the type of soil, soil cover, land use and other factors such as antecedent moisture content. The average values of CN for Kyung An and Mushim river basins were found to be 63.9 and 63.1 respectively under AMC II, however, values obtained from soil cover complex were less than those from total precipitation and effective precipitation about 10-30%. It may be worth to note that an attention has to be paid in application of SCS method to Korean river basin by adjusting 10-30% increase to the value obtained from soil cover complex. Finally, the design flood hydrograph was consturcted by employing unit hydrograph technique to the dimensionless mass curve. Also a stepwise multiple regression was performed to find the relationship between runoff and API, evapotranspiration rate, 5 days antecedentprecipitation and daily temperature.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.228-231
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• 2006

유출계수(Runoff Curve Number, CN)란 강수량으로부터 대상유역의 유출량과 우수 잠재능(stormwater potential) 평가에 이용하는 수문학 변수로, 미국 자연자원 보존국(Natural Resources Conservation Service; NRCS)이 제안한 방법이다. 유출계수를 평가하기 위해서는 토지피복, 토양형, 토양 습윤 조건에 대한 정보를 조합하여 분석해야 한다. 본 연구의 목적은 미국 North Carolina의 Raleigh와 Cary시를 관통하는 Walnut Creek 유역 서부지역의 토지 피복도를 제작하여, 이 유역의 유출계수를 산정하는 것이다. 이를 위해서, 첫째 위의 불투수면 레이어와 정사항공사진을 기초자료로, ArcGIS와 Feature Analyst를 이용하여 서부 Walnut Creek 유역의 토지피복도를 제작하였다. 둘째, 제작된 토지 피복도와 본 유역의 수문학적 토양 분류체계도(Hydrologic Soil Group Map)를 중첩하여 이 유역의 유출계수도를 제작하였다.