• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.535-542
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• 2007

The Geumho river watershed located in the middle of the Nakdong river has been threatened by high population growth and urbanization. Of concern specifically is the potential impact of future developments in the watershed on the reduction of base flow and the consequent risk of degradation of ecological habitats in Geumho river. Anticipated increase in imperviousness, on the other hand, is expected to elevate flood risk and the associated environmental damage. A watershed hydrology based modeling study is initiated in this study to assist in planning for sustainable future development in the Geumho river watershed. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is selected to model the impact of urbanization in the Geumho river watershed on the hydrologic response thereof. The modeling results show that in general the likelihood that the watershed will experience high and low stream flows will increase in view of the urbanization so far achieved.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.217-225
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• 2014

Water curtain cultivation (WCC) systems in Korea have depleted water resources in shallow aquifers through massive pumping of groundwater. The goal of this study is to simulate the groundwater variations observed from massive groundwater pumping at a site in Cheongweon. MODFLOW was used to simulate three-dimensional regional groundwater flow, and the SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) watershed hydrologic model was employed to introduce temporal changes in groundwater recharge into the MODFLOW model input. Additionally, the estimation method for groundwater discharge in WCC areas (Moon et al., 2012) was incorporated into a groundwater pumping schedule as a MODFLOW input. We compared simulated data and field measurements to determine the degree to which winter season groundwater drawdown is effectively modeled. A simulation time of 107 days was selected to match the observed groundwater drawdown from November, 2012 to March, 2013. We obtained good agreement between the simulated drawdown and observed groundwater levels. Thus, the estimation method using daily minimum temperatures, may be applicable to other cultivation areas and can serve as a guideline in simulating the regional flow of riverside groundwater aquifers.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.389-406
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• 2011

The objective of this study is to examine the climate change impact assessment on Korean water resources considering the uncertainties of Global Climate Models (GCMs) and hydrological models. The 3 different emission scenarios (A2, A1B, B1) and 13 GCMs' results are used to consider the uncertainties of the emission scenario and GCM, while PRMS, SWAT, and SLURP models are employed to consider the effects of hydrological model structures and potential evapotranspiration (PET) computation methods. The 312 ensemble results are provided to 109 mid-size sub-basins over South Korean and Gaussian kernel density functions obtained from their ensemble results are suggested with the ensemble mean and their variabilities of the results. It shows that the summer and winter runoffs are expected to be increased and spring runoff to be decreased for the future 3 periods relative to past 30-year reference period. It also provides that annual average runoff increased over all sub-basins, but the increases in the northern basins including Han River basin are greater than those in the southern basins. Due to the reason that the increase in annual average runoff is mainly caused by the increase in summer runoff and consequently the seasonal runoff variations according to climate change would be severe, the climate change impact on Korean water resources could intensify the difficulties to water resources conservation and management. On the other hand, as regards to the uncertainties, the highest and lowest ones are in winter and summer seasons, respectively.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.509-518
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• 2016

This study assessed drought of Cheongmicheon watershed from 1985 to 2015 according to duration. In order to quantify drought, we used meteorological and hydrological drought index. Standardized Precipitation Index(SPI) based on precipitation and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index(SPEI) based on precipitation and evapotranspiration were applied as meteorological drought index. Palmer Drought Severity Index(PDSI) and Stream Drought Index(SDI) based on simulation of Soil and Water Assessment Tool(SWAT) model were applied as agricultural and hydrological drought index. As a result, in case average of extreme and averaged drought, 2014 and 2015 have the most vulnerable in all drought indices. Variation of drought showed different trend with regard to analysis of frequency. Also, the extreme and averaged drought have high correlation between drought indices excluding between PDSIs. However, each drought index showed different occurrence year and severity of drought Therefore, drought indices with various characteristics were used to analysis drought.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 2017

This study analyzed the peak drought severity and drought duration of the Cheongmicheon watershed from 1985 to 2015 to assess the lag time of peak drought severity between several drought indices. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) based on precipitation and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) based on precipitation and evapotranspiration were applied as meteorological drought indices. Streamflow Drought Index (SDI) based on runoff data was applied as hydrological drought index. In case of SDI, we used Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model for simulation of daily runoff data. As a result, the time of peak drought severity of SDI occurred after the occurrence of SPI and SPEI. The lag time for the peak drought severity, on average, between SDI and SPI was 0.59 months while SDI and SPEI was 0.79 months. As compared with SDI, the maximum delay was 2 months for both SPI and SPEI. This study results also shows that even though the rainfall events were able to cope with meteorological droughts, they were not always available to solve the hydrological droughts in the same time.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.11
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• pp.1081-1091
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• 2012

SWAT model is applied to simulate rainfall-runoff and pollutant loadings in the Nakdong River basin as the condition for extreme droughts and floods. The year 1994 and 2002 are chosen as the drought and flood year, respectively, through the analysis of past rainfall data for 30 years. The simulation results show decreases in both runoff and pollutant loadings for the drought year but increases for the flood year. However, the pollutant loadings on some upper sub-basins increase for drought year due to highly-regulated dam discharge and soil moisture change. Collectively, extreme droughts and floods have negative impacts on water quality, showing elevated SS loadings during wet season and concentrated T-P concentrations during low flow season. The extent of these impacts is highly influenced by antecedent dry days and precipitation patterns.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.123-132
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reduction effect of non point source (NPS) pollution in Haean highland agricultural catchment ($62.8km^2$) for 13 BMP scenarios under RCP (Representative Concentration Pathway) 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios. Under the present climate condition, the BMP (best management practices) reduction efficiency of SS (suspended solid), T-N (total nitrogen), and T-P (total phosphorus) showed +25.7%, +4.2%, and +16.1% for VFS (vegetative filter strip), +0.1%, +15.6%, and +5.7% for FC (fertilizer control), and +6.3%, -2.9%, and +3.9% for RSM (rice straw mulching) respectively. In general, effective was the best for SS and T-P reductions, and the FC was the best for T-N reduction. The negative effect of T-N on RSM was induced by increase in infiltration and solute transport to baseflow. Under the future climate change scenarios, the SS, T-N, and T-P reduction efficiency showed the range of +1.9~+11.6%, -1.9~+0.2%, and +5.3~+11.9% respectively. The 3 BMPs (VFS, FC, and RSM) application in the future showed negative and little differences (-0.5~+1.6%) for SS and T-N reduction efficiencies while T-P reduction efficiency showed +0.3~+7.6% comparing with the baseline period. To achieve an increase in the reduction efficiency of future SS and T-N by +2~+10%, the combined application of more than two BMPs is necessary.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1068-1071
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• 2009

현재 한강수계의 화천댐 상류, 임진강 상류지역의 상당부분이 북한에 속해있다. 따라서, 장기유출모의 수행을 위한 기본입력자료인 수문기상자료 및 수치주제도(토지이용, 토양)의 활용에 있어 미계측 유역으로 간주되어 왔다. 그러나, 전세계 기상통신망(GTS: Global Telecommunication System)을 통해 수문기상자료(강수량, 기온, 습도, 풍속 등)는 기상청에서 제공되고 있으며, 국제연합대학(United Nations University)에서 추진하고 있는 WaterBase 프로젝트를 통해 토지이용도(24종류, 1km 해상도) 및 토양도(5,000종류, 10km 해상도)를 활용할 수 있는 상황이다. 하지만, 언급한 자료에 대한 국내검토는 충분히 이루어지지 못하고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 화천댐 상류유역을 대상으로 전세계 기상통신망 수문기상자료와 전지구 토지이용과 토양자료에 대한 검토를 수행하였다. 또한 물리적 기반의 장기유출모형인 SWAT-K의 입력자료로 활용하여 유역물수지 및 유출분석을 실시한 후, 그 적용성을 평가하였다. 이러한 연구는 기후변화 및 북한지역의 댐건설과 같은 한강수계의 수문학적 조건 변화로 인한 수자원 관리 및 계획를 위해 보다 활발히 이루어져야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.781-784
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• 2008

현재 한강수계에서는 북한강 상류에 건설된 임남댐(저수용량 26억$m^3$)으로 인하여 화천댐 상류 유역계의 변화가 발생하였다. 화천댐의 경우, 기존의 발전용량을 포함한 안정적 방류계획에 변화가 발생하여 기존 저수지 용량의 효율적인 관리기술의 실증이 필요한 시점이다. 또한, 향후 기후변화 및 용수이용 증가에 대비한 안정적인 물공급을 위해 하천유출량의 시 공간적인 평가 및 가용수자원의 평가는 보다 합리적이고 정확하게 이루어져야 하며, 이를 위해 준분포형 유역유출-저수지 운영 결합해석 모형이 필수적으로 도입되어야 할 시점이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 SWAT-K(과학기술부, 2007)를 이용하여 기존댐의 최적 운영룰을 도출한 후, 팔당호에서의 유황개선 효과를 정량적으로 분석하여 수자원 확보량을 평가하고자 하였다. 화천댐의 경우, 방류시나리오로 기존 운영실적을 기준으로 홍수기 중 9월 방류량을 50% 감소, 비홍수기 중 $11{\sim}3$월 방류량을 50% 증가시켜 적용하였을 때 최적 운영룰이 도출되었으며, 이때 갈수량 이하의 10일간 유황개선을 통하여 분석기간에 대하여 0.12억$m^3$의 수자원 확보가 이루어질 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.405-405
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• 2017

기후변화로 인해 수자원에 발생할 수 있는 가장 큰 영향은 유역에서의 유출량의 변화이다. 유출량의 변화는 가용한 수자원양의 변화를 의미하므로 미래 가뭄 등에 대한 대책 마련 등을 위해 합리적인 추정과 분석이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 기후변화로 인한 유역 유출량의 변화를 추정하기 위해 기상청의 과거 기상관측자료와 RCP 시나리오 자료를 기반으로 SWAT-K와 Tank 모형을 이용해 팔당댐 상류지역에서의 유역 유출량을 모의하였다. 특히 팔당댐 상류는 수도권의 2천만명에 가까운 인구에 대한 수자원의 공급을 담당하는 유역으로서 이 지역의 가뭄은 국가적인 재난을 일으킬 수 있어 매우 중요할 것이므로 기후변화에 의한 가용 수자원의 변화를 미리 예측해 볼 필요가 있을 것으로 판단되었다. 모의 시 모의 대상 지역에 대한 지형학적 인자와 인문학적 인자 등은 변화가 없는 것으로 가정하고 단순하게 기후변화에 의한 강수량과 증발산량 등의 증감만 있는 것으로 가정하였으며, 모의한 결과를 바탕으로 갈수량과 홍수량 등에 대한 빈도를 분석하여 유출의 변화를 살펴보았다. 분석 결과를 통해 팔당댐 상류의 유역 유출량 변화를 통계적으로 예측해 볼 수 있으며, 해당 자료는 지자체의 수자원계획 수립 등에 유용하게 활용 될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.