• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.325-335
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• 2019

To characterize historical droughts in the conterminous United States (CONUS), we estimated the actual evapotranspiration ($ET_a$) in the CONUS using the generalized complementary relationship (GCR) for 1895-2016. The $ET_a$ estimates were compared against simulations from the Noah land surface model (LSM). In this study, the evapotranspiration (ET) deficit defined as the difference between the wet-environment ET ($ET_w$) and $ET_a$ was then normalized to calculate the Standardized Evapotranspiration Deficit Index (SEDI) across the CONUS for the years 1895-2016. The SEDI was compared to the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) at various time scales. The results showed that the GCR $ET_a$ was slightly higher than the Noah LSM-simualted $ET_a$. As time scales increased, the correlation between the SEDI and the SPI was higher. This study suggests that the GCR has promise as a tool in the estimation of $ET_a$ and SEDI can be useful for the drought characterization.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.389-391
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 SPI지수를 이용하여 내륙지방의 가뭄을 분석하였다. 본 연구에서 적용된 SPI가뭄 지수는 국내에서 발생하였던 과거의 가뭄사상 특성을 분석하기 위하여 SPI(Standardized Precipitation Index)지수를 선정하여 안동관측소의 1983년~2016년까지의 월평균 강우자료를 취합하여 가뭄지수를 산정하였다. 또한 이를 이용하여 가뭄발생을 3개월, 6개월, 9개월, 12개월로 나누어 가뭄기간 조사를 통하여 내륙지방의 대표적인 도시인 안동지방의 가뭄특성 및 주기를 분석하였다. 그 결과, SPI-3은 겨울과 이듬해인 봄까지는 가뭄현상이 심화되며, 여름철에는 장마로 인해 가뭄이 완화되는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한, 가뭄의 주기성을 분석한 결과 5년 내외 주기가 유의한 것으로 나타났으며, SPI-3의 분석결과 1년에서 2년의 주기성을 보였다. 따라서 SPI가뭄지수를 이용하여 안동지역의 가뭄을 분석한 결과 2000년 이후 길게는 6년을 주기로 가뭄지수가 나타났으며, 관측된 강우자료를 이용하여 가뭄을 산정하데 있어서 효과적인 분석에 적용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2018

This study is aimed to quantitatively evaluate the effects of drought on groundwater system in rural areas. For this purpose, the standardized groundwater level index (SGI) was used for 68 groundwater monitoring wells. To determine accumulation period (AP) which represents the month with the highest correlation coefficient between SGI and SPI, correlation analysis between the two for 68 wells were peformed. The results indicated the AP values ranged in 1~3 months for most of the well, but it was 7~10 months in some wells. These results can be interpreted such that the total amount of groundwater will not decrease significantly in long-term drought situations unlikely the reservoirs with the high AP values. The nationwide maximum AP values were 4.1 and 4.0 in Chungbuk-do and Gyeongnam-do, while the minimum AP values were 1.8 and 2.0 in Gangwon-do and Chungnam-do, respectively. The maximum and minimum values of correlation coefficient were 0.623 and 0.459 in Gyeongnam-do and Chungnam-do/Chungbuk-do, respectively. Consequently, it could be concluded that the wells with low AP value tend to respond to short-term drought, but it has little effect on groundwater system when the long drought occurs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.701-701
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• 2012

장시간의 강수부족으로부터 야기되는 가뭄은 다른 자연재해에 비하여 하나의 물리적인 특성으로 표현하기에는 한계가 있다. 이러한 가뭄의 특성을 파악하기 위하여 다양한 지수들이 사용되고 있으며, 각각의 지수는 기후적 혹은 물리적 특성 등을 반영하여 가뭄을 평가하고 있다. 다양한 가뭄지수중 SPI(Standardized Precipitation Index)는 가뭄 발생에 있어 가장 중요한 요소를 차지하는 강수를 이용하여 가뭄을 평가하고 있으며, 비교적 간단한 방법으로 계산되어지며 다양한 기관에서 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 무강수일수와 선행강수조건에 따른 영향을 고려한 개선된 SPI 지수를 제시하고 가뭄감지능력을 기존의 가뭄지수와 비교 분석 하였다. 무강수일수의 고려를 위하여 월 최대 무강수일수의 확률분포를 구하고 이를 다시 누적확률분포로 나타냄으로서 기존에 가뭄지수에 무강수일수의 영향을 추가할 수 있는 가중치를 생성하였다. 또한 추가적으로 월 최대 무강수일의 시점을 전기, 중기, 후기로 구분하여 각각의 기간에 따라 가중치를 변환하여 수행하였다. 이전의 강수효과를 고려하기 위하여 15일 이전의 강수를 성수기와 비성수기로 구분하고 각각의 기간에 강수량에 따른 가중치를 세분하여 기존의 가뭄지수에 추가하였다. 기존의 가뭄지수와 새롭게 제시된 가뭄지수의 평가를 위하여 ROC분석을 사용하였으며, ROC분석은 실제 발생했던 사실과 산정된 값을 평가하는 방법으로 본 연구에서는 과거 실제 방생한 가뭄기록과 산정된 지수의 수치를 4가지의 범주로 나누어 분석하였다. 평가 기간은 1973년부터 2009년까지이며, 사용된 자료는 우리나라 기상청의 76개 지상관측지점 중 섬 지역 7개를 제외한 69개 지점의 정보를 이용하였다. 분석결과 기존의 SPI3에 비하여 전반적으로 향상된 가뭄감지능력을 보여주었다. 무강수일수와 선행강수효과를 이용한 가뭄지수의 가중치 생성은 SPI3 뿐만 아니라 다양한 지수에 적용되어 사용성이 높아 뛰어난 가뭄감지능력을 가지는 가뭄지수 개발에 효과적으로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.59 no.3
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• pp.29-39
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• 2017

In this study, the GPM (Global Precipitation Mission) IMERG (Integrated Multi-satellitE retrievals for GPM) rainfall data was verified and evaluated using ground AWS (Automated Weather Station) and radar in order to investigate the availability of GPM IMERG rainfall data. The SPI (Standardized Precipitation Index) was calculated based on the GPM IMERG data and also compared with the results obtained from the ground observation data for the Hoengseong Dam and Yongdam Dam areas. For the radar data, 1.5 km CAPPI rainfall data with a resolution of 10 km and 30 minutes was generated by applying the Z-R relationship ($Z=200R^{1.6}$) and used for accuracy verification. In order to calculate the SPI, PERSIANN_CDR and TRMM 3B42 were used for the period prior to the GPM IMERG data availability range. As a result of latency verification, it was confirmed that the performance is relatively higher than that of the early run mode in the late run mode. The GPM IMERG rainfall data has a high accuracy for 20 mm/h or more rainfall as a result of the comparison with the ground rainfall data. The analysis of the time scale of the SPI based on GPM IMERG and changes in normal annual precipitation adequately showed the effect of short term rainfall cases on local drought relief. In addition, the correlation coefficient and the determination coefficient were 0.83, 0.914, 0.689 and 0.835, respectively, between the SPI based GPM IMERG and the ground observation data. Therefore, it can be used as a predictive factor through the time series prediction model. We confirmed the hydrological utilization and the possibility of real time drought monitoring using SPI based on GPM IMERG rainfall, even though results presented in this study were limited to some rainfall cases.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.457-467
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• 2022

Drought has strong local characteristics, an objective definition or standard that can define the progress or severity of drought is needed and to date, many drought-related studies are being conducted around the world. In this study, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), which is a representative meteorological drought index, was calculated, and the drought risk index (DRI) that can consider actual drought was applied to the target area, Uiryeong-gun, by applying the drought vulnerability index (DVI) and the drought hazard index (DHI). A method for practical drought evaluation that can establish a water supply system is presented in this study.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.21 no.spc
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• pp.80-89
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between SPI (Standardized Precipitation Index) meteorological drought and RDI (Reservoir Drought Index) agricultural drought for Geum river basin. Drought Indices was calculated by collecting data of precipitation and agricultural reservoir water storage rate from 2014 to 2016. To evaluated the correlation between meteorological and agricultural drought, the Pearson correlation and the Receiver Operation Characteristic (ROC) analysis were conducted to evaluate the correlation between meteorological and agricultural droughts. The SPI-6 and RDI showed the highest relationship with Pearson coefficient 0.606 and ROC hit rates 0.722 respectively, and the spatial occurrence patterns of drought using overlapped SPI-6 and RDI, the big differences between the 2 indices were occurred in the upstream areas of Miho stream and Nonsan stream from August to October 2015. The analysis using reservoirs specifications for areas where reservoir droughts occurred was conducted, and the areas showing severe drought of RDI were the reservoir areas having relatively small value of basin magnifying power (BMP). This means that a reservoir has the reaction capability for agricultural drought mainly depending on the reservoir BMP.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.305-314
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• 2016

In this study, a quantitative assessment was carried out in order to identify the agricultural drought in time and space using the Terra MODIS remote sensing data for the agricultural drought. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) were selected by MOD13A3 image which shows the changes in vegetation conditions. The land cover classification was made to show only vegetation excluding water and urbanized areas in order to collect the land information efficiently by Type1 of MCD12Q1 images. NDVI and EVI index calculated using land cover classification indicates the strong seasonal tendency. Therefore, standardized Vegetation Stress Index Anomaly (VSIA) of EVI were used to estimated the medium-scale regions in Korea during the extreme drought year 2001. In addition, the agricultural drought damages were investigated in the country's past, and it was calculated based on the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) using the data of the ground stations. The VSIA were compared with SPI based on historical drought in Korea and application for drought assessment was made by temporal and spatial correlation analysis to diagnose the properties of agricultural droughts in Korea.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.37-48
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• 2018

The extreme 2017 spring drought affected a large portion of central and western South Korea, and was one of the most climatologically driest spring seasons over the 1961-2016 period of record. This drought was characterized by exceptionally low precipitation, with total precipitation from January to June being 50% lower than the mean normal precipitation (1981-2010) over most of western South Korea. In this study, for the quantitative drought impact analysis, the widely-used Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the statistical drought frequency are compared with observed meteorological characteristics and anomalies. According to the drought frequency analysis of monthly cumulative precipitation during January and May in 2017, Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheong-do, and Jeollanam-do areas showed more than drought frequency over 100 years. Gyeongsangnam-do area showed more than drought frequency over 200 years based on annual precipitation in 2017. The South Korean government (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) and Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC)) have been operating a government-level drought monitoring system since 2016. Results from this study can be used to improve the drought monitoring applications of future drought events, as well as drought planning and preparedness in South Korea.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.63 no.5
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• pp.95-105
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• 2021

Drought is a disaster that causes prolonged and wide scale damage. Recently, the severity and frequency of drought occurrences, and drought damage have been increased significantly due to climate change. As a result, a quantitative study of drought factors is needed to better understand and prevent future droughts. In the case of agricultural drought, several existing studies examine the economic damage caused by droughts and their causes, but these studies are not well suited to estimating crop-oriented agricultural drought damage and the factors that absolutely affect agricultural drought. This study determines which factors most affect agricultural drought. It examines meteorological factors and those related to agricultural water supplied by irrigation facilities. Rice paddy production per unit area is lower than the average from the last two years where agricultural drought occurred. We compare the relative frequency of agricultural drought impacts with irrigation facilities, effective reservoir storage, the number of water supply facilities, and the meteorological drought index such as Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). To identify factors that affect agricultural drought, we correlate rice paddy production anomalies with irrigation water supply for the past two years. There was a high positive correlation between rice paddy production and irrigation water usage, and there was a low or moderate negative correlation between rice paddy production anomalies compared to the average of the past two years and SPI. As a result, agricultural water supply by irrigation facilities was judged to be more influential than meteorological factors in rice paddy production. This study is expected to help local governments establish policies related to agricultural drought response.