• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.100-100
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• 2023

단기 강우 예측에는 주로 물리과정 기반 수치예보모델(NWPs, Numerical Prediction Models) 과 레이더 기반 확률론적 방법이 사용되어 왔으며, 최근에는 머신러닝을 이용한 레이더 기반 강우예측 모델이 단기 강우 예측에 뛰어난 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하여 관련 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 하지만 머신러닝 기반 모델은 예측 선행시간 증가 시 성능이 크게 저하되며, 또한 대기의 물리적 과정을 고려하지 않는 Black-box 모델이라는 한계점이 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위해 머신러닝 기반 blending 기법을 통해 물리과정 기반 수치예보모델인 Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)와 최신 머신러닝 기법 (cGAN, conditional Generative Adversarial Network) 기반 모델을 결합한 Hybrid 강우예측모델을 개발하고자 하였다. cGAN 기반 모델 개발을 위해 1시간 단위 1km 공간해상도의 레이더 반사도, WRF 모델로부터 산출된 기상 자료(온도, 풍속 등), 유역관련 정보(DEM, 토지피복 등)를 입력 자료로 사용하여 모델을 학습하였으며, 모델을 통해 물리 정보 및 머신러닝 기반 강우 예측을 생성하였다. 이렇게 생성된cGAN 기반 모델 결과와 WRF 예측 결과를 결합하는 머신러닝 기반 blending 기법을 통해Hybrid 강우예측 결과를 최종적으로 도출하였다. 본 연구에서는 Hybrid 강우예측 모델의 성능을 평가하기 위해 수도권 및 안동댐 유역에서 발생한 호우 사례를 기반으로 최대 선행시간 6시간까지 모델 예측 결과를 분석하였다. 이를 통해 물리과정 기반 모델과 머신러닝 기반 모델을 결합하는 Hybrid 기법을 적용하여 높은 정확도와 신뢰도를 가지는 고해상도 강수 예측 자료를 생성할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.297-300
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• 2008

High-resolution mesoscale meteorological modeling requires more accurate and higher resolution digital elevation model (DEM) data. Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) has created 90 m DEM for entire globe and that is freely available for meteorological modeling and environmental applications. In this research, the effects of the topographic interpolation methods on high-resolution wind field simulation in the coastal regions were quantitatively analyzed using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with SRTM data. Sensitivity experiments with three different interpolation schemes (four-point bilinear, sixteen-point overlapping parabolic and nearest neighbor interpolation methods) were preformed using SRTM. In WRF modeling with sixteen-point overlapping parabolic interpolation, the coastal line and some small islands show more clearly than other cases. The maximum height of inland is around 140 meters higher, while the minimum of sea height is about 80 meter lower. As it concerns the results of each scheme it seems that the sixteen-point overlapping parabolic scheme indicates the well agreement with observed surface wind data. Consequently, topographic changes due to interpolation methods can lead to the significant influence on mesoscale wind field simulation of WRF modeling.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.205-205
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• 2021

Surface soil moisture, which governs the partitioning of precipitation into infiltration and runoff, plays an important role in the hydrological cycle. The assimilation of satellite soil moisture retrievals into a land surface model or hydrological model has been shown to improve the predictive skill of hydrological variables. This study aims to improve streamflow prediction with Weather Research and Forecasting model-Hydrological modeling system (WRF-Hydro) by assimilating Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) data at 3 km and analyze its impacts on hydrological components. We applied Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) technique to remove the bias of SMAP data and assimilate SMAP data (April to July 2015-2019) into WRF-Hydro by using an Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) with a total 12 ensembles. Daily inflow and soil moisture estimates of major dams (Soyanggang, Chungju, Sumjin dam) of South Korea were evaluated. We investigated how hydrologic variables such as runoff, evaporation and soil moisture were better simulated with the data assimilation than without the data assimilation. The result shows that the correlation coefficient of topsoil moisture can be improved, however a change of dam inflow was not outstanding. It may attribute to the fact that soil moisture memory and the respective memory of runoff play on different time scales. These findings demonstrate that the assimilation of satellite soil moisture retrievals can improve the predictive skill of hydrological variables for a better understanding of the water cycle.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.45-54
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• 2020

High-resolution meteorological simulations were conducted using a Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with an Urban Canopy Model (UCM) in the Ulsan Metropolitan Region (UMR) where large-scale industrial facilities are located on the coast. We improved the land cover input data for the WRF-UCM by reclassifying the default urban category into four detailed areas (low and high-density residential areas, commercial areas, and industrial areas) using subdivided data (class 3) of the Environmental and Geographical Information System (EGIS). The urban area accounted for about 12% of the total UMR and the largest proportion (47.4%) was in the industrial area. Results from the WRF-UCM simulation in a summer episode with high temperatures showed that the modeled temperatures agreed greatly with the observations. Comparison with a standard WRF simulation (WRF-BASE) indicated that the temporal and spatial variations in surface air temperature in the UMR were properly captured. Specifically, the WRF-UCM reproduced daily maximum and nighttime variations in air temperature very well, indicating that our model can improve the accuracy of temperature simulation for a summer heatwave. However, the WRF-UCM somewhat overestimated wind speed in the UMR largely due to an increased air temperature gradient between land and sea.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.105-117
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• 2012

Future climate according to land-use change was simulated by regional climate model. The goal of study was to predict the distribution of meteorological elements using the Weather Research & Forecasting Model (WRF). The KME (Korea Ministry of Environment) medium-category land-use classification was used as dominant vegetation types. Meteorological modeling requires higher and more sophisticated land-use and initialization data. The WRF model simulations with HyTAG land-use indicated certain change in potential vegetation distribution in the future (2086-2088). Compared to the past (1986-1988) distribution, coniferous forest area was decreased in metropolitan and areas with complex terrain. The research shows a possibility to simulate regional climate with high resolution. As a result, the future climate was predicted to $4.5^{\circ}$ which was $0.5^{\circ}$ higher than prediction by Meteorological Administration. To improve future prediction of regional area, regional climate model with HyTAG as well as high resolution initial values such as urban growth and CO2 flux simulation would be desirable.

• Atmosphere
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.639-657
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• 2015

There is an increasing need to improve the air quality over South Korea to protect public health from local and remote anthropogenic pollutant emissions that are in an increasing trend. Here, we evaluate the performance of the WRF-Chem (Weather Research and Forecasting-Chemistry) model in simulating near-surface air quality of major Korean cities, and investigate the impacts of time-varying chemical initial and lateral boundary conditions (IC/BCs) on the air quality simulation using a chemical downscaling technique. The model domain was configured over the East Asian region and anthropogenic MICS-Asia 2010 emissions and biogenic MEGAN-2 emissions were applied with RACM gaseous chemistry and MADE/SORGAM aerosol mechanism. Two simulations were conducted for a 30-days period on April 2010 with chemical IC/BCs from the WRF-Chem default chemical species profiles ('WRF experiment') and the MOZART-4 (Model for OZone And Related chemical Tracers version 4) ('WRF_MOZART experiment'), respectively. The WRF_MOZART experiment has showed a better performance to predict near-surface CO, $NO_2$, $SO_2$, and $O_3$ mixing ratios at 7 major Korean cities than the WRF experiment, showing lower mean bias error (MBE) and higher index of agreement (IOA). The quantitative impacts of the chemical IC/BCs have depended on atmospheric residence time of the pollutants as well as the relative difference of chemical mixing ratios between the WRF and WRF_MOZART experiments at the lateral boundaries. Specifically, the WRF_MOZART experiment has reduced MBE in CO and O3 mixing ratios by 60~80 ppb and 5~10 ppb over South Korea than those in the WRF-Chem default simulation, while it has a marginal impact on $NO_2$ and $SO_2$ mixing ratios. Without using MOZART-4 chemical IC, the WRF simulation has required approximately 6-days chemical spin-up time for the East Asian model domain. Overall, the results indicate that realistic chemical IC/BCs are prerequisite in the WRF-Chem simulation to improve a forecast skill of local air quality over South Korea, even in case the model domain is sufficiently large to represent anthropogenic emissions from China, Japan, and South Korea.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.460-475
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• 2015

A number of heavy rainfall events on the Korean Peninsula are indirectly influenced by tropical cyclones (TCs) when they are located in southeastern China. In this study, a heavy rainfall case in the middle Korean region is selected to examine the influence of typhoon simulation performance on predictability of remote rainfall over Korea as well as direct rainfall over Taiwan. Four different numerical experiments are conducted using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, toggling on and off two different improvements on typhoon in the model initial condition (IC), which are TC bogussing initialization and dropwindsonde observation data assimilation (DA). The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory TC initialization algorithm is implemented to generate the bogused vortex instead of the initial typhoon, while the airborne observation obtained from dropwindsonde is applied by WRF Three-dimensional variational data assimilation. Results show that use of both TC initialization and DA improves predictability of TC track as well as rainfall over Korea and Taiwan. Without any of IC improvement usage, the intensity of TC is underestimated during the simulation. Using TC initialization alone improves simulation of direct rainfall but not of indirect rainfall, while using DA alone has a negative impact on the TC track forecast. This study confirms that the well-suited TC simulation over southeastern China improves remote rainfall predictability over Korea as well as TC direct rainfall over Taiwan.

• Atmosphere
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.479-490
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• 2018

This study assesses the prediction skill of regional scale model for the mean temperature anomaly over South Korea produced by Pusan National University Coupled General Circulation Model (PNU CGCM)-Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) chain. The initial and boundary conditions of WRF are derived from PNU CGCM. The hindcast period is 11 years from 2007 to 2017. The model's prediction skill of mean temperature anomaly is evaluated in terms of the temporal correlation coefficient (TCC), root mean square error (RMSE) and skill scores which are Heidke skill score (HSS), hit rate (HR), false alarm rate (FAR). The predictions of WRF and PNU CGCM are overall similar to observation (OBS). However, TCC of WRF with OBS is higher than that of PNU CGCM and the variation of mean temperature is more comparable to OBS than that of PNU CGCM. The prediction skill of WRF is higher in March and April but lower in October to December. HSS is as high as above 0.25 and HR (FAR) is as high (low) as above (below) 0.35 in 2-month lead time. According to the spatial distribution of HSS, predictability is not concentrated in a specific region but homogeneously spread throughout the whole region of South Korea.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.263-267
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• 2010

최근 지구온난화, 엘니뇨 및 라니냐 등 지구환경 변화에 따른 기후변화의 영향으로 지구상의 많은 지역에서 집중호우가 발생하고 있으며 우리나라도 예외 없이 매년 되풀이되고 있다. 이로 인해 발생하는 홍수피해를 경감하기 위해서 홍수조절용 다목적 댐 건설과 같은 구조적 대책과 홍수를 사전에 예측할 수 있는 홍수예경보 시스템 구축과 같은 비구조적 대책의 마련이 필요하다. 일반적인 홍수예경보 시스템은 강우 관측치를 강우-유출 모형 및 수리해석 모형의 입력 자료로 하여 홍수량 및 홍수위를 계산하고 그 결과를 이용하여 운영된다. 그러나 집중호우와 같은 악기상 조건에서는 관측강우자료를 이용한 유출해석 결과로 홍수예경보 시스템을 운영 할 경우 예방 대응시간의 부족으로 인해 방재 효율성이 떨어지게 된다. 따라서 미래에 발생할 강우를 사전에 예측하고, 이를 효율적으로 유출 모형과 연계하여 홍수발생 이전에 홍수발생 가능성을 예측할 수 있는 홍수 모의시스템을 구축하는 것이 필요하다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 중규모 수치예보모형인 WRF 모형(Weather Research and Forecasting model)으로 모의된 2007년 태풍 '나리' 사상의 예측강우를 이용하여 유역평균강우를 산정하였으며, 산정된 예측강우를 도시유역유출모형인 SWMM과 2차원 침수모의가 가능하도록 개선한 CASC2D 모형에 활용하여 침수현상을 모의하였다. 실제 침수흔적과 모의된 결과의 비교를 통해 예측강우를 이용한 침수예측 및 홍수예보의 가능성을 평가한 결과, 과소추정된 예측강우의 영향으로 인해 모의된 침수심이 실제보다 작게 발생하였으나 침수발생 위치는 대체적으로 정확하게 모의하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.51-51
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• 2019

기후변화 따라 과거에 경험하지 못했던 이상 수문기상 및 기상재해가 유발되며, 그 피해의 규모는 매년 증가한다. 그 중 가뭄은 미국 해양기상청(NOAA)이 선정한 20세기 최대 자연재해 중 상위 5위 안에 랭크되었으며 가뭄의 피해와 영향력은 막대하다고 언급하였다. 가뭄은 발생과정과 피해 영향에 따라 기상학적, 농업적, 수문학적, 사회경제학적 가뭄으로 구분할 수 있으며 직 간접적으로 영향을 미치고 기상학적 가뭄에서 수문학적 가뭄 등으로 가뭄의 종류가 변화되며 이를 가뭄전이라고 부른다,. 본 연구에서는 기상학적 가뭄에서 수문학적 가뭄으로 전이되는 과정을 분석하기 위하여 Weather Research and Forecasting and Model Hydrological modeling extension package (WRF-Hydro) 모형을 한반도 대상으로 구축하였다. 모형의 정확성을 향상시키기 위해 충주댐, 소양강댐, 용담댐, 남강댐의 유입량과 모형 유출량을 비교 분석하였으며, 유출에 영향을 미치는 지면 유출, 표면 거칠기와 같은 파라미터를 보정하여 주었다. 위와 같이 구축, 보정된 모형을 활용하여 모의된 유출량을 이용하여 수문학적 가뭄지수 Standardized Streamflow Drought Index(SSFI)를 도출하여 기상학적 가뭄지수 Standardized Precipitation Index(SPI)와 비교하여 기상학적 가뭄이 수문학적 가뭄으로 전이되는 과정을 가뭄의 빈도, 강도, 특성 등에 초점을 맞추어 분석하였다.