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Distribution of Soil Water Storage at a Hillslope in Sulmachun Watershed (설마천 사면의 토양층 저류량의 분포양상에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Eun-se;Kim, Sang-Hyun;Lee, Jung-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.88-98
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    • 2016
  • The storage variation in the vadose zone at a hillslope is important to understand the hydrological process. This study explores seasonal changes of soil water storage at a hillslope scale. The study was conducted on a hillslope of Beomrunsa, located in the Seolma-cheon river basin in Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do. Using soil moisture measurements through Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR), storage, discharge, and response constant were calculated for all monitoring points on a hillslope between March and November, 2010. This study found that temporal changes in storage are resulted from the rainfall distribution patterns. Analysis of the spatial changes in storage indicated that the soil water storage tends to increase towards the downslope direction. The discharges calculated based on the soil water measurements exhibited a high correlation with observation discharge. The storage response constant was high during the autumn which demonstrates the increased contribution from upslope is responsible for the occurrence of soil water recharge during autumn.

Estimating and Analysis of Soil Loss from Upland Watershed Using WEPP Model (WEPP 모형을 이용한 밭유역의 토양 유실량 추정 및 분석)

  • Kang, Min-Goo;Park, Seung-Woo;Son, Jung-Ho;Kang, Moon-Sung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.85-88
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents the result of the Water Erosion Prediction Project(WEPP) watershed scale model's application for prediction of sediment yield from a watershed which is comprised of hillslopes and channels and analyses of the soil loss from hillslopes and channels with crop practice and shape. To evaluate the model's application, the model is applied to a watershed that comprised of six hillslope and one channel, and the result was a good agreement with the observed values. The soil loss from hillslope was increased as the hills lope was under fallow conditions and slope length was longer. The soil loss from the channel was increased at the downstream for the concentration of flow.

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'Hillslope Erosion Assessment using 137Cs radionuclide in Granite and Sedimentary rock basins in South Korea'

  • Orkhonselenge, A.;Tanaka, Y.;Kim, Song-Hyun;Kim, Yong-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Quaternary Association Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2005
  • The soil erosion processes have estimated using spatial distribution of 137Cs radionuclide in Granite and Sedimentary Hillslopes in South Korea. The local variability of 137Cs inventory indicates that was related positively to organic matter content, clay content and water content and negatively to hydraulic permeability and slope gradient for bulk samples in different landforms within Granite and Sedimentary rock basins. The vertical variability of 137Cs inventory shows that most of 137Cs concentration and organic matter were accumulated between 0 and 2cms and gradually decrease with soil depth in incremental samples in both basins. The vertical variability of 137Cs inventories shows that 137Csinventories increase as we go to toward downslope in both basins. Finally, the soil loss values indicate that hillslope erosion processes are more intensive in Granite rock basin than those in Sedimentary rock basin.

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Estimating of Soil Loss from Hillslope Using WEPP Model (WEPP 모형을 이용한 경사지 토양유실량 추정)

  • Son, Jung-Ho;Park, Seung-Woo;Kang, Min-Goo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was to estimate of soil loss form hillslope using WEPP(Water Erosion Prediction Project) model. WEPP model was developed for predicting soil erosion and deposition, fundamentally based on soil erosion prediction technology. The model for predicting sediment yields from single storms was applied to a tested watershed. Surface runoff is calculated by kinematic wave equation and infiltration is based on the Green and Ampt equation. Governing equations for sediment continuity, detachment, deposition, shear stress in rills, and transport capacity are presented. Tested watershed has an area of 0.6ha, where the runoff and sediment data were collected. The relative error between predicted and measured runoff was $-16.6{\sim}2.2%$, peak runoff was $-15.6{\sim}2.2%$ and soil loss was $-23.9{\sim}356.5%$.

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Saturated - Unsaturated Transient Subsurface Flow Model on a Hillslope

  • Choi, Eun-Ho;Nahm, Sun-Woo
    • Korean Journal of Hydrosciences
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    • v.2
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    • pp.13-24
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    • 1991
  • The governing partial differential equation of flow in porous media is developed on the bases of the continuity equation of fluid for transient flow through a saturated-unsaturated zone, and substitution of Dercy's law. The numerical solution is obtained by the Galerkin finite element method based on the principle of weighted residuals. The analysis is carried out by using the unsteady storm data observed and the functional relationships between the hydraulic conductivities, capillary pressure heads, and volumetric water contents under saturated-unsaturated conditions. As the results the hydraulic conductivities, rates of change of storage and initial moisture conditions are significantly influened on the responses of subsurface flow on a hillslope.

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Identification of Nash Model Parameters Based on Heterogeneity of Drainage Paths (배수경로의 이질성을 기반으로 한 Nash 모형의 매개변수 동정)

  • Choi, Yong-Joon;Kim, Joo-Cheol;Jung, Kwan-Sue
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2010
  • For the first time, this study identifies Nash model parameters by GIUH theory based on grid of GIS with heterogeneity of drainage path. Identified parameters have advantages to improve accuracy and usefulness with considering hillslpoe-flow, geomorphological dispersion and easily extracting geomorphological factors by GIS in the watershed. Calculated results by identified parameters compare with observation data for verification of this model. The comparison is well correspondence between observed data and calculated results. And the comparison results of changing trends about lag time and the variance as hillslope and channel characteristic velocities sensitively present changes about hillslope characteristic velocity. Thus this model justifies that estimation of hillslope characteristic velocity demands with the great caution.

Test for the TOPMODEL′s Ability to Predict Water Table Depths of the Transient Saturation Zones which Are Formed on the Steep Hillslope (급사면에 형성된 일시적 포화대의 지하수면깊이에 대한 TOPMODEL의 예측능력 검증)

  • An, Jung-Gi
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.1035-1046
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    • 2003
  • In order to evaluate the TOPMODEL's prediction ability for spatial distribution of water table depths, two major assumptions and governing equation of water table depth are tested. For the test, data of hydrological observations are used and a soil survey is made in the steep hillslope with thin soils. Responses of water table and hydraulic properties of soil are coincident with two major assumptions of the TOPMODEL's such as water table gradient parallel to the local topographical slope and exponential decline in transmissivity with depths. Soil texture and the decline rate of transmissivity(f) we homogeneous in space at the 0∼0.3m depths of the soil of the hillslope, but they are heterogeneous in space below its 0.3m depths due to the vertical change of soil texture and the ‘f’. It is shown that the TOPMODEL's equation can be used for simulating distribution of water table depth at the depths with uniform values of the 'f'.