• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.118-126
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• 2019

Background: Government conducts environmental radioactivity surveillance for verification purpose around nuclear facilities based on the Nuclear Safety Law and issues a surveillance report every year. This study aims to evaluate the short and the long-term fluctuation of radionuclides detected above MDC and their origins using concentration ratios between these radionuclides. Materials and Methods: Sample media for verification surveillance are air, rainwater, groundwater, soil, and milk for terrestrial samples, and seawater, marine sediment, fish, and seaweed for marine samples. Gamma-emitting radionuclides including $^{137}Cs$, $^{90}Sr$, Pu, $^3H$, and $^{14}C$ are evaluated in these samples. Results and Discussion: According to the result of the environmental radioactivity verification surveillance in the vicinity of nuclear power facilities in 2017, the anthropogenic radionuclides were not detected in most of the environmental samples except for the detection of a trace level of $^{137}Cs$, $^{90}Sr$, Pu, and $^{131}I$ in some samples. Radioactivity concentration ratios between the anthropogenic radionuclides ($^{137}Cs/^{90}Sr$, $^{137}Cs/^{239+240}Pu$, $^{90}Sr/^{239+240}Pu$) were similar to those reported in the environmental samples, which were affected by the global fallout of the past nuclear weapon test, and Pu atomic ratios ($^{240}Pu/^{239}Pu$) in the terrestrial sample and marine sample showed significant differences due to the different input pathway and the Pu source. Radioactive iodine ($^{131}I$) was detected at the range of < $5.6-190mBq{\cdot}kg-fresh^{-1}$ in the gulfweed and sea trumpet collected from the area of Kori and Wolsong intake and discharge. A high level of $^3H$ was observed in the air (Sangbong: $0.688{\pm}0.841Bq{\cdot}m^{-3}$) and the precipitation (Meteorology Post: $199{\pm}126Bq{\cdot}L^{-1}$) samples of the Wolsong nuclear power plant (NPP). $^3H$ concentration in the precipitation and pine needle samples showed typical variation pattern with the distance and the wind direction from the stack due to the gaseous release of $^3H$ in Wolsong NPP. Conclusion: Except for the detection of a trace level of $^{137}Cs$, $^{90}Sr$, Pu, and $^{131}I$ in some samples, anthropogenic radionuclides were below MDC in most of the environmental samples. Overall, no unusual radionuclides and abnormal concentration were detected in the 2017's surveillance result for verification. This research will be available in the assessment of environment around nuclear facilities in the event of radioactive material release.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.135-144
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• 2011

직접적인 매개변수 추정방법의 다양한 Neyman-Scott 구형펄스모형(NSRPM) 기반 모형에 대한 적용성 검토와 정규분포를 이용한 새로운 NSRPM(NMNSRPM)의 개발 연구를 수행하였다. 기상청 서울 유인관측소에서 제공하는 49년의 관측 강수자료를 사용하여 매개변수를 추정하였으며, 추정된 매개변수들의 정확도를 판단하고자 생성된 강수자료의 통계값, 유강수일 비율, 강수분포를 비교하였다. 통계값을 비교해본 결과 NSRPM과 수정 NSRPM(MNSRPM)은 7-9월의 강수자료 통계값의 절대상대오차가 커지는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 절대상대오차가 10.11%로 NMNSRPM이 강수자료의 통계값를 가장 잘 모의한 것으로 나타났다. 유강수일 비율을 비교해본 결과 MNSRPM의 절대상대오차 평균이 16.35%로 가장 작은 절대상대오차 값을 보였고 그래프를 이용한 도시적인 분석법을 통하여 세 모형이 유강수일 비율을 과소추정하는 것을 확인하였다. 강수분포를 비교해본 결과 세 모형이 약 2% 내외의 절대상대오차를 보여 세 모형 모두 강수분포를 잘 모의하는 것을 확인 하였다. 직접적인 매개변수 추정방법으로 NSRPM, MNSRPM, NMNSRPM의 매개변수를 추정 할 수 있는 것을 확인 하였으며, 직접적인 매개변수 추정방법이 NSRPM 뿐만 아니라 이를 기반으로 한 다른 모형들의 매개변수도 추정할 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다. NMNSRPM의 모의 정확도를 비교한 결과 직접적인 매개변수 추정방법을 통한 NSRPM 기반의 새로운 모형에 대한 개발이 가능하다는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 모형의 성능이 기존 모형들과 비슷한 수준임을 확인하였다.

• 대기
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.247-257
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• 2006

The Yeong-dong heavy snowfall forecast supporting system has been developed during the last several years. In order to construct the conceptual model, we have examined the characteristics of heavy snowfalls in the Yeong-dong region classified into three precipitation patterns. This system is divided into two parts: forecast and observation. The main purpose of the forecast part is to produce value-added data and to display the geography based features reprocessing the numerical model results associated with a heavy snowfall. The forecast part consists of four submenus: synoptic fields, regional fields, precipitation and snowfall, and verification. Each offers guidance tips and data related with the prediction of heavy snowfalls, which helps weather forecasters understand better their meteorological conditions. The observation portion shows data of wind profiler and snow monitoring for application to nowcasting. The heavy snowfall forecast supporting system was applied and tested to the heavy snowfall event on 28 February 2006. In the beginning stage, this event showed the characteristics of warm precipitation pattern in the wind and surface pressure fields. However, we expected later on the weak warm precipitation pattern because the center of low pressure passing through the Straits of Korea was becoming weak. It was appeared that Gangwon Short Range Prediction System simulated a small amount of precipitation in the Yeong-dong region and this result generally agrees with the observations.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2016년도 학술발표회
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• pp.197-197
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• 2016

Forecasting future drought events in a region plays a major role in water management and risk assessment of drought occurrences. The creeping characteristics of drought make it possible to mitigate drought's effects with accurate forecasting models. Drought forecasts are inevitably plagued by uncertainties, making it necessary to derive forecasts in a probabilistic framework. In this study, a new probabilistic scheme is proposed to forecast droughts, in which a discrete-time finite state-space hidden Markov model (HMM) is used aggregated with the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP) precipitation projection (HMM-RCP). The 3-month standardized precipitation index (SPI) is employed to assess the drought severity over the selected five stations in South Kore. A reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is used for inference on the model parameters which includes several hidden states and the state specific parameters. We perform an RCP precipitation projection transformed SPI (RCP-SPI) weight-corrected post-processing for the HMM-based drought forecasting to derive a probabilistic forecast that considers uncertainties. Results showed that the HMM-RCP forecast mean values, as measured by forecasting skill scores, are much more accurate than those from conventional models and a climatology reference model at various lead times over the study sites. In addition, the probabilistic forecast verification technique, which includes the ranked probability skill score and the relative operating characteristic, is performed on the proposed model to check the performance. It is found that the HMM-RCP provides a probabilistic forecast with satisfactory evaluation for different drought severity categories, even with a long lead time. The overall results indicate that the proposed HMM-RCP shows a powerful skill for probabilistic drought forecasting.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2005년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.605-609
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• 2005

This study is to perform the rainfall-runoff analysis of the basin of Yongdam dam where is loacted in the Geumriver basin. The model used is the SAC-SMA model which was developed by U.S. National Weather Service. The Precipitation data used as the input data of the model are daily ones observed in 2002 and the mean of values recorded in 5 rainfall stations. The evaporation data are used observed in Daejeon meteorological station. The geographical data such as basin slope and stream gradient are elicited from the numerical map analysis. In the verification through the comparison of calculated daily inflow with observed one, parameters used in the model are estimated manually. As the result of verification, total annual calculated inflow is 13,547CMS and agree accurately with the observed one. During the period of one year of 2002, before 100 days and after 250 days, the soil moisture condition in the upper zone was significantly dry and in spite of the rainfall in this period, the runoff was not generated. Through this result, we can observe that the moisture condition in the soil affects strongly the runoff in a basin.

• 대기
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.345-356
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• 2012

The UK Met Office Unified Model at the KMA has been operationally utilized as the next generation numerical prediction system since 2010 after it was first introduced in May, 2008. Researches need to be carried out regarding various physical processes inside the model in order to improve the predictability of the newly introduced Unified Model. We first performed a preliminary experiment for the domain ($170{\times}170$, 10 km, 38 layers) smaller than that of the operating system using the version 7.4 of the UM local model to optimize its physical processes. The result showed that about 7~8% of the improvement ratio was found at each stage by integrating four factors (u, v, th, q), and the final improvement ratio was 25%. Verification was carried out for one month of August, 2008 by applying the optimized combination to the domain identical to the operating system, and the result showed that the precipitation verification score (ETS, equitable threat score) was improved by 9%, approximately.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2017

A study on Nacelle Lidar (Light detection and ranging) measurement error and the data reliability verification was carried out at Haengwon wind farm on Jeju Island. For measurement data error processing, the characteristics of Nacelle Lidar measurements were analyzed by dividing into three parts, which are weather conditions (temperature, humidity, atmosphere, amount of precipitation), mechanical movement (rotation of wind turbine blades, tilt variation of Nacelle Lidar) and Nacelle Lidar data availability. After processing the measurement error, the reliability of Nacelle Lidar data was assessed by comparing with wind data by an anemometer on a met mast, which is located at a distance of 200m from the wind turbine with Nacelle Lidar. As a result, various weather conditions and mechanical movement did not disturb reliable data measurement. Nacelle Lidar data with availability of 95% or more could be used for checking Nacelle Lidar wind data reliability. The reliability of Nacelle Lidar data was very high with regression coefficient of 98% and coefficient of determination of 97%.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.271-280
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• 2009

The objective of this study is to develop a reliable flow forecasting model based on neural network algorithm in order to provide flow rate at stream sections without flow measurement in Nakdong river. Stream flow rate measured at 8-days interval by Nakdong river environment research center, daily upper dam discharge and precipitation data connecting upstream stage gauge were used in this development. Back propagation neural network and multi-layer with hidden layer that exists between input and output layer are used in model learning and constructing, respectively. Model calibration and verification is conducted based on observed data from 3 station in Nakdong river.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2018년도 학술발표회
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• pp.185-185
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• 2018

광학우적계(PARSIVEL)는 강수 입자의 정확한 직경 및 분포 분석에 용이한 이유로 정밀 기상관측과 레이더 및 우량계 검보정을 위해 널리 사용되고 있다. 하지만 PARSIVEL S/W의 경우, 관측 순간의 각종 변수 및 분석 결과를 이해하기에 용이하나 강우 이벤트 전체를 분석하기 위해서는 별도의 후처리가 요구되는 번거로움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 소형레이더 및 전파강수계의 비교검증 효율성 향상을 위해 그림 1과 같이 PARSIVEL의 자료구조 및 포맷을 분석하여, 즉각적으로 원하는 강우 이벤트에 대해 다양한 분석도구를 적용할 수 있는 S/W를 개발하였다. 그림 2로부터 개발된 S/W로부터의 분석결과를 나타내었으며, 다양한 실험을 통해 제안한 S/W를 이용함으로써 각종 강우량계 비교검증 시 강수분석을 용이하게 함을 확인하였다.

• 한국방재안전학회논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.87-98
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• 2022

최근 짧은 시간 동안 많은 강우가 내리는 국지성 집중호우가 빈번히 발생하고 이로 인한 침수피해가 증가하고 있다. 국지성 집중호우로 인한 피해를 예방하기 위하여 기상청이 제공하는 지역 앙상블 예측시스템(Local ENsemble prediction System, LENS)과 관측자료와 동네예보 자료를 활용한 기계학습과 확률 매칭(Probability Matching, PM) 기법을 이용하여 수문학적 정량강우예측정보(Hydrological Quantative Precipitation Forecast, HQPF)을 개발하였다. 국지성 집중호우로 인한 침수피해 대비를 위한 호우 영향정보로 HQPF를 생산하고 있지만, 낮은 강우강도에 대하여 과대예측하는 경향이 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 HQPF의 예측정확도 향상과 과대예측 성향을 개선하기 위하여 머신러닝 학습자료 기간확대, 앙상블 기법 분석 및 확률매칭(PM) 기법 프로세스 변경을 통하여 HQPF 개선하였다. 개선된 HQPF의 예측성능을 평가하기 위해 2021년 8월 27일 ~ 2021년 9월 3일 장마전선으로 인한 호우 사례를 대상으로 예측성능 검증을 수행하였다. 10 mm 이하의 강우에 대하여 예측정확도가 크게 향상되었고, 관측과 유사한 발생가능성 및 강우영역을 예측하는 등 과대예측 성향이 개선되었음을 확인하였다.