• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.311-311
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• 2018

Generally, the water resources in South Korea were supplied from river flow and dam. Among them, the dam is the most important supplier for the residential and industrial water. However, the climate change has caused a setback in water supply chain. The objective of the study is therefore to suggest a drought index consideing dam water shortage for efficiently dam and water resources management. The standardzied balanced index(SBI), which has same concept with the standardzied precipitation index, were suggested. Also, the management index for the dam were established with SSVI and the storage percentage that compared to previous years.

• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.103-111
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• 1995

Drought index calculation based on the principal hydrological parameters, such as rainfall and reservoir storage, can estimate the duration and intensity of drought in irrigation reservoirs. It is difficult to build up a drought criteria since the conditions change variously by the reliability of rainfall. Because of the increasing water demands, it is urgent to prepare a generalized positive countermeasure to overcome drought. Water demands can at calculated but the estimation of drought characteristics, and the effective water management method can be established. The purpose of this study is to obtain a drought index and build up a data-base on the reservoir basins for establishing the fundamental hydrological data-base. This Index can observe the behavior of the WSI(Water Supply Index) and the component indices. The results summarized through this study are as follows. 1. WSI value of zero does not correspond to 100% in average due to the skewness in the probability distributions. 2. WSI is not a linear index; that is, given change in terms of water volume or percentage of average does not result in a proportional change on the WSI scale. 3. WSI is not always between the reservoir and the rainfall index in magnitude. This is only true if the component indices are of opposite sign. If they are of the same sign, the SWSI will often have a mangitude greater than either of the component indices. This is easily understood, because the concurrence of extreme values of the same sign for the two components is rarer than the occurrence of extreme values for either of the two components individually.

• Water for future
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.221-233
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• 1996

The goal of the present research was to suggest a simple, reliable, and easily evaluated index of drought that could be used to consider a counterplan for water supply management against water shortage for municipal and industrial uses in city area. The index of drought was calculated by the Phillips drought index technique. The phillips drought index is based on exceedence probabilities of monthly precipitation but it can also utilize daily data in order to present drought information on a real-time basis when needed. The application of the suggested technique was tested to municipal water supply system and management of Ulsan city and Pohang city, and showed promising. The Philips drought index technique could be used for lany other city's drought contingency paln.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.146-146
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• 2019

The aridity index, which is determined as the ratio of potential evapotranspiration to precipitation, is one of key parameters in drought characterization. Whereas the evaporative index, which is defined as the ratio of actual evapotranspiration to precipitation, represents the fraction of available water consumed by the evapotranspiration process. This study investigates variation of the aridity and evaporative indexes due to climate change during the 21st century in South Korea. Estimations of the aridity and evaporative indexes are obtained using SWAT mode based on ensemble of 13 different GCMs over 5 large basins of South Korea for 2 RCP scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). The results shows the opposite trends of the two indexes, where the aridity index is projected as always increase, while the evaporative index is expected to decrease in all of 3 future period (2011-1940, 1941-1970, 1971-2099). The estimated results also suggest that land cover influenced significantly evapotranspiration along with the change of climate. The study indicates that South Korea will be facing with a high risk of water scarcity in future due to climate change, which is seriously challenging for water planing and management in the country.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.470-476
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• 2005

The Korean Water Quality Index (K-WQI) was applied to the rivers located in the watershed of Daecheong Lake to assess the status of river water quality, and propose potential target constituents for better water quality management in the watershed. The estimated K-WQI value for each river was varied from 70 to 90, and Youngdongcheon showed the worst score while Mujunamdeachen showed the best score. The total nitrogen (TN) and total coliform bacteria were identified as the most significant constituents that degrade the K-WQI values in the rivers. The correlation coefficients (r) were determined between K-WQI and the delivered specific load ($kg/km^2/yr$) of BOD, TN, and TP to justify potential target constituents that have a great influence on the improvement of K-WQI values. The results showed that TN (r=-0.86) and TP (r=-0.85) have a strong negative relationships with K-WQI, but BOD have almost no effect. This implies that BOD, the surrogate parameter for organic pollutants, is no more a feasible water quality variable for the water quality management in the study site.

• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.61-80
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• 2011

Through concentrated investments in environmental regulations centered around BOD, which is a biodegradable matter index, and basic environmental infrastructures, national BOD pollution level has continuously improved. Nonetheless, limitations of BOD management system has become evident through nation-wide stagnation and/or increases of refractory organic matters, such as COD, at main drinking water sources, and the need for a new index, which can easily indicate different environmental conditions, has increased. Therefore, this study suggests a new organic management index for a proper management of surface water. $COD_{Cr}$ and TOC were examined as candidates for surface water quality management index, and it was found that TOC was more appropriate than $COD_{Cr}$ as an organic matter management index. Through this study, it was found that TOC possesses following qualities: a more representative index; international acceptability; monitoring program is easier; better availability of analysis techniques; better accuracy and precision of analysis; less time required for analysis; ease of operation; management of disinfection byproducts; connection with present policies; existence of foreign and domestic application case studies; and correlation with water ecosystem.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.12-19
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• 2018

Langelier Index (LI) is used as a tap water corrosiveness index. Residual chlorine in tap water induces corrosion inside water pipes. This study takes a deeper look into the effect of residual chlorine in water pipes. Comparison between tap waters of Y and K water treatment plant (WTP) shows that the LI index of K WTP is lower than that of Y. However, the corrosion rate of Y WTP is higher than that of K WTP. This means that the higher the concentration of residual chlorine in tap water, the higher the corrosion rate of pipe materials. When calcium hydroxide was added to tap water, the corrosiveness index was improved and thus the corrosion rate reduced. It is possible to increase the disinfection efficiency by increasing the duration of residual chlorine and suppressing the rust generation of water pipes and to supply minerals. A guideline for corrosion control with residual chlorine should be set up. The effects of residual chlorine should be included in the corrosiveness index of tap water.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1548-1551
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• 2004

studied on the physicochemistrical property of the clean active water depositting on the ceramic stone by the mineral-Oriental medicine. The results are as follows. The cluster of the clean active water is observed 53-66.5㎐ for contral water. The clean active water is observed 7.2 ph and 1.3330 refractive index for contral water. In the chemical experimental test by ICP, the clean active water is observed 102℃ in boiling point and 4.8㎎/100g V.E for 0㎎g/100g of contral water. In the antibiotic experimentation, an anion, the dimintion index of bacilli, radiation degree and radiate energy of the clean active water increased for contral water. And in the deodorization experimentation, the clean active water is observed 95% deodorization index.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.144-144
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• 2022

Identifying waterbody from remote sensing images, namely water detection, helps understand continuous redistribution of terrestrial water storage and accompanying hydrological processes. It also allows us to estimate available surface water resources and help effective water management. For this problem, NDWI (Normalized Difference Water Index) and MNDWI (Modified Normalized Difference Water Index) are widely used. Although remote sensing indexes can highlight remote sensing image in the water, the noise and the spatial information of the remote sensing image are difficult to be considered, so the accuracy is difficult to be compared with the visual interpretation (the most accurate method, but it requires a lot of labor, which makes it difficult to apply). In this study, we attempt to improve existing NDWI and MNDWI to better water detection. We establish waterbody database of South Korea first and then used it for assessing waterbody indices.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.22-22
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 수문학적 가뭄을 분석하기 위해 두가지 지수를 개발하여 소개하고자 한다. 첫번째는, 물수지식을 기반으로 산정된 Water Budget-based Drought Index(WBDI)로 강우와 증발산의 차이를 이용하여 산정한다. 두 번째는 에너지 수지식을 기반으로 산정된 Energy-based Water Deficit Index(EWDI)로 에너지 수지 기반의 증발산, 태양복사에너지와 토양수분 등을 이용하여 산정한다. 두가지 지수 모두 인공위성 영상 자료를 활용하였다. WBDI 산정을 위한 강수량 자료는 Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission(TRMM)과 Global Precipitation Mission(GPM)를 활용하였으며, 증발산 자료는 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 자료를 활용하였다. EWDI 산정에 필요한 입력자료는 모두 MODIS 자료를 활용하였다. 산정된 두 가뭄지수의 수문학적 가뭄 분석을 위해 자연유출지점인 6개 지점을 선정하여 유출량 자료와 비교하였다. 유출량 자료를 활용하여 Error matrix 기법을 적용하여 두 수문학적 가뭄지수의 우리나라에서의 적용성을 파악하였다.