Classification and evaluation of the documentary-recorded storm events in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty (1392–1910), Korea

Yoo, Chulsang; Park, Minkyu; Kim, Hyeon Jun; Choi, Jong Hyun; Sin, Jiye; Jun, Changhyun

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.023

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“…The missing data during the Korean War (i.e., from 1950 to 1953) were replaced by a 30 year annual climatology before that period. The Cheugugi data have been successfully applied to assess a long‐term change in precipitation trend [ Jung et al, ], drought [ Kim et al, , ] and extreme storm events [ C. Yoo et al, ]. The Cheugugi data are known to be biased in two ways: The first is inaccurately measured winter snowfall which is about 40 mm/yr [ Jung et al, ].…”

Section: Cheugugi Precipitation Data For Seoul and Drought Definitionmentioning

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The unusual 2013–2015 drought in South Korea in the context of a multicentury precipitation record: Inferences from a nonstationary, multivariate, Bayesian copula model

Kwon

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Kim

2016

Geophysical Research Letters

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Recently, the Korean peninsula faced severe drought for more than 3 years (2013–2015). Drought in this region is characterized by multidecadal variability, as seen from one of the longest systematic records available in Asia from 1770 to 2015. This paper explores how the return period of the 2013–2015 drought varies over this historical period to provide a context for the changing climate and drought severity in the region. A nonstationary, multivariate, Bayesian copula model for drought severity and duration is developed and applied. Given the wetting trend over the last 50 years, the recent drought appears quite extreme, while such droughts were common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Section: Cheugugi Precipitation Data For Seoul and Drought Definitionmentioning

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The unusual 2013–2015 drought in South Korea in the context of a multicentury precipitation record: Inferences from a nonstationary, multivariate, Bayesian copula model

Kwon

Lall

Kim

2016

Geophysical Research Letters

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“…The Cheugugi rainfall series are incomparably unique data set because of its high temporal resolution and long record period. The detailed information on the Cheugugi data is summarized in Yoo et al (2015).…”

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On the statistical analysis of rainstorm events between historical (1777–1907) and modern (1961–2010) periods in Seoul, Korea

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Qin

Tung

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Intl Journal of Climatology

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In this study, an event‐based approach for developing precipitation indices of extreme hydrological events was proposed to analyse characteristics of rainstorm events over long‐term periods. Statistical properties of hourly rainfall data were summarized from the retrieved rainstorm events between historical (1777–1907) and modern (1961–2010) periods at Seoul rain gauge station, Korea. The trends and variations of rainstorm events reflecting rainfall depth/duration/intensity thresholds and annual maximum rainstorm events with the largest rainfall depths in these two periods were analysed and compared. The study results indicated that, at a 5% significance level, there were differences in the means and variances of the number of rainstorm events and the average rainfall depth/intensity per storm. For the historical period, the average rainfall depth, duration and intensity per storm with total rainfall durations had a temporal linear trend with slopes of 0.011 mm year−1, 0.027 hr year−1, and −0.009 mm hr−1 year−1, respectively; whereas, a general decreasing trend was detected during the modern period with slopes of −0.218 mm year−1, −0.076 hr year−1, and − 0.010 mm hr−1 year−1, respectively. In terms of annual maximum rainfall depth, no significant temporal trend was found in the historical period but an increasing trend (with a slope of 0.710 mm year−1) was detected for the modern period. This study was the first attempt to investigate the variability of rainfall characteristics in Seoul, Korea with high‐resolution historical data dating back to almost 250 years ago, using a storm‐event‐based concept which defined precipitation indices with a holistic consideration of the number of events and their rainfall depth, duration, and intensity.

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“…Yoo et al . () also repeated the same search with more keywords to derive a similar result. Figure shows the annual variation of the number of documentary records.…”

Section: The Annals Of the Choson Dynasty And The Documentary Recordsmentioning

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“…Among the rainfall events documented, these catastrophic rainfall events are believed to be of the highest degree of accuracy. A comparison of the rainfall events documented in the Annals and those recorded by the Chukwooki also shows that the classification results of these catastrophic rainfall events are the most accurate (Yoo et al ., ).…”

Section: The Annals Of the Choson Dynasty And The Documentary Recordsmentioning

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Consideration of documentary records in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty for the frequency analysis of rainfall in Seoul, Korea

Park

Yoo

Jun

2017

Meteorological Applications

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ABSTRACT:In this study, flood records in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty were considered for the frequency analysis of rainfall in Seoul, Korea. The old Korean rain gauge (Chukwooki) data were also used to evaluate major flood records in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty. The design rainfalls were estimated using the binomial censored data maximum likelihood estimator. The results can be summarized as follows. (1) The frequency analysis was done for 24 h rainfall amounts as this was assumed to represent the three different rainfall records well: the documentary records in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty, the Chukwooki data and the modern data. Also, given the possible uncertainty level of the classification results of the documentary records, only 19 catastrophic events (the highest level of flood) were considered in the frequency analysis. The threshold value was decided to be 388 mm by comparing the documentary records with the Chukwooki data. (2) The sensitivity analysis shows that the effects of the threshold value, the number of catastrophic records, and the accuracy level of the flood records in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty on the frequency analysis results are very limited. That is, the length of the flood records in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty was found to be long enough to overcome the possible uncertainty of the flood records. (3) The design rainfalls estimated by taking into account the flood records in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty were found to be very similar to those for the modern data. However, the confidence intervals estimated by considering all the records available were found to be just one third of those of the modern data.

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Classification and evaluation of the documentary-recorded storm events in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty (1392–1910), Korea

Cited by 25 publications

References 21 publications

The unusual 2013–2015 drought in South Korea in the context of a multicentury precipitation record: Inferences from a nonstationary, multivariate, Bayesian copula model

The unusual 2013–2015 drought in South Korea in the context of a multicentury precipitation record: Inferences from a nonstationary, multivariate, Bayesian copula model

On the statistical analysis of rainstorm events between historical (1777–1907) and modern (1961–2010) periods in Seoul, Korea

Consideration of documentary records in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty for the frequency analysis of rainfall in Seoul, Korea

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