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TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RAINFALL IN THE NAM RIVER DAM BASIN OF KOREA
Author(s) -
PARK J. I.,
SINGH V. P.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
hydrological processes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.222
H-Index - 161
eISSN - 1099-1085
pISSN - 0885-6087
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(199609)10:9<1155::aid-hyp367>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - orography , structural basin , hydrology (agriculture) , drainage basin , rain gauge , watershed , elevation (ballistics) , wind speed , environmental science , geology , climatology , precipitation , meteorology , geography , geomorphology , cartography , oceanography , geotechnical engineering , geometry , mathematics , machine learning , computer science
An investigation into rainfall variability in time and space in the Nam River dam basin of Korea is made with the use of the coefficient of variation and the correlation coefficient. The Nam River dam basin is a small mountainous watershed where wind direction and orography are the dominant influences on the pattern and distribution of rainfall. Rainfall distribution was found to vary with elevation, position, wind direction and distance from a reference station. The results of this study can be used in the design of rain gauge network, hydrological forecasting and for other applications in the Nam River dam basin.