Since the frequency and scale of damage from the torrential rain increases recently due to climate change and global warming, the significance of flood forecasting and warning becomes important in medium and small streams as well as large rivers. Rea...
Since the frequency and scale of damage from the torrential rain increases recently due to climate change and global warming, the significance of flood forecasting and warning becomes important in medium and small streams as well as large rivers. Real time flood forecasting is important in a flood-prone region within medium and small sized watershed, for the issue of flood warnings in order to allow ample leadtime for the evacuation of populations and protection of primary facilities endangered by imminent rising water levels.
In the modeling the relations with a rainfall and runoff by using the existing hydrological model, it implies lots of non-linear and uncertain elements. Through watershed flood routing, reservoir routing and channel routing for the estimation of runoff, many diverse errors can be occurred and accumulated, so that the results of rainfall-runoff analysis may contain the uncertainties in the existing flood forecasting and warning system.
The purpose of this study is develop the data driven model for the real-time flood forecasting and inundation analysis that are improved the problems of the existing hydrological model. Neuro-Fuzzy model which use the fuzzy inference theory with neural network, that can forecast flood only by using the rainfall and flood level and discharge data without using lots of physical data that are necessary in existing hydrological rainfall-runoff model is used.
First of all, the various combinations of input data were constructed by using rainfall and water level to select optimal combinations of input data for applying Neuro-Fuzzy model. The optimal combination of input data that composed of rainfall data at t time, rainfall data at t+1 time, water level data at t time, water level data at t+1 time, water level data at t+2 time was selected when current time is t time. Based on optimal combination of input data, training and checking events are selected by using various flood events for applying Neuro-Fuzzy model in Jungrangcheon. Neuro-Fuzzy system was constructed by estimating the number and parameters of membership function for each leadtime of selected training and checking events. In addition, DEM based two-dimensional inundation model that can perform effectively real-time inundation analysis in protected lowland has been developed.
The suggested Neuro-Fuzzy method was applied to Jungrangcheon. For the verification of the model, the comparisons between forecasting floods and observation data are presented. The comparison results of Neuro-Fuzzy model in Jungrangcheon with the observed data show that the real-time flood forecasting can be simulated successfully without large errors. In case of the 180 minutes leadtime, a root mean square error turned out to be 0.174m, the correlation coefficient to be 0.887 and in other statistical indicators such as mean absolute deviation and Nash-Sutcliffe efficient coefficient, forecasting results are much improved in terms of flood level and discharge. Accordingly, three hours leadtime with high accuracy can be obtained for real-time flood forecasting.
The forecasted floods by applying Neuro-Fuzzy model are used as boundary conditions to simulate the real-time one-dimensional hydraulic analysis for jungrangcheon. As a result of verification, the simulated results by using forecasted floods are in good agreements with the simulated results which use actual observation floods as boundary conditions.
In order to estimate for calibration and verification of real-time two-dimensional inundation forecasting model, DEM based inundation model and level-pool model developed in this study are applied to a flood event in 1998 year in Jungrangcheon. The results of two models were compared with the actually investigated inundation area. From the comparisons , it revealed that results of DEM-based model are better accurate and improved than those of level-pool model. The computational time for each used grid size is reviewed in terms of real-time inundation forecasting. As a result, the computational time of DEM-based inundation model used 20m×20m DEM data was only 125 seconds. Therefore DEM-based inundation model developed in this study will be able to obtain sufficient leadtime with high accuracy for real-time inundation forecasting within 3 minutes.
The methodologies presented in this study provide an advanced integrated system of real-time flood forecasting and inundation analysis which can be applicable for flood prevention and mitigation in medium and small streams. This study can greatly contribute to the construction of a high accuracy flood information system that secure leadtime in medium and small streams.