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Regionalization Of Hydrologic Response In The Great Lakes Basin: Considerations Of Temporal Scales Of Analysis, Jonathan Martin Kult, Lauren M. Fry, Andrew D. Gronewold, Woonsup Choi Nov 2014

Regionalization Of Hydrologic Response In The Great Lakes Basin: Considerations Of Temporal Scales Of Analysis, Jonathan Martin Kult, Lauren M. Fry, Andrew D. Gronewold, Woonsup Choi

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Methods for predicting streamflow in areas with limited or nonexistent measures of hydrologic response commonly rely on regionalization techniques, where knowledge pertaining to gauged watersheds is transferred to ungauged watersheds. Hydrologic response indices have frequently been employed in contemporary regionalization research related to predictions in ungauged basins. In this study, we developed regionalization models using multiple linear regression and regression tree analysis to derive relationships between hydrologic response and watershed physical characteristics for 163 watersheds in the Great Lakes basin. These models provide an empirical means for simulating runoff in ungauged basins at a monthly time step without implementation of …


Forest Cover Changes In North Korea Since The 1980s, Sangjun Kang, Woonsup Choi Jan 2014

Forest Cover Changes In North Korea Since The 1980s, Sangjun Kang, Woonsup Choi

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North Korea used to have abundant forest stocks but underwent substantial deforestation and degradation of forest in recent decades. This study examined morphological changes of forest cover in North Korea between the 1980s and 2000s. Land cover data based on Landsat TM imagery were obtained as images from the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Environment. The images were processed and used for the Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis and network analysis. MSPA classified the forest cover into morphological classes such as core, islet, bridge, perforation, edge, loop, and branch. The network analysis identified individual networks of forest, each of which represents …