HOW URBANIZED STREAM CAN AFFECT WATER TEMPERATURE REGIME OF WATERSHEDS |
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학술지명 URBIO2014
저자 원남일,허영택,지민규
발표일 2014-10-10
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Climate change effects have been critically affecting urban environment in various ways of raising air temperature of city and giving increased threat of heavy rainfall. These situation requested to urbanize streams running across a city both to provide more waterfronts and to secure the stream much resistant to water events. However, the urbanized stream could have different features from natural stream. Especially, water temperature will be directly affected by losing or weakening the synchronizing relation between air and stream temperatures due to increased residence time. However, the effects of urbanized stream on watersheds and further downstream have been little examined. This paper presents the temperature effects of an urbanized stream, Dongcheon River, which is running through Suncheon City. Temperature data loggers deployed into watersheds including Dongcheon River recorded water temperature every 10 minutes. In the watershed, three different types of streams were examined: natural (Sansacheon River), Dam-affected (Isacheon River), and urbanized. The temperature changes responding to air temperature were compared among three streams. Natural stream showed most closely synchronized temperature changes with air temperature. Dam-affected stream also indicated the synchronized, but week, changes. While, urbanized flow showed least synchronization of water temperature and had relatively steady temperature. These results highlight that an urbanized stream warmed by air due to slowly moving flow can work as a heat transporter to lead to increased water temperature downstream. |