과거 수 년 간에 걸친 해양환경변화와 중금속 농도에 의한 오염정도를 알아보기 위해 열대 및 아열대 해역에서 흔히 볼 수 있는 경골산호(Porites lutea)를 조사하였다. 연X선 사진 분석 결과 분석된 산호시료는 길이 71mm 에 뚜렷한 성장륜을 가지고 있어 과거 수 년에 걸친 해양환경 변화를 잘 지시하고 있다. 골격 중에 포함된 주요원소 및 미량원소 분석결과 각 원소의 최고값, 최저값 사이의 편차가 큰 것으로 나타났다. 원소들 간의 관계를 살펴본 결과 일부원소는 화학적 분배계수에 의해 aragonite 격자에 기계적으로 치환되어 축적된 것으로 판단되며 일부원소는 이차적인 환경요인에 의해 축적된 것으로 판단된다. Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca에 근거한 환경변화는 수년전에 큰 변화가 있었던 것으로 판단되며 Mg/Ca의 경우 특정기간에 큰 폭으로 증가하는 경향을 보인다. 일부 중금속의 농도는 크게 수 십배의 농도 변화를 보이고 있으며 특히 Cu, Zn의 경우는 성장하는 동안 Mg/Ca와 같은 거동을 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 요인은 아마도 지역적 오염과 해양환경변화와 관련이 있는 것으로 해석된다. 추후 전처리 과정 등을 포함한 추가적인 연구를 필요로 한다.

The Indian summer monsoon behaved in an abnormal way in 2002 and as a result there was a large deficiency in precipitation (especially in July) over a large part of the Indian subcontinent. For the study of deficient monsoon of 2002, a recent version of the NCAR regional climate model (RegCM3) has been used to examine the important features of summer monsoon circulations and precipitation during 2002. The main characteristics of wind fields at lower level (850 hPa) and upper level (200 hPa) and precipitation simulated with the RegCM3 over the Indian subcontinent are studied using different cumulus parameterization schemes namely, mass flux schemes, a simplified Kuo-type scheme and Emanuel (EMU) scheme. The monsoon circulation features simulated by RegCM3 are compared with the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and simulated precipitation is validated against observation from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC). Validation of the wind fields at lower and upper levels shows that the use of Arakawa and Schubert (AS) closure in Grell convection scheme, a Kuo type and Emanuel schemes produces results close to the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. Similarly, precipitation simulated with RegCM3 over different homogeneous zones of India with the AS closure in Grell is more close to the corresponding observed monthly and seasonal values. RegcM3 simulation also captured the spatial distribution of deficient rainfall in 2002.

Paleoenvironmental evolution in South Korea is investigated on the basis of fluctuations in biogenic silica content in sediments from Cheollipo coast on western shore. The biogenic silica measurement was done by alkaline extraction technique. The concentration of the biogenic silica in the Cheollipo coastal sediments is generally low, with an average of 1.2 %. The proxy of biogenic silica records in Cheollipo sediments implies the significant difference of bio-productivity on Korean Peninsula in comparison with those in lacustrine sediments in interior terrestrial continent of the Eurasia.

The present study has focused on the environmental changes and evidences for sedimentation in the Lake Khuvsgul catchment during the Holocene period, inferred from short core sediment (BO03) from the eastern shore of Borsog Bay, which were analyzed in order to review records of the Holocene climatic evolution and Holocene history in Northern Mongolia. For the purpose of reconstruction of natural phenomenon that occurred in the lake catchment system during the Holocene, physical and chemical properties including HCl-soluble material, biogenic silica, organic matter and grain size distribution of minerals in the core sediments have been analyzed in this study. The vertical variations in composition for these properties show distinctly that five lines of paleoenvironmental evidence occurred in the lake catchment during the Holocene. A modified age model resulting from AMS carbon dating for the BO03 core sediment shows timings of these environmental events at 9.5 Kyr BP, 8.0 Kyr BP, 5.6 Kyr BP and 3.2 Kyr BP, respectively. Paleoenvironmental changes in the Lake Khuvsgul catchment system during the Holocene highlight distinctive features of the hydrological regime and geomorphologic evolution in the lake catchment due to regional landscape and global climatic changes corresponding with the Holocene optimum and thermal optimum. In particular, the change of hydrologic regime based on the sedimentological evidence has been caused by not only overland flow due to melting water, but also base flow due to thick permafrost around Khuvsgul region.