• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.107-130
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• 2024

Urban land surface temperature (LST) change is a major environmental factor that affects the thermal comfort, energy consumption, and health of urban residents. Most studies that explored the relationship between LST and urban built-environment form analyzed only midday LST. This study explores the diurnal variation of summertime LST in Seoul using ECOSTRESS data, which observes LST at various times of the day and analyzes whether the LST variation differs by built environment type. Launched in 2018, ECOSTRESS operates in a non-sun-synchronous orbit, observing LST with a high resolution of 70 meters. This study collected data from early morning (6:25) to evening (17:26) from 2019 to 2022 to build time-series LST. Based on greenery, water bodies, and building form data, eight types of Seoul's built environment were derived by hierarchical clustering, and the LST fluctuation characteristics of each cluster were compared. The results showed that the spatial disparity in LST increased after dawn, peaked at noon, and decreased again, highlighting areas with rapid versus stable LST changes. Low-rise and high-rise compact districts experienced fast, high temperature increases and high variability, while low-density apartments experienced moderate LST increases and low variability. These results suggest urban forms that can mitigate rapid daytime heating.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.171-176
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• 2016

The distribution shapes of air and water temperatures are basic and essential information, which determine the frequency patterns of their occurrence. It is also very useful to understand the changes in long-term air and water temperatures with respect to climate change. The typical distribution shapes of air and water temperatures cannot be well fitted using widely used/accepted normal distributions because their shapes show multimodal distributions. In this study, Gaussian mixture distributions and kernel distributions are suggested as the more suitable models to fit their distribution shapes. Based on the results, the tail shape exhibits different patterns. The tail is long in higher temperature regions of water temperature distribution and in lower temperature regions of air temperature distribution. These types of shape comparisons can be useful to identify the patterns of long-term air and water temperature changes and the relationship between air and water temperatures. It is nearly impossible to identify change patterns using only mean-temperatures and normal distributions.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.20-35
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• 2011

This study suggested the systematic steps for quality control, construction of the climatological reference series and homogeneity test and adjustment of temperature series in the Republic of Korea. It also attempted to evaluate more accurate magnitude of change using adjusted temperature data. All erroneous values produced by quality control were detected by internal inconsistency check. The method selected for homogeneity test in this study well defined fairly correct signals of station relocations. Therefore, this method might be regarded as the appropriate one to test homogeneity of temperature series of the Republic of Korea. The increase of temperature of the Republic of Korea after the adjustment were bigger than before the adjustment of annual and seasonal mean temperature. Adjusted temperature data produced by these steps will enable to evaluate more accurate characteristics and magnitude of climate change.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2017

This study aims to identify the warm and cold periods(WP, CP) of November appeared in the daily normals of daily minimum temperature of Seoul for 1941~1970 and 1971~2000 and to investigate synoptic characteristics of the temperature changes of WP and CP. The WP temperatures are increased clearly(p value 0.000), the CP temperatures are also warming but not significant statistically. In WP, there are not apparent trends corresponding the warming of WP temperature, in the Siberian High, Sea Level Pressure(SLP), 925hPa surface wind(U925, V925) around the Korean peninsula. In high period(1972~1979) of WP temperature, there are positive SLP anomaly and anomalous anticyclonic circulation pattern of 925hPa wind field over the Korean peninsula then the winter monsoon is weakened and the WP temperature is ascending. In CP, the Siberian high are weakening, the Hokkaido eastern low are strengthening and the westerlies(U925) over the Korean Peninsula are enlarging. So CP temperature are suppressed in rising trend or shows weak descent.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.715-727
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• 2008

This study analyzed changes on the best condition of temperature and relative humidity for making artificial snows in the Yongpyong Ski Resort using data from Daegwallyeong. Depth of snowfall and snowfall days have decrease since 1990s. If the Yongpyong Ski Resort has only to depend on natural snows, it would be difficult to make and maintain ski slope. There are two times of snowmaking during ski seasons: one is the first snowmaking (October-November) for opening ski slopes and the other is the reinforcement of snowmaking (December-March) for maintaining snow quality during the seasons. Days having the best condition for the first snowmaking (daily minimum temperature below $-1^{\circ}C$ and daily average relative humidity 60 to 80 percent) decreased after 1970s. Days having the best condition for the reinforcement of snowmaking also decreased. While temperature changes are more evident than humidity changes for the first snowmaking, humidity changes are more obvious than change of temperature for the reinforcement of snowmaking. In the future climate projection by A1B scenarios, the length of ski seasons projected to decrease a 10 to 40 percent against the period of 1973-2008. The climate condition for the snowmaking projected to be poor, especially the due to increase of temperature.

• Korean Architects
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• no.2 s.155
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• pp.23-25
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• 1982

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.385-393
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 한라산의 고도별, 사면별, 계절별 기온(일평균, 일최고, 일최저) 분포와 고산식물의 수직적 분포역을 기초로 고산식물별 온도적 범위를 분석한 후 제주도의 온난화에 따른 한라산 고산식물의 미래를 논의하였다. 아울러 고산지에서의 고도별 기온 분포와 수직적 기온 체감이 환산되어 산악지역에서의 기온 분포를 이해하는데 중요한 자료가 확보되었다. 한라산에서의 100m당 기온체감율은 일평균기온이 -0.58$^{\circ}C$, 일최고기온이 -0.53$^{\circ}C$ 범위내에서 분포가 주로 결정되어, 상대적으로 낮은 최고기온 체감율이 고산식물의 생존에 유리하게 작용한 것으로 보인다. 본 연구에서 얻어진 결과는 온난화에 따른 생태계 변화의 모니터링과 경관 보전 측면에서 유용한 생태적 정보를 축적하여, 한라산에 분포하는 희귀하거나, 멸종위기 상태에 있는 고산식물들의 보전과 관련된 지식이 수립될 수 있다.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.374-380
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• 1985

The annual variations of sea surface temperature (SST), air temperature (AT), and sea-air temperature separation (SST-AT) in the East Sea (Japan Sea) are studied by harmonic analysis of the monthly data in 2 by 2 degree rectangles. In the Tsushima Current region of the Japan Sea, the annual means of SST and AT are high due to warm water advection by the current, and the annual amplitudes of SST and AT are small because the annual variations of heat advection the the current and of the incoming solar radiation are almost out of phase each other. In summer the SST and the AT in the Japan Sea are almost the same, but in winter the SST is $6{\sim}10^{\circ}C$ higher than the AT. The physical processes responsible for the observed SST-AT in the Japan Sea and their consequences in the sea-air thermal interactions are discussed in this paper.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.323-337
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• 2020

Long-term continuous data were used to investigate changes in air and water temperature and temperature hysteresis at Lake Paldang, the largest source of drinking water in South Korea. Based on the temperatures at Yangpyeong, near Lake Paldang, using a seasonal Mann-Kendall test, the rate of change of increase in temperature over the last 27 years (0.060℃/yr, 1993-2019) was higher than that of during 47 years (0.048℃/yr, 1973-2019). The air and water temperatures in Lake Paldang and its influent rivers had a high correlation (R > 0.9, p < 0.005); however, the water temperature increased at rate slower than the river water temperature, and the water temperature decreased slowly as the air temperature fell. The depth-averaged water temperature also changed more slowly than the surface water of the lake both when the air temperature was high and when it was low. This is likely because the lake has a larger area and a longer heat retention time than rivers, resulting in a greater hysteresis of water temperature at lake.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.649-654
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• 2009

Soil temperature is an important tool in predicting a change of climate and agricultural environment together with the change of atmospheric temperature. In this paper, we examine changing patterns of soil temperature measured in 0.5m under ground from 1932 to 1990 and atmospheric temperature from 1961 to 2008, and derive a relationship between atmospheric temperature and soil temperature. Using this model, we predict unmeasured soil temperature in Daegu area and soil temperature is found to be increasing about $0.028^{\circ}C$per a year. Prediction of soil temperature is an important indicator for climate change in Daegu and will be useful information to help us take precautions for global warming, etc.