• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.38-44
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• 1991

A simple box model was applied to the sedimentation of fine-grained sediments in a rectangular basin. Using the model explanation of the net depositional process of One-grained sediments in a small tide-dominated rocky embayment was possible by a careful evaluation of coefficients for erosion and deposition. For a basin with an inlet through which the exchange of suspended sediments occurs between open sea. the model shows that the time-averaged concentration of suspended sediments for a tidal cycle reaches a steady state initial abrupt change in concentration. During a tidal cycle deposition of sediments seems to occur when the magnitude of tidal currents is substantially low near the slack waters. Resuspension and erosion of bottom sediments take place near the peak of tidal currents. For a depositional basin. Gamagyang Bay, the duration and the maximum rate of deposition appear to be longer and higher than those of erosion. which accounts for the net deposition of fine-grained sediments. The time-averaged concentration of suspended sediment in the basin is slightly lower than that of the open water due to the net deposition. The instantaneous concentration of suspended sediments showed the maximum value about an hour before high water and the minimum about an hour after low water.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.39-48
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• 2014

In coastal region, estuaries have complex environments where dissolved and particulate matters are mixed with marine water and substances. Suspended sediment (SS) dynamics in coastal water, in particular, plays a major role in erosion/deposition processes, biomass primary production and the transport of nutrients, micropollutants, heavy metals, etc. Temporal variation in suspended sediment concentration (SSC) can be used to explain erosion/sedimentation patterns within coastal zones. Remotely sensed data can be an efficient tool for mapping SS in coastal waters. In this study, we analyzed the variation in SSC in coastal water using the Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) and Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) in Gyeonggi-bay. Daily variations in GOCI-derived SSC showed low values during ebb time. Current velocity and water level at 9 and 10 am is 37.6, 28.65 $cm{\cdot}s^{-1}$ and -1.23, -0.61 m respectively. Water level has increased to 1.18 m at flood time. In other words, strong current velocity and increased water level affected high SSC value before flood time but SSC decreased after flood time. Also, we compared seasonal SSC with the river discharge from the Han River and the Imjin River. In summer season, river discharge showed high amount, when SSC had high value near the inland. At this time SSC in open sea had low value. In contrast, river discharge amount from inland showed low value in winter season and, consequently, SSC in the open sea had high value because of northwest monsoon.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.14-21
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• 2013

The erosion, suspension, and transport of sediment frequently occur in the coastal waters and estuarine. These processes often generate the so-called fluid mud layer, which is defined as a high-concentration aqueous suspension of fine grained sediment (> 10 g/l), consisting mainly of silt and clay-size particles. Therefore the high-resolution ultrasound is mostly used to detect or monitor the fluid mud layer. Because the sound attenuation tends to increase rapidly with the suspended sediment concentration, it is necessary to consider the accurate attenuation correction to estimate the backscattering strengths from the suspended sediment layers. In this paper, the volume backscattering strengths with various suspended sediment concentrations were measured using 5-MHz ultrasound signal in a small-scale water tank. The sound attenuation due to the viscosity and scattering from suspended sediment particles was predicted by the Richard's model and applied to the sonar equation to estimate the volume backscattering strengths from the suspended sediment concentrations. For the case that the additional attenuation was not considered, the volume backscattering strengths increased to the concentration of 20 g/l, and over this point, the backscattering strengths were roughly constant. However, for the case that the attenuation due to the suspended sediment concentration was considered, the backscattering strengths increased with the concentration.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.103-111
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• 2019

In this study, characteristics of sediments and suspended solids flowing into Andong and Imha Dam was analyzed by color, X-ray diffraction and ICP/MS analysis. The minerals of sediments and suspended solid consist mainly of quartz, albite, chlorite, illite and small amounts of montmorillonite and kaolinite. Unlike the Andong Dam, the Imha Dam sediments contain large amounts of calcite. Color of sediments and suspended solids varies from grayish brown to dark orange. The concentrations of major heavy metals of sediments and suspended solids in the Andong and the Imha Dam are higher than the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration standard values. The concentration of heavy metals in sediments of Andong is higher than that of Imha Dam because concentration of heavy metals in the suspended solid flowing into Andong is higher than that of Imha Dam.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.201-211
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• 2017

The estuary in Nakdong River has changes by the construction of harbors, land reclamation and artificial waterway changes. These resultslead to changes of extinction and creation of deltaic barrier island. The deltaic barrier island changes in the Nakdong River estuary affect the function of the barrier islands and cause environmental changes. Therefore, it is important to monitor the changes in the area of the Nakdong estuary. In this study, long-term changes of the area and suspended sediment of deltaic barrier island in the Nakdong River estuary were analyzed using Landsat TM/ETM+ images. As a result, end point rate (EPR) values of shoreline in Jinwoodo and Sinjado are about 5m/yr and about 50 m/yr, respectively. The EPR values of north-south and east-west direction in Doyodeung are 20 m/yr and -20 ~ 10 m/yr. The suspended sediment concentration (SSC) has a maximum value of $25g/m^3$ in the vicinity of Jinwoodo and Sinjado, while it has a maximum concentration of $40g/m^3$ in the vicinity of Shinjido and Doyodeung. In other words, the area and the SSC change are small in Jinwoodo, and the area change and the SSC variation are large in Sinjado and Doyodeung. As a result of analysis of correlation between area change and SSC variation using all data, the Pearson coefficient value (r) is 0.36 and it is 0.32 in winter data. In other words, it is considered that the SSC variation affectsthe deltatic barrier island area change. However, verification using advanced altimetry data is necessary in the future. These studies can be used for coastal monitoring and environmental monitoring.

• Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.208-211
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.717-721
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• 2012

유속(혹은 난류강도) 증감에 따른 floc 특성의 변화를 파악하기 위하여, 현재 연안 개발이 활발히 수행되고 있는 목포해역을 대상으로 ADCP를 이용한 층별 유속 및 부유사 농도의 연속관측이 수행되었다. 목포해역 내 대표정점에서 층별로 유속 유향 및 음파 intensity와 함께 전체 수심데이터가 5분 간격으로 측정되었으며, ADCP 음파의 intensity와 부유사 농도의 상관관계 분석을 위하여 동일 시간동안 채수기를 이용하여 water sampling(30분 간격) 또한 동시에 수행되었다. 관측시간 동안의 목포해역은 낙조류의 흐름특성을 가지며, 표층에서의 최강유속은 24.5cm/s, 유향은 대체적으로 NW~N향 사이에 분포하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 층별 부유사 농도는 그 차이가 매우 미미한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구를 통하여 관측된 자료들은 퇴적물의 제반 이송특성 연구를 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 향후 퇴적물 이송 및 수질 예측/평가를 위한 수치모형 적용시 입력자료로 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.282-287
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• 2019

본 연구의 목적은 음파를 이용하는 유속계로부터 관측된 후방산란강도와 실측된 부유사농도의 상관관계를 해석하여, 두 인자 사이의 관련 매개변수를 정량적으로 산정하고 관계식을 도출하는데 있다. 이를 위해 층별 유속계인 Aquadopp Profiler를 사용하여 사질 퇴적물 및 고령토 부유퇴적물 관측센서 검보정 챔버 실험을 수행하였다. 두 인자의 상관관계는 선형회귀분석을 통해 해석하였으며 그 결과로 도출된 접합곡선의 기울기는 각각 안목 A1 이 2.065, 안목 A2가 1.576, 고령토시료일 때 2.588의 값을 갖는데 이러한 차이는 시료 특성으로 설명될 수 있다. 서로 다른 입경을 갖는 시료는 후방산란 민감도에 차이가 있으며 이러한 영향으로 두 시료에서 산정된 계수 값에 차이가 발생한다. 본 연구를 통하여 도출된 측정 결과들은 후방산란강도에 미치는 수층 부유입자들의 영향이 매우 큼을 잘 보여준다. 일반적으로 수층 부유입자는 저면 퇴적물이 부유된 것으로 간주될 수 있으며, 또한 저면 퇴적물은 각 해역별로 site-specific 하다고 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1976-1980
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 만경강 점착성 퇴적물의 표본채취 및 실내실험을 통하여 만경강 점착성 퇴적물의 침강특성이 정량적으로 산정되었으며, 과거 타 지역 퇴적물의 침강특성 산정 결과들과 비교 검토 되었다. 또한 퇴적물의 기본 물리 화학적 특성과 침강특성간의 상관관계 해석을 통하여, 만경강 점착성 퇴적물의 침강특성결과의 타당성이 간접적으로 검토되었다. 침강실험 결과, 부유사 농도가 증가함에 따라 침강속도가 증가하는 응집침강 영역과, 역으로 침강속도가 감소하는 간섭침강 영역이 명확히 나타났으며, 만경강 퇴적물의 부유사농도값이 0.1$W_s$<1 mm/sec의 침강속도 값을 갖는 것으로 확인되었다. 또한 산정된 침강속도는 과거 타 지역과 비교하여 정량적으로 상당한 차이를 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

Coastal water including estuaries has distinctive environmental characteristics where sediments are transported and deposited by flowing river water, providing an environment in which fluid mud layers can be formed. Acoustic method is mostly used to detect or monitor the fluid mud layer. However, since sound propagating in this layer suffers severe attenuation, it is important to estimate the accurate attenuation coefficient for various concentrations of fluid mud layer for the successful use of the acoustic method. In this paper, measurement results of attenuation coefficient for 3.5, 5, and 7.5 MHz ultrasounds were presented. The measurements were made in a small-size water tank in which suspended sediment samples with various sediment concentrations were formed using kaolinite powder. The results were compared to the model predictions obtained by attenuation coefficient model in which the mean grain size (called as Mass-median-diameter, D50) was used as input parameter. There were reasonable agreements between measured attenuation coefficients and model outputs predicted using the particle range of D50 ${\pm}20%$. The comparison results imply that although the suspended sediments consist of various-sized particles, sound attenuation might be greatly influenced by amount of particle with a size which has a larger attenuation than that of any particle in the suspended sediments for the frequency used.