• Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.19-30
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• 2019

This study summarizes domestic and foreign previous works on fluvial terrace with absolute ages to discuss formative process of climatic terrace in Korea. Different from traditional climatic terrace model, approximately three quarters from foreign works have argued that formation of climatic terrace can be attributed to medium- and short-term climatic change or other environmental factors, rather than long-term climatic change of glacial and interglacial cycles. Based on previous works on fluvial terrace in Korea, it can be suggested that fluvial terrace in Korea formed not due to long-term climatic change of 100,000-year cycles related to glacial and interglacial cycles, but due to medium- and short-term climatic change or climatic event of tens of thousands of years related to intensity change in summer monsoon, one of the important factors affecting precipitation in Korea.

• Journal of Climate Change Research
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.221-235
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• 2011

This study summarizes previous studies on the climate change over Korea. Several studies on climate change in the neighboring countries as well as the entire globe are reviewed. Temperature data obtained from modern observational system show an increasing trend beyond the natural variations. The increasing rate of sea surface temperature (SST) over the ocean basins surrounding Korea is higher than that of the global-mean SST. The large increase in the SST over the oceans surrounding Korea may enhance tropical cyclone activity and heavy rainfall frequency in Korea. In addition, it has been reported that the changes in large scale circulation associated with global climate change influence the spatio-temporal variation of monsoon including Changma in summer and cold surges in winter. Although all researches on the subject were not fully discussed in this study due to short period of preparation, allowed pages, and authors' limited knowledge, we expect that this summarized reviews would be helpful to understand climate changes over Korea and the surrounding regions.

• Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.278-288
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• 2012

The zooplankton community of Lake Paldang, Korea, was investigated on a weekly basis from 2004 to 2006. The seasonal succession of zooplankton community structure was influenced by hydrological factors such as rainfall pattern and efflux in Lake Paldang. According to the monsoon climate, spring, fall and winter had reduced precipitation, so that zooplankton dynamics of the lake showed a typical succession pattern. In spring, small sized and faster growing rotifera rapidly increased, and copepods and cladocera noticeably increased thereafter. Rotifera dominated the zooplankton community, occupying more than 90% of total zooplankton abundance. Among rotifera, Keratella cochlearis was extremely dominant in spring. Copepoda were mainly present as Copepodid and Nauplius. Among cladoceran species, Bosmina longirostris was dominant. In summer, during the rainy season, zooplankton were flushed out by an associated dam. After the rainy season, rotifera increased rapidly when the water column of the lake was stable. During the fall, zooplankton abundance gradually reduced in accordance with decreasing water temperature. However, the occupation rate of copepod (Copepodid, Nauplius) increased relatively. Zooplankton dynamics were influenced by meteorological changes and hydraulic-hydrological factors, because Lake Paldang is a completely closed ecosystem.

• Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.37 no.2 s.107
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• pp.205-212
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• 2004

Phosphorus cycle was studied in a deep stratified reservoir in summer monsoon area (Lake Soyang, Korea) by surveying phosphorus input from the watershed and the movement of phosphorus within the reservoir. And the spatial and temporal distribution of phosphorus was modeled with a 2-dimensional water quality model (CE-QUAL-W2), Phosphorus loading was calculated by measuring TP in the main inflowing river (the Soyang River) accounting for 90% of watershed discharge. TP of the Soyang River showed a large daily variation with the flow rate. High phosphorus loading occurred during a few episodic storm runoff laden with suspended sediments and phosphorus. Because storm runoff water on rainy days have lower temperature, it plunges into a depth of same temperature (usually below 20m depth), forming an intermediate turbidity layer with a thickness of 20 ${\sim}$ 30 m. Because of stable thermal stratification in summer the intermediate layer water of high phosphorus content was discharged from the dam through a mid-depth outlet without diffusing into epilimnion. The movement of runoff water within the reservoir, and the subsequent distribution of phosphorus were well simulated by the water quality model showing a good accuracy. The major parameter for the calibration of phosphorus cycle was a settling velocity of detritus, which was calibrated to be 0.75 m ${\cdot}$ $day^{-1}$. It is concluded that the model can be a good simulator of limnological phenomena in reservoirs of summer monsoon area.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.258-262
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• 2010

지역기후모델 RegCM3 이용하여 역학적 상세화 이중둥지격자체계를 구축하고 관측, ECHO-G/S의 20C3M 및 SRES A2 시나리오를 이용하여 동아시아(60km 분해능)와 한반도(20km 분해능)에 대한 현재 및 미래 (1971-2100, 130년)의 기후변화 시나리오 자료를 생산하여 구축하였다. 현재 1971-2000년 기간 동안 상세화된 기온은 관측에 대해 저온 편의와 여름 강수는 건조 편의가 나타나는 계통오차가 있으나, 상세화된 자료는 한반도의 지형적 특성이 잘 반영되었고 관측의 월별, 계절별 변동성을 유사하게 모의하는 등 재분석 자료를 성공적으로 상세화한 것으로 판단된다. 미래 100년(2001-2100년)에 대해 전반기(2021-2050) 및 후반기(2070-2099)의 시나리오기후변동을 분석한 결과, 상세화된 지역별, 계절별, 연도별 기온 상승의 시 공간적 분포를 잘 보여주며, 기온상승(전반기: 동아시아지역~$1.8^{\circ}C$, 남한~$1.6^{\circ}C$, 후반기: 동아시아지역~$4.7^{\circ}C$, 남한~$4.6^{\circ}C$)에 의한 대기 중 수증기 함유량 증가와 여름 몬순의 강화로 전계절에 대해 강수량(전반기: 동아시아~10.5%, 남한~6.7%, 후반기: 동아시아~20.1%, 남한~31.9%)이 증가할 것으로 전망되었다. 수문기상 변화를 살펴보면, 미래 후반기에 남한은 $4.6^{\circ}C$가 상승하여 적설깊이는 5.3mm(-92.3%)가 감소할 것이고, 강수량의 연변동성을 크나 전체적으로 증가할 것이며, 토양수분, 증발산 또한 강수량 증가와 연관되어 증가할 것으로 전망되었다. 이렇게 ECHO-G/S SRES A2 시나리오를 기반으로 하여 역학적으로 상세화된 시나리오는 통계적으로 상세화된 시나리오 결과와 비교 검증함으로써 다중모델기법에 의해 불확실성을 제시함으로써 수문기상변화 예측을 위한 신뢰성 있는 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.373-387
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• 2011

In this study, four types of sensitivity experiments (EG, EE, NG, NE; E: ERA-Interim, N: NCEP/DOE2, G: Grell scheme, E: Emanuel scheme) were performed to evaluate the simulation skills of RegCM4 released in July 2010 over the CORDEX (COordinated Regional Downscaling EXperiment) East Asia domain based on the combinations of boundary conditions (BC: ERA-Interim, NCEP/DOE2) and the cumulus parameterization schemes (CPS: Grell, Emanuel) for the 1989. The surface air temperature and precipitation data observed by the Korea Meteorological Adminstration were used to validate the simulation results over South Korea. The RegCM4 well simulates the seasonal and spatial variations of temperature but it fails to capture the seasonal and spatial variations of precipitation without consideration of the BC and CPS. Especially the simulated summer precipitation amount is significantly less in EG, NG, and NE experiments. But the seasonal variation of precipitation including summer precipitation is relatively well simulated in the EE experiment. The EE experiment shows a better skill in the seasonal march of East Asia summer monsoon, distribution of precipitation intensity and frequency than other experiments. In general, the skills of RegCM4 for temperature and precipitation are better during winter than summer, and in Emanuel than Grell schemes. The simulation results are more impacted by cumulus parameterization schemes than boundary conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.41 no.1 s.112
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• pp.94-105
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• 2006

This paper aims to analyze changes of unusual temperature events on summer and winter and their controlling factors. There has been obviously an increased frequencies of summer unusual high temperature occurrence and decreased frequencies of winter unusual low temperature at most of stations. WMI, winter SHI and AOI might be essential for prediction of unusual temperature during winter and summer OHI and spring NPI for summer unusual low temperature. These factors are crucial because they reflect the recent global warming trend as well as have apparent associations with unusual temperature occurrence frequency in Korea.

• Atmosphere
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.221-228
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• 2011

The nonlinear characteristics of summer monsoon intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) in precipitation, which is manifested as fluctuations in convection and circulation, is one of the major difficulty on the prediction of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM). The present study aims to identify the spatial distribution and time evolution of nonlinear phases of monsoon ISO. In order to classify the different phases of monsoon ISO, Self-Organizing Map(SOM) known as a nonlinear pattern recognition technique is used. SOM has a great attractiveness detecting self-similarity among data elements by grouping and clustering such self-similar components. The four important patterns are demonstrated as Meiyu-Baiu, Changma, post-Changma, and dry-spell modes. It is found that SOM well captured the formation of East Asian monsoon trough during early summer and its northward migration together with enhanced convection over subtropical western Pacific and regionally intensive precipitation including Meiyu, Changma and Baiu. The classification of fundamental large scale spatial pattern and evolutionary history of nonlinear phases of monsoon ISO provides the source of predictability for extended-range forecast of summer precipitation.

• The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2020

Biogenic opal crash at about 6.7 Ma was identified at both IODP Site U1447 and NGHP Site 17 in the Andaman Sea. The different biogenic opal content and general variation pattern between two sites may be attributed to the different concentration of analytical reagent and sedimentation rate estimated by the different chronological approaches. Nevertheless, this study suggests that the biogenic opal crash in the Andaman Sea is closely related to the restriction of Indonesian Throughflow and to the decreasing strength of Indian summer monsoon during the late Miocene, both of which resulted in the reduction of nutrient supply.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.1580-1584
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• 2010

지역기후모델 RegCM3 이용하여 역학적 상세화 이중둥지격자체계를 구축하고 관측, ECHO-G/S의 20C3M 및 SRES A2 시나리오를 이용하여 동아시아(60km 분해능)와 한반도(20km 분해능)에 대한 현재 및 미래(1971-2100, 130년)의 기후변화 시나리오 자료를 생산하였다. 미래 동아시아와 한반도지역은 기온상승에 의해 대기 중 수증기 함유량 증가와 여름 몬순의 강화로 전 계절에 걸쳐 강수량이 증가하고 토양수분, 증발산도 증가할 것으로 전망되었다. 상세화된 일(daily)강수량 자료를 일반극치(general extreme value, GEV)분석을 활용하여 20세기 동안 한반도의 일최대강수량의 공간 분포를 분석하고 미래 강수의 일최대강수량 변화를 전망하였다. 20세기 (1971-2000)에는 남해안과 경기 내륙지방에서 일최대강수량의 빈도와 평균값이 나타났다. 21세기에는 일최대강수량의 평균은 현재보다 약 10 $mmday^{-1}$, 20년 빈도 강수량은 60 $mmday^{-1}$ 정도 증가할 것이고, 남해안과 서해안과 충청내륙일부지방, $39^{\circ}N$ 이북에서 뚜렷이 나타날 것으로 전망되었다.