• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2011

Reliable information on the surface solar radiation is indispensable for rebuilding food production system in the famine plagued North Korea. However, transfer of the related modeling technology of South Korea is not possible simply because raw data such as solar radiation or sunshine duration are not available. The objective of this study is restoring solar radiation data at 27 synoptic stations in North Korea by using satellite remote sensing data. We derived relationships between MODIS radiation estimates and the observed solar radiation at 18 locations in South Korea. The relationships were used to adjust the MODIS based radiation data and to restore solar radiation data at those pixels corresponding to the 27 North Korean synoptic stations. Inverse distance weighted averaging of the restored solar radiation data resulted in gridded surfaces of monthly solar radiation for 4 decadal periods (1983-1990, 1991-2000 and 2001-2010), respectively. For a direct application of these products, we produced solar irradiance estimates for each sub-grid cell with a 30 m spacing based on a sun-slope geometry. These products are expected to assist planning of the North Korean agriculture and, if combined with the already prepared South Korean data, can be used for climate change impact assessment across the whole Peninsula.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.1276-1279
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• 2004

수문순환 과정에서 증발산은 물이 유역으로부터 제거되는 주요 기작으로서, 증발산에 중요한 역할을 하는 식물은 지구 육지 표면의 약 $70\%$ 정도를 점유하고 있으며, 생태계의 가장 중요한 구성인자로서, 식물의 종류 및 군집의 공간적 분포유형, 생육주기 및 형태적 변화 등과 같은 정보들은 그 지역의 기후, 토양, 지질, 지리적 특성을 밝히는데 중요한 역할을 한다. 식생관련 정보 중 엽면적 지수란 단위지표면적당 총 엽면적의 비를 나타내는 것으로 환경생태, 기상, 수문분야에서 다양하게 활용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Landsat 위성영상과 DEM 등의 GIS 자료를 이용하여 지형적인 요소를 고려하여 유역의 증발산량을 분포형으론 산정하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. 연구대상유역은 한강의 제1지류인 경안천유역으로 하였고, 증발산량 산정에 필요한 기상자료는 월평균기온, 수평면일사량, 상대습도를 이용하였고, 일사량비와 일조시간비 계산을 위해 위도별에 따른 총일조시간과 월평균일사량을 계산하였다. 잠재증발산량 산정은 Penman-Monteith식을 이용하여 산정하였으며, 식생지수와 밀접한 관계가 있는 LAI를 고려하여 산정하였다.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.370-375
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• 2011

BIPV시스템 분야는 다른 PV 적용 기술 분야에 비해 빠르게 성장하고 있으나 소형 건축물 위주로 적용되었으며, 초고층 건축물과 같이 수직적으로 높은 건축물의 외부환경조건에 대응하기 위한 BIPV의 적용 방안은 현재까지 연구되어지지 않았다. 국내의 경우 선진국에 비해 초고층 건축물에 대한 BIPV시스템 적용기술은 아직 초기 연구단계에 불과하다. 초고층 건축물의 고유의 특징을 고려하여 초고층 건축물 파사드에 입사하는 일사량의 분포가 균일하지 않을 것이라고 예측하고 실측을 진행하였으며, 실측 결과의 분석을 통하여 초고층 건축물에서의 BIPV시스템 최적 설계방안을 제시하였다. 결론적으로 본 연구에서는 초고층 건축물의 외벽에 입사하는 일사량을 고려한 Unit형 BIPV설계 방안을 제시하였으며, 특히, 측정된 일사량 데이터를 활용하여 초고층 건축물에 적합한 인버터의 선정의 대안을 제시하였다.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.291-297
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• 2013

Automated weather stations were installed at 9 locations with, three different elevations, (i.e., 50m, 100m, and 300m a.s.l.) with different slope and aspect in a small watershed ($50km^2$ area). Air temperature at 1500 LST and solar radiation accumulated for 1100-1500 LST were collected from January to December 2012. Topography of the study area was defined by a $30{\times}30$ m digital elevation model (DEM) grid. Accumulated solar irradiance was calculated for each location with the spatially averaged slope and aspect of surrounding circles with 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 grid cell radii, respectively. The 1500 LST air temperature from clear sky conditions with zero cloud amount was regressed to the 1100-1500 LST solar irradiance at 9 locations. We found the highest coefficient of determination ($r^2$ = 0.544) at 25 grid cell radius and the temperature variation in this study was explained by Y = 0.8309X + 0.0438, where Y is 1500 LST temperature (in $^{\circ}C$) and X is 1100-1500 LST accumulated solar irradiance (in $MJ/m^2$).

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.720-737
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• 2010

This study is to analyze the temporal and spatial distributions of solar radiation in South Korea. Solar radiation data is observed every minute at 22 KMA (Korea Meteorological Administration) stations using pyranometer from January 2000 to August 2007. These data were calibrated using intensive comparative observation and solar radiation model. Intensive comparative observations are accomplished at 22 KMA stations between KNU (Kangnung (Gangneung-Wonju) National University) standard and station instruments during the month of August 2007. The solar radiation of a clear sky mainly is affected by precipitable water, solar altitude and geological height. Also old (raw) data is corrected by the solar radiation model only about clear day and is revised based on the temporal trend of instrument's sensitivity decrease. At all periods and all stations, differences between raw data (13.31 MJ/day) and corrected data (13.75 MJ/day) are 0.44 MJ/ day. So, the spatial distribution of solar radiation is calculated with seasonal and annual mean, and is the relationship with cloud amount is analyzed. The corrected data show a better consistency with the cloud amount than the old data.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.13-18
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• 2009

Accurate solar radiation data are critical to evaluate major physiological responses of plants. For most upland crops and orchard plants growing in complex terrain, however, it is not easy for farmers or agronomists to access solar irradiance data. Here we suggest a simple method using a sun-slope geometry based topographical coefficient to estimate daily solar irradiance on any sloping surfaces from global solar radiation measured at a nearby weather station. An hourly solar irradiance ratio ($W_i$) between sloping and horizontal surface is defined as multiplication of the relative solar intensity($k_i$) and the slope irradiance ratio($r_i$) at an hourly interval. The $k_i$ is the ratio of hourly solar radiation to the 24 hour cumulative radiation on a horizontal surface under clear sky conditions. The $r_i$ is the ratio of clear sky radiation on a given slope to that on a horizontal reference. Daily coefficient for slope correction is simply the sum of $W_i$ on each date. We calculated daily solar irradiance at 8 side slope locations circumventing a cone-shaped parasitic volcano(c.a., 570m diameter for the bottom circle and 90m bottom-to-top height) by multiplying these coefficients to the global solar radiation measured horizontally. Comparison with the measured slope irradiance from April 2007 to March 2008 resulted in the root mean square error(RMSE) of $1.61MJ\;m^{-2}$ for the whole period but the RMSE for April to October(i.e., major cropping season in Korea) was much lower and satisfied the 5% error tolerance for radiation measurement. The RMSE was smallest in October regardless of slope aspect, and the aspect dependent variation of RMSE was greatest in November. Annual variation in RMSE was greatest on north and south facing slopes, followed by southwest, southeast, and northwest slopes in decreasing order. Once the coefficients are prepared, global solar radiation data from nearby stations can be easily converted to the solar irradiance map at landscape scales with the operational reliability in cropping season.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.9 no.3 s.32
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• pp.431-440
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• 1997

The paper describes a theoretical model for the prediction of bridge temperatures from meteorological data measured at bridge site and local meteorological center together with existing finite element heat transfer theory and solar radiation transfer theory to determine the time dependent temperature distribution of bridge. In this analytical model, the most adequate equation for the calculation of solar radiation on the bridge surface, which is dominant in day time is described based on the results of several experimental studies for the solar energy. The validity of this model is tested against field data obtained from long term experimental program on Sadang Viaduct in Seoul. Also, this paper describes the linear correlation between design variables and meteorological data to establish analytical criteria for the prediction of the average temperature, which are responsible for the longitudinal deformation of the bridges and of the vertical differential temperature profiles. which are responsible for the bending deformations from the long term experimental results.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.221-232
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• 2016

Models to estimate solar radiation have been used because solar radiation is measured at a smaller number of weather stations than other variables including temperature and rainfall. For example, solar radiation has been estimated using the Angstrom-Prescott (AP) model that depends on two coefficients obtained empirically at a specific site ($AP_{Choi}$) or for a climate zone ($AP_{Frere}$). The objective of this study was to identify the coefficients of the AP model for reliable estimation of solar radiation under a wide range of spatial and temporal conditions. A global optimization was performed for a range of AP coefficients to identify the values of $AP_{max}$ that resulted in the greatest degree of agreement at each of 20 sites for a given month during 30 years. The degree of agreement was assessed using the value of Concordance Correlation Coefficient (CCC). When $AP_{Frere}$ was used to estimate solar radiation, the values of CCC were relatively high for conditions under which crop growth simulation would be performed, e.g., at rural sites during summer. The statistics for $AP_{Frere}$ were greater than those for $AP_{Choi}$ although $AP_{Frere}$ had the smaller statistics than $AP_{max}$ did. The variation of CCC values was small over a wide range of AP coefficients when those statistics were summarized by site. $AP_{Frere}$ was included in each range of AP coefficients that resulted in reasonable accuracy of solar radiation estimates by site, year, and month. These results suggested that $AP_{Frere}$ would be useful to provide estimates of solar radiation as an input to crop models in Korea. Further studies would be merited to examine feasibility of using $AP_{Frere}$ to obtain gridded estimates of solar radiation at a high spatial resolution under a complex terrain in Korea.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.479-491
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• 2005

지구환경문제와 에너지 수급관계를 감안할 때, 청정 및 대체에너지 연구개발은 불가피하며, 그 중에서도 태양에너지는 대표적인 대안의 하나로 인식된다. 따라서 태양에너지의 적극적인 활용에 필요한 기초자료의 마련은 필수적이다. 태양에너지의 이용 및 관련 절약 기술에 필요한 태양에너지 자원(기상)에 대한 기술자료는 최소한 30년간의 측정 자료를 필요로 한다. 이들 자료에는 시간별 수평면전 일사량, 법선면 직달일사량 및 수평면 산란일사량은 물론 시간별 평균치로 운량, 기온, 습도 등이 포함된다. 이들 자료로부터 자료의 분포, 평균 및 최고, 최저값 등과 같은 기초자료들을 선별하여 관련 시스템 설계에서 요구하는 기준을 충족하여야 하는 것이다. 그러나 우리나라의 경우, 태양에너지 자원에 대한 정밀한 측정은 1982년 이후 수평면 전일사량, 1990년 이후에서나 법선면 직달일사량에 대하여 본격적으로 이루어진 실정으로, 자료의 표준화 및 신뢰성 확보에는 여전히 상당한 시간과 노력이 요구되는 실정이다. 지속적인 측정과 더불어 요구되는 것으로 측정자료의 가공기술을 들 수 있다. 즉, 측정자료의 품질평가 및 관리 기술, 미측정 또는 불량자료의 복원 기술 및 측정 지역외 자료의 추정을 위한 보간기술 등이다. 이와 같은 기초자료 및 기술에 관한 연구개발은 보다 구체적인 적용에 앞서 필수적으로 이루어져야 할 과제이다.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.99-106
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• 2011

Since the solar energy resource is the main input for sizing any solar photovoltaic system, it is essential to utilize the solar radiation data as an application and development of solar energy system increase. It will be necessary to understand and evaluate the insolation data. The Korea Institute of Energy Research(KIER) has begun collecting horizontal global insolation data since May, 1982 at 16 different locations in Korea and for the more detailed analysis, images taken by geostationary satellite may be used to estimate solar irradiance fluxes at earth"s surface. It is based on the empirical correlation between a satellite derived cloud index and the irradiance at the ground. From the results, the measured data has been collected at 16 different stations and estimated using satellite at 23 different stations over the South Korea from 1982 to 2009. The Result of analysis shows that the annual-average daily global radiation on the horizontal surface is 3.56 kWh/ $m^2$/day and estimated solar radiation fluxes show reliable results for estimating the global radiation with average deviation of -7.27 to +3.65% from the measured values.