• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.77-88
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• 1998

This study discusses the engineering characteristics and distribution of marine clay in Pohang by providing evidence that Pohang area has been upheaving in connection with the changes of sea level and geographical development in the Babt Coast. It is estimated that the sea level of the East Coast about 10,000 years ago had been 25 meters below than that of the present. The corroborative fact is that the marine clay deposited below the sea level due to the changes of the crust in Pohang is usually found above the sea level. Judging from their OCR values of leas than 0.77 and Bu/po'ratio of less than 0.14 at the depth of 7.8 meters below the ground level, marine clays of Dohu 1-dong and Jangsung-dong in Pohang City are presumed to be in a state of underconsolidation. However, more sophisticated measures and analysis are needed to prove it.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.260-260
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• 2019

해안과 만나는 하천의 하구부에서는 해수의 흐름에 따른 연안토사의 이동과 유황에 따른 하천상류에서의 토사유입량에 의해 하구부가 빠르게 변화한다. 본 연구대상지인 가곡천은 유로연장이 짧고 경사가 급한 산지하천의 특징을 가지고 있어 집중호우시 토사가 하류로 빠르게 유입되어 일반하천에 비하여 하구부의 지형변화가 크게 일어난다. 가곡천 하구부는 모래사장으로 이루어져 있는 호산해수욕장과 경관적 및 자연적 가치로 인해 보존 필요성이 대두되고 있는 하중도인 솔섬이 위치해 있다. 그러나 현재 솔섬 주변 하구부 인근의 일반산업단지 건설과 고향의 강 조성사업에 따른 하도환경의 변화로 하도를 유하하는 유수의 흐름 및 침퇴적 양상의 변화를 가져와 홍수의 원활한 소통에 지장을 초래하고 있다. 또한 현장조사 및 모니터링 결과 하구 지형변화로 인해 하도안정 유지관리에도 막대한 영향을 끼치는 것으로 확인되었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 가곡천 하구부의 하도환경 변화에 따른 수리학적 특성 및 하천형태학적인 변화를 분석하여 하도안정을 파괴하는 요인을 규명하기 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 연구방법은 가곡천 하천정비기본계획의 빈도별 홍수량, 기점홍수위를 경계조건으로 2차원 수리해석 모형인 SRH-2D모형을 이용하여 하도환경 변화 전 후의 대상구간에 대해 수리특성 및 하상변동 양상을 모의하였다. 모의결과 하도환경 변화(홍수터 및 징검여울 등의 하천시설물 조성)에 따른 수리특성변동양상과 침 퇴적지점에 대한 변동경향을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 동해안 하구부에 위피한 하천의 다양한 변화 해석시 참고자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.13-26
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• 2016

Sea water level variations are generally influenced by a variety of factors such as tides, meteorological forces, water temperature, salinity, wave, and topography, etc. Among non-tidal conditions, atmospheric pressure is one of the major factors causing water level changes. In the East Sea, due to small tidal range which is opposite to large tidal range of the Yellow Sea, it is difficult to predict water level changes using a numerical model, which consider tidal forcing only. This study focuses on the effects of atmospheric pressure variations on sea level predictions along the eastern coast of Korea. Telemac-2D model is simulated with the Inverted Barometer Effect(IBE), and then its results are analyzed. In comparison between observed data and predictions, the correlation of prediction with IBE and tide is better than that of tide-only case. Therefore, IBE is strongly suggested to be considered for the numerical simulations of sea level changes in the East Sea.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.604-613
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• 2016

The sea level of the Earth is rising approximately 2.0mm per year (global average value) due to thermal expansion of sea water, melting of glaciers and other causes by global warming. However, when it comes to design a river, the standard of design water level is decided by analyzing four largeness tide value and harmonic constant with observed tidal water level. Therefore, it seems the external water level needs to consider an increasing speed of the seawater level which corresponds to a design frequency. In the present study, the hourly observed tidal water level targeting 47 tidal stations operated by Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration (KHOA) from beginning of observation to 2015 per hour has been collected. The variation of monthly and yearly and increasing ratio have been performed divided 4 seas such as the Southern, East, Western, and Jeju Sea. Also, the external water level existing design for rivers nearby a coast was been reviewed. The current study could be used to figure out the cause of local seawater rise and reflect the external water level as basic data.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.199-209
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• 2015

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), driven by high density water sinking around Greenland serves as a global climate regulator, because it transports heat and materials in the climate system. We analyzed the mechanism of AMOC on a decadal time scale simulated with the HadGEM2-AO model. The lead-lag regression analysis with AMOC index shows that the decadal variability of the thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic Ocean can be considered as a self-sustained variability. This means that the long-term change of AMOC is related to the instability which is originated from the phase difference between the meridional temperature gradient and the ocean circulation. When the overturning circulation becomes stronger, the heat moves northward and decreases the horizontal temperature-dominated density gradients. Subsequently, this leads to weakening of the circulation, which in turn generates the anomalous cooling at high latitudes and, thereby strengthening the AMOC. In this mechanism, the density anomalies at high latitudes are controlled by the thermal advection from low latitudes, meaning that the variation of the AMOC is thermally driven and not salinity driven.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.61-62
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• 2018

시화호는 1994년에 완공된 인공호수로, 완공 이후 심각한 오염에 직면하여 방조제 건설 후 4년째인 1998년부터 바닷물을 일부 유통하기 시작하여 2001년 10월부터 해수의 상시 유통이 확정되었다. 또한, 시화호 조력발전소는 2011년 11월에 착공되어 본격적인 전력생산에 들어 갔으며, 2018년 1월 현재 전력공급량은 29억kWh를 달성하였다. 시화호는 환경적 오염으로 인하여 많은 문제가 야기된 곳이기 때문에 환경적 또는 재해적인 검토를 통한 기초자료의 분석 및 공개는 필수적이라 판단된다. 이러한 목적 하에 수행된 시화호 수리수문 해석결과, 시화호 수리특성은 시화호 조력발전소 운영조건과 시화화 유입하천에 의해 결정되는데, 시화호 조력발전소 관리수위 조건 하에서 고조위는 -1.5m~-0.94m의 분포를, 제한수위 조건하에서 -0.76~0.48m의 분포를 보인다. 또한, 장기하상변동 결과는 수로 부근은 침식이, 그 외의 구간은 퇴적이 우세하게 나타났다. 이러한 결과로, 시화호는 내측으로 갈수록 재해적 환경적으로 불리한 지역임이 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.611-616
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• 2015

El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) presents a broad band (2-8 year) variability and slowly changing amplitude and period, which are respectively referred to as ENSO irregularity and ENSO modulation. In this study, we developed a nonlinear low-order climate model by combining the Lorenz-63 model of nonlinear atmospheric variability and a simple ENSO model with recharge oscillator characteristics. The model successfully reproduced the ENSO-like variations in the sea surface temperature of eastern Pacific, such as the peak period, wide periodicity, and decadal modulations. The results show that the chaotic atmospheric forcing can lead to ENSO irregularity and ENSO modulation. It is also suggested the high probability of La Nina development could be associated with strong convection of the western warm pool. Although it is simple, this model is expected to be used in research on long-term climate change because it well captures the nonlinear air-sea interactions in the equatorial Pacific.

• 한국해양학회지
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.512-521
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• 1995

To investigate a short-term (from 2 hours to 24 hours) variability of a mixed layer, oceanographical data (water temperature, salinity, current) and meteorological data (wind, air temperature, solar radiation) were collected at a site in the Korea Strait at the interval of one hour for 48 hours from October 12 to 14, 1993. The average rates of temporal variations of the mixed layer depth (MLD) and temperature of the mixed layer (MLT), which are very weakly correlated with the wind stress and buoyancy flux at the sea surface, are about 5.2 m/hour and 0.2$^{\circ}C$/hour, respectively. The mixed layer is relatively shallow when both MLT and MLS (salinity of the mixed layer) are low, while MLD is relatively deep when they are high. MLT shows a sudden decrease or increase. Analysis of satellite infrared images and XBT data shows that sudden increase of MLT is caused by advection of warm water. These results suggest that the short-term variation of the mixed layer in the Korea Strait in autumn, in which surface current is relatively strong and different water masses exist, is mainly determined by advection rather than air0sea interaction such as wind stress or buoyancy flux.

• The Korean Journal of Petroleum Geology
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• v.4 no.1_2 s.5
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• pp.27-39
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• 1996

In the Cretaceous, the Gulf Coast Basin evolved as a marginal sag basin. Thick clastic and carbonate sequences cover the disturbed and diapirically deformed salt layer. In the Cretaceous the salinities of the Gulf Coast Basin probably matched the Holocene Persian Gulf, as is evidenced by the widespread development of supratidal anhydrite. The major Lower Cretaceous reservoir formations are the Cotton Valley, Hosston, Travis Peak siliciclastics, and Sligo, Trinity (Pine Island, Pearsall, Glen Rose), Edwards, Georgetown/Buda carbonates. Source rocks are down-dip offshore marine shales and marls, and seals are either up-dip shales, dense limestones, or evaporites. During this period, the entire Gulf Basin was a shallow sea which to the end of Cretaceous had been rimmed to the southwest by shallow marine carbonates while fine-grained terrigengus clastics were deposited on the northern and western margins of the basin. The main Upper Cretaceous reservoir groups of the Gulf Coast, which were deposited in the period of a major sea level .rise with the resulting deep water conditions, are Woodbinefruscaloosa sands, Austin chalk and carbonates, Taylor and Navarro sandstones. Source rocks are down-dip offshore shales and seals are up-dip shales. Major trap types of the Lower and Upper Cretaceous include salt-related anticlines from low relief pillows to complex salt diapirs. Growth fault structures with rollover anticlines on downthrown fault blocks are significant Gulf Coast traps. Permeability barriers, up-dip pinch-out sand bodies, and unconformity truncations also play a key role in oil exploration from the Cretaceous Gulf Coast reservoirs. The sedimentary sequences of the major Cretaceous reseuoir rocks are a good match to the regressional phases on the global sea level cuwe, suggesting that the Cretaceous Gulf Coast sedimentary stratigraphy relatively well reflects a response to eustatic sea level change throughout its history. Thus, of the three main factors controlling sedimentation (tectonic subsidence, sediment input, and eustatic sea level change) in the Gulf Coast Basin, sea-level ranks first in the period.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.197-203
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• 2008

A shallow high-resolution seismic reflection survey was carried out at the Mineopo tidal flat on the western coast of Korea. The purpose of the survey was to investigate shallow sedimentary structure of the tidal flat associated with the recent sea level change. A total of 795 shots were generated at 1 m interval from a 5-kg hammer source and recorded on 48 channels of 100 Hz geophones along two mutually perpendicular profiles. The water-saturated ground condition resulted in suppressed ground rolls by significantly decreasing rigidity. In addition, seismic velocities over 1500 m/s provided easy segregation of reflected arrivals from lower velocity noise. As a consequence, seismic sections from the study area show significantly higher resolution and signal to noise ratio than conventional land seismic sections. The tidal flat consists of 5 sedimentary sequences above acoustic basement. The seismic sections reveal the continuous structure of the tidal flat formed in association with sea level rise during the Holocene.