• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.29-38
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• 2007

Recently, the tropospheric ozone has gained a global attention for its adverse effect on vegetation as well as its contribution to the global warming. Although a number of studies have been carried out for the urban ozone, the effect of ozone on vegetation is still largely unknown in Korea. The present work aimed at performing the first evaluation of forest damage by ozone using the national air monitoring data from the year 2000 to the year 2005. Moreover, it also explored the relevance of adverse effect of ozone to the recent events on leaf chlorosis of black locust, Robinia pseudo-acacia, leading to early foliage widely observed in Korea since 2001. In the nineties, forest damages caused by ozone such as leaf chlorosis occurred in Europe and North America and led to invoke comprehensive field and laboratory studies. As a result, AOT40, implying the accumulated dose over a threshold 40 ppb, was developed to assess the forest damage by ozone. 19 air monitoring stations were selected across Korea to calculate AOT40 from the year 2000 to the year 2005. The calculated AOT40 generally increased during April and May and reached the maximum after May. The increase of AOT40 diminished substantially from the mid-June as the rainy season started. The calculated AOT40 in the nine rural sites from the year 2002 to th ε year 2005 ranged from 6.8 to 29.4 ppm-hr. And all the AOT40 at th ε year 2005 exceeded the critical value of 10 ppm-hr for forest damage. Morevoer the calculated AOT40 of Korea appeared higher than the AOT40 of Europe in the year 2004/2005 and comparable to the AOT40 of China in the year 2000. Despite the high levels of the calculated AOT40 since the year 2001 and the consistency of time of seasons between high AOT40 values and occurrence of chlorosis of black locust, further studies are required to conclude that the chlorosis of black locust occurred from the year 2001 to the year 2005 were resulted from a damage by ozone.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.369-379
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• 2008

인공위성 관측자료를 이용한 대기 에어러솔 원격탐사 기법은 단시간에 넓은 공간적 영역을 분석할 수 있게 하며, 대상 지역에 존재하는 에어러솔의 분포 정보 및 광학적, 물리학적 특성을 제공 해준다. MODIS 위성자료는 현재까지 가장 진보된 에어러솔 분석자료를 생산하고 있으며, 가장 최근에 개선된 에어러솔 알고리즘(Collection 5 또는 C005)은 기존의 알고리즘(Collection 4 또는 C004)에 비해 많은 부분이 개선되었다. 본 연구는 동북아 지역에서 두 가지 MODIS 에어러솔 알고리즘에 의해 생산된 에어러솔 관측자료를 비교하였고, 각각의 정확도를 검증하기 위하여 AERONET sunphotometer 관측자료와 비교분석 하였다. 2005년 한해 동안의 MODIS 에어러솔 광학두께를 이용하여 에어러솔 광학 두께 (AOT)의 차이를 분석한 결과 에어러솔의 시공간적인 분포특징은 비슷하였으나, $AOT_{C005}$가 $AOT_{C004}$에 비하여 약 0.035(5%) 정도의 낮은 값을 보였다. MODIS AOT와 AERONET AOT와의 비교결과 C004가 상관계수 R=0.89 (기울기=0.86)를, C005는 R=0.95 (기울기=1.00)을 보였다. 더욱이 정확도 분석에서는 C005가 C004에 비해 약 40% 정도 개선이 된 것으로 나타났다.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.193-203
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• 2018

The operational aerosol retrieval algorithm for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) measurements was recently updated and named collection 6 (C6). The C6 MODIS aerosol algorithm, a substantially improved version of the collection 5 (C5) algorithm, uses an enhanced aerosol optical thickness(AOT) retrieval process consisting of new surface reflection and aerosol models. This study reports on the estimation and validation of the two latest versions, the C5 and C6 MODIS aerosol products over the East Asian region covering $20^{\circ}N$ to $56^{\circ}N$ and $80^{\circ}E$ to $150^{\circ}E$. This study also presents a comparative validation of the two versions(C5 and C6) of algorithms with different methods(Dark Target(DT) and Deep Blue (DB) retrieval methods) from the Terra and Aqua platforms to make use of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sites for the years 2000-2016. Over the study region, the spatially averaged annual mean AOT retrieved from C6 AOT is about 0.035 (5%) less than the C5 counterparts. The linear correlations between MODIS and AERONET AOT are R = 0.89 (slope = 0.86) for C5 and R = 0.95 (slope = 1.00) for C6. Moreover, the magnitude of the mean error in C6 AOT-the difference between MODIS AOT and AERONET AOT-is 40% less than that in C5 AOT.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.41-53
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• 2015

This study was performed to assess the level of ozone risk for wheat in the central region of the Korean Peninsula by using two ozone indices, the ozone-concentration based index (AOT40) and the ozone-flux based index ($AF_{st}Y$), and to analyze the relationship between the two indices. In the present study for $AF_{st}Y$ calculation, the Monin-Obukhov length was estimated using the Pasquill stability class which was determined from routine meteorological data such as wind speed, solar radiation and cloudiness. The AOT40 and $AF_{st}6$ indices were calculated for wheat at 3 sites in the central region of the Korean Peninsula during a period of 3 months from April 1 to June 30, 2006. It should be noted that the estimation of ozone index $AF_{st}6$ in this study was performed under several assumptions. The results for both indices, AOT40 and $AF_{st}6$, showed that agricultural crops could be seriously damaged by ozone in the local region of the Korean Peninsula.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.429-439
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• 1999

In order to assess the chronic impact of tropospheric ozone on vegetation in the Seoul metropolitan area, it is necessary to quantify ozone exposure. Two ozone indices commonly used to relate ozone exposure to injury of vegetation were calculated. SUM06(SUM of hourly concentrations at or above 0.06 ppm) and AOT40(Accumulated exposure Over a Threshold of 40 ppb) which are widely used as ozone indices in the US and Europe were calculated based on hourly ozone concentrations in 5 areas of Seoul and 5 cities of Kyunggido during 1990~1997. Most SUM06 levels were 1~5ppm.hr, however several areas in Northern and Eastern Seoul reached about 5~7 ppm.hr in 1996~1997. AOT40 values were as high as 17~24 ppm.hr. Although measured SUM06 levels would not be expected to significantly impact vegetation, the overall ozone index, as well as annual average, 95th, and 99th percentile have increased continuously over the last 8 years. Often, ozone concentrations are lower in cities where there is a significant NOx concentration, than in outlying rural agricultural areas where NOx scrubbing is not as important. Concentrations greater than 40 ppb, which can cause chronic ozone toxicity to vegetation, were found mostly in the summer and constitutued about 5~15% of total hourly ozone cocentrations.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.38-48
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• 2004

1998년부터 2002년까지 최근 5년 간 우리나라 대기 오염 자동 측정망의 총 612개 지점의 시간당 오존 농도를 SUM06, AOT40등의 식생피해 지표로 전환하여 오염 정도를 분석하고, 1990-97년의 수도권 오존 오염과 비교하였다. 1. 10%의 농작물 수량감수가 예측되는 SUM06(yr) 234 ppmㆍhr를 기준으로 볼 때, 가장 높은 전남 광양의 연간 SUM06가 11 ppmㆍhr 이므로 수량감수는 5%, 이내로 추론된다. 미국의 SUM06가 5∼12 ppmㆍhr인데 최근 5년간 612개 지점 중 상위 30개 지점에서 이 수준에 도달하였다. 2. 1997년까지 심각했던 서울의 구의, 쌍문 지점의 SUM06는 2/3 수준으로 완화되었으나 도봉, 노원, 강북 지점은 오존 오염이 최근 5년 사이 증가되었다. 반면 경기 지역은 서울 동부 외곽인 구리, 하남 그리고 남부인 안양, 군포, 수원의 오염이 97년에 비해 2배 이상 악화되었다. 서울 및 경기는 시간당 100ppb를 넘는 횟수가 지방에 비해 많은 반면, 40-60ppb의 중간급의 분포는 낮아 식생지표로 환산하면, 서울지점들의 평균치는 전국 16개시도중 중, 상위 수준이었다. 3. 수도권에 서울, 경기뿐만 아니라, 충남 서산과 강원 원주를 포함시켰는데 이들 지역은 서울 및 경기도 평균을 상회하였고, 충남 천안, 강원 춘천 등 인접지점과는 전혀 다른 양상이었다. 수도권 외에 중부권(강원, 충청), 호남권(전라, 제주), 영남권(경상, 부산) 등 전국을 4권역으로 나누어 비교한 결과, 1998-2000년까지는 수도권의 오염이 다른 지방보다 월등히 심각 하였으나, 최근 2년 (2001-02년)사이에 수도권과 지방의 격차가 거의 없었다. 4. 공단지역은 인천, 경기 안산 시화, 울산 광역시 등에서는 오염도가 낮은 반면, 전남 광양, 경북 구미공단 지역의 오존 오염은 높게 나타났다. 특히 광양과 구미 공단의 오존 오염은 수도권 이외 지방의 300개 지점 중 1-5위안에 드는 대표적인 고농도 관심 대상 지역이다. 5. 식생보호 지표인 SUM06와 AOT40을 1년 자료와 여름철 3개월(6, 7, 8월)자료로 나누어 분석하고 또한 연간 100ppb가 넘는 시간수, 95 퍼센타일, 99 퍼센타일, 연간 최고농도 등 여러 오존 지표를 상호 비교한 결과, 식물의 오존 피해를 직접적으로 표현할 수 있는 3개월 간의 식생보호 지표들과 법적 기준치인 100ppb를 넘는 연간 시간수를 상호 보완하여 오존에 의한 식생 피해를 추정하는 것이 바람직하다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제97권5호
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• pp.552-554
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• 2008

Acer palmatum was selected and its responses to elevated ozone were subsequently measured during growing periods. Ozone concentration of this study was compared to the calculated AOT40 value. A. palmatum had significantly many but small stomata size to the ozone stress. The length of stomata of A. palmatum was reduced from 5.6 to $5.0{\mu}m$ to the ozone exposure. However, the number of stomata (density) was increased from 102 to 131 in the $500{\times}500{\mu}m$ leaf area.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2018

Ground-level ozone ($O_3$) can be a menace for vegetation, especially in Asia where $O_3$ levels have been dramatically increased over the past decades. To ensure food security and maintain forest ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration and functional diversity of soil biota, in the over-populated Asia, environmental standards are needed. To set proper standards, dose-response relationships should be established from which critical levels are derived. The predictor of the response in the dose-response relationship is an $O_3$ metric that indicates the dose level to which the plant has been exposed. This study aimed to review the relevant scientific literature and summarize the $O_3$ metrics used worldwide to provide insights for Asia. A variety of $O_3$ metrics have been used, for which we discuss their strengths and weaknesses. The most widely used metrics are based only on $O_3$ levels. Such metrics have been adopted by several regulatory agencies in the global. However, they are biologically irrelevant because they ignore the plant physiological capacity. Adopting AOT40 ($O_3$ mixing ratios Accumulated Over the Threshold of $40nmol\;mol^{-1}$) as the default index for setting critical levels in Asia would be a poor policy with severe consequences at national and Pan-Asian level. Asian studies should focus on flux-based $O_3$ metrics to provide relevant bases for developing proper standards. However, given the technical requirements in calculating flux-based $O_3$ metrics, which can be an important limitation in developing countries, no-threshold cumulative exposure indices like AOT0 should always accompany flux-based indices.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.310-320
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• 2008

Concentration of tropospheric ozone ($O_3$) was investigated for the South Korea. And then the critical ozone levels, expressed as AOT40 (Accumulated exposure over a threshold of 40 ppb) to vegetation have been used in this region within the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) Convention on Long-Range Trans-boundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Hourly ozone concentration data from 1996 to 2001 at 26 air monitoring stations was used to estimate the exceedance of the critical levels. It was calculated for daylight hours for each station, and mapped using surface interpolation over the South Korea. The critical levels of ozone have shown the highly exceeded value in the Gyeonggi region, southern coastal region and central inland of the South Korea. It was some different from the typical ozone distribution which represented highly in the western inland and coastal regions. The area exceeding the critical level for crops was founded to be more than 40% of the whole South Korean territory. While that for trees was to be about 17% of the South Korea. The critical ozone critical level was based upon data from experiments on specific species, and thus may not be fully representative for all types of vegetation. Nevertheless, the critical level and its exceedance of the ozone concentration would be one of the useful tools for international agreements on abatement strategies to prevent ecosystem damage.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.466-470
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• 1998

The basic and optimum conditions for the extraction of peroxidase from Chinese cabbage root applying the reverse micelle system were investigated. In order to purify Peroxidase (POX) from crude extract of Chinese cabbage roots, isooctane containing 110 mM Aerosol OT (AOT) was well mixed with the same volume of crude extracts containing 50 mM NaCl and 30 mM Tris-HCI buffer of pH 8.0. After centrifugation, AOT reverse micelle containing the isooctane phase were mixed with 80 mM Tris-HCI buffer at pH 7.0 containing 1 M KCl. From these operations, POX was purified 20-fold with a 60% yield. For further purification, DEAE-Toyopearl column chromatography was applied, and it showed a single protein band on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The resulting POX showed 93-fold purification with a 40% yield.