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Indoor Smog Chamber Study: Effect of Light Intensity on the Formation of Atmospheric Aerosols (실내 스모그 챔버 연구 II: 광도가 대기 에어로졸의 생성에 미치는 영향)

  • 김민철;박주연;배귀남;김용표;문길주
    • Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.169-170
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    • 2002
  • 스모그는 대기오염으로 인해 나타나는 대표적인 오염 현상이다. 스모그는 시정을 감소시키고, 눈ㆍ코ㆍ호흡기 등을 자극하여 인체의 건강에 나쁜 영향을 미친다. 스모그 현상은 주로 바람이 약하고 지표부근의 기온이 역전하는 특정한 기상상태에서 대기 중 가스와 입자간의 반응에 의해 여러 경로론 거쳐 생성된 에어로졸이 증가하여 나타난다. 최근 자동차 수의 급속한 증가와 휘발성 유기화합물질 (volatile organic compounds, VOCs)의 사용으로 인하여 서울 지역에서 스모그가 발생하는 빈도가 많아지고 있다. (중략)

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Indoor Smog Chamber Study I: Effect of Relative Humidity on the Growth of Atmospheric Aerosols (실내 스모그 챔버 연구 I: 상대습도가 대기 에어로졸의 성장에 미치는 영향)

  • 김민철;배귀남;박주연;임득용;진현철;문길주
    • Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.167-168
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    • 2002
  • 서울 지역의 스모그 현상은 1차 오염물질에 의해 생기는 런던형 스모그 및 광화학 반응에 의한 LA형 스모그와는 다른 양상을 나타내고 있는데, 그 특성이 명확히 밝혀지지 않고 있다. 서울 지역의 스모그 특성을 체계적으로 밝혀내기 위해서는 스모그 현상에 대한 현장조사 연구뿐만 아니라 챔버 실험을 통한 스모그 생성과정에 대한 체계적인 연구도 필요하다. 시정장애(visibility reduction) 현상을 거치는 대기의 기상 특성을 보면 대부분 상대습도가 높은 조건이 낮에도 지속되는 경우가 대부분이다. (중략)

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Prediction of Temporal Variation of Son Concentrations in Rainwater (산성비 모델을 이용한 시간별 강우성분 예측)

  • 김순태;홍민선;문수호;최종인
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.191-204
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    • 2003
  • A one dimensional time dependent acid rain model considering size distribution of aerosols and hydrometeors is developed to predict observed chemical and physical properties of precipitation. Temporal variations of anions and cations observed are predicted fairly well with acid rain model simulations. It is found that aerosol depletion rates are highly dependent on aerosol sizes under the assumption of Marshall - Palmer raindrop size distribution. Also, the aerosol depletion during the initial rain event largely influences on ion concentrations in rainwaters.

Chemical Composition and Sources of Atmospheric Particulates Collected on the West Coast of Korea (서해안 대가 분진의 화학 조성 및 기원에 대한 연구 (1))

  • 최만식;조성록;이동수
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.72-83
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    • 1989
  • Twenty-five atmospheric particulates were collected using a high volume aerosol sampler from Septermber to December, 1988 on a site located on the West coast of Korea and analysed for twelve elements (Na, Mg, Al, Mn, Fe, Cu, Co, Ni, Zn, Ag, Cd, and Pb) by AAS. The particles being mainly crustal minerals, large quantity of spherical fly ashes were also observed. In order to identify the origin of trace metals in atmospheric particulates, enrichment factor, interelemental correlation and factor analysis were performed. Based upon these analysis, the twelve elements can be classified into three groups; the elements dominantly present in soil particles (Al, Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni), those in sea salt aerosols (Na and Mg), and those in air pollution-derived particles (Cu, Cd, Pb, Ag and Zn).

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Improvement of Field Calibration of a Transmissometer for Visibility Measurement

  • Kim Kyung W.;Kim Young J.
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.21 no.E2
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2005
  • A long-path transmissometer is one of the optical instruments widely used to measure atmospheric light extinction coefficient without enclosing a light beam and perturbing aerosols. Over the past two decades, a number of measurements have been carried out using the long-path transmissometer manufactured by OPTEC, Inc. Calibration of the transmissometer should be performed when any component of the transmissometer system is interchanged or installation condition is changed. For a better calibration of the transmissometer, application of a modified calibration method for the existing neutral density (ND)-filter method was recommended for the computation of the atmospheric transmittance using model MODTRAN 4 in this study. It was revealed that the measured light extinction coefficient from the transmissometer which was calibrated using the existing ND-filter method could be overestimated due to the assumption of the atmospheric transmittance suggested by OPTEC, Inc. The uncertainty of the measured light extinction coefficient from the transmissometer calibrated based on the modified ND-filter method was calculated to be approximately $13Mm^{-1}$.

Atmospheric Background Values at Dokdo Island, Korea (독도에서의 대기 background 농도)

  • LEE Dong-In
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.80-86
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    • 1995
  • To investigate the background concentration of air pollutants (SO_2,\;CO,\;NO_2,\;O_3,\;TSP)$ and the composition of atmospheric aerosols, air samplings using teflon bags and a high volume air sampler were accomplished from 7 to 8 lune 1991 (first time) and from 25 to 26 June 1992 (second time) at the top of Dokdo island, Korea. During observation periods, mean concentrations of $SO_2,\;CO'\;NO_2\;and\;O_3$ gases were 2.3 ppb, 5.57 ppm, 6 ppb and 7 ppb, respectively, and mean concentration of TSP using a high volume air sampler was $153{\mu}g/m^3$. The composition of atmospheric aerosols by SEM-EMAX analyses were mostly Na, Cl and Si, and their sizes were more than $1{\mu}m$ diameter. From the results, it is found that atmospheric background values at Dokdo island is influenced by oceanic water quality evaporated from sea surface water, and this island has to be used as a stationary observation site for meteorological and air quality data.

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Sensitivity of COMS/GOCI Measured Top-of-atmosphere Reflectances to Atmospheric Aerosol Properties (COMS/GOCI 관측값의 대기 에어러솔의 특성에 대한 민감도 분석)

  • Lee, Kwon-Ho;Kim, Young-Joon
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.559-569
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    • 2008
  • The Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) on board the Communication Ocean Meteorological Satellite (COMS), the first geostationary ocean color sensor, requires accurate atmospheric correction since its eight bands are also affected by atmospheric constituents such as gases, molecules and atmospheric aerosols. Unlike gases and molecules in the atmosphere, aerosols can interact with sunlight by complex scattering and absorption properties. For the purpose of qualified ocean remote sensing, understanding of aerosol-radiation interactions is needed. In this study, we show micro-physical and optical properties of aerosols using the Optical Property of Aerosol and Cloud (OPAC) aerosol models. Aerosol optical properties, then, were used to analysis the relationship between theoretical satellite measured radiation from radiative transfer calculations and aerosol optical thickness (AOT) under various environments (aerosol type and loadings). It is found that the choice of aerosol type makes little different in AOT retrieval for AOT<0.2. Otherwise AOT differences between true and retrieved increase as AOT increases. Furthermore, the differences between the AOT and angstrom exponent from standard algorithms and this study, and the comparison with ground based sunphotometer observations are investigated. Over the northeast Asian region, these comparisons suggest that spatially averaged mean AOT retrieved from this study is much better than from standard ocean color algorithm. Finally, these results will be useful for aerosol retrieval or atmospheric correction of COMS/GOCI data processing.