• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2015

Forests are to be recognized as an important carbon sink under the UNFCCC that consist of above- and below-biomass, dead organic matter (DOM) such as dead wood and litter, and soil organic matter (SOM). In order to asses for DOM and SOM, however, it is relevant to land-use change matrices over last 20 years for each land-use category. In this study, a land-use change matrix was produced and its uncertainty was assessed using a point sampling technique with permanent sample plots in national forest inventory at Chungbuk province. With point sampling estimated areas at 2012 year for each land-use category were significantly similar to the true areas by given six land-use categories. Relative standard error in terms of uncertainty of land-use change among land-use categories ranged in 4.3~44.4%, excluding the other land. Forest and cropland covered relatively large areas showed lower uncertainty compared to the other land-use categories. This result showed that selected permanent samples in the NFI are able to support for producing land-use change matrix at a national or province level. If the $6^{th}$ NFI data are fully collected, the uncertainty of estimated area should be improved.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1114-1119
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• 2004

The biofilms on pipe walls in water distribution systems are of interest since they can lead to chlorine demand, coliform growth, pipe corrosion, and water taste and odor problems. As such, the study described in this paper is part of an AWWARF and Tampa Bay Water tailored collaboration project to determine the effect of blending different source waters on the water quality in various distribution systems. The project was based on 18 independent pilot distribution systems (PDS), each being fed by a different water blend (7 finished waters blended in different proportions). The source waters compared were groundwater, surface water, and brackish water, which were treated in a variety of pilot distribution systems, including reverse osmosis (RO) (desalination), both membrane and chemical softening, and ozonation-biological activated carbon (BAC), resulting in a total of 7 different finished waters. The observations from this study consistently demonstrated that unlined ductile iron was more heavily colonized by a biomass than galvanized steel, lined ductile iron, and PVC (in that order) and that the fixed biomass accumulation was more influenced by the nature of the supporting material than by the water quality (including the secondary residual levels). However, although the bulk liquid water cultivable bacterial counts (i.e. heterotrophic plate counts or HPCs) did not increase with a greater biofilm accumulation, the results also suggested that high HPCs corresponded to a low disinfectant residual more than a high biofilm inventory. Furthermore, temperature was found to affect the biofilms, plus the AOC was important when the residual was between 0.6 and 2.0 mg $Cl_2/l$. An additional aspect of the current study was that the potential of the exoproteolytic activity (PEPA) technique was used along with a traditional so-called destructive technique in which the biofilm was scrapped off the coupon surface, resuspended, and cultivated on an R2A agar. Both techniques indicated similar trends and relative comparisons among the PDSs, yet the culturable biofilm values for the traditional method were several orders of magnitude lower than the PEPA values.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.554-558
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• 2007

산림의 현존량 축적에 대한 연구는 줄기밀도와 임목의 재적과 건중량을 전환하는 현존량 확장계수를 이용하여 추정한다. 본 연구의 목적은 전라남도 완도군 붉가시나무 임분의 줄기밀도와 영급에 따른 현존량 확장계수를 추정하기 위하여 수행되었다. 이를 위하여 각 영급별로 수간석해를 실시하여 각 부위별 현존량을 분석하였다. 분석결과 임목의 영급에 따른 줄기 밀도의 값은 $0.557{\sim}0.636$으로 나타났으며, 지상부 현존량 확장계수는 $1.168{\sim}1.324$였다. 지상부 현존량 확장계수는 수령이 증가할수록 값이 증가하였으며, 현존량 확장계수와 줄기 밀도는 임목의 영급에 따라 유의적인 차이가 있는 것으로 조사되었다. 이러한 결과들은 붉가시나무에 대한 전국 규모의 탄소고정량 산출에 있어서 영급에 따른 확장계수 추정의 기초 자료로 이용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.119-129
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• 2010

원격탐사 자료와 현장 자료를 이용한 산림 바이오매스 탄소량 추정은 전 세계적으로 각광을 받고 있으며, 국내의 경우 2010년 국립산림과학원에서 개발한 수종별 탄소배출계수를 통해 보다 정확한 탄소량 추정이 가능하게 되었다. 본 연구에서는 2006년부터 2009년까지 구축된 제5차 국가산림자원조사(National Forest Inventory, NFI) 자료를 기반으로 k-Nearest Neighbor(kNN) 알고리즘을 이용하여 충청북도 단양군의 지상부 바이오매스 탄소량을 추정하였다. 원격탐사 자료로는 계절 변화가 뚜렷한 한반도의 기후가 산림 지역의 분광 특성 및 이에 따른 탄소량 추정에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위해 2004년부터 2005년까지 계절별로 취득된 Landsat TM 위성영상을 이용하였다. 분석결과 단양군 지역의 지상부 바이오매스 총 탄소량은 최대 3542768.49tonC에서 최소 3329037.51tonC 사이로 추정되었으나, 계절에 따른 특정 경향은 발견되지 않았다.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.303-310
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• 2015

This study was conducted to estimate of carbon stock and greenhouse gas (GHGs) removals by tree species and forest type at Gangwon province. We used a point sampling data with permanent sample plots in national forest inventory and national emission factors. GHGs emissions was caclulated using the stock change method related to K-MRV and IPCC guidance. Total carbon stock and greenhouse gas removals were high in deciduous forest and species than in coniferous. The range of annual net greenhouse gas emissions in other deciduous species was from $-11,564.83Gg\;CO_2\;yr^{-1}$ to $-13,500.60Gg\;CO_2\;yr^{-1}$ during 3 years (2011~2013). On the other hand, coniferous forest was temporally converted to source due to reducing of growing stock in 2012. It was that growing stocks and forest area were likely to reduce by the deforestation and clear cutting. This study did not consider other carbon pools (soil and dead organic matter) due to the lack of data. This study needs to complement the activity data and emission factors, and then will find the way to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions and removals in the near future.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2017

This study aimed to suggest priority for developing emission factor (EF) and to develop the methodology of quantitative assessment of EF in the forestry sector. Based on the stock-difference method, 17 kinds of EFs (27 EFs based on forest types) were required to calculate the carbon emission in the forestry sector. Priority for developing EFs followed the standards, which is a development plan by the government agency, importance of carbon stock for greenhouse gas, and EFs by the species. Currently, the most urgent development of EFs was carbon fraction in biomass and carbon stock in dead wood. Meanwhile, the quantitative assessment of EF consisted of 7 categories (5 categories of compulsory and 2 categories of quality evaluation) and 12 verification factors. Category in compulsory verification consisted of administrative document, determination methodology of emission factors, emission characteristic, accuracy of measurement and analysis, and data representative. Category in quality evaluation consisted of data management and uncertainty estimates. Based on the importance of factors in the verification process, each factor was scored separately, however, the score needs to be coordinated by the government agency. These results would help build a reliable and accurate greenhouse gas inventory report of Korea.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.393-399
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• 2017

According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all parties have to submit the national GHG inventory report. Estimating carbon stocks and changes in Land Use, Land-Use Changes and Forestry (LULUCF) needs an activity data and emission factors. So this study was conducted to develop carbon emission factor for Robinia pseudoacacia L., Betula platyphylla var. japonica, and Liriodendron tulipifera. As a result, the basic wood density ($g/cm_3$) was 0.64 for R. pseudoacacia, 0.55 for B. platyphylla, and 0.46 for L. tulipifera. Biomass expansion factor was 1.47 for R. pseudoacacia, 1.30 for B. platyphylla, and 1.24 for L. tulipifera. Root to shoot ratio was 0.48 for R. pseudoacacia, 0.29 for B. platyphylla, and 0.23 for L. tulipifera. Uncertainty of estimated emission factors on three species ranged from 3.39% to 27.43% within recommended value (30%) by IPCC. We calculated carbon stock and change using these emission factors. Three species stored carbon in forest and net $CO_2$ removal was $1,255,398\;t\;CO_2/yr$ during 5 years. So we concluded that our result could be used as emission factors for national GHG inventory report on forest sector.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.79-90
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• 2017

Improving the urban environmental quality relies mainly on the increasing of urban forests capacity to store carbon dioxide. This study assesses the floristic diversity of urban institutional lands in Bukavu and their potential to reduce atmospheric $CO_2$. An exhaustive inventory over three sites ($Coll{\grave{e}}ge$ Alfajiri, $Cath{\acute{e}}drale$ Notre-Dame de la Paix and Institut $Sup{\acute{e}}rieur$ $P{\acute{e}}dagogique$) of Bukavu led to the identification of 1,113 trees of which the diameter at breast height (1.30 m) ranged from 4.9 to 161 cm. Results reveal a floristic diversity made up of 4 families of conifers with 4 species and 14 of broadleaves with 21 species. Average densities were of $54trees\;ha^{-1}$ and $5.21m^2\;ha^{-1}$ of basal area. Urban-based allometric equations used yielded up to 312.8 tons of carbon stored in trees aboveground biomass equivalent to 1,147.9 tons of $CO_2$ reduced from the atmosphere over the three sites. The rate of carbon storage reaches $15.1tons\;ha^{-1}$. Thus, trees of the three institutional sites in Bukavu play an important role in reducing atmospheric $CO_2$ and contribute, thereby, to mitigate global climate change effects. Given the current environmental challenge associated with high population growth rate in cities, the urban forest ecosystem in DRC requires to be extended and further investigation.

• 대기
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.61-72
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• 2023

Accurate estimation of forest carbon stocks is important in establishing greenhouse gas reduction plans. In this study, we estimate the spatial distribution of forest carbon stocks using machine learning techniques based on high-resolution remote sensing data and detailed field survey data. The high-resolution remote sensing data used in this study are Landsat indices (EVI, NDVI, NDII) for monitoring vegetation vitality and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data for describing topography. We also used the forest growing stock data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI) for estimating forest biomass. Based on these data, we built a model based on machine learning methods and optimized for Korean forest types to calculate the forest carbon stocks per grid unit. With the newly developed estimation model, we created forest carbon stocks maps and estimated the forest carbon stocks in South Korea. As a result, forest carbon stock in South Korea was estimated to be 432,214,520 tC in 2020. Furthermore, we estimated the loss of forest carbon stocks due to the Donghae-Uljin forest fire in 2022 using the forest carbon stock map in this study. The surrounding forest destroyed around the fire area was estimated to be about 24,835 ha and the loss of forest carbon stocks was estimated to be 1,396,457 tC. Our model serves as a tool to estimate spatially distributed local forest carbon stocks and facilitates accounting of real-time changes in the carbon balance as well as managing the LULUCF part of greenhouse gas inventories.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.115-126
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• 2013

최근 국내 배출원 특성을 고려하여 생물성 연소에 대한 배출목록(emission inventory)을 추가하려는 연구가 이루어지고 있으나, 국내 현황을 반영한 실증 연구는 현재까지 거의 이루어진 바가 없는 실정이다. 따라서 앞으로 배출목록에 대한 기후 대기 통합관리시스템이 진행될 경우, 효과적인 배출원 관리를 위해 생물성 연소의 온실가스 배출 특성에 대한 연구가 필요한 시점이다. 본 연구에서는 숯가마에서 발생하는 온실가스 배출 특성을 파악하기 위하여 숯가마 모형장치를 이용하여 현장실험을 실시했다. 또한, 참나무의 점화, 탄화, 출탄하는 시기와 내부 온도 변화를 고려하여 굴뚝에서 배출되는 온실가스($CO_2$, $CH_4$, $N_2O$)를 직접 포집하여 분석하였다. 온실가스 배출계수 산정 결과, $CO_2$ 배출계수는 668 g/kg, $CH_4$ 배출계수는 20 g/kg이며, $N_2O$ 배출계수는 0.01 g/kg으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 개발한 온실가스 배출계수를 사용하여 국가 배출량을 산정한 결과, $CO_2$ 배출량은 46,040 ton/yr, $CH_4$ 배출량은 1,378 ton/yr, $N_2O$ 배출량은 0.69 ton/yr으로 나타났다. GWP를 이용하여 총 배출량을 산정한 결과, 연간 $75,201ton\;CO_2eq.$으로 나타났으며, 참나무는 바이오 매스에 포함되기 때문에 연소하는 과정에서 발생하는 $CO_2$는 총 배출량에서 제외되므로 숯가마에서 발생하는 국내 순배출량은 연간 $29,161ton\;CO_2eq.$으로 추정되었다.