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종합적인 지구환경 감시를 위한 지구관측시스템 (EOS) 사업

  • 박선기
    • 대기
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    • 제12권4호
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    • pp.56-68
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    • 2002
  • 이 연구에서는 지구관측시스템 (EOS) 사업에 대해 위성과 탑재된 관측기구 및 과학적인 논점에 대해 고찰하였다. EOS 위성들은 대기권, 해양권, 육지권, 생물권으로 이루어진 지구환경 시스템의 변수들을 모니터링하는데 목적을 두고 있다. 첫 번째 EOS 기함인 Terra 위성은 1999년 12월에 발사되었다. Terra에 탑재된 5개의 관측 장비로 구름 및 에오로졸 특성, 복사, 지표면, 해색 등을 측정할 수 있다. 두 번째 EOS 기함인 Aqua는 2002년 5월에 발사되었는데, 구름, 복사, 강수, 지표면, 해색, 해수면 온도 등을 관측할 수 있는 6개의 장비를 탑재하고 있다. EOS 위성들로부터 얻을 수 있는 관측 자료들은 2008년에 발사될 통신해양기상위성의 자료를 보완하여 기상 및 환경 예측에 이용할 수 있을 것이다.

Services of Algae to the Environment

  • Rai, Lal-Chand;Har Darshan Kumar;Frieder Helmut Mohn;Carl Johannas Soeder
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.119-136
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    • 2000
  • Being autotrophic, algae occupy a trategic place in the biosphere. They produce oxygen both directly and indirectly through the chloroplasts of all green plants. The chloroplasts are believed to have originated from archaic prokaryotic algae through endosymbiosis with primitive eukaryotic cells. Phytoplankton and other algae regulate the global environment not only by releasing oxygen but also by fixing carbon dioxide. They affect water quality, help in the treatment of sewage, and produce biomass. They can be used to produce hydrogen which is a clean fuel, and biodiesel, and fix $N_2$ for use as a biofertilizer. Some other services of algae to the environment include restoration of metal damaged ecosystems, reducing the atmospheric $CO_2$ load and citigating global warming, reclamation of saline-alkaline unfertile lands, and production of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) involved in the regulation of UV radiation. ozone concentration, and global warming. Algae can be valuable in understanding and resolving certain environmental issues.

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Satellite-derived estimates of interannual variability in recent oceanic $CO_2$ uptake

  • Park Geun-Ha;Lee Kitack
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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    • pp.152-153
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    • 2004
  • The growth rate of atmospheric $CO_2$ undergoes significant interannual variability, largely due to temporal variability of partitioning of $CO_2$ between terrestrial biosphere and ocean. In the present paper, as a follow-up to the work by Lee et al. [1], we estimated the year-to-year variability in net global air-sea $CO_2$ fluxes between 1982 and 2003 from observed changes in wind speed and estimated changes in ${\Delta}pCO_2$ Changes in $pCO_{25W}$ were inferred from global records of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and seasonally varying SST dependence of $pCO_{25W}$. The modeled interannual variability of $\pm0.2\;Pg\;C\;yr^{-1}\;(1{\sigma})$ from the present work is significantly smaller than the values deduced from atmospheric observations of $^{1.3}CO_2/CO_2$ in conjunction with different atmospheric transport models, but it is closer to the recent estimates inferred from a 3-D ocean biogeochemical model and atmospheric transport models constrained with extensive observations of atmospheric $CO_2$.

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지면피복 자료들의 비교연구를 통한 아시아지역 지면피복 자료 개선 (Improvement of Land Cover over Asian region via Comparison of the Land Cover Data Sets)

  • 강전호;서명석;곽종흠
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.49-54
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    • 2007
  • 고분해능복사계(AVHRR) 자료로부터 산출한 아시아지역 지면피복 분류자료들 (United States Geological Survey: USGS, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme: IGBP, University of Maryland: UMd)의 분류특성을 분석하였으며 이를 근거로 하여 이 지역에 대한 지면피복의 분류를 시도하였다. 서로 다른 지면피복 분류 자료들의 비교를 위하여 지도 투영법을 일치시켰으며 지면피복 정의가 유사한 유형들만 비교하였다. 세 지면피복 자료에서 분류가 모두 일치하는 비율은 33.57%이고 3 자료 중 두 자료에서 분류가 일치하는 비율은 49.69%로 나타났다. 전체적으로 나대지(사막), 도시 및 혼합림과 같이 식생의 생물리적 특성이 뚜렷한 유형들에서는 분류의 일치율이 높게 나타났다. 반면에 농지, 낙엽활엽수림, 및 낙엽침엽수렴과 같이 식생의 생물리적 특성이 유사한 유형에서는 일치율이 낮게 나타났다. 분류에 사용된 기본 입력자료수, 지면피복 유형수,분류기법 및 입력 자료의 전처리 수준 등이 지면피복 분류 결과에 차이를 유발한 것으로 판단된다. 지면피복 자료들의 비교결과와 각 유형별 식생지수의 평균 계절변동 특성을 이용하여 이 지역에 대한 지면피복 분류자료를 보완하였다.

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Ex-situ Stabilization and Utility Prospects of 'Jata' Ecorace of Tropical Tasar Silkworm Antheraea mylitta Drury

  • Hansda, G.;Reddy, R. Manohar;Sinha, M. K.;Ojha, N. G.;Prakash, N. B. Vijaya
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.169-172
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    • 2008
  • Indian tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta D is reported to have forty four ecoraces by way of their adoption to different topographical and vegetational conditions. Of late, another ecorace 'JATA' - univoltine under in-situ condition has been explored which is localized in Thakurmunda area of the foot hills of Simlipal biosphere (Mayurbhanj district) of Orissa, India. The ecorace 'Jata' exhibits superior economic characters over widely commercialized ecoraces of Daba and Sukinda. The cocoon production of localized 'Jata' ecorace is depleting day by day in in-situ condition. In the present study, efforts were made to stabilize the ecorace 'Jata' under ex-situ condition at Ranchi (Jharkhand), where the 'Jata' ecorace silkworms were reared on Terminalia tomentosa for four successive generations during 2006 and 2007 and the cocoons were preserved in grainage house under prevailing climatic conditions. The results indicated change in voltinism behaviour of the 'Jata' ecorace from univoltine to bivoltine. The rearing performance and grainage efficiencies indicate the tendency of 'Jata' ecorace towards acclimatization and stabilization under Ranchi climatic conditions. The 'Jata' ecorace manifests the prospects for acclimatization, stabilization and commercial exploitation.

Development of a Computer Code for Low-and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Safety Assessment

  • Park, J.W.;Kim, C.L.;Lee, E.Y.;Lee, Y.M.;Kang, C.H.;Zhou, W.;Kozak, M.W.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제29권1호
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2004
  • A safety assessment code, called SAGE (Safety Assessment Groundwater Evaluation), has been developed to describe post-closure radionuclide releases and potential radiological doses for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste (LILW) disposal in an engineered vault facility in Korea. The conceptual model implemented in the code is focused on the release of radionuclide from a gradually degrading engineered barrier system to an underlying unsaturated zone, thence to a saturated groundwater zone. The radionuclide transport equations are solved by spatially discretizing the disposal system into a series of compartments. Mass transfer between compartments is by diffusion/dispersion and advection. In all compartments, radionuclides ate decayed either as a single-member chain or as multi-member chains. The biosphere is represented as a set of steady-state, radionuclide-specific pathway dose conversion factors that are multiplied by the appropriate release rate from the far field for each pathway. The code has the capability to treat input parameters either deterministically or probabilistically. Parameter input is achieved through a user-friendly Graphical User Interface. An application is presented, which is compared against safety assessment results from the other computer codes, to benchmark the reliability of system-level conceptual modeling of the code.

Diurnal and Seasonal Changes of Stem Respiration in Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

  • Kim, Myung Hyun;Nakane, Kaneyuki;Lee, Jeong Taek;Bang, Hae Son;Na, Young Eun
    • 한국산림과학회지
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    • 제95권2호
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    • pp.168-173
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    • 2006
  • Stem respiration rate ($R_{stem}$) was examined using an open flow system on black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.). $R_{stem}$ exponentially increased with increasing air and stem temperature during measurement period and was most closely correlated with stem temperature. It was more closely correlated with stem temperature observed 0.5-2.0 hrs earlier than with current stem temperature, that is, there was time lag between the increase of stem temperature and the efflux of $CO_2$ from stem. $R_{stem}$ gradually increased from spring to summer, and then decreased during autumn. $R_{stem}$ ranged from 0.13 to $4.44{\mu}mol$ $CO_2m^{-2}s^{-1}$. $Q_{10}$ decreased with increasing stem temperature, and varied along position (or diameter) within trees during the same period, especially during the growing season. On the other hand, time lag was shortened with increasing temperature.

방사성폐기물 처분장 주변에서 정상상태의 지하수 수치 모델 개발 (A Numerical Model for Steady State Groundwater Flow Near a Radioactive Waste Repository)

  • 서경석;이한수;한경원
    • 대한토목학회논문집
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.103-112
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    • 1989
  • 방사성 폐기물 처분장 주변의 지하수 유동 현상을 이해하기 위해 정상상태에서의 지하수 수치모델을 수립하였다. 지하수 수치모델은 절점과 부재로 구성된 network에 의해 균질, 비균질, 다층매질에서 지하수 흐름을 조사하는데 이용되었고 모델의 수치해는 해석해와 일치하는 결과를 가졌다. 또한 지하매질의 수리학적 특성과 균열지역의 영향에 의한 지하수 유동의 물리적 변화현상도 조사되었다. 처분장 주변의 지하매질에 대해 구성된 network과 계산된 지하수 속도의 방향을 이용하여 지하수의 가능한 이동경로를 산정하는 방법이 개발되어 방사성 폐기물 처분장에서 생태계로의 가능한 지하수의 이동속도 및 시간을 예측하였다.

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Plasma Leptin and Performance of Purebred and Backcrossed Hereford throughout Grazing and Feedlot Fattening

  • Vega, R.A.;Hidari, H.;Matsunaga, N.;Kuwayama, H.;Manalo, D.D.;Lee, H.G.;Hata, H.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제17권7호
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    • pp.954-959
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    • 2004
  • In a herd of 24 spring-born steers, plasma leptin and performance of selected purebred (n=5) and backcrossed Hereford (n=5) were compared in a year-round summer grazing and winter feedlot fattening. Bimonthly blood collection and body weight measurement were accomplished. The plasma samples were analyzed for leptin, insulin, total cholesterol, triglyceride, NEFA and glucose. The experimental design utilized one-way ANOVA with breed as the treatment. The purebred obtained higher plasma NEFA (p<0.001) compared to backcross, regardless of seasonal feeding systems (SFS). The backcross showed gradual increase and nonresponsiveness of plasma leptin to SFS. During summer grazing, attenuation of plasma leptin and sudden elevation when shifted to winter feedlot fattening were observed in purebred. Plasma leptin obtained linear relationship with body weight of purebred (r=0.53;p<0.001) and backcrossed Hereford (r=0.49; p<0.01). The purebred and backcrossed Hereford, when shifted to summer grazing, resulted to sustained and restricted daily gain, respectively. Therefore, cattle breeds of higher growth potential exhibit significant elevation of plasma leptin after 400 kg BW, when animal starts to deposit significant body fat.

Purification of Vitellogenin and Egg Yolk Protein, and Changes of Vitellogenin Concentration during the Ovulation Period in Elkhorn Sculpin, Alcichthys alcicornis

  • CHOI Cheol Young;CHANG Young Jin;TAKEMURA Akihiro
    • 한국수산과학회지
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    • 제28권6호
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    • pp.753-760
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    • 1995
  • This study was conducted to determine the serum vitellogenin (VTG) concentration changes during the ovulation period in elkhorn sculpin, Alcichthys alcicornis. The results of sepacryl S-300 showed that the molecular weight of VTG could be 380,000. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis may indicate that the purified VTG consists of three subunits with molecular weights of 180,000, 118,000 and 85,000, respectively. Yolk protein purified from the egg extracts was eluted on an equilibrated sephacryl S-300 column, and its molecular weight was estimated 250,000. The precipitation lines of the female serum against the antiserum of the egg extracts were fused completely by immunoelectrophoresis and immunodiffusion analysis. VTG was detected in the serum, and hepatocytes from males injected with $17\beta-estradiol\;(E_2).$ Furthermore, VTG was immunochemically similar to yolk proteins. The concentration of VTG was high before ovulation $(9.80\pm0.81-11.02\pm0.09 mg/ml),$ and then decreased rapidly after ovulation $(less\;than\;6.19\pm0.59 mg/ml).$ This study suggested that VTG was synthesized in the liver by the action of $E_2$ and released to blood, and then incorporated into oocytes.

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