• Wind and Structures
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.579-611
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• 2017

Bora is a strong, usually dry temporally and spatially transient wind that is common at the eastern Adriatic Coast and many other dynamically similar regions around the world. One of the Bora main characteristics is its gustiness, when wind velocities can reach up to five times the mean velocity. Bora often creates significant problems to traffic, structures and human life in general. In this study, Bora velocity and near-ground turbulence are studied using the results of three-level high-frequency Bora field measurements carried out on a meteorological tower near the city of Split, Croatia. These measurements are analyzed for a period from April 2010 until June 2011. This rather long period allows for making quite robust and reliable conclusions. The focus is on mean Bora velocity, turbulence intensity, Reynolds shear stress and turbulence length scale profiles, as well as on Bora velocity power spectra and thermal stratification. The results are compared with commonly used empirical laws and recommendations provided in the ESDU 85020 wind engineering standard to question its applicability to Bora. The obtained results report some interesting findings. In particular, the empirical power- and logarithmic laws proved to fit mean Bora velocity profiles well. With decreasing Bora velocity there is an increase in the power-law exponent and aerodynamic surface roughness length, and simultaneously a decrease in friction velocity. This indicates an urban-like velocity profile for smaller wind velocities and a rural-like velocity profile for larger wind velocities. Bora proved to be near-neutral thermally stratified. Turbulence intensity and lateral component of turbulence length scales agree well with ESDU 85020 for this particular terrain type. Longitudinal and vertical turbulence length scales, Reynolds shear stress and velocity power spectra differ considerably from ESDU 85020. This may have significant implications on calculations of Bora wind loads on structures.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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• pp.964-968
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• 2006

Bora events over the Adriatic Sea and Black Sea are investigated by using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) onboard the European Envisat satellite. These images show pronounced elongated patterns of increased sea surface roughness caused by bora winds. The comparison of the SAR images with wind fields derived from Quikscat data confirms that in all cases a strong northeasterly wind was blowing from the mountains onto the sea. It is shown that the SAR images reveal details of the spatial extent of the bora wind fields over the sea which cannot be obtained by other instruments. Furtheremore, also quantitative information on the wind field is extracted from the SAR images by using a wind scatterometer model.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.505-522
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• 2014

While effects of the atmospheric boundary layer flow on engineering infrastructure are more or less known, some local transient winds create difficulties for structures, traffic and human activities. Hence, further research is required to fully elucidate flow characteristics of some of those very unique local winds. In this study, important characteristics of observed vertical velocity profiles along the main wind direction for the gusty Bora wind blowing along the eastern Adriatic coast are presented. Commonly used empirical power-law and the logarithmic-law profiles are compared against unique 3-level high-frequency Bora measurements. The experimental data agree well with the power-law and logarithmic-law approximations. An interesting feature observed is a decrease in the power-law exponent and aerodynamic surface roughness length, and an increase in friction velocity with increasing Bora wind velocity. This indicates an urban-like velocity profile for smaller wind velocities and rural-like velocity profile for larger wind velocities, which is due to a stronger increase in absolute velocity at each of the heights observed as compared to the respective velocity gradient (difference in average velocity among two different heights). The trends observed are similar during both the day and night. The thermal stratification is near neutral due to a strong mechanical mixing. The differences in aerodynamic surface roughness length are negligible for different time averaging periods when using the median. For the friction velocity, the arithmetic mean proved to be independent of the time record length, while for the power-law exponent both the arithmetic mean and the median are not influenced by the time averaging period. Another issue is a large difference in aerodynamic surface roughness length when calculating using the arithmetic mean and the median. This indicates that the more robust median is a more suitable parameter to determine the aerodynamic surface roughness length than the arithmetic mean value. Variations in velocity profiles at the same site during different wind periods are interesting because, in the engineering community, it has been commonly accepted that the aerodynamic characteristics at a particular site remain the same during various wind regimes.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권5_1호
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• pp.903-916
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• 2021

지형은 고도, 경사, 측면으로 설명되는 지표면의 물리적인 모양을 나타내는 것으로 지형적 조건에 따라 에너지의 이동이 결정된다. 이것은 태양 에너지를 얼마나 많이 받을지, 바람이나 비가 얼마나 많은 영향을 미칠지 등에 대한 중요한 결정 요인들로 지표면 상에 존재하는 모든 생물, 특히 산림 식생의 입지 환경에 큰 영향을 준다. 도서지역 산림과 같이 자연적으로 형성된 지형 인자가 산림 식생의 생태환경을 결정하는 요인이 될 때 보다 정확한 지형 인자들의 계산은 도서산림의 입지환경을 이해하는데 매우 중요하다. 최근에는 연구자, 학교, 산업 및 정부를 위해 수많은 무료오픈소스 소프트웨어 지리정보시스템 프로그램(Free Open Source Software Geographic Information Systems, FOSS GIS)들이 이러한 지형인자들을 보다 정확하게 계산하기 위해 다양한 알고리즘을 적용하고 있다. FOSS GIS 프로그램은 사용자 요구에 맞게 수정이 가능한 유연한 알고리즘을 제공한다. 이와 같은 수요에 맞춰 이 연구에서는 지형 분석이 특히 중요한 도서지역 산림을 대상으로 하여 FOSS GIS 프로그램들의 지형인자 계산 결과값을 비교해 보고 향후 지역 생태 연구에 있어 지형 인자 계산 방법을 결정할 때 그 기준을 마련하고자 한다. 연구 지역은 전라남도 도서 지역을 대상으로 하였고 FOSS GIS 프로그램 중 가장 널리 사용되는 GRASS GIS와 SAGA GIS로 처리하였다. 입지환경에 있어 가장 널리 사용되는 설명인자인 경사도와 TWI(Topographical Wetness Index) 지도를 각 FOSS GIS 프로그램으로 생성하고 그 차이를 분석하여 각 FOSS GIS 프로그램의 장단점을 토의하였다.