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Speculation on international/domestic remediation technologies for the contaminated coastal area by oil spill events and future research plan (연안지역 유류오염 복원에 대한 국내/외 기술고찰 및 향후 연구계획)

  • Cha, Sung-Min;Ki, Seo-Jin;Choi, Hee-Chul;Kim, Joon-Ha
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.421-423
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    • 2008
  • The development of remediation technologies in the contaminated coastal area from oil spill is essential for solving environmental disaster. Many countries including USA, France and United Kingdom have tried to make novel remediation techniques and predict oil dispersion in the ocean and coastal line by using their own models. To develop new technology of remediation, this research in advance was carried out the status of domestic and international remediation technologies and tried to suggest future research plan for developing new remediation technologies considering geographical characteristics of Korea peninsula.

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Estimation of Maximum Typhoon Intensity Considering Climate Change Scenarios and Simulation of Corresponding Storm Surge (기후변화 시나리오에 따른 최대 가능 태풍강도 추정 및 이에 따른 폭풍해일고 양상 모의)

  • Yoon, Jong-Joo;Jun, Ki-Cheon;Shim, Jae-Seol;Park, Kwang-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.292-301
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    • 2012
  • The rise in sea surface temperature (SST) as a global warming enhance overall typhoon activity. We assumed that there exist thermodynamic limits to intensity that apply in the absence of significant interaction between storms and their environment. The limit calculations depend on SST and atmospheric profiles of temperature and moisture. This approach do appear to provide resonable upper bounds on the intensities of observed storms and may even be useful for predicting the change in intensity over a long period time. The maximum storm intensities was estimated through the global warming scenarios from IPCC-AR4 report over the North-East Asia. The result shows stronger intensities according to scenarios for increase of carbon dioxide levels. And storm surge simulations was performed with the typhoons which were combined route of the typhoon Maemi (2003) and intensity as climate change scenarios. The maximum increase of storm surge heights was shown about 29~110 cm (36~65%) regionally. Especially at Masan, the result of simulated maximum surge height exceed the 200 years return period surge.

A Case Study on the Preliminary Study for Disaster Prevention of Storm Surge: Arrangement of Structures (폭풍해일 방재를 위한 사례적용을 통한 선행연구: 구조물 배치)

  • Young Hyun, Park;Woo-Sun, Park
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.335-345
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    • 2022
  • Climate change is accelerating worldwide due to the recent rise in global temperature, and the intensity of typhoons is increasing due to the rise in seawater temperature around the Korean Peninsula. An increase in typhoon intensity is expected to increase not only wind damage, but also coastal damage caused by storm surge. Accordingly, in this study, a study of the method of reducing storm surges was conducted for the purpose of disaster prevention in order to respond to the increasing damage from storm surges. Storm surges caused by typhoons can be expected to be affected by structures located on the track of typhoon, and the effects of storm surges were studied by the eastern coast and the barrier island along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the United States. This study focused on this aspect and conducted related research, considering that storm surges in the southern coastal area of the Korean Peninsula could be directly or indirectly affected by Jeju Island, which is located on the track of typhoon. In order to analyze the impact of Jeju Island on storm surges, simulations were performed in various situations using a numerical analysis model. The results of using Jeju Island are thought to be able to be used to study new disaster prevention structures that respond to super typhoons.

Trends in Disaster Prediction Technology Development and Service Delivery (재난예측 기술 개발 및 서비스 제공 동향)

  • Park, Soyoung;Hong, Sanggi;Lee, Kangbok
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.80-88
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    • 2020
  • This paper describes the development trends and service provision examples of disaster occurrence and spread prediction technology for various disasters such as tsunamis, floods, and fires. In terms of fires, we introduce the WIFIRE system, which predicts the spread of large forest fires in the United States, and the Metro21: Smart Cities Institute project, which predicts the risk of building fires. This paper describes the development trends in tsunami prediction technology in the United States and Japan using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the occurrence and size of tsunamis that cause great damage to coastal cities in Japan, Indonesia, and the United States. In addition, it introduces the NOAA big data platform built for natural disaster prediction, considering that the use of big data is very important for AI-based disaster prediction. In addition, Google's flood forecasting system, domestic and overseas earthquake early warning system development, and service delivery cases will be introduced.

A Study on the Improvement of Safety Management for Coastal Accidents in Korea (국내 연안사고의 안전관리에 대한 개선방안 제시)

  • Song, Chang-Young
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.95-103
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to present safety management improvement measures for domestic coastal accidents. The national coast was classified into five regions to investigate the status of safety accidents. Based on literature review and interviews with practitioners, problems of coastal accident safety management were derived and the improvement were suggested. The results of this study are as follows: 1) Of the 3,116 coastal accidents in Korea, rock on the shore and central sea accidents accounted for 37.58% and 30.67%, respectively. 2) In order to improve domestic coastal safety management, five measures such as the establishment of private cooperation governance were suggested.

Variation Pattern Analysis on the Air and Surface Water Temperatures of the Yellow Sea Monitoring Buoy (황해중부부이에서 관측된 기온 및 표층수온의 변화양상 분석)

  • Cho, Hong-Yeon;Jeong, Jin-Yong;Shim, Jae-Seol;Kim, Seon-Jeong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.316-325
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    • 2010
  • Harmonic analyses are carried out in order to obtain the major frequency components of the air temperature (AT) and surface water temperature (SWT) data monitored in the Middle Area of the Yellow Sea (Yellow Sea monitoring buoy). The analysis shows the annual and semi-annual components are predominant and the higher frequency components are relatively weak with contribution to the short fluctuations, i.e. below $0.2{\sim}0.5^{\circ}C$, in the AT and SWT. The standard deviation of the AT residual is 2.4 times larger than that of the SWT residual and the occurrence frequency distributions of the AT and SWT residual components are both closely fitted to a normal-distribution function. The variation pattern on the AT-SWT plane forms the clear continuous hysteresis loop in anti-clockwise direction which is composed of the AT-SWT rising period, AT-SWT falling period, and the constant SWT period in winter season.

Development for the function of Wind wave Damage Estimation at the Western Coastal Zone based on Disaster Statistics (재해통계기반 서해 연안지역의 풍랑피해예측함수 개발)

  • Choo, Tai Ho;Kwak, Kil Sin;Ahn, Si Hyung;Yang, Da Un;Son, Jong Keun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.14-22
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    • 2017
  • The frequency and scale of natural disasters due to the abnormal climate phenomena caused by global warming have being increasing all over the world. Various natural disasters, such as typhoons, earthquakes, floods, heavy rain, drought, sweltering heat, wind waves, tsunamis and so on, can cause damage to human life. Especially, the damage caused by natural disasters such as the Earthquake of Japan, hurricane Katrina in the United States, typhoon Maemi and so on, have been enormous. At this stage, it is difficult to estimate the scale of damage due to (future) natural disasters and cope with them. However, if we could predict the scale of damage at the disaster response level, the damage could be reduced by responding to them promptly. In the present study, therefore, among the many types of natural disaster, we developed a function to estimate the damage due to wind waves caused by sea winds and waves. We collected the damage records from the Disaster Report ('91~'14) published by the Ministry of Public Safety and Security about wind waves and typhoons in the western coastal zone and, in order to reflect the inflation rate, we converted the amount of damage each year into the equivalent amount in 2014. Finally, the meteorological data, such as the wave height, wind speed, tide level, wave direction, wave period and so on, were collected from the KMA (Korea Meteorological Administration) and KHOA (Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency)'s web sites, for the periods when wind wave and typhoon damage occurred. After that, the function used to estimate the wind wave damage was developed by reflecting the regional characteristics for the 9 areas of the western coastal zone.

Analysis of the Reason for Occurrence of Large-Height Swell-like Waves in the East Coast of Korea (우리나라 동해안 너울성 고파의 발생원인 분석)

  • Oh, Sang-Ho;Jeong, Weon-Mu;Lee, Dong-Young;Kim, Sang-Ik
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.101-111
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    • 2010
  • Characteristics of large-height swell-like waves that repeatedly occurred on the Korean East Coast in winter season were analyzed by using the wave observation data and the meteorological data. Based on the results of the data analysis, it was demonstrated that the swell-like waves have been generated due to the long-lasting strong northeasters in the East Sea, which were formed as a result of the low pressure trough in the vicinity of the extratropical low pressure system that advanced to East Sea from the China inland with decreasing its central pressure. Among the recently occurred events of the swell-like waves, the characteristics of the two events in October 2005 and 2006 were predominantly wind waves. Meanwhile, the one in February 2008 seems to be occurred by the initial wave growth due to wind waves followed by the secondly increase of the wave height due to longer-period swell.

Analysis of Wave and Current in Anmok Coastal Waters (안목해안의 파랑과 흐름 분석)

  • Lim, Hak-Soo;Kim, Mujong
    • Journal of Coastal Disaster Prevention
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.7-19
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    • 2017
  • In this study, waves and currents observed by acoustic AWAC, VECTOR and Aquadopp Profiler in Anmok coastal waters were analysed to account for the variability of wave and current and to understand the mechanism of sediment transport generated by wave-induced current in the surf-zone. The monthly variation of wave and residual currents were analysed and processed with long-term observed AWAC data at station W1, located at the water depth of about 18m measured during from February 2015 to September 2016. Wave-induced currents were also analysed with intensive field measurements such as wave, current, suspended sediment, and bathymetry data observed at the surf-zone during in winter and summer. The statistical result of wave data shows that high waves coming from NNE and NE in winter (DEC-FEB) are dominant due to strong winds from NE. But in the other season waves coming from NE and ENE are prevalent due to the seasonal winds from E and SE. The residual currents with southeastern direction parallel to the shoreline are dominant throughout a year except in winter showing in opposite direction. The speed of ebb-dominant southeastern residual currents decreasing from surface to the bottom is strong in summer and fall but weak in winter and spring. By analysing wave-induced current, we found that cross-shore current were generated by swell waves mainly in winter with incoming wave direction about $45^{\circ}$ normal to the shoreline. Depending on the direction of incoming waves, longshore currents in the surf-zone were separated to southeastern and northwestern flows in winter and summer respectively. The variation of observed currents near crescentic bars in the surf-zone shows different direction of longshore and cross-shore currents depending on incoming waves implying to the reason of beach erosion generating the beach cusp and sandbar migration during high waves at Anmok.

A Case Study of Comparing Formulae for Estimating Horizontal Wave Force on Crown Wall of Sloping Breakwater (경사식 방파제 상부구조물 작용 수평파력 산정식 비교 사례 연구)

  • Oh, Sang-Ho;Oh, Young Min;Yeo, Bong-Gu;Han, Tae-Young
    • Journal of Coastal Disaster Prevention
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.28-35
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    • 2014
  • This study investigated the applicability of four empirical equations (Morihira et al., 1967; Goda, 2010; Jensen, 1984 and Bradbury et al., 1988; Pedersen, 1996) suggested for estimating the horizontal wave force on the crown wall of sloping breakwaters. For the two exemplary cross sections of the breakwaters whose geometry are apparently different each other, the estimates of horizontal wave force calculated by the four equations were compared. The values of estimated wave force showed considerable discrepancy among the equations for each of the two exemplary breakwater cross sections, respectively. In addition, the relative magnitude of the wave force was quite different according to the breakwater geometry as well as the design wave condition. In general, Morihira's or Goda's formulae produced larger estimates of the horizontal wave force than Jensen/Bradbury's or Pedersen's formulae if the wave period (or wavelength) is comparatively short. In contrast, exactly opposite result was obtained when the wave period or wavelength is comparatively long. Further detailed study based on physical experiments is required to examine the applicability of the four empirical equations considered in this study more thoroughly.