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Secondary nanoparticle formation by a reaction of ozone and volatile organic compounds emitted from a commercial home cleaner liquid

  • Vu, Thai Phuong;Kim, Sun-Hwa;Lee, Seung-Bok;Bae, Gwi-Nam
    • Particle and aerosol research
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the formation of nanoparticles by a reaction of ozone with the volatile organic compounds(VOCs) emitted from a commercial home cleaner liquid was investigated using a $1-m^3$ reaction chamber($1{\times}1{\times}1m$). The home cleaner liquid was found to contain many VOCs, particularly terpenes. Some of these VOCs are known to readily react with ozone, forming indoor secondary pollutants. The correlation of particle concentration and reacted ozone concentration was examined with injections of three different ozone concentrations; 50, 100 and 200 ppb. The secondary nanoparticles were formed faster, with their numbers and mass concentrations becoming higher on increasing the concentration of ozone injected.

Frequency-Modulated Pulse-Amplification Method for Reducing Pulse Shape Distortion

  • Jeong, Jihoon;Cho, Seryeyohan;Hwang, Seungjin;Yu, Tae Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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    • v.73 no.11
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    • pp.1637-1643
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    • 2018
  • To reduce the laser pulse shape distortion accompanying the amplification process and achieve an intended output pulse shape in the Nd:YAG amplifier chain, we propose a frequency-modulated pulse-amplification method. Assuming carrier-frequency-modulated seed pulses, we numerically simulate the pulse amplification in an Nd:YAG amplifier chain where severe distortion occurs. For the calculation, we develop a modified Frantz-Nodvik equation, which enables two inputs with different carrier frequencies. The simulation results indicate that the temporal contrast of the seed pulse needed to obtain a flat output pulse shape is reduced by 16 - 25 dB when frequency modulation is applied.

Performance Assessment of Monthly Ensemble Prediction Data Based on Improvement of Climate Prediction System at KMA (기상청 기후예측시스템 개선에 따른 월별 앙상블 예측자료 성능평가)

  • Ham, Hyunjun;Lee, Sang-Min;Hyun, Yu-Kyug;Kim, Yoonjae
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.149-164
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to introduce the improvement of current operational climate prediction system of KMA and to compare previous and improved that. Whereas the previous system is based on GloSea5GA3, the improved one is built on GloSea5GC2. GloSea5GC2 is a fully coupled global climate model with an atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice and land components through the coupler OASIS. This is comprised of component configurations Global Atmosphere 6.0 (GA6.0), Global Land 6.0 (GL6.0), Global Ocean 5.0 (GO5.0) and Global Sea Ice 6.0 (GSI6.0). The compositions have improved sea-ice parameters over the previous model. The model resolution is N216L85 (~60 km in mid-latitudes) in the atmosphere and ORCA0.25L75 ($0.25^{\circ}$ on a tri-polar grid) in the ocean. In this research, the predictability of each system is evaluated using by RMSE, Correlation and MSSS, and the variables are 500 hPa geopotential height (h500), 850 hPa temperature (t850) and Sea surface temperature (SST). A predictive performance shows that GloSea5GC2 is better than GloSea5GA3. For example, the RMSE of h500 of 1-month forecast is decreased from 23.89 gpm to 22.21 gpm in East Asia. For Nino3.4 area of SST, the improvements to GloSeaGC2 result in a decrease in RMSE, which become apparent over time. It can be concluded that GloSea5GC2 has a great performance for seasonal prediction.

Impact of Climate Change on the Ocean Environment in the Viewpoint of Paleoclimatology (기후변화가 해양에 미친 영향: 고기후학의 관점에서)

  • Yi, Hi-Il;Shin, Im Chul
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.379-386
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    • 2010
  • Impact of global warming on the ocean environment is reviewed based on most recently published publications. The most significant impact of global warming on marine environment is due to the melting of mountain and continental glaciers. Ice melting causes slow down and/or shut down of thermohaline circulation, and makes hypoxic environment for the first time, then makes anoxic with time. This can cause decreasing biodiversity, and finally makes global extinction of animals and plants. Furthermore, global warming causes sea-level rise, soil erosion and changes in calcium carbonate compensation depth (CCD). These changes also can make marine ecosystem unstable. If we emit carbon dioxide at a current rate, the global mean temperature will rise at least $6^{\circ}C$ at the end of this century, as predicted by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). In this case, the ocean waters become acidic and anoxic, and the thermohaline circulation will be halted, and marine ecosystems collapsed.

The study on the BTEX Concentration of Soil in Gas Station (국내 주유소 토양의 BTEX 오염에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Joung-Nam;Roh, Sung-Hyeuk;Jung, Sang-Rak;Oh, Gil-Rok;Kim, Mi-Kyoung;Yook, Woon-Soo
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.18-23
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    • 2014
  • The BTEX contamination of soil around gas station in Korea was investigated in 53 gas stations in 2013 by official test method on soil pollution. Each gas station was divided into oil tank area, line area, and surrounding area. The concentration of BTEX in 1066 sites of 53 gas stations was N.D.~ 3437.36 mg/kg. The order of average concentration for area was as follows: line area ($20.91{\pm}144.79mg/kg$) > tank area ($15.11{\pm}110.08mg/kg$) > surrounding area ($10.79{\pm}111.40mg/kg$). It was the number of sampling site exceeding regulatory levels at surrounding area the most at all. The average concentration of xylene was the highest, while that of ethylbenzene was the lowest.

Global Manager - A Service Broker In An Integrated Cloud Computing, Edge Computing & IoT Environment

  • Selvaraj, Kailash;Mukherjee, Saswati
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.1913-1934
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    • 2022
  • The emergence of technologies like Big data analytics, Industrial Internet of Things, Internet of Things, and applicability of these technologies in various domains leads to increased demand in the underlying execution environment. The demand may be for compute, storage, and network resources. These demands cannot be effectively catered by the conventional cloud environment, which requires an integrated environment. The task of finding an appropriate service provider is tedious for a service consumer as the number of service providers drastically increases and the services provided are heterogeneous in the specification. A service broker is essential to find the service provider for varying service consumer requests. Also, the service broker should be smart enough to make the service providers best fit for consumer requests, ensuring that both service consumer and provider are mutually beneficial. A service broker in an integrated environment named Global Manager is proposed in the paper, which can find an appropriate service provider for every varying service consumer request. The proposed Global Manager is capable of identification of parameters for service negotiation with the service providers thereby making the providers the best fit to the maximum possible extent for every consumer request. The paper describes the architecture of the proposed Global Manager, workflow through the proposed algorithms followed by the pilot implementation with sample datasets retrieved from literature and synthetic data. The experimental results are presented with a few of the future work to be carried out to make the Manager more sustainable and serviceable.

INTENSIVE OBSERVATION OF SAND AND DUST STORMS USING GROUND-BASED FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY IN ANMYEON, KOREA

  • Lee, Byung-Il;Kim, Yoon-Jae;Sohn, Eun-Ha;Kim, Mee-Ja;Lee, Kwang-Mog;Park, Joong-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.142-145
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    • 2007
  • In order to analyze hyper-spectral properties of Sand and Dust Storm (SDS), dust observation experiment has been performed at the Korea Global Atmosphere Watch Center (KGAW) in Anmyeon form early March to middle of May, 2007. We measured down-welling radiances by using ground-based Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) at the time of overpass of AIRS. And radiative transfer model simulation has been carried out to estimate the effects of size distribution, components, and altitude of SDS over the high resolution infrared spectrum in the range of 500-1500 $cm^{-1}$ with a line-by-line radiative transfer model and compared them with FT-IR and AIRS/Aqua observing data.

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A Study on the Proposal for Training of Global Trade Expert of Korean University under Global Trade Environment (글로벌 무역환경 변화에 따른 우리나라 대학의 선진형 무역전문인력 양성방안에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Eun-Sig;Park, Kwang-So
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.47
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    • pp.403-428
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    • 2010
  • Our country's sustainable trade growth fundamentally depends on the supply of excellent labors called global trade expert. He or she is required several knowledge and skills not only trade, marketing, information technology, foreign languages but also global mind. Universities have to supply excellent global trade expert to companies according to needs and wants. The object of this paper is to propose some ideas for training of global trade expert of Korea university under global trade environment. First, global companies prefer labors who have not only some skills about specialty and communication skill but also personality on passion, creativity, leadership and so on. Second, The university's curriculum needs to improved in terms of "convergence" and "specialty". In nature, trade major treats lots of subjects such as trade, business adminstration, economics, international law, international commerce, logistics, marketing, etc to catch up changing global business circumstances and companies' needs. Therefore convergence of adjacent field is very important in study and training. Finally, Universities need to use field-specialist to supplement of trade working experience as instructors and practitioners. The concept of convergence and specialty is not separated but harmonious each other.

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Nanoparticle Formation from a Commercial Air Freshener at Real-exposure Concentrations of Ozone

  • Vu, Thai Phuong;Kim, Sun-Hwa;Lee, Seung-Bok;Shim, Shang-Gyoo;Bae, Gwi-Nam;Sohn, Jong-Ryeul
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2011
  • Occupational nanomaterial exposure is an important issue in the manufacture of such products. People are also exposed to various nanoparticles in their living environments. In this study, we investigated nanoparticle formation during the reaction of ozone and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from a commercial air freshener, one of many widely used consumer products, in a $1-m^3$ reaction chamber. The air freshener contained various VOCs, particularly terpenes. A petri dish containing 0.5 mL of the air freshener specimen was placed in the bottom of the chamber, and ozone was continuously injected into the center of the chamber at a flow rate of 4 L/min with an ozone concentration of either 50, 100 or 200 ppb. Each test was conducted over a period of about 4 h. The higher ozone concentrations produced larger secondary nanoparticles at a faster rate. The amount of ozone reacted was highly correlated with the amount of aerosol formation. Ratios of reacted ozone concentration and of formed particle mass concentration for the three injected ozone concentrations of 50, 100 and 200 ppb were similar to one other; 4.6 : 1.9 : 1.0 and 4.7 : 2.2 : 1.0 for ozone and aerosol mass, respectively.