• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.639-648
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• 2023

The sea surface temperature (SST) and ocean heat content in the Korea Waters are gradually increased. Especially the increasing trend of annual mean SST in the Korea Water is higher about 2.6 times than the global mean during past 55 years (1968-2022). Before 2010s, the increasing trend of SST was led by winter season in the Korea Waters. However, this pattern was clearly changed after 2010s. The increasing trend of SST during summer is higher about 3.9 times than during winter after 2010s. We examine the long-term variations of several ocean and climate factors to understand the reasons for the long-term pattern changes of SST between summer and winter in recent. Tsushima warm current was significantly strengthened in summer compare to winter during past 33 years (1986-2018). The long-term patterns of Siberian High and East Asian Winter Monsoon were definitely changed before and after early- or mid-2000s. The intensities of those two climate factors was changed to the increasing trend or weakened decreasing trend from the distinctive decreasing trend. In addition, the extreme weather condition like the heatwave days and cold spell days in the Korea significantly increased since mid- or late-2000s. From these results, we can consider that the occurrences of frequent and intensified marine heatwaves during summer and marine cold spells during winter in the Korea Waters might be related with the long-term pattern change of SST, which should be caused by the long-term change of climate factors and advection heat, in a few decade.

• 대기
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.155-167
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• 2015

A dynamical seasonal prediction system for boreal winter utilizing cryospheric information was developed. Using the Community Atmospheric Model, version3, (CAM3) as a modeling system, newly developed snow depth initialization method and sea ice concentration treatment were implemented to the seasonal prediction system. Daily snow depth analysis field was scaled in order to prevent climate drift problem before initializing model's snow fields and distributed to the model snow-depth layers. To maximize predictability gain from land surface, we applied one-month-long training procedure to the prediction system, which adjusts soil moisture and soil temperature to the imposed snow depth. The sea ice concentration over the Arctic region for prediction period was prescribed with an anomaly-persistent method that considers seasonality of sea ice. Ensemble hindcast experiments starting at 1st of November for the period 1999~2000 were performed and the predictability gain from the imposed cryospheric informations were tested. Large potential predictability gain from the snow information was obtained over large part of high-latitude and of mid-latitude land as a result of strengthened land-atmosphere interaction in the modeling system. Large-scale atmospheric circulation responses associated with the sea ice concentration anomalies were main contributor to the predictability gain.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.1472-1482
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• 2017

Bacterial cytochrome P450 (CYP) steroid hydroxylases are effectively useful in the pharmaceutical industry for introducing hydroxyl groups to a wide range of steroids. We found a putative CYP steroid hydroxylase (BaCYP106A2) from the bacterium Bacillus sp. PAMC 23377 isolated from Kara Sea of the Arctic Ocean, showing 94% sequence similarity with BmCYP106A2 (Bacillus megaterium ATCC 13368). In this study, soluble BaCYP106A2 was overexpressed to evaluate its substrate-binding activity. The substrate affinity ($K_d$ value) to 4-androstenedione was $387{\pm}37{\mu}M$. Moreover, the crystal structure of BaCYP106A2 was determined at $2.7{\AA}$ resolution. Structural analysis suggested that the ${\alpha}8-{\alpha}9$ loop region of BaCYP106A2 is intrinsically mobile and might be important for initial ligand binding. The hydroxyl activity of BaCYP106A2 was identified using in vitro enzyme assays. Its activity was confirmed with two kinds of steroid substrates, 4-androstenedione and nandrolone, using chromatography and mass spectrometry methods. The main products were mono-hydroxylated compounds with high conversion yields. This is the second study on the structure of CYP106A steroid hydroxylases, and should contribute new insight into the interactions of bacterial CYP106A with steroid substrates, providing baseline data for studying the CYP106A steroid hydroxylase from the structural and enzymatic perspectives.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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• pp.892-895
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• 2006

The atmospheric effects on the retrieval of sea ice concentration from passive microwave sensors are examined using simulated data typical for the Arctic summer. The simulation includes atmospheric contributions of cloud liquid water and water vapor and surface wind on surface emissivity on the microwave signatures. A plane parallel radiative transfer model is used to compute brightness temperatures at SSM/I frequencies over surfaces that contain open water, first-year (FY) ice and multi-year (MY) ice and their combinations. Synthetic retrievals in this study use the NASA Team (NT) algorithm for the estimation of sea ice concentrations. This study shows that if the satellite sensor’s field of view is filled with only FY ice the retrieval is not much affected by the atmospheric conditions due to the high contrast between emission signals from FY ice surface and the signals from the atmosphere. Pure MY ice concentration is generally underestimated due to the low MY ice surface emissivity that results in the enhancement of emission signals from the atmospheric parameters. Simulation results in marginal ice areas also show that the atmospheric and surface effects tend to degrade the accuracy at low sea ice concentration. FY ice concentration is overestimated and MY ice concentration is underestimated in the presence of atmospheric water and surface wind at low ice concentration. In particular, our results suggest that strong surface wind is more important than atmospheric water in contributing to the retrieval errors of total ice concentrations over marginal ice zones.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.179-187
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• 2002

본 연구는 설악산국립공원에 서식하고 있는 조류군집의 계절적, 고도별 분포 현황을 조사, 분석하고 조류군집의 특성을 파악하기 위해 오색-대청봉과 백담사-대청봉 지역에서 2001년 5월부터 10월까지의 기간동안 실시되었다. 2개 조사 지역에서 쇠박새, 쇠솔새, 진박새, 동고비 등이 전체 고도별 구간에서 고르게 분포하고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 참매, 칼새, 진홍가슴, 유리딱새, 솔새사촌, 노랑눈썹솔새, 검은머리방울새, 떼까마귀 등은 해발고도가 높은 지역에서만 관찰되었다. 동고비와 어치는 번식기인 봄과 그 밖의 계절 사이에 분포하는 고도에 차이가 있었다. 각각의 종들이 해발고도별로 분포를 달리하는 것은 서식에 필요한 다양한 자원을 효과적으로 얻기 위한 적응 형태인 것으로 보이며, 각 종별 생태에 대한 깊이 있는 연구가 수행되어야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국석유지질학회지
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• 제7권1_2
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• pp.13-18
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• 1999

메탄 하이드레이트는 메탄가스를 포함하고 있는 얼음 같은 고체 상태 물질이며 물분자들이 가스 분자들을 둘러싸고 있는 clathrate 혼합물이다. 낮은 온도와 높은 압력의 환경에서 탄화수소 가스는 하이드레이트를 형성하며 이러한 형성 조건으로 인하여 극지방의 육성 퇴적층과 약 300 m 이상 수심이 깊은 해저 퇴적층 내에서 발견된다. 메탄 하이드레이트의 매장량은 정확히 예측하기는 어려우나 그 양은 엄청날 것으로 예상되며, 이와 같은 이유로 향후 천연가스 공급원으로서 주된 역할을 할 것으로 기대하고 있다. 그러나 그 생산 기술은 아직도 취약하며, 또한 메탄 하이드레이트의 해리에 의하여 발생하는 대기 온난화 문제도 심각한 환경 문제로서 대두되고 있다. 이와 같은 관점에서 본 논문에서는 메탄 하이드레이트 생산 기술 현황과 환경에 미치는 영향 등을 분석하여 메탄 하이드레이트의 실체와 연구 방향을 밝히고자 한다

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.109-117
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• 2002

본 연구는 설악산국립공원에 서식하고 있는 조류군집의 계절적, 고도별 분포 현황을 조사, 분석하고 조류군집의 특성을 파악하기 위해 오색-대청봉과 백담사-대청봉 지역에서 2001년 5월부터 10월까지의 기간동안 실시되었다. 2개 조사 지역에서 쇠박새, 쇠솔새, 진박새, 동고비 등이 전체 고도별 구간에서 고르게 분포하고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 참매, 칼새, 진홍가슴, 유리딱새, 솔새사촌, 노랑눈썹솔새, 검은머리방울새, 떼까마귀 등은 해발고도가 높은 지역에서만 관찰되었다. 동고비와 어치는 번식기인 봄과 그 밖의 계절 사이에 분포하는 고도에 차이가 있었다. 각각의 종들이 해발고도별로 분포를 달리하는 것은 서식에 필요한 다양한 자원을 효과적으로 얻기 위한 적응 형태인 것으로 보이며, 각 종별 생태에 대한 깊이 있는 연구가 수행되어야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.127-143
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• 2018

This study analyzed the influence of climate change on the spawning ground area of the common squid, Todarodes pacificus. To estimate long term changes in the area of the spawning ground of the common squid, water temperature at 50 m deep that can be inferred from sea surface temperature (SST) based on both NOAA/AVHRR (1981.07-2002.12) and MODIS/AQUA (2003.01-2009.12) ocean color data was analyzed. In addition, five climate indices, Arctic Oscillation Index (AO), Siberian High Index (SH), Aleutian Low Pressure Index (ALP), East Asia Winter Monsoon Index (EAWM) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) which are the main indicators of climate changes in the northwestern Pacific were used to study the relationship between the magnitude of the estimated spawning ground and climate indices. The area of the estimated spawning ground was highly correlated with the total catch of common squid throughout four decades. The area of the estimated spawning ground was negatively correlated with SH and EAWM. Especially, PDO was negatively correlated with the area of the spawning ground in the northwestern Pacific (r = -0.39) and in the southern part of the East Sea (r = -0.38). There was a positive relationship between the AO and the area of the spawning ground in the northwestern Pacific (r = 0.46) as well as in the southern part of the East Sea (r = 0.32). Temporally, the area of the winter spawning ground in the southern part of the East Sea in the 1980s was smaller than those areas in the 1990s and 2000s, because the area was disconnected with the western coastal spawning ground of Japan in the 1980s, while the area had been made wider and more continuous from the Korea strait to the western coastal water of Honshu in the 1990s and 2000s.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2015

Recently, there have been the increase of ship size and the development of oil and gas in arctic region. These trends have led to the requirements such as high strength, good toughness at low temperature and good weldability for prevent of brittle fracture at service temperature. There has been the key issue of crack arrestability in large size structure such as container ship. In this report for the first time, crack arrest toughness of thick steel plate welds was evaluated by large scale ESSO test for estimate of brittle crack arrestability in thick steel plate. For large structures using thick steel plates, fracture toughness of welded joint is an important factor to obtain structural integrity. In general, there are two kinds of design concepts based on fracture toughness: crack initiation and crack arrest. So far, when steel structures such as buildings, bridges and ships were manufactured using thick steel plates (max. 80~100mm in thickness), they had to be designed in order to avoid crack initiation, especially in welded joint. However, crack arrest design has been considered as a second line of defense and applied to limited industries like pipelines and nuclear power plants. Although welded joint is the weakest part to brittle fracture, there are few results to investigate crack arrest toughness of welded joint. In this study, brittle crack arrest designs were developed for hatch side coaming of large container ships using arrest weld, hole, and insert technology.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2011

국제공동해양시추사업(Ocean Drilling Program: ODP)는 DSDP, IPOD 그리고 현재의 IODP 등의 여러 가지 이름으로 바뀌어 왔지만 공고한 국제협동을 통해 지구과학의 발전에 크게 기여하여 왔다. 약 10 년 전에 시작된 IODP는 이제 2013년부터 2단계로 진입하면서 더욱더 견고한 국제협력, 새로운 과학 영역에 대한 도전, 그리고 새로운 과학적 목표를 향해 발전해 나갈 것이다. 이 논문은 그동안 수행된 ODP탐사로 얻어진 탁월한 연구성과와 새롭게 출범되는 IODP의 구조와 새로운 과학영역을 한층 발전시키기 위해 필요한 역할에 대해 정리하였다. 특히 2단계로 접어드는 IODP에서는 현재까지 이루어지지 않았던 북극해와 같은 지역에 대한 조사와 심해 생물권(biosphere) 등 미생물 영역에 대한 연구, 기후변화에 대한 연구가 더욱 활성화 될 것으로 기대된다. 이처럼 IODP는 가맹국들의 강력한 국제협력을 통해 IODP는 앞으로도 지구과학의 발전에 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 생각된다.