• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제34권7호
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• pp.517-523
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• 2010

There are enormous challenges in the Istanbul Strait- one of the most important, congested and narrow waterways in the world - from the view point of risk determination and risk mitigation for the local traffic. Previously several traffic parameters such as; traffic volume for local vessels, traffic flow and potential encounters of local traffic, in addition to the possibility of collision, were investigated in order to determine the degree of dangers in the southern entrance of the Istanbul Strait. Furthermore, risky zones were also determined in this waterway. On the basis of the results of those, a group of expert was surveyed. These experts were pilots, Vessel Traffic Services Operators (VTS-O), Local Traffic Vessel Captains and Master Mariners who had several experience of navigation through the Istanbul Strait. In order to assess experts perceptions of danger and to propose further studies based on this survey. The questionnaire was analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) program version 13.0. Finally, some differences and/or shares on risk perceptions of expert in the Istanbul Strait are considered.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제33권spc3호
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• pp.325-336
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• 2011

Seasonal to inter-annual variations of water properties in the western channel of the Korea Strait are investigated using quasi-monthly hydrographic observations collected during 2006-2010. Weak vertical temperature and salinity gradients are observed during the winter months and these remain until May. At the upper layer, temperature increases from March and reaches a maximum in August, while salinity decreases during the same period. Near-bottom water shows low temperatures during late winter and fall with a minimum peak in September. Korea Strait Bottom Cold Water produces thick layers (>20 m) in 2006 and 2010, while it is observed very near the bottom with relatively high temperature in 2008 and 2009.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.49-70
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• 1984

Spatial and temporal variations of hydrography and currents are investigated in the Southeastern Sea of Korea during October 1982. The distribution of the water mass of high salinity (>34.40${\textperthousand}$) and low dissolved oxygen concentration (<5.0ml/l) indicates that the Tsushima current flows northward as it passes the Western Channel of the Korea Strait. The cold water (<$6.0^{\circ}c$) with low salinity (<$34.20{\textperthousand}$) and high dissolved oxygen concentration (>6.0ml/l) reaches the bottom of the western channel of the Korea Strait after flowing southward leaning against the slope rather than following the deepest part of the Channel. Repeated sections in the Korea Strait show a remarkable change of hydrographic structure over a period of 4 days ; both warn and cold waters are intensified, particularly in the eastern part of the strait toward the Tsushima Island.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.129-152
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• 2000

The Cheju Current (CC), defined here as a mean eastward flow in the Cheju Strait, mostly carries water of high temperature and salinity originating from the Kuroshio in winter and spring, the Cheju Warm Current Water (CWCW). The strong core of the eastward component of the CC is found close to Cheju Island (Cheju-Do, hereafter) in winter and spring with a peak speed of about 17.0 cm/s. The eastward flow weakens towards the northern Cheju Strait, and a weak westward flow occurs occasionally close to the southern coast of Korea. The volume transport ranges from 0.37 to 0.45 Sv(1 Sv=10$^6$ m$^3$/s) in winter and spring. Seasonal thermocline and harocline are formed in summer and eroded in November. The occurrence of the CWCW is confined in the southern Cheju Strait close to Cheju-Do below the seasonal thermocline in summer and fall, and cold water occupies the lower layer north of the CWCW which is thought to be brought into the area from the area west of Cheju-Do along with the CWCW. Stratification acts to increase both the speed of the CC with a peak speed of greater than 30 cm/s and the vertical shear of the along-strait currents. The strong core of the CC detached from the coast of Cheju-Do and shifted to the north during the stratified seasons. The volume transport in summer and fall ranges 0.510.66 Sv, which is about 1.5 times larger than that in winter and spring. An annual cycle of the cross-strait sea level difference shows its maximum in summer and fall and minimum in winter and spring, whose tendency is consistent with the annual variability of the CC and its transport estimated from the ADCP measurements. Moored current measurements west of Cheju-Do indicate the clockwise turning of the CC, and the moored current measurements in the Cheju Strait for 1530 days show the low-frequency variability of the along-strait flow with a period of about 37 days.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.19-40
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• 2023

여름철 제주해협 물성 분포의 특성과 제주해협 수괴가 연안에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위하여 2019년 6월, 7월, 8월에 완도와 제주도 사이에서 수온과 염분을 관측하였다. 여름철 계절 수온약층 아래에서 15℃의 저온수가 관측되었으며, 이 저온수는 관측시기에 따라 다르지만 수심이 깊은 제주해협 남쪽 골보다는 주로 제주해협 중앙의 중층과 북쪽 사면에 분포하였다. 이 저온수를 구성하는 근원 수괴를 알아보기 위하여 제주해협에서 관측된 해수를 구성하는 주변 근원 수괴들의 혼합비(mixing ratio)를 계산하였다. 여름철 제주해협 중앙 중층과 북쪽 사면에 나타나는 저온수는 평균적으로 쿠로시오 아표층수가 54% 그리고 황해저층냉수가 33% 비율로 혼합된 해수였다. 이 중층 저온수는 제주해협 전 수층에서 가장 낮은 수온을 갖는 해수임에도 상대적으로 고온고염인 쿠로시오아표층수가 큰 구성비율을 갖고 있다. 중층 저온수가 제주해협에서 가장 낮은 수온의 분포를 갖게 된 이유는 다른 제주해협 해수에 비해 황해저층냉수의 기여도가 높기 때문이다. 제주해협 중층 저온수의 기원을 살펴보기 위하여 황해, 동중국해, 대한해협에서 2019년 여름철에 관측한 광역 수온과 염분 자료를 분석하였다. 제주도 남서쪽 동중국해 계절 수온약층 아래에서 쿠로시오 기원의 해수와 황해저층냉수가 열염전선을 형성하였고, 이 열염전선을 가로지르는 수괴의 관입에 의해 해수의 혼합이 발생하였다. 동중국해에서 형성된 이 혼합수는 제주해협에서 관측된 중층 저온수와 거의 같은 혼합비율을 가졌다. 이런 결과들을 종합하였을 때 제주해협에서 여름철에 관측된 중층 저온수는 동중국해에서 쿠로시오 아표층수와 황해저층냉수의 혼합으로 만들어진 저온수가 해류를 따라 이동한 것이다. 제주해협 중앙과 북쪽 사면으로 이동한 중층 저온수는 제주해협 중앙의 중층에서 수온역전을 만들고, 한국 남해안 연안의 표층 수온 변동에도 큰 영향을 미친다.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.133-143
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• 1999

We carried out simultaneous and long-time observations of currents across the western channel of the Korea Strait during the period of May, 1994 to September, 1996 in order to understand the spatial and temporal variability of tidal and nontidal currents in the Strait. Results show that currents in the Strait are quite variable in space and time, and they largely consist of mean current and diurnal and semidiurnal tidal currents of about equal magnitudes. The mean currents include the Tsushima Current and the Korea Strait Undercurrent at the center of the channel. The former occupies the upper two-thirds and the latter the lower one-third of the water column. The semidiurnal and diurnal currents are largely rectilinear in the direction of NE-SW and their amplitude variation across the channel appears to be small. However, the diurnal currents at some locations show rotational characteristics with significant nontidal effects. The station close to the Korean coast leads the phase and the phase difference of the semidiurnal current across the channel appears to be less than half an hour while that of the diurnal current is over five hours.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.386-392
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• 1996

A numerical method based on genetic algorithms was introduced to characterize the grain-size distribution more effectively. This technique was proved significant particularly for multimodal size distributions, as was verified for samples from Korea Strait continental shelf. Sediment samples collected from the Korea Strait continental shelf revealed that $96\%$ of the grain-size distributions were multimodal. Therefore, the use of grain-size parameters was not the ideal method. As an alternative method, the decomposition of sue curves into elementary normal component curves was used. Means and standard deviations of 593 decomposed normal components were calculated by a numerical method from 268 size curves of Korea Strait sediments. The mean values of decomposed normal components showed peaks at $1\~3\phi\;and\;7\~9\phi$ size classes. The plot of mean and standard deviation values of the coarse fraction normal components on the map showed a characteristic areal distribution. The characteristic distribution was found to derive from underlying Pleistocene sediment on the basis of sea bottom geologic distribution of the area. The method of decomposition into normal components was found to be more effective than the analysis using traditional grain-size parameters in investigation of multimodal size distribution of Korea Strait shelf sediment.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.595-606
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• 2004

Hydrographic survey in the Korea Strait has long history that has begun in August 1917 at the Busan - Tsushima cross section, still continues to date. However, chemical properties of bottom cold water found exclusively in the western channel of the Korea Strait during summer did not receive much scientific attention. The aim of the study is to decipher the enigmatic origin of the Korea Strait Bottom Cold Water (KSBCW) in terms of chemical properties. The physicochemical properties of the KSBCW are extracted from the CREAHS II hydrographic data. OMP method was applied to analyze origin of the KSBCW quantitatively. The KSBCW is well defined by low temperature below $10^{\circ}C$. The cold waters exhibited the local presence near the coast at about 120m depth with a thickness of 20m to 30m. The cold water was characterized by relatively cold, saline and higher chemical concentrations than adjacent waters. The KSBCW seems to have different origin kom that of the coastal upwelled waters at the Ulgi-Gampo because it is saline, denser and contains considerably less dissolved oxygen than upwelled waters. The physicochemical properties are reported to have noticeable annual variations which suggest the complex origin of the KSBCW. OMP analysis show that the KSBCW is a mixture of three water types; TMW (24%), ESIW (36%) and ESPW (40%). Relationship between the KSBCW and the east Sea circulation is traced by mapping the water masses that have similar T, S and DO of KSBCW. The result showed that the KSBCW is most possibly an extension of southward flowing coastal intermediate waters. Front these results, we expect that the monitoring KSBCW will provide us valuable information about the East Sea circulation.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2015

말라카해협의 해상교통 안전 확보는 우리나라를 비롯하여 중국, 일본을 포함한 극동아시아의 경제 발전에 직접적인 영향을 미치므로 세계적으로 중요한 해역이다. 이러한 의미에서 이 해역의 해상교통안전을 분석하는 것은 중요한 의미가 있다. 이 연구에서는 말라카해협을 대상으로 TOAIS 프로그램에 의한 선박 AIS 데이터를 1개월 동안 수집하였고, EasyFit 프로그램을 이용하여 해상교통의 통항분포를 통계적으로 분석하였다. 그 결과, 현재까지 해상교통공학 분야에서 선박통항의 분포는 정규분포라고 알려져 사용되고 있었지만, 말라카해협의 해상교통조사 결과 그 통항분포가 정규분포와 상이하다는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 상이한 해상교통 분포 모델을 적용한 IWRAP모델을 이용하여 이 해역을 평가하였고, 그 결과 추월과 횡단상황이 가장 위험한 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 말라카해협의 충돌위험이 가장 높은 해역은 말라카해협과 포트클랑 해협 간 횡단지점으로 분석되었다.

• 한국어류학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.62-71
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• 1999

동해 남부해역과 대한해협에서 1992년 5월과 11월, 1993년 8월 그리고 1994년 1월에 앨퉁이 난 자치어를 채집하여 계절별 수온전선에 따른 난 자치어의 분포 특성을 분석하였다. 어란은 여름철에, 자치어는 봄철에 출현량이 가장 많았고, 난 자치어의 출현량은 겨울에 가장 적었다. 어란은 4계절 모두 중층이나 저층수의 수온이 $15^{\circ}C$ 이하인 저층냉수가 분포하는 대한해협의 서수도를 포함하여 대만난류와 동해 저층수 사이의 수온 전선역에 주로 출현하였다. 대한해협의 서수도에서 어란의 분포 범위는 계절별 대한해협저층냉수의 구조에 따라 달라진다. 자치어는 어란의 분포 경향과 달리 대륙붕단 주변의 전선역 부근해역에 주로 분포하였으며, 부화 직후의 자어부터 후기자어까지 다양한 크기의 개체가 출현하였다. 앨퉁이는 대륙붕단 주변의 전선역에서 주로 산란하고 부화하며, 대한해협저층냉수의 세력이 강한 여름철에는 많은 량의 어란이 저층냉수와 함께 대한해협으로 유입되는 것으로 판단된다. 대한해협은 앨퉁이 난과 자치어의 남방분포 한계 해역으로 추정된다.