• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.496-497
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• 2008

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.185-189
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• 2010

A micro-pulse LIDAR system (MPL) was employed to measure the aerosol over Pudong, Shanghai from July 2008 to January 2009. Based on Fernald method, aerosol optical variables such as extinction coefficient were retrieved and analyzed. Results show that aerosol exists mainly in low layers; aerosol loading reaches its maximum in the afternoon, and then decreases with time until its minimum at night. Most of the aerosol concentrates in the layer below 3 km, and optical extinction coefficient in the layer below 2 km contributes 84.25% of that below 6 km. Two extinction coefficient peaks appear in the near surface layer up to 500 m and in the level around 1000 m. Aerosol extinction coefficient shows a seasonal downward trend from summer to winter.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.99-101
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• 2007

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.413-421
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• 2016

In this study, correlations between Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) derived Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) values and surface-level $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations at Gosan, Korea have been investigated. For this purpose, data from various instruments, such as satellite, sunphotometer, Optical Particle Counter (OPC), and Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL) on 14-24 October 2009 were used. Direct comparison between sunphotometer measured AOD and surface-level $PM_{2.5}$ concentrations showed a $R^2=0.48$. Since the AERONET L2.0 data has significant number of observations with high AOD values paired to low surface-level $PM_{2.5}$ values, which were believed to be the effect of thin cloud or Asian dust. Correlations between MODIS AOD and $PM_{2.5}$ concentration were increased by screening thin clouds and Asian dust cases by use of aerosol profile data on Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNet) as $R^2$ > 0.60. Our study clearly demonstrates that satellite derived AOD is a good surrogate for monitoring atmospheric PM concentration.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.81-82
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• 2003

제주도 서단의 고산 상층기상대는 한반도와 중국대륙, 그리고 대양으로부터의 물질이동의 중간 경로에 위치한 지리적인 요인에 의하여, 동아시아 지역의 대기오염물질의 특성을 파악하기 유리한 장소라 할 수 있다. 2001년부터 계절에 따라 이 지역에서 Micro Pulse Lidar(MPL)를 이용한 에어러솔 관측이 수행되었고, sunphotometer 관측도 병행되어 에어러솔의 공간분포 및 광학적 특성을 파악할 수 있었다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.315-316
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• 1999

황해지역에서의 대기중 에어러솔 분포의 특징을 살피기 위하여 1999년 4월 말, 5월 초 인천에서 약 50km 떨어져 있는 경기도 옹진군 덕적도에서 Micro Pulse Lidar 측정과 에어러솔 샘플링을 수행하였다. 황해지역에서 봄철의 평균적인 에어러솔 농도 및 성분에 대한 연구와 함께 황사가 발생하였을 때의 특성에 대하여 연구하였고, 이 지역으로 유입되는 공기의 기원을 추적하기 위하여 등온위면 역궤적 분석을 수행 하였다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.147-148
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• 2002

기상과 환경 분야에서 원격 탐사의 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 레이저를 사용하여 원격 탐사를 수행하는 라이다는 대기 중으로 쏘아올린 레이저 빛이 대기 중 에어러솔이나 기체 분자에 의해 후방산란 된 신호를 측정한다(원재광, 1998). 이러한 라이다를 응용하여 탐지 대상의 공간적 분포와 연속적인 탐사를 통한 시간 변화를 획득할 수 있다. 극저출력(/고반복율) 레이저를 사용하여 망막안전을 보장하고 스캔시스템과 결합된 마이크로 펄스 라이다가 국내기술로 개발되어 에어러솔 관측에 활용되었으며, 향후 여러 분야에서 응용될 것으로 기대된다. (중략)

• Atmosphere
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.149-153
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• 2005

A balloon-borne Optical Particle Counter (hereafter "OPC Sonde"), which was developed by the atmospheric research group of Nagoya University, is used for getting the information of vertical profile of particle size and concentration in Anmyeon ($36^{\circ}32^{\prime}N$ $126^{\circ}19^{\prime}E$) on 18 March 2005. A range of five different particle sizes is shown in the vertical profile of aerosol number density estimated from the OPC Sonde. It was found that small size particles have vertically larger aerosol number density than relatively big ones. For all size ranges the vertical aerosol number density shows a decreased pattern as the altitude becomes higher. The aerosol number density of $0.3{\sim}0.5{\mu}m$, $0.5{\sim}0.8{\mu}m$, $0.8{\sim}1.2{\mu}m$ size ranges at the 10km height, which is the tropopause approximately, are $1,000,000ea/m^3$, $100,000ea/m^3$, $10,000ea/m^3$ respectively. The data of OPC Sonde are also compared with the data of PM10 $\beta$-ray) and Micro Pulse Lidar which are operating at Korea Global Atmosphere Watch Observatory in Anmyeon.

• Atmosphere
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.97-109
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• 2008

The aerosol characteristics in terms of 4 different cases (Asian dust, fog, clear sky and cloud) which had happened at Anmyeon Island in April 2006 were studied using various measurements such as the Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL), sunphotometer, $\beta$-ray $PM_{10}$ Analyzer, anemoscope and anemometer. In addition, synoptic charts, back trajectory analyses and satellite images were also used to help characterize the aerosol events. The aerosol optical properties were featured by the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and ${\AA}ngstr\ddot{o}m$ exponent which were estimated by the sunphotometer. When Anmyeon Island was dominated by the Asian dust, the AOD was sharply increased as seven times as a yearly average of it (0.35). As compared with a yearly average of the ${\AA}ngstr\ddot{o}m$ exponent of 0.97, the ${\AA}ngstr\ddot{o}m$ exponent of a dust day was significantly low (0.099). In addition, $PM_{10}$ mass concentration showed an extremely high record. The maximum concentration reached $1790.5{\mu}gm^{-3}$ on 8 April 2006. The maximum mass concentration was shown with delay when the wind speed of $0ms^{-1}$ was observed. It was also found that a satellite image of the MODIS-RGB had a good agreement with the results of those measurements. It was shown that the MPL was able to describe effectively the vertical distribution of aerosol for all the cases. In particular, the MPL evidently captured the aerosol layer before the cloud observation. The aerosol layer was similarly described by the AOD. On a clear sky day, the AOD had not only a very low value (0.054) but also a feature of homogeneity.

• Atmosphere
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.319-329
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• 2009

The intensive dust observation experiment has been performed at Korea Global Atmosphere Watch Center (KGAW) in Anmyeon, Korea during each spring season from 2007 to 2009. Downward and upward hyper-spectral spectrums over the dust condition were measured to understand the hyper-spectral properties of Asian dust using both ground-based Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) and space-borne AIRS/Aqua. To understand the impact of the Asian dust, a Line-by-Line radiative transfer model runs to calculate the high resolution infrared spectrum over the wave number range of $500-500cm^{-1}$. Furthermore, the radiosonde, a $PM_{10}$ Sampler, a Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL), and an Aerodynamic Particle Sizer (APS) are used to understand the vertical profile of temperature and humidity and the properties of Asian dust like concentration, altitude of dust layer, and size distribution. In this study, we found the Asian dust distributed from surface up to 3-4 km and volume concentration is increased at the size range between 2 and $8{\mu}m$ The observed dust spectrums are larger than the calculated clear sky spectrums by 15~60K for downward and lower by around 2~6K for upward in the wave number range of $800-1200cm^{-1}$. For the characteristics of the spectrum during the Asian dust, the downward spectrum is revealed a positive slope for $800-1000cm^{-1}$ region and negative slope over $1100-1200cm^{-1}$ region. In the upward spectrum, slopes are opposed to the downward one. It is inferred that the difference between measured and calculated spectrum is mostly due to the contribution of emission and/or absorption of the dust particles by the aerosol amount, size distribution, altitude, and composition.