• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.101-110
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• 2003

We made intensive observations on the coastal upwelling off the coast of the southern East Sea from June to August in 2001. The upwelling exhibited a weekly waxing and waning. The coastal upwelling of the year 2001 was characterized by abrupt outbreaks and the small local scale. Upwelling occurred more frequently off the coast of Ulsan and Gampo as reported by the earlier observers. The spread of freshly upwelled colder water was varied by each upwelling event. Generally cold waters were carried away northeastward off Pohang province. The upwelled cold waters were saltier than the resident surface waters. The pH and salinity-normalized alkalinity support the idea that the upwelled waters originate from the interior of the East Sea. The extraordinarily high concentration of dissolved oxygen suggests that the upwelled waters are closely connected to the southward flowing North Korea Cold Current. Although a lower primary productivity was reported for the upwelling region, underway surface fluorescence measurement revealed that the recently upwelled waters supported up to an order of magnitude higher algal biomass than the ambient waters. Because thermohaline circulation of the East Sea is so vigorous, with an estimated time scale of less than one hundred years, that the coastal upwelling should be considered not as an anomaly but as a regular component of a circulatory system. A quantitative understanding of upwelling seems to be a key to elucidate material cycling and the associated biological production in the East Sea.

• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2003년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.167-174
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• 2003

Oceanic conditions of the Tsushirm Wann Current (1WC) region in the southern area if the East Sea (the Japan Sea) are examined using data obtained from a CREAMS (Circulation Research if the East Asian Marginal Seas) cruise in June 1996. In 1990s, a lower temperature appears in $19\%$ and in this period, two branch of the TWC exist and the first branch of the TWC flows inshore if the Japanese coastal region compared to tfr1t in the other years, especially in the sfr1llower water layer at less th:1n about 2mm. The TWC cored with the higher salinity (>34.6 psu) is clearly observed over the continental shelf zone in the Japanese coastal region and offshore and identified by geostrophic calculation Intrusion if the TWC into the East Sea through the Korea Strait (the Tsushima Strait) makes the density structure in the water column change and the water mass in the TWC region is unstable based on Brunt- Vaisala frequency.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.253-264
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• 2002

Surface ozone concentrations measured at 40 monitoring sites in three major cities (Seoul, Busan, and Daegu) of Korea during 1993~2000 were analyzed to understand the characteristics of temporal and spatial distributions. Trends were analyzed for annual mean, 95th percentiles of daily 8-hour maximum and days exceeding 8-h ozone standard of 60 ppb. Three indicators exhibited increasing trends (+0.75 ppb yr$^{-1}$ , +2.20 ppb yr$_{-1}$ , and +5.35 days yr$_{-1}$ on average) throughout the study period at all cities. Diurnal and seasonal variations were the largest in Seoul followed by Daegue and Busan, due to the high photochemical production and titration of ozone (Seoul), strong wind and constant supply of background ozone from the ocean (Busan). In the urban centers and industrial areas at all cities, scavenging of ozone by NO reduces the daily 8-hour maximum ozone by 10 ppb on average. High concentrations of ozone have frequently occurred in downwind eastern (Seoul and Daegu) or northern (Busan) sides of the territory. In particular, the coastal area of Busan had relatively high ozone level due to the local sea land breeze circulation. The results indicated that the temporal and spatial variations of ozone concentration were non -uniform and were closely related to the local environments; emission levels, climates, and geographic locations.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.3-8
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• 2009

Tidal current power system is one of ocean renewable energies that can minimize the environmental impact with many advantages compared to other energy sources. Not like others, the produced energy can be precisely predicted without weather conditions and also the operation rate is very high. To convert the current into power, the first device encountered to the incoming flow is the rotor that can transform into rotational energy. The performance of rotor can be determined by various design parameters including numbers of blade, sectional shape, diameter, and etc. The stream lines near the rotating rotor is very complex and the interference effects around the system is also difficult to predict. The paper introduces the experiment of rotor performance and also the fundamental study on the characteristics of three different rotors and flow near the rotor by CFD.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.167-174
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• 2013

Model ice forming process in ice tank needs several steps of seeding, freezing, tempering. In those process, one of the most important factors to affect the accuracy of experiment is the homogeneity of the ice thickness and the temperature. This paper investigated a computational and statistical method to assess the uniformity of the model ice. In addition, the different configurations of freezing systems were considered to improve the uniformity. Qualitative assessment using streamlines from the cooling units was carried out by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the quantitative evaluations of the homogeneity were compared using the temperature distribution on the ice surface. In addition, multi species transport analysis is introduced to understand the circulation efficiency of cold air from the cooling units. As the results, optimized configurations were determined by adjusting the angles of vane in the cooling units.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.1021-1032
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• 1997

Satellite-tracked drifters deployed in the East Sea since 1991 are used to study the Tsushima Current (TC). It is found that the TC is a steady current with a mean speed of 10 cm/s before it enters the East Sea. Only during the summer, the TC flows along Honshu Island with a mean speed of $30\~40\;cm/s$ and then exits through the Tsugaru Strait. In fall and winter, the TC does not follow the coast along Honshu Island but it enters into the interior of the East Sea before it reaches the Tsugaru Strait. The water that passes the West Channel of the Korea Strait mostly comes from the western East China Sea and spreads into the interior of the East Sea. It also forms the large eddies in the southern East Sea. The outflow through the Tsugaru Strait comes from the interior of the East Sea in all seasons except summer. The mean speed of the Tsugaru Strait outflow is about 60 cm/s. The largest current variability is found in the eastern central area of the East Sea, south of sub-polar front.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.613-619
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• 2007

Mesoscale low is often observed over the downstream region of the East Sea (or, northwest coast off the Japan Islands) during East-Asia winter monsoon. The low system causes a heavy snowfall at the region. A series of numerical experiments were conducted with the aid of a regional model (MM5 ver. 3.5) to examine the formation mechanism of the mesoscale low. The following results were obtained: 1) A well-developed mesoscale low was simulated by the regional model under real topography, NCEP reanalysis, and OISST; 2) The mesoscale low was simulated under a zonally averaged SST without topography. This implies that the meridional gradient of SST is the main factor in the formation of a mesoscale low; 3) A thermal contrast ($>10^{\circ}C$) of land-sea and topography-induced disturbance served as the second important factor for the formation; 4) Paektu Mountain caused the surface wind to decelerate downstream, which created a more favorable environment for thermodynamic modification than that was found in a flat topography; and 5) The types of cumulus parameterizations did not affect the development of the mesoscale low.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2009년도 공동학술대회
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• pp.156-157
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• 2009

최근 경제의 발전과 근무형태의 변화로 인한 여가활동이 점차 증가함에 따라 해안지역에 관광인프라 건설이 늘어나는 추세이다. 본 연구는 동해안 지역의 국제적 성장 가능성과 지역의 자원 개발 잠재력을 토대로 한 광역관광권 개발사업의 일환으로 제안된 울산과 포항사이의 양포항에 복합해양관광휴양단지 구상안에 대한 주변수역의 변화양상을 파악하고자 하였다. 이에 신뢰성 있는 수치도형 구현을 위해 3차원 수치모델을 구축하고 이를 바탕으로 해양관광휴양단지 조성시 발생하는 파동 및 유동장의 변화, 표사 및 해저지형 등의 해양환경변화를 예측하여 구상단계에서 기초자료로 활용하고자 하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2005

The currently operating NASA/GFZ Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission is designed to measure small mass changes over a large spatial scale, including the mapping of continental water storage changes and other geophysical signals in the form of monthly temporal gravity field. The European Space Agency's Gravity field and steady state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) space gravity gradiometer (SGG) mission is anticipated to determine the mean Earth gravity field with an unprecedented geoid accuracy of several cm (rms) with wavelength of 130km or longer. In this paper, we present a summary of present GRACE studies for the recovery of hydrological signals in the Amazon basin using alternative processing and filtering techniques, and local inversion to enhance the temporal and spatial resolutions by two-folds or better. Simulation studies for the potential GRACE detection of slow deformations due to Nazca-South America plate convergence and glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) signals show that these signals are at present difficult to detect without long-term data averaging and further improvement of GRACE measurement accuracy.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.591-603
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• 2022

해수 속의 용존 유기·무기물과 플랑크톤 등의 상호 작용은 해수의 색과 광학적 특성을 결정한다. 동중국해에 위치한 이어도 해양과학기지(I-ORS) 주변의 해역은 서쪽으로 양자강 저염수, 남쪽으로 대마 난류에 영향을 받아 한반도 주변의 해수 순환과 광특성 변동 연구에 적합하다. 본 연구에서는 MODIS/Aqua로 관측한 위성 원격 반사도와 NOMAD 실측 원격 반사도를 이용하여 2016년 1월부터 2020년 12월까지 I-ORS 주변의 해수의 원격반사도를 스펙트럼 특성에 따라 23가지의 유형으로 분류하였으며, 이어도 해양 과학기지 주변 해역(d ≤ 10 km)의 위성 일치점 자료 59,532개를 이용하여 연구 해역 수형의 계절 변동 특성을 제시하였다. 각 관측 지점에서의 원격 반사도 스펙트럼은 분광 각도법을 이용하여 기준 스펙트럼과의 유사도를 비교함으로써 가장 근접한 기준 수형으로 분류 하였으며 분광 유사도가 10° 이내일 때만 유의미하다고 판단하였다. 연구 기간내 I-ORS 주변 해역에서는 상대적으로 맑은 해역에서 잘 나타나는 수형이 50% 이상으로 가장 빈번하게 관측되었다. 계절별 수형의 도수분포에서 여름과 겨울의 분포 양상이 다르게 나타났고, 특히 여름에는 맑은 해수에서 주로 나타나는 7 이하의 수형이 주로 출현한 반면에 겨울에는 전체 4% 미만으로 존재하였다. I-ORS 주변을 비롯한 동중국해의 수형의 공간 분포 특성을 고려할 때 I-ORS는 해수 수형의 전이 대에 위치한 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구는 한반도 연안에서의 수형 변동을 분석함으로써 해수의 광학 특성 이해을 이해하고 인공위성 해색 변수의 정확도 향상을 위한 토대 마련에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.