• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.271-286
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• 2016

We evaluate the temperature and salinity fields in the East Sea reproduced by the global ocean reanalysis data using HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM for short). Temporal correlation of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) change between HYCOM and the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) are higher in summer than winter. Though distributions of temperature and salinity in the HYCOM are similar to those from historical data (World Ocean Atlas 2013 V2), salinity in the HYCOM is lower (highter) in the region where the salinity is high (low). Temperature fields in the Ulleung basin of HYCOM are quite similar to those derived from Pressure-recording Inverted Echo Sounder (PIES), such as the correlation coefficient is higher than 0.7. This indicates that the HYCOM represents well the circulation and meso-scale phenomena in the Ulleung basin.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.649-654
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• 2002

In summer season of 1998, a huge flood occurred around the Yangtze River in the eastern China. The low salinity water less than 28 psu from the river was detected around the southeastern part of the Jeju Island which is located in the southern part of the Korean peninsula. We studied how to detect low salinity water from the Yangtze River, which gives terrible damages to the Korean fisheries. We got the relationships between low surface salinity, turbid water from the Yangtze River and digital ocean color using remote sensing of SeaWiFS satellite in the northern East China Sea in summer seanson of 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. The charts of salinity in the northern East China Sea were made by the regenerating of the satellite ocean color data with the formula from the relationships between low salinity, in situ turbid water (transparency) and satellite ocean color.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.153-162
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• 2004

In the summer of 1998-2001, a huge flood occurred in the Yangtze River in the eastern China. Low salinity water less than 28 psu from the river was detected around the southwestern part of the Jeju Island, which is located in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. We studied how to detect low salinity water from the Yangtze River, that cause a terrible damage to the Korean fisheries. We established a relationships between low salinity at surface, turbid water from the Yangtze River and digital ocean color remotely sensed data of SeaWiFS sensor in the northern East China Sea, in the summer of 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. The salinity charts of the northern East China Sea were created by regeneration of the satellite ocean color data using the empirical formula from the relationships between in situ low salinity, in situ measured turbid water with transparency and SeaWiFS ocean color data (normalized water leaving radiance of 490 nm/555 nm).

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.208-216
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• 2014

In case of any coastal ocean near the mouth of huge rivers, low salinity water can be formed due to its large amount of freshwater discharge. For the acoustic analysis on the low salinity environment, some oceanographic data of the East China Sea and the Atlantic Ocean were collected through KODC (Korea Oceanographic Data Center) and NODC (National Oceanographic Data Center) online service. In this paper, the T-S gradient diagram is introduced to show a relation between the gradients of temperature and salinity in view of acoustic surface channel formation. Existence of haline channel, quantitative contribution of gradients of salinity and temperature, effectiveness of the channel formation can be known by the T-S gradient diagram. After applying the collected data into the diagram, tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean show strong haline channel due to its nearly invariant temperature and drastic change of salinity with depth. The averaged transmission loss in the channel is about 5.7 ~ 7.5 dB less than that out of the channel by the results of acoustic propagation model (RAM: Range independent Acoustic Model). On the other hand, the East China Sea and temperate region of the Atlantic ocean have weaker haline channel with less difference of the averaged transmission loss between in and out of the channel as 3.2 ~ 6.0 dB. Although data samples used in this study have limitation to represent the general physical structures of the three ocean regions, the T-S gradient diagram is shown to be useful and acoustic field affected by low salinity environment is investigated in this study.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.356-366
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• 2020

The accuracy of satellite-observed sea surface salinity (SSS) was evaluated in comparison with in-situ salinity measurements from ARGO floats and buoys in the seas around the Korean Peninsula, the northwest Pacific, and the global ocean. Differences in satellite SSS and in-situ measurements (SSS errors) indicated characteristic dependences on geolocation, sea surface temperature (SST), and other oceanic and atmospheric conditions. Overall, the root-mean-square (rms) errors of non-averaged SMOS SSSs ranged from approximately 0.8-1.08 psu for each in-situ salinity dataset consisting of ARGO measurements and non-ARGO data from CTD and buoy measurements in both local seas and the ocean. All SMOS SSSs exhibited characteristic negative bias errors at a range of -0.50- -0.10 psu in the global ocean and the northwest Pacific, respectively. Both rms and bias errors increased to 1.07 psu and -0.17 psu, respectively, in the East Sea. An analysis of the SSS errors indicated dependence on the latitude, SST, and wind speed. The differences of SMOS-derived SSSs from in-situ salinity data tended to be amplified at high latitudes (40-60°N) and high sea water salinity. Wind speeds contributed to the underestimation of SMOS salinity with negative bias compared with in-situ salinity measurements. Continuous and extensive validation of satellite-observed salinity in the local seas around Korea should be further investigated for proper use.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.1353-1361
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• 2008

Quality control of Argo(Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography) data is crucial by reason that salinity measurements are liable to experience some drift and offset due to biofouling, contamination of sensor and wash-out of biocide. The automated Argo real-time quality control has a limit of sorting data quality, so that WJO program is adopted as standardized method of Argo delayed mode quality control (DMQc) in the world that is a precise quality control method. We conducted DMQC on pressure, temperature and salinity measured by Argo floats in the Pacific Ocean including expert evaluation. Particularly, salinity data were corrected using WJO program. 4 salinity profiles of Argo delayed mode were compared with nearby in situ CTD data and other Argo data in deep layer where oceanographic conditions are stable in time and space. The differences of both salinities were lower than target accuracy of Argo. As compared with the difference of salinities before DMQC, those after DMQC decreased by 60-80 percent. Quality of delayed mode salinity data seemed to be improved correcting salinity data suggested by WJO program.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.469-477
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• 2020

염분은 해양의 밀도를 결정하는 중요한 변수이자 전지구 물의 순환을 나타내는 주요 인자 중 하나이다. 해상염분 관측은 선박을 이용한 현장조사, Argo 플로트, 부이를 통한 조사가 주로 수행되어 왔다. 2009년 염분관측 인공위성이 발사한 이래로, 위성 염분자료를 이용하여 전 지구 해역에서 표층 염분 관측이 가능해졌다. 그러나 위성 염분자료는 다양한 오차를 포함하기 때문에 연구 자료로 활용하기에 앞서 정확도 검증과정이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 2015년 4월부터 2020년 8월까지 Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) 위성 염분자료와 이어도 해양과학기지에서 제공하는 실측 염분자료 간의 정확도 및 오차특성을 비교 분석하였다. 총 314개의 일치점을 생산하였으며, 염분의 평균제 곱근오차 및 평균편차는 각각 1.79, 0.91 psu로 제시되었다. 전반적으로 위성 염분이 실측 염분보다 과대추정 되는 것으로 나타났다. 위성 염분의 오차는 계절, 표층 수온, 풍속과 같은 다양한 해양 환경적 요인에 의존성을 보였다. 여름철 위성 염분과 실측 염분의 차이는 0.18 psu 이하로 저수온보다는 고수온에서 위성 염분의 정확도가 증가하였다. 이는 센서의 민감도에 따른 결과였다. 마찬가지로 5m s^-1 이상 풍속 조건에서 오차가 줄어들었다. 본 연구결과는 연안에서 위성 염분자료를 활용할 경우에는 특정한 연구 목적에 적합한지 확인하여 제한적으로 사용하여야 함을 제시한다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.37-47
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• 2015

The effects of low salinity (fertilization success and larval survival) on the limpet Cellana grata were studied at early stages of development using the marine bioassay technique. It was shown that, under normal conditions for development from fertilization to the post veliger stage, the salinity must be not less than 20.0~35.0 psu. However, the fertilization rate and larval survival of C. grata was obviously reduced at 5.0 psu and 10.0 psu, respectively. Mass mortality was estimated to occur at <20.0 psu (48-h $EC_{50}=19.54psu$) and the survival rate of normal veliger larvae decreased with experimental time during exposure. No observed effective concentration (NOEC) and lowest observed effect concentration (LOEC) of post veliger were estimated at 30.0 psu and 25.0 psu, respectively, during 48-h exposure. The tolerance limits of the test species to salinity revealed various concentration ranges of salinity, which may reflect the physiology and ecology of the initial development stages of C. grata. These results demonstrate that reduced salinity is detrimental to the reproductive success and larval survival of C. grata, and if salinity is lowered by natural or anthropogenic sources during spawning, this would lead to decreased reproductive success and larval settlement.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2013

일반적으로 해양에서는 염분이 크게 변하지 않기 때문에 염분변화로 인한 음속변화는 무시할 수 있다. 그러나 제주 서부 해역에서는 매년 여름 저염분수의 영향으로 염분이 낮아지는 현상이 발생하여 표층 음속의 변화가 발생한다. 해양자료센터의 자료를 이용하여 제주 서부해역 세 정점에서의 30년(1980~2009) 자료 중 28 psu 이하의 저염분수가 발생한 해와 그렇지 않은 해의 수직분포를 각각 평균하여 음속분포를 구한 후에 수온과 염분에 의한 음속 변화를 분석하였다. 그 결과 저염분수 환경에서 염분에 의한 음속 변화는 표층에서 -5.36 m/s, 수심 10 m에서 -1.35 m/s 인 것으로 나타났다. 또한 표층 음속 감소로 인해 수심 약 5 m까지의 음속 수직 분포가 양(+)의 기울기를 갖게 되어 표층 염분채널이 형성되었으며 벨홉(Bellhop)모델을 이용한 음파전달 모의실험을 통해 이를 확인하였다. 30년간 표층채널 발생 동향을 분석한 결과 혼합층에서 압력에 의해 발생하는 정수채널은 9회, 저염분에 의해 발생하는 염분 채널은 5회로 나타났으며 염분 채널이 발생한 경우는 정수 채널에 비해 음선 임계각이 크게 나타나는 것으로 확인되었다. 또한 2010년 8월 1일 제주 서부해역에 발생하였던 저염분수의 공간적 분포를 측정한 자료에서도 일부 정점에서 염분채널이 형성되었다.

• ALGAE
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.361-373
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• 2020

The community dynamics of benthic diatoms in the hypersaline environment are investigated to advance our understanding how salinity impacts marine life. Diatoms were sampled in the two salterns encompassing salt Ponds, ditches, and seawater reservoirs (n = 11), along the salinity gradient (max = 324 psu), and nearby tidal flats (n = 2). The floral assemblages and distributions across sites and stations showed great variations, with a total of 169 identified taxa. First, not surprisingly, higher diversity of benthic diatoms was found at natural tidal flats than salterns. The saltern diatoms generally showed salinity dependent distributions with distinct spatial changes in species composition and dominant taxa. Biota-environment and principal component analysis confirmed that salinity, mud content, and total nitrogen were key factors influencing the overall benthic community structure. Some dominant species, e.g., Nitzschia scalpelliformis and Achnanthes sp. 1, showed salinity tolerance / preference. The number of diatom species at salinity of >100 psu reduced over half and no diatoms were found at maximum salinity of 324 psu. The highest salinity for the observed live diatoms was 205 psu, however, a simple regression indicated a theoretical salinity threshold of ~300 psu on the survival. Finally, the indicator species were identified along the salinity gradient in salterns as well as natural tidal flats. Overall, high species numbers, varying taxa, and euryhaline distributions of saltern diatoms collectively reflected a dynamic saltern ecosystem. The present study would provide backgrounds for biodiversity monitoring of ecologically important microalgal producers in some unique hypersaline environment, and elsewhere.