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SIMP: SLICKS AS INDICATORS FOR MARINE PROCESSES

  • Mitnik, Leonid M.;Gade, Martin;Ermakov, Stanislav A.;Lavrova, Olga Yu.;Silva, Jose B.C. da;Woolf, David K.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.950-953
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    • 2006
  • SIMP is an international project funded by INTAS aimed at improving the information content, which can be inferred from multi-sensor satellite imagery of marine coastal areas. Scientific teams from Germany, UK, Portugal, and Russia focus on the development of novel tools for marine remote sensing of the coastal zone. In particular, the project teams' benefit from the fact that surface films may enhance the signatures of hydrodynamic processes such as plumes, internal waves, eddies, etc., on microwave, optical, and infrared imagery. The project's objectives are to develop a robust methodology for identifying slick-related phenomena/processes through their surface signatures and thereby, to improve the discrimination capabilities between slicks and other oceanic and atmospheric phenomena by taking into account information gained from satellite imagery quasi-simultaneously recorded at microwave, visible and IR wavelengths. The results of the two project years are summarized. Examples are given for the project’s web presentation, laboratory and field experiments, and of the analyses of various satellite data.

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The Characteristics of Circulation in the Coastal Area of Jeju Harbor Using the Three Dimensional Ocean Circulation Model (3차원 해수유동모델에 의한 제주항 연안해역의 해수순환 특성)

  • Yang, Tai-Hoek;Yang, Sung-Kee
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.679-686
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    • 2011
  • The characteristics of circulation in the coastal area of Jeju Harbor in Korea was examined using the Princeton Ocean Model(POM) with a sigma coordinate system. The result of numerical analysis well corresponded to the observed current data. The velocity at offshore was stronger compared to coastal area during the both period of in maximum flood and maximum ebb of spring tide. According to mean wind velocity, the tidal velocity at the shallow area of Jocheon was slightly increasing during maximum ebb. The effect of wind on the circulation was stronger in shallow area and showed rapid change with depth.

Computational Design of a Disk-Shape Boundary-Layer Pump (원반형 경계층 펌프의 전산 설계)

  • Jeong, S.Y.;Chang, S.M.;Yang, J.S.
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.12-17
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    • 2010
  • A kind of disk-shape boundary layer pump is designed numerically by using a software of computational fluid dynamics, which is widely used for the special purposes such as artificial hearts, bio-fluidics and transportation of oceanic lives, etc. From the numerical simulation with an axisymmetric model, some benchmark problems are tested and compared with experimental results. The performance of disk pump is graphically visualized from the computational results, and converted to the dimensionless parameters. Finally, the obtained numerical data in the present investigation can be used for the baseline for new design to achieve a more efficient disk pump.

Biological Oceanography Of The Gamagyang Bay-The Yeoja Bay Water System(I)

  • Shim, Jae Hyung
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.89-99
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    • 1980
  • The major source of nutrients in both the Gamagyang Bay and the Yeoja Bay is mixing. However, water discharges also seem to contribute significant quantities which may influence local phytoplankton growth. Data collected inn the study area shows that natural fluctuations in the environmental conditions of the entire area play a dominant role in determining the phytoplankton populations of the two Bays. The predominating phytoplankton forms are neritic diatom species including some dinoflagellate species in summer. Neritic groups are relatively more abundant in inner areas of the Bays. The oceanic groups and species are seasonal, and associated with advective effects. One neritic species is of overwhelming numerical importance and occurs when a specific seasonal conditions is formed. Species cycles in the two Bays may be regarded as largely the result of successional changes or cycles of autochthonous species introduced by advective processes.

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Growth of Wind Waves with Fetch in the Sea of Japan under Winter Monsoon Investigated using Data from Satellite Altimeters and Scatterometer

  • Ebuchi, Naoto
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 1998.09a
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    • pp.31-36
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    • 1998
  • By using wind vectors observed by NSCAT and significant wave heights observed by TOPEX/POSEIDON and ERS-2 altimeters, one-dimensional fetch growth of wind waves Is investigated under conditions of strong wind and high waves of the East Asian winter monsoon. The evolution of fetch-limited wind waves can be observed by the altimeters along the ground tracks. The fetch is estimated by using vector wind field observed by NSCAT. The derived growth characteristics of wind waves are compared with empirical relationships between the non-dimensional fetch and significant wave height proposed by previous studies. Good agreement with the empirical fetch graph formula normalized by the friction velocity is discemible, while the formulas normalized by the wind speed at a height of 10 m tend to underestimate the wave height under such severe conditions of high wind and very long fetch.

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Computation of Super High-Resolution Global Ocean Model using Earth Simulator

  • Kim, Dong-Hoon;Norikazu Nakashiki;Yoshikatsu Yoshida;Takaki Tsubono;Frank O. Bryan;Richard D.Smith;Mathew E. Maltrud;Matthew W. Hecht;Julie L. McClean
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.08a
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    • pp.164-169
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    • 2003
  • The need fur higher grid resolution in climate models is often discussed (e.g. McAvaney et al.,2001) because a number of important oceanic processes are not resolved by the current generation of coupled models, e.g., boundary currents, mesoscale eddy fluxes, sill through flows. McClean et al., (1997) and Bryan and Smith (1998) have compared simulated mesoscale variability in simulations at several eddy-resolving resolutions to TOPEX/Poseidon and similar data. (omitted)

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Secalonic acid D; A Cytotoxic Constituent from Marine Lichen-derived Fungus Gliocladium sp. T31

  • Ren, Hong;Tian, Li;Gu, Qianqun;Zhu, Weiming
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.59-63
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    • 2006
  • Secalonic acid D(SAD) was isolated as the major secondary metabolite of the marine lichen-derived fungus Gliocladium sp. T31. Its structure was established on the basic of physicochemical and spectroscopic data. This is the first report on the isolation of SAD from this fungus, as well as its inhibitory effect on K562 cell cycle and its cytotoxicity against several tumor cell lines in vitro.

RAINFALL FROM TRMM-RADAR AND RADIOMETER

  • Park, K.W.;Kim, Y.S.;Gairola, R.M.;Kwon, B.H.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.528-530
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    • 2003
  • We present here, some of the studies carried for estimation of rainfall over land and oceanic regions in and around South Korea. We use active and passive microwave measurements from TRMM ? TMI and Precipitation Radar (PR) respectively during a typhoon even named ? RUSA that took place during 30 Aug. 2002. We have followed due approach by Yao at. all (2002) and examined the performance of their algorithm using two main predictor variable, named as Scattering Index (SI) and Polarization Corrected Brightness Temperature (PCT) while using TMI data. The rainfall fnus estimated using PST and SI shows some Underestimation as compared to the 2A25 rainfall products from the PR in common area of overlap. A larger database thus would be used in future. To establish a new rain rate algorithm over Korean region based on the present case study.

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Variations of Sea Level and Sea Surface Temperature in Korean Seas by Topex/Poseidon and NOAA

  • Yoon, Hong-Joo;Kang, Heung-Soon;Cho, Han-Keun
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.59-63
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    • 2007
  • Altimeter (Topex/Poseidon) and AVHRR (NOAA) data were used to study the variations and correlations of Sea Level (SL) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in the North East Asian Seas from November 1993 to May 1998. This region is influenced simultaneously to continental and oceanic climate as the border of the East Sea (Japan Sea). SL and SST have increased gradually every year because the global warming, and presented usually a strong annual variations in Kuroshio extension region with the influence of bottom topography.

Extreme Rainfall and Flood related to Tropical Moisture Exports Related Extreme in Korea

  • Uranchimeg, Sumiya;Kwon, Hyun-Han;Kim, Kyung-Wook
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.170-170
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    • 2018
  • In some case studies, the heavy precipitation events and rapid cyclogenesis in the extratropics can be caused by moist and warm tropical air masses. Tropical Moisture Exports (TME) correspond to the meridional transport of moist air masses, primarily born in tropical oceanic areas, to higher latitudes; and are closely related to flood events, especially in the mid-latitudes. The TME for the region of interest is mostly estimated by the back tracking approach using Lagrangian Analysis Tools (LAGRANTO) from ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA) data. In this study, we aim to estimate the TME that are related to rainfall in Korea. The major moisture sources of the TME that contribute to heavy rainfall and extreme floods in Korea are identified. The TME is found to have significant connection with extreme events in Korea such as heavy rainfall and extreme flood events. The results show the most of the moisture sources comes from the west Pacific during the warm half of the year and it contributes significantly to the annual TME and is linked to the East Asian monsoon.

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