• 한국환경과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경과학회 2003년도 International Symposium on Clean Environment
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• pp.165-170
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• 2003

A significant surface net heat loss appears around the Kuroshio and the Tsushima Warm Current regions. The area where the surface heat loss occurs should require heat to be supplied by the current to maintain the long-term annual heat balance. Oceanic heat advection in these regions plays an important role in the heat budget. The spatial distribution of the heat supply by the Tsushima Warm Current near the surface was examined by calculating the horizontal heat supply in the surface layer of the East/Japan Sea, directly from historical sea surface temperature and current data. We have also found a simple estimation of the effective vertical scale of heat supply by the current to compensate net heat loss using the heat supplied by the current in the surface 10m layer. The heat supplied by the current for the annual heat balance was large in the Korea/Tsushima Strait and along the Japanese Coast, and was small in the northwestern part of the East/Japan Sea. The amount of heat supplied by the current was large in the northwestern part and small in the southeastern part of the East/Japan Sea. These features suggest that the heat supplied by the Tsushima Warm Current is restricted to near the surface around the northeastern part and extends to a deeper layer around the southeastern part of the East/Japan Sea.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.58-60
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• 2004

Sea level variations and sea surface circulations in the Korean seas were observed by Topex/Poseidon altimeter data from 1993 through 1997. In sea level variations, the West and South Sea showed relatively high variations with comparison to the East Sea. Then, the northern and southern area in the West Sea showed the range of 20∼30cm and 18∼24cm, and the northern west of Jeju island and the southern west of Tsushima island in the South Sea showed the range of 15∼20cm and 10∼15cm, respectively. High variations in the West Sea were results to the inflow in sea surface of Yellow Sea Warm Current (YSWC) and bottom topography. Sea level variations in the South Sea were due to two branch currents (Jeju Warm Current and East Korea Warm Current) originated from Kuroshio Current (KC). In sea surface circulations, there existed remarkably three eddies circulations in the East Sea that are mainly connected with North Korea Cold Current (NKCC), East Korea Warm Current (EKWC) and Tushima Warm Current (TWC). Their eddies are caused basically to the influence of currents in sea surface circulations; Cyclone (0.03 cm/see) in the Wonsan bay off shore with NKCC, and anticyclone (0.06 cm/see) in the southwestern area of Ulleung island with EKWC, and cyclone (0.01 cm/see) in the northeastern area of Tushima island with TWC, respectively.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.879-881
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• 2003

Sea level variations and sea surface circulations in the Korean seas were observed by Topex/Poseidon altimeter data from 1993 through 1997. In sea level variations, the West and South Sea showed relatively high variations with comparison to the East Sea. Then, the northern and southern area in the West Sea showed the range of 20${\sim}$30cm and 18${\sim}$24cm, and the northern west of Jeju island and the southern west of Tsushima island in the South Sea showed the range of 15${\sim}$20cm and 10${\sim}$15cm, respectively. High variations in the West Sea was results to the inflow in sea surface of Yellow Sea Warm Current (YSWC) and bottom topography. Sea level variations in the South Sea was due to two branch currents(Jeju Warm Current and East Korea Warm Current) originated from Kuroshio Current (KC). In sea surface circulations, there existed remarkably three eddies circulations in the East Sea that are mainly connected with North Korea Cold Current (NKCC), East Korea Warm Current (EKWC) and Tushima Warm Current(TWC). Their eddies are caused basically to the influence of currents in sea surface circulations; Cyclone (0.03 cm/sec) in the Wonsan bay off shore with NKCC, and anticyclone (0.06 cm/sec) in the southwestern area of Ulleung island with EKWC, and cyclone (0.01 cm/sec) in the northeastern area of Tushima island with TWC, respectively.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.187-195
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• 2002

The characteristics of surface circulation in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea are discussed by analyzing a great deal of current data observed by 142 sets of mooring buoy and 58 sets of drifters trajectories collected in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea through domestic and abroad measurements. Some major features are demonstrated as bellow: 1) Tsushima Warm Current flows away from the Kuroshio and has multiple sources in warm half year and comes only from Kuroshio surface water in cold half year. 2) Taiwan Warm Current comes mainly from the Taiwan Strait Water in warm half year and comes from the intruded Kuroshio surface water and branches near 27N in cold half year. 3) The Changjiang Diluted Water turns towards Cheju Island in summer and flows southward along the coastal line in winter. 4) The study sea area is an eddy developing area, especially in the southern area of Cheju Island and northern area of Taiwan.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.225-242
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• 2012

이 연구는 인공위성 고도계로 관측한 해수면 높이 자료를 이용하여 동해 표층해류를 생산하고, 동해 전체 영역에 대하여 동시성 있는 표층해류 분포를 동해 해류 정보 사용자에게 제공하기 위한 최초의 시도이다. 동해 전 영역에서 인공위성 고도계와 연안 조위관측소의 해수면 높이 자료를 동시에 얻을 수 있으므로 준실시간으로 넓은 해역에 대하여 동시성 있는 표층 지형류의 산출이 가능하다. 산출된 동해 표층 지형류로부터 주요 해류의 위치와 세기 그리고 중규모 이상의 소용돌이 발달 양상을 살펴볼 수 있다. 따라서 이들 해류의 이름과 평균적인 위치를 알 수 있도록 동해 해양지명에 대한 명칭과 위치를 기술하고, 개념적인 해류도를 제시하였다. 동해 해류정보가 실제 실용화될 수 있도록 인공위성 고도계 자료를 이용하여 산출한 지형류의 월 계절 연도별 해류 분포 예를 들고, 각 해류 분포를 설명하였다. 또한 시 공간적으로 변화하는 동해 표층해류 분포 형태를 객관적으로 분류하기 위하여 16년(1993~2008년)간의 표층해류 자료를 경험직교함수(Empirical Orthogonal Function, EOF)를 이용하여 분석하였다. EOF분석 제1모드(mode)는 주로 한국 동해안을 따라 북쪽으로 흐르는 동한난류와 야마도분지 남서부 시계방향 순환의 강화 또는 약화를 나타냈다. 제2모드는 동한난류가 동해 남부를 가로지르며 사행하는 정도를 나타냈으며, 해류 사행의 파장은 약 300 km이었다. 제1모드와 제2모드가 모두 해류의 연간 변동성을 나타냈으며, 제1모드와 제2모드의 시간계수에 따라 동해 표층해류 분포를 관성 경계류 패턴(pattern), 대마난류 패턴, 사행 패턴, 외해분지류 패턴으로 분류할 수 있다.

• 한국환경과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경과학회 2003년도 International Symposium on Clean Environment
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• pp.177-184
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• 2003

Numerical simulation on marine wind and sea surface elevation was carried out using both three-dimensional hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic models and a simple oceanic model from 0900 LST, August 13 to 0900 LST, August 15, 1995. As daytime easterly meso-scale sea-breeze from the eastern sea penetrates Kangnung city in the center part as basin and goes up along the slope of Mt. Taegullyang in the west, it confronts synoptic-scale westerly wind blowing over the top of the mountain at the mid of the eastern slope and then the resultant wind produces an upper level westerly return flow toward the East Sea. In a narrow band of weak surface wind within 10km of the coastal sea, wind stress is generally small, less than l${\times}$10E-2 Pa and it reaches 2 ${\times}$ 10E-2 Pa to the 35 km. Positive wind stress curl of 15 $\times$ 10E-5Pa $m^{-1}$ still exists in the same band and corresponds to the ascent of 70 em from the sea level. This is due to the generation of northerly wind driven current with a speed of 11 m $S^{-1}$ along the coast under the influence of south-easterly wind and makes an intrusion of warm waters from the southern sea into the northern coast, such as the East Korea Warm Current. On the other hand, even if nighttime downslope windstorm of 14m/s associated with both mountain wind and land-breeze produces the development of internal gravity waves with a hydraulic jump motion of air near the coastal inland surface, the surface wind in the coastal sea is relatively moderate south-westerly wind, resulting in moderate wind stress. Negative wind stress curl in the coast causes the subsidence of the sea surface of 15 em along the coast and south-westerly coastal surface wind drives alongshore south-easterly wind driven current, opposite to the daytime one. Then, it causes the intrusion of cold waters like the North Korea Cold Current in the northern coastal sea into the narrow band of the southern coastal sea. However, the band of positive wind stress curl at the distance of 30km away from the coast toward further offshore area can also cause the uprising of sea waters and the intrusion of warm waters from the southern sea toward the northern sea (northerly wind driven current), resulting in a counter-clockwise wind driven current. These clockwise and counter-clockwise currents much induce the formation of low clouds containing fog and drizzle in the coastal region.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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• pp.816-819
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• 2006

One of the most difficult parameters to measure in the sea is current speed and direction. Recently, efforts are being made to estimate the ocean current vectors by utilizing sequential satellite imageries. In this study, we attempted to estimated sea surface current vector (sscv) by using satellite ocean color imageries of SeaWifs around the Korean Peninsula. This ocean color image data has 1-day sampling interval and spatial resolution of 1x1 km. Maximum cross-correlation method is employed which is aimed to detect similar patterns between sequential images. The estimated current vectors are compared to the surface geostrophic current vectors obtained from altimeter of sea level height data. In utilizing the color imagery data, some limitations and drawbacks exist so that in warm water region where phytoplankton concentration is relatively lower than in cold water region, estimation of sscv is poor and unreliable. On the other hand, two current vector fields agree reasonably well in the Korean South Sea region where high concentration of chlorophyll-a and weak tide is observed. In the future, with ocean color images of shorter sampling interval by COMS satellite, the algorithm and methodology developed in the study would be useful in providing the information for the ocean current around Korean Peninsula.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.159-165
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 위성고도계자료를 이용하여 개발된 평균해면모델인 CLS_SHOM과 지구중력장 모델인 EGM96으로부터 평균해면고와 지오이드고를 계산하여 해면지형을 계산하고, 이를 이용하여 지형류의 흐름을 추정하였다 지형류의 추정을 통하여 해양의 물리학적인 특성을 연구할 수 있기 때문에 외국에서는 많은 연구가 수행되어 왔으나 우리나라의 경우에는 연구가 이루어지지 않은 상태이다. 본 연구에서는 지형류에 대한 기초연구로서 동해에서의 지형류 흐름특성을 분석하여 제시하였다. 연구결과 동해지역에 대한 해면지형의 평균은 약 37cm로 계산되었고, 지형류 속도는 평균 -0.028m/sec로 계산되었다. 지형류의 흐름은 태평양 해수가 대한해협을 통과하면서 속도가 증가한 후에 일본열도의 외측단을 따라서 동북동 방향으로 거의 일정한 속도로 흐르다가 좁은 Tsugaru 해협과 Soya 해협을 통하여 유출되며, 한반도의 동해안을 따라서 북쪽으로 흐르다가 Soya해협과 북동북으로 향하여 Okhotsk해로 유출되는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.208-225
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• 2019

동해의 평균 표층 순환과 표층 해류의 변동성을 이해하기 위하여 1991년부터 2017년까지 동해를 지나간 표층 뜰개들의 궤적을 분석하였다. 표층 뜰개 자료를 분석하여 동해 표층 해류들을 그 주경로 별로 분류하고, 이들 해류의 변동을 조사하였다. 동한난류는 한국 동해안을 따라 북쪽으로 흐르며 $36{\sim}38^{\circ}N$에서 이안한 후 동해 중앙($131{\sim}137^{\circ}E$)에서 동쪽으로 흐른다. 이때 해류 경로의 평균 위도는 $36{\sim}40^{\circ}N$의 범위를 가지며, 남북으로 큰 진폭을 갖고 사행한다. 표층 뜰개 경로의 평균 위도가 $37.5^{\circ}N$ 이남(이북)일 때 사행진폭이 상대적으로 크며(작으며) 진폭은 약 100 (50) km이다. 동해 중앙에서 표층 뜰개들은 $37.5{\sim}38.5^{\circ}N$를 따라 동쪽으로 흐르는 경로를 가장 빈번하게 지나간다. 동해 북부 블라디보스토크 연안에 투하된 표층 뜰개들은 연안을 따라 남서쪽으로 이동하다가 일본분지 서쪽에서 반시계방향 순환을 따라 남동쪽으로 이동한 후 $39{\sim}40^{\circ}N$에서 동쪽으로 사행하여 이동한다. 다음으로 동해를 $0.25^{\circ}$ 간격으로 격자를 나누어 각 격자를 통과하는 표층 뜰개들의 이동 속도 벡터 자료로 동해 평균 표층 해류 벡터장과 속력장을 구하였다. 그리고 $0.5^{\circ}$ 격자 간격으로 해류장의 분산타원을 계산하였다. 울릉분지 서쪽에서는 동한난류의 경로가 매년 변화하고, 야마토분지에서는 해류의 사행과 소용돌이가 많아 해류의 변동성(분산)이 크다. 표층 뜰개의 주 이동 경로, 평균 해류 벡터장, 분산을 모두 반영하여 표층 뜰개 자료에 근거한 동해 표층 해류 모식도를 제시하였다. 이 연구는 그동안 인공위성 고도계 자료를 이용하여 구한 표층 지형류와 해양수치모델로 모의한 해류를 중심으로 연구해 왔던 동해 표층 순환을 라그랑지 관측 자료를 통해 정리했다는 데 의의가 있다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.621-626
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• 2002

A satellite scatterometer is a microwave radar sensor used to measure the backscattering at a sea surface. This instrument transmits radar pulses to the sea surface and measure the radar energy reflected back towards the source. Changes in wind velocity make sea surface roughness change and then affect on backscattered power. This gives us information of sea surface wind speed. Directions of wind vectors are acquired by multiple, collocated, and nearly simultaneous measurements. It should be noted that the scatterometer observes not the wind directly but the wind stress vector relative to the surface current. This suggests the possibility that the satellite scatterometer winds can include the effect of the surface current. This study shows the evidence that scatterometer measure surface wind stress, not surface winds and presents the velocity structure of oceanic warm and cold eddies.