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The influence of sea surface temperature for vertical extreme wind shear change and its relation to the atmospheric stability at coastal area

  • Geonhwa Ryu;Young-Gon Kim;Dongjin Kim;Sang-Man Kim;Min Je Kim;Wonbae Jeon;Chae-Joo Moon
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.201-213
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    • 2023
  • In this study, the effect of sea surface temperature (SST) on the distribution of vertical wind speed in the atmospheric boundary layer of coastal areas was analyzed. In general, coastal areas are known to be more susceptible to various meteorological factors than inland areas due to interannual changes in sea surface temperature. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between sea surface temperature (ERA5) and wind resource data based on the meteorological mast of Høvsøre, the test bed area of the onshore wind farm in the coastal area of Denmark. In addition, the possibility of coastal disasters caused by abnormal vertical wind shear due to changes in sea surface temperature was also analyzed. According to the analysis of the correlation between the wind resource data at met mast and the sea surface temperature by ERA5, the wind speed from the sea and the vertical wind shear are stronger than from the inland, and are vulnerable to seasonal sea surface temperature fluctuations. In particular, the abnormal vertical wind shear, in which only the lower wind speed was strengthened and appeared in the form of a nose, mainly appeared in winter when the atmosphere was near-neutral or stable, and all occurred when the wind blows from the sea. This phenomenon usually occurred when there was a sudden change in sea surface temperature within a short period of time.

Fire Effects on Soil Physical and Chemical Properties following the Forest Fire in Kosung (산불이 산림토양의 이화학적 성질에 미치는 영향)

  • 이원규;김춘식;차순형;김영걸;변재경;구교상;박재욱
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.157-162
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    • 1997
  • Changes on soil physical and chemical properties following the forest fire in Kosung area in Kangwon province were examined. Twenty seven sampling plots[16 burned (8 low intensity fire, 8 high intensity fire) and 11 unburned plots] from Pinus densiflora community were chosen and soil samples from three depths(0-5, 5-15, 15-25 cm) under the forest floor were collected. Forest fire in the area affected soil chemical properties. Soil pH, available phosphorus, base saturation, K, Ca, and Mg on the surface soil(0-5cm) in the burned areas compared with the unburned areas were increased, while soil properties on the subsurface soil(5-25 cm) were not changed. Organic matter, total nitrogen, available phosphorus, and exchangeable cations following the high in tensity fire on the surface soil were generally lower than those in the low intensity fire areas. This indicates that these nutrients on high intensity fire areas may be volatilized. The results suggest that the fire effects on soil chemical properties were confined mainly to the surface soil and were different between the high and the low intensity fire types.

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The Potential of Satellite SAR Imagery for Mapping of Flood Inundation

  • Lee, Kyu-Sung;Hong, Chang-Hee;Kim, Yoon-Hyoung
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 1998.09a
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    • pp.128-133
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    • 1998
  • To assess the flood damages and to provide necessary information for preventing future catastrophe, it is necessary to appraise the inundated area with more accurate and rapid manner. This study attempts to evaluate the potential of satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for mapping of flood inundated area in southern part of Korea. JERS L-band SAR data obtained during the summer of 1997 were used to delineate the inundated areas. In addition, Landsat TM data were also used for analyzing the land cover condition before the flooding. Once the two data sets were co-registered, each data was separately classified. The water surface areas extracted from the SAR data and the land cover map generated using the TM data were overlaid to determine the flood inundated areas. Although manual interpretation of water surfaces from the SAR image seems rather simple, the computer classification of water body requires clear understanding of radar backscattering behavior on the earth's surfaces. It was found that some surface features, such as rice fields, runaway, and tidal flat, have very similar radar backscatter to water surface. Even though satellite SAR data have a great advantage over optical remote sensor data for obtaining imagery on time and would provide valuable information to analyze flood, it should be cautious to separate the exact areas of flood inundation from the similar features.

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Comparison of Land Surface Temperatures Derived from Surface Emissivity with Urban Heat Island Effect (지표 방사율에 의한 지표온도와 도시열섬효과 비교)

  • Jeong, Jong-Chul
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.219-227
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    • 2009
  • Because of urban development and changed land cover types, It is very important to acquire pixel unit of land surface temperature(LST) information when the heat island effect(HIE) of regional area are investigated. The brightness temperature observed by satellite is very useful for assessing the pixel unit of LST distributions for the analysis of thermal environment problems of urban areas. Also, satellite land cover data are very useful to our understanding of surface conditions of study areas. In this study, brightness temperature information of Landsat TM thermal channel was analyzed and compared with land cover information of Jeon-ju city. The atmospheric correction of TM thermal channel carried out to explain for compared LST long term monitoring errors. However, simple estimation and evaluation methods to find a physical relationship between LST from satellite images and in-situ data are compared with reference channel emissivity.

A Study on the Analysis of the Foot Surface Area Development Figure by Foot Types and Movements (발의 유형과 동작에 의한 체표면 형태 분석에 관한 연구)

  • 문명옥;권영숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.24
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    • pp.235-251
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the charateristics of foot according to foot type and analyze the change of foot shape by movements for the sake of making a comfort-able footwears. On the 6 foot type classified by F.I. and F. P. A, this study analyze the surface areas and circumference in the surface area development figure. There are selected eighteen college girls and four movements. The results are as followes : 1. In the 6 foot types classified by F.I. and F. P. A., the circumferences were differed sig-nificantly. 2. In the 6 foot types classified by F.I. and F. P. A., the surface areas were not differed siginificantly. 3. By movements, circumferences and surfaces were not significantly changed according foot type. 4. By movements, the circumference IV, V were changed variously. 5. By movements, surface area of toes, M.P. joint and ankle were changed variously.

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Surface flashover discharge and partial discharge of polymer film in liquid helium (액체 He중 고분자 film의 연면 및 부분방전 연구)

  • 김상현;김현희;정순용;최효상
    • Electrical & Electronic Materials
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    • v.9 no.9
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    • pp.942-948
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    • 1996
  • Electrical properties such as surface flashover discharge and discharge degradations of insulating materials for superconducting cable have been investigated. It is found that the surface voltage is proportional to $l^{0.7}$ (l: discharge length) in liquid helium (LHe). V-t characteristic in LHe was a n=5.5 that was less than liquid nitrogen (L $N_{2}$). After applied AC voltage, the surface condition of polymer films was observed non-eroded areas and eroded areas. The eroded area is depending on the applied voltage. In case of LHe, the crack was observed.d.

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Analysis of Thermal Environment by Urban Expansion using KOMPSAT and Landsat 8: Sejong City (KOMPSAT과 Landsat 8을 이용한 도시확장에 따른 열환경 분석: 세종특별자치시를 중심으로)

  • Yoo, Cheolhee;Park, Seonyoung;Kim, Yeji;Cho, Dongjin
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.35 no.6_4
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    • pp.1403-1415
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    • 2019
  • Urban population growth and consequent rapid urbanization involve some thermal environmental problems in the cities. Monitoring of thermal environments in urban areas such as hot spot analysis is required for effective actions to resolve these problems. This study selected 14 dongs and surrounding administrative districts of Sejong city as study areas and analyzed the characteristics of changes in surface temperature due to the urban expansion in the summer from 2013 to 2018. In the study, the surface temperature distributions in the study areas were plotted using surface temperature values from Landsat 8 and NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and NDBI (Normalized Difference Built-up Index) based on KOMPSAT 2/3 data, and the patterns of surface temperature changes with urban expansion were discussed using the estimated NDVI and NDBI. In particular, the distinct urbanization in the study areas were selected for case studies, and the cause of the changes in the hot spots in the regions was analyzed using high-resolution KOMPSAT images. This study results present that hot spots appeared in urbanized regions within the study areas, and it was plotted that the lower the NDVI values and the higher the NDBI values indicate the temperature values are high. The land surface temperature and satellite-based products were used to divide the study areas into continuously urbanized regions and rapidly urbanized regions and to identify the different characteristics depending on land covers. In the regions with distinct surface temperature changes by urbanization, the analysis using high-resolution KOMPSAT images as presented in this study could provide effective information for urban planning and policy utilization in the future.

Determination of Sampling Points Based on Curvature distribution (곡률 기반의 측정점 결정 알고리즘 개발)

  • 박현풍;손석배;이관행
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.295-298
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    • 2000
  • In this research, a novel sampling strategy for a CMM to inspect freeform surfaces is proposed. Unlike primitive surfaces, it is not easy to determine the number of sampling points and their locations for inspecting freeform surfaces. Since a CMM operates with slower speed in measurement than optical measuring devices, it is important to optimize the number and the locations of sampling points in the inspection process. When a complete inspection of a surface is required, it becomes more critical. Among various factors to cause shape errors of a final product, curvature characteristic is essential due to its effect such as stair-step errors in rapid prototyping and interpolation errors in NC tool paths generation. Shape errors are defined in terms of the average and standard deviation of differences between an original model and a produced part. Proposed algorithms determine the locations of sampling points by analyzing curvature distribution of a given surface. Based on the curvature distribution, a surface area is divided into several sub-areas. In each sub-area, sampling points are located as further as possible. The optimal number of sub-areas. In each sub-area, sampling points are located as further as possible. The optimal number os sub-areas is determined by estimating the average of curvatures. Finally, the proposed method is applied to several surfaces that have shape errors for verification.

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Surface Image Analysis for Evaluating Porosity and Permeability Coefficient of Permeable Concrete Block (투수 콘크리트 블록 공극률 및 투수계수 평가를 위한 표면 이미지 분석 기법 개발)

  • Jo, Sangbeom;Son, Younghwan;Kim, Donggeun;Jeon, Jihun;Kim, Taejin
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.65 no.2
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 2023
  • The increase of impermeable area ratio is causing hydrologic cycle problems in urban areas and groundwater depletion in rural areas, permeable pavements are getting attention to expand permeable areas. The performance of the permeable concrete block pavement, which is part of the permeable pavement, is greatly affected by the porosity. In addition, the permeability coefficient is a major factor when designing permeable concrete block pavement. Existing porosity and permeability test methods have problems such as uneconomical or poor field applicability. The object of this study was to develop a methodology for evaluating porosity and permeability coefficient using a surface image of a permeable concrete block. Specimens are manufactured with various porosity ranges and porosity and permeability tests are performed. After surface image preprocessing, normalization and binarization methods were compared. Through this, the method with the highest correlation with the lab test result was determined. From the results, the PDR (pore determined ratio) was obtained. Simple linear regression analysis is performed with PDR and lab test results. The results showed a high correlation of R2 more than 0.8, and the errors were also low.

The Application of High-resolution Land Cover and Its Effects on Near-surface Meteorological Fields in Two Different Coastal Areas (연안지역 특성에 따른 상세 토지피복도 적용 효과 및 기상장에 미치는 영향 분석)

  • Jeong, Ju-Hee;Kim, Yoo-Keun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.432-449
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    • 2009
  • In this study, the effects of high-resolution land cover on the simulation of near-surface meteorological fields were evaluated in two different coastal regions using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. These analyses were performed using the middle classification land cover data upgraded by the Korean Ministry of Environment (KME). For the purpose of this study, two coastal areas were selected as follows: (1) the southwestern coastal (SWC) region characterized by complex shoreline and (2) the eastern coastal (EC) region described a high mountain and a simple coastline. The result showed that the application of high-resolution land cover were found to be notably distinguished between the SWC and EC regions. The land cover improvement has contributed to generate the realistic complex coastline and the distribution of small islands in the SWC region and the expansion of urban and built-up land along the sea front in the EC region, respectively. The model study indicated that the improvement of land cover caused a temperature change on wide areas of inland and nearby sea for the SWC region, and narrow areas along the coastal line for the EC region. These temperature variations in the two regions resulted in a decrease and an increase in land-breeze and sea-breeze intensity, respectively (especially the SWC region). Interestingly, the improvement of land cover can contribute large enough to change wind distributions over the sea in coastal areas.