• Title/Summary/Keyword: Tidal regime change

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Changes in the Yellow Sea Tidal Regime due to Sea Level Rise (해면상승에 따른 황해조석의 변화)

  • 김양근;김태인;최병호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers Conference
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    • 1995.10a
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    • pp.104-107
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    • 1995
  • 지구온난화에 따른 해면상승이 일어난다면 한국 서해안과 같은 완경사의 간사지의 범람은 크게 일어날 것이다. 향후 2010년 까지의 해면상승에 대한 정량적인 예측에는 불확실성이 있으나 적어도 과거 1세기의 해면상승률 보다는 최소 2배이상일 것으로 추정되고 있다. 또한 IPCC(Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change)는 각국이 100cm의 go면상승에 대한 영향평가를 수행할 것을 권장하였는데 미국 EPA는 이 보다도 더 비관적인 상승을 추정하고 있다. (중략)

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Development of a Numerical Model to Analyze the Formation and Development Process of River Mouth Bars (하구사주의 생성 및 발달을 해석하기 위한 수치모델의 개발)

  • Kim, Yeon-Joong;Woo, Joung-Woon;Yoon, Jong-Sung;Kim, Myoung-Kyu
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.308-320
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    • 2021
  • An integrated sediment management approach that includes the recovery of the amount of declined sediment supply is effective as a fundamental solution to coastal erosion. During planning, it is essential to analyze the transfer mechanism of the sediments generated from estuaries (the junction between a river and sea) to assess the amount and rate of sediment discharge (from the river to sea) supplied back to the coast. Although numerical models that interpret the tidal sand bar flushing process during flooding have been studied, thus far, there has been no study focusing on the formation and development processes of tidal sand bars. Therefore, this study aims to construct wave deformation, flow regime calculation, and topographic change analysis models to assess the amount of recovered sediment discharge and reproduce the tidal sand bar formation process through numerical analysis for integrated littoral drift management. The tidal sand bar formation process was simulated, and the wave energy and duration of action concepts were implemented to predict the long-term littoral movement. The river flux and wave conditions during winter when tidal sand bars dominantly develop were considered as the external force conditions required for calculation. The initial condition of the topographic data directly after the Maeupcheon tidal sand bar flushing during flooding was set as the initial topography. Consequently, the tidal sand bar formation and development due to nearshore currents dependent on the incident wave direction were reproduced. Approximately 66 h after the initial topography, a sand bar formation was observed at the Maengbang estuary.

Analysis of Hydrodynamic Change around the Saemangeum Area Using a Particle Tracking Method (입자추적방법을 이용한 새만금 해역의 수리특성 변화 분석)

  • Suh, Seung-Won;Lee, Hwa-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.442-450
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    • 2011
  • A three dimensional random walk particle tracking method is applied to the Saemangeum area in order to find stepwise environmental changes according to long term construction. Flow regime around Mangyeong, Dongjin and Geum river estuary changed greatly due to dike construction. It is distinctive that reduction of Byeonsan area's flow field and stagnant change in the northern part of the inner reservoir. Similar characteristics are found through the tidal excursion analysis. By analysis of the vertical mixing structures according to density stratification based on temperature and salinity variation, a salt wedge and very strong stratification arises in the inner part of the reservoir after final closure, while it has been well mixed or partially mixed estuary during construction. Shrinking of horizontal dispersion and vertical mixing capability may cause adverse effect on water quality not only inner part but also outer region of the Saemangeum reservoir.

Analysis of the Characteristics of Water Quality Difference Occurring between High Tide and Low Tide in Masan Bay (만조와 간조시 마산만 수질의 농도차 발생 특성의 분석)

  • Yoo, Youngjin;Kim, Sung Jae
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.102-113
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    • 2019
  • Slack-tide sampling was carried out at 6 stations at high and low tide for a tidal cycle during spring tide of the early summer (June) and summer (July, August) of 2016 to determine the difference of water quality according to tide in Masan Bay, Korea. The mixing regime of all the water quality components investigated was well explained through the correlation with SAL. In the early summer and summer, TURB, DSi and NNN which mainly flow into the bay from the streams and SS, COD, AMN and $H_2S$ which mainly indicate the internal sink and source materials have a property of conservative mixing and non-conservative mixing, respectively. The conservative mixing showed a good linear relationship of the water quality between high and low tide, and the non-conservative mixing showed a variation of different pattern each other. Factor analysis performed on the concentration difference data sets between high and low tide helped in identifying the principal latent variables for them. In early summer, multiple effects (tidal action, natural influx and internal sinks and sources etc.) acted in combination for the differences to be distributed evenly in four factors (VF1~4), since there were few allochthonous inputs as a low-water season. On the contrary, in summer, the parameters showing large concentration difference at ST-1 affected by stream water were concentrated in one factor (VF1) and clearly distinguished from the parameters affected by the internal sinks and sources. In fact, there is no estuary (bay) that always maintains steady state flow conditions. The mixing regime of an estuary might be changed at any time due to the change of flushing time, and furthermore the change of end-member conditions due to the internal sinks and sources makes the occurrence of concentration difference inevitable. Therefore, when investigating the water quality of the estuary, it is necessary to take a sampling method considering the tide to obtain average water quality data.