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The Environmental Change of Korea based on the Isopollen Map during the Holocene

  • Yoon, Soon-Ock
    • 한국제4기학회지
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.6-11
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    • 2008
  • Vegetation change reconstructed by pollen analysis is effective to clarify natural conditions such as climate and soil as well as intensity of human activity. Pollen analysis in Korea is difficult to obtain peaty soil sedimented by low relief geomorphollogically and formation age is usually confined to obtain information during young Holocene as well as little absolute age data. Isopollen map was constructed in order to analyze the change of vegetation environment time-spatially during Holocene based on the 30 data with age dated from 78 results from pollen analysis in Korea. The indicatives for vegetation environment were the main trees in Korea such as Alnus, Pinus, Quercus and AP/NAP during the periods of 6,000 y.BP, 4,000 y.BP, 3,000 y.BP, 2,000 y.BP, 1,000 y.BP. As a result, the regional time-spatial patterns of vegetation distribution appeared clearly on the isopollen map. The dominant vegetation stage was repeated in the different pattern e.g. the dominance between Alnus and Quercus at West Coast and between Pinus and Quercus at East Coast competitively.

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Development of a Predictive Model for Cement Stabilised Roadbase

  • Chai Gray W.;Oh Erwin Y.;Smith Warren
    • 한국도로학회논문집
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.31-35
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    • 2006
  • Cement stabilisation is a common method for stabilising recycled road base material and provides a longer pavement life. With cement effect, the increment of stiffness in the stabilised layer would provide better load transfer to the pavement foundation. The recycling method provides an environmentally option as the existing road base materials will not be removed. This paper presents a case study of a trial section along the North-South Expressway in West Malaysia, where the Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) was implemented to evaluate the compressive strength and in-situ stiffness of the cement stabilised road base material. The improvement in stiffness of the cement stabilised base layer was monitored, and samples were tested during the trial. FWD was found to be useful for the structural assessment of the cement-stabilised base layer prior to placement of asphalt layers. Results from the FWD were applied to verify the assumed design parameters for the pavement. Using the FWD, an empirical correlation between the deflection and the stiffness modulus of the pavement foundation is proposed.

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HeMOSU-1호 관측풍속의 불확실성을 고려한 서남해안의 풍력 발전량 예측 (Prediction of Wind Power Generation at Southwest Coast of Korea Considering Uncertainty of HeMOSU-1 Wind Speed Data)

  • 이기남;김동현;권오순
    • 신재생에너지
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2014
  • Wind power generation of 5 MW wind turbine was predicted by using wind measurement data from HeMOSU-1 which is at south west coast of Korea. Time histories of turbulent wind was generated from 10-min mean wind speed and then they were used as input to Bladed to estimated electric power. Those estimated powers are used in both polynominal regression and neural network training. They were compared with each other for daily production and yearly production. Effect of mean wind speed and turbulence intensity were quantitatively analyzed and discussed. This technique further can be used to assess lifetime power of wind turbine.

함평만 표층퇴적물과 금속원소들의 분포 특성 (Distribution Characteristics of Surface Sediments and Metal Elements in Hampyong Bay, the Southwestern Coast of Korea)

  • 윤석태;고영구;류상옥
    • 한국환경과학회지
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    • 제8권6호
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    • pp.677-684
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    • 1999
  • To investigate size distribution and metallic elements of surface sediments in Hampyong Bay, the southwestern coast of Korea, sedimentological and geochemical studies on surface sediments are carried out. The surface sediments of Hampyong Bay are classified into gravel, muddy sandy gravel, gravelly muddy sand, gravelly sandy mud, mud facies in accordance with areal characteristics. The coarse sediments are distributed on the subtidal zone along the main tidal channel and southeast intertidal flat of Hampyong Bay. On the other hand, the fine sediments are dominated in northeast and west intertidal flat of Hampyong Bay. Most metallic elements except for Ba in the sediments are closely interrelated with fine sediments and mutually with each element. Ba is maybe related with sandy sediments and inversely related with carbonate contents. Normalized by Al content, the sediment do not show any remarkable metal enrichments influenced by resonable artificial or environmental factors.

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1992年 니카라구아 쓰나미의 범람 산정 (Runup Computation of 1992 Nicaraguan Tsunami)

  • 최병호;정홍화
    • 한국해안해양공학회지
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.24-32
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    • 1995
  • 1992年 니카라구아 서쪽해역에서 해저강진이 발생하여 이 지진에 의한 지진해파(쓰나미)는 태평양 연안을 엄습하여 적어도 95여명이 사망하고 155명이 부상했으며 3,000여명의 이재민이 발생하였다. 전관의 연구(Imamura 등, 1993)에서는 1992年 Nicaragua 쓰나미의 발생과 전파과정이 보고되었는데 적용된 모형은 구면좌표의 원역모형과 직교좌표의 근역 모형으로서 해안에서 직립벽의 가정하에 산정된 결과는 실제 관측 결과와 범람비에 의해 보정되어야만 했었다. 본 연구에서는 연안역에 이동 경계를 채택하는 범람 모형을 사용하므로써 El Transito에서 관측된 6.4-9.9m의 범람고가 재현될 수 있는 수치모의를 수행하였다.

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해상풍력발전을 위한 연안지역의 난류에너지 특성 수치연구 (Numerical study on the characteristics of TKE in coastal area for offshore wind power)

  • 유정우;이순환;이화운
    • 한국환경과학회지
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    • 제23권9호
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    • pp.1551-1562
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    • 2014
  • To clarify the characteristics of TKE (Turbulence Kinetic Energy) variation for offshore wind power development, several numerical experiments using WRF were carried out in three different coastal area of the Korean Peninsula. Buoyancy, mechanical and shear production term of the TKE budget are fundamental elements in the production or dissipation of turbulence. Turbulent kinetic energy of the south coast region was higher than in other sea areas due to the higher sea surface temperature and strong wind speed. In south coast region, strong wind passing through the Korea Strait is caused by channelling effect of the terrain of the Geoje Island. Although wind speed is weak in east coast, because of large difference in wind speed between the upper and lower layer, the development of mechanical turbulence tend to be predominant. Since lower sea surface temperature and smaller wind shear were detected in west coastal region, the possibility of turbulence production not so great in comparison with other regions. The understanding of the characteristics of turbulence in three different coastal region can be reduced the uncertainty of offshore wind construction.

Technical and Economic Assessment of CO2 Transportation Options for Large-scale Integrated Carbon Capture & Sequestration(CCS) Project in South Korea

  • Lee, Ji Hyun;Kim, Beom-Ju;Kwak, No Sang;Shim, Jae-Goo;Shin, Su Hyun;Hwang, Sun-Na;Lee, Jung-Hyun
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • 제3권1호
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2017
  • In order to examine the feasibility of Carbon Capture & Sequestration, a major technological strategy for the national goal of greenhouse gas reduction, this paper studies the various methods and corresponding costs for the transportation of $CO_2$ captured at the domestic thermal power plants, as well as performing comparative analysis with overseas CCS demonstration projects. It is predicted that the investment cost would be about 98 million USD when the using land-based pipelines to transport captured $CO_2$ from the thermal power plant located in the south coast. And using marine-based offshore pipelines, it will cost about twice the amount. When the captured $CO_2$ is transported from the power plant in the west coast instead, the cost is expected to increase substantially due to the transportation distance to the storage site being more than double to that of the south coast power plant case.

제주해협 동쪽 입구에 출현하는 설상의 난수 (Tongue-like Warm Water Appeared in the East Entrance of the Jeju Strait)

  • 노홍길;평야민행
    • 한국수산과학회지
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    • 제16권4호
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    • pp.299-304
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    • 1983
  • 제주해협 동쪽 입구에는 주년 대마난류 수괴인 설상 난수가 존재한다. 그러므로 이 설상 난수 때문에 동 해협 서쪽에서 유입하는 해수의 유향이 이 해협내에서 변화되 한국 남해 연안쪽을 향할 수 있어 제주해협내의 중, 저층수는 한국 남해 연안수 형성에 중요한 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 이 설상 난수는 동계에 강하고 하계에 약하므로 대마난류는 하계 보다 동계에 한국 남해 연안에 접근하며, 이 난류의 북쪽 경계도 거문도와 소리도 연안까지 자주 접근하고 있다.

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Sea-Level Trend at the Korean Coast

  • Cho, Kwangwoo
    • 한국환경과학회지
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    • 제11권11호
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    • pp.1141-1147
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    • 2002
  • Based on the tide gauge data from the Permanent Service for Meau Sea Level (PSMSL) collected at 23 locations in the Korean coast, the long-term sea-level trend was computed using a simple linear regression fit over the recorded length of the monthly mean sea-level data. The computed sea-level trend was also corrected for the vertical land movement due to post glacial rebound(PGR) using the ICE-4G(VM2) model output. It was found that the PGR-corrected sea-level trend near Korea was 2.310 $\pm$ 2.220 mm/yr, which is higher than the global average at 1.0∼2.0mm/yr, as assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC). The regional distribution of the long-term sea-level trend near Korea revealed that the South Sea had the largest sea-level rise followed by the West Sea and East Sea, respectively, supporting the results of the previous study by Seo et al. However, due to the relatively short record period and large spatial variability, the sea-level trend from the tide gauge data for the Korean coast could be biased with a steric sea-level rise by the global warming during the 20th century.

Growth Charateristics of Five Microalgal Species Isolated from Jeju Island and Four Microalgal stock Strans in Hatchery

  • Lee, Joon-Baek
    • ALGAE
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.117-125
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    • 2002
  • Five microalgal species isolated from the Jeju coast and four microalgal stock strains in hatchery were cultured in order to investigate their adapation to extreme changes in environmental factors such as salinity, water temperatue, adn nutrients. In case of salinity variation, Nitzschia sp. of Bacillariophyceae, Isochrysis galbana of Haptophyceae and Tetraselmis gracilis of Prasinophyceae showed optimum growth at the low salinity of 20 and 25 psu. Amphora coffeaeformis and Chetoceros simplex of Bacillariophyceae, and Pavlova lutheri of Haptophyceae adapted well at the relatively high salinities of 30 and 35 psu. However Phaeodactylum tricornutum of Bacillariophyceae and Chlorella sp. of Chlorophyceae showed euryhaline property In case of water temperature variation, most of all the species studied wer inhibited at 10℃. C. simplex, Nitzschia sp., p. tricornutum, Chlorella sp. and T. gracilis grew well at above 20℃. A. coffeaeformis, I. galbana and P. lutheri adapted also at the high temperature of 30℃. Each microalgal strain showed different growth rates and its maximum biomass. Generally microalgal populations from the Jeju coast grow well in relatively high salinity and high water temperature. Their growth were inhibited at low water temperature, but not likely affected at low salinity. This study indicates that the microalgal populations could not be affected by abnormally low salinity phenomena, which have happened occasionally around the west Jeju coast in summer and have led macrobenthic animals to mass mortality.