• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.195-204
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• 2016

In this paper, the applicability and usefulness of windprofiler input data were investigated to generate three dimensional wind field. A logical diagnostic model CALMET with windprofiler data at ten sites and with weather forecasting model WRF output was evaluated by statistically comparing with the radiosonde data at eight sites. The horizontal wind speed from CALMET simulated with hourly windprofiler data is in good agreement with radiosonde observations within 1.5 m/s of the root mean square error, especially local circulation of wind such as sea breeze over the coastal region. The root mean square error of wind direction ranged $50^{\circ}{\sim}70^{\circ}$ is due to the wind direction error from the windprofiler polluted by ground clutters. Since the exact wind can be produced quickly and accurately in most of the altitude with windprofiler data on CALMET, we expect the method presented in this study to be useful for the monitoring of safe environment as well as weather in the coastal zone.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2001.03a
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• pp.98-103
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.157-161
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• 2007

최근에 설치된 마산기상대의 windprofiler의 기기보정을 위한 비교관측을 하기에 앞서 마산기상대의 기상 관측자료를 이용하여 마산지역의 기후 변화 현황을 알아보았다. 그 결과, 마산지역은 최근 5년간 평년에 비하여 건조해졌으나 연강수량과 강수강도는 약한 증가현상을 나타내었다. 그리고 $20^{\circ}C$의 기온빈도가 증가하여 마산지역이 상당히 따뜻해 진 것으로 나타났다. 마산연보(2006)에 의하면 마산시에는 자동차 등록 수는 매년 증가하여 2005년 현재 138,241대를 나타내어 도시화로 인한 인공열원이 증가하였다고 볼 수 있다. 그렇지만 인구는 1998년 435,343명을 최고치로 나타낸 이후 매년 감소하는 추세를 보이고 있으며 사업체수 역시 1995년 35,622개 이후 점차 감소하고 있는 추세이다. 더불어 도심지 공원은 2005년 현재 91개까지 증가하였으며 공원 총면적 또한 2001년 이후 계속 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 마산지역의 기온이 $1985{\sim}2005$년 평년치보다 최근 5년간 상당히 따뜻해졌지만 자동차로 인한 인공열원의 증가가 인구 및 사업체 감소, 도심지 공원수와 면적 및 해풍 빈도의 증가와 상쇄되어 도시화의 영향이 다소 약하게 나타났으나 지구온난화와 더불어 마산지역의 기온도 상승하고 있음을 알 수 있다. 향후 지구온난화에 대한 영향을 지속적으로 조사할 필요가 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.133-150
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• 2015

Wind profiler provides vertical profiles of three-dimensional wind vectors with high spatiotemporal resolution. The wind vectors is useful to analyze severe weather phenomena and to validate the various products from numerical weather prediction model. However, the wind measurements are not immune to ground clutter, bird, insect, and aircraft. Therefore, quality of wind vectors from wind profiler must be quantitatively evaluated prior to its application. In this study, wind vectors from UHF wind profiler at Ganwon Regional Meteorological Administration was quantitatively evaluated using 27 radiosonde measurements that were launched every two or three hours according to rainfall intensity during Intensive Observation Period (IOP) from June to July 2013. In comparison between two measurements, wind vectors from wind profiler was relatively underestimated. In addition, the accuracy and quality of wind vectors from wind profiler decrease with increasing beam height. The accuracy and quality of the wind vectors for rainy periods during IOP were higher than for the clear-air measurements. The moderate rainfall intensity lead to multi-peaks in Doppler spectrum. It results in overestimation of vertical air motion, whereas wind vectors from wind profilers shows good agreement with those from radiosonde measurements for light rainfall intensity.

• Atmosphere
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.441-458
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• 2008

A TP/WVP-3000A, ground-based microwave radiometer, that was first introduced to South Korea has been operated since August 22, 2007 at the National Center for Intensive Observation of Severe Weathers (NCIO). Using the dual-band, the radiometer provides temperature and humidity soundings from the surface up to 10 km height with the high-temporal resolution of a few minutes. In this study, the performance of the radiometer on the predictability of the high impact weathers was evaluated and various practical applications were investigated. To verify the retrieved profile data from the radiometer, temperature and relative humidity soundings are compared with those from the rawinsonde launched at the NCIO and Gwangju station. The root mean squared errors for temperature and relative humidity soundings were smaller under rainy weather conditions. The correlation coefficient between PWVs (Precipitable Water Vapors) obtained from the radiometer and Global Positioning System satellite at Mokpo station is 0.92 on average. In order to investigate the structure and characteristics of precipitation, stability indexes related to rainfall such as the Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE), K-index, and Storm RElative Helicity (SREH) were calculated using windprofiler at the NCIO from 14 to 16 September, 2007. CAPE and K-index tended to be large when the thermodynamic unstability was strong. On the other hand, SREH index was dominantly large when the dynamic unstability was strong due to the passage of the typhoon 'Nari'.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.479-495
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• 2021

This study investigates the synoptic (patterns of southern highs, northern lows, and lows rapidly developed by tropopause folding), thermodynamic, and kinematic characteristics of a strong wind that occurred in the Yeongdong region of South Korea on March 18-20, 2020. To do so, we analyzed data from an automatic weather station (AWS), weather charts, the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis, rawinsonde, and windprofiler radars. The daily maximum instantaneous wind speed, exceeding 20 m s^-1, was observed at five weather stations during the analysis period. The strongest instantaneous wind speed (27.7 m s^-1) appeared in the Daegwallyeong area. According to the analysis of weather charts, along with the arrangement of the north-south low-pressure line, the isobars were moved to the Yeongdong area. It showed a sine wave shape, and a strong wind developed owing to the strong pressure gradient. On March 19, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, with a drop in atmospheric pressure of 19 hPa or more within one day, a continuous strong wind was developed by the synoptic structure of the developing polar low. In the adiabatic chart observed in Bukgangneung, the altitude of the inversion layer was located at an altitude of approximately 1-3 km above the mountaintop, along with the maximum wind speed. We confirmed that this is consistent with the results of the vertical wind field analysis of the rawinsonde and windprofiler data. In particular, based on the thermodynamic and kinematic vertical analyses, we suggest that strong winds due to the vertical gradient of potential temperature in the lower layer and the development of potential vorticity due to tropopause folding play a significant role in the occurrence of strong winds in the Yeongdong region.