• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1997

Surface current fields in the eastern East China Sea (ECS) were constructed by analyzing trajectories of 58 satellite-tracked surface drifters released during 1991-1996. Composite trajectories and 20-minute-by-20-minute box-averaged current vectors show that the basic current pattern composes of: the Kuroshio main stream, which turns eastward toward the Tokara Strait; a northward branch current of the Kuroshio on the ECS outer shelf deeper than 100 m; and an anticyclonic circulation in the northern Okinawa Trough west of Kyushu. The northward branch current sharply changes its direction to the northeast when it crosses a line connecting Cheju Island, Korea and Goto Islands, Japan. The basic pattern of current field changes slightly from winter to summer, and the main axis of the Tsushima Current in the Korea Strait is found to shift seasonally. The drifter experiment does not support the claim that the Yellow Sea Warm Current is separated from the northward branch current on the outer shelf southeast of Cheju Island. We suggest that the use of the term 'Tsushima Current' be limited to the northeast channel flow in the Korea Strait. The new term 'Kuroshio Branch Current' is suggested for the northward branch current on the outer shelf south of Cheju-do, which is separated from the Kuroshio.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1271-1281
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• 2009

The heavy snowfall event over the eastern part of Seoul, Korea on Mar. 04, 2008 has been abruptly occurred after the frontal system with the heavy snowfall event had been past over the Korean peninsula on Mar. 03, 2008. Therefore, this heavy snowfall event couldn't be predicted well by any means of theoretical knowledges and models. After the cold front passed by, the cold air mass was flown over the peninsula immediately and became clear expectedly except the eastern part and southwestern part of peninsula with some large amount of snowfall. Even though the wide and intense massive cold anticyclone was expanded and enhanced by the lowest tropospheric baroclinicity over the Yellow Sea, but the intrusion and eastward movement of cold air to Seoul was too slow than normally predicted. Using the data of numerical model, satellite and radar images, three dimensional analysis Products(KLAPS : Korea Local Analysis and Prediction System) of the environmental conditions of this event such as temperature, equivalent potential temperature, wind, vertical circulation, divergence, moisture flux divergence and relative vorticity could be analyzed precisely. Through the analysis of this event, the formation and westward advection of lower cyclonic circulation with continuously horizontal movement of air into the eastern part of Seoul by the analyses of KLAPS fields have been affected by occurring the heavy snowfall event. As the predictability of abrupt snowfall event was very hard and dependent on not only the synoptic atmospheric circulation but also for mesoscale atmospheric circulation, the forecaster can be predicted well this event which may be occurred and developed within the very short time period using sequential satellite images and KLAPS products.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 1999

금강에서 유출된 담수의 거동 특성을 파악하기 위해, 금강하구에서 담수가 대량 방류된 1997년 7월 7일에서 7월 12일 사이에 한국 서해 중부의 금강하구에서 태안 반도에 이르는 해역에서 해양조사를 실시하였다. 금강하구에서 북서쪽으로 약 60 km 떨어진 어청도 사이의 해역은 30.0 psu 이하의 저염수가 분포하였으며, 어청도 이북해역에서도 부분적으로 금강 담수 기원으로 해석되는 저염수가 관측되었다. 특히 금강 담수 플룸에 의한 것으로 추정되는 염분전선이 십이동파도 인근에서 관측되었으며, 48 시간 후에는 북서쪽으로 약 25 km 떨어진 어청도 근방에서도 관측되어 염분전선의 위치가 시간에 따라 이동하는 결과를 보였다. 담수 플룸에 의해 수직성층이 잘 된 십이동파도 북측해역에서 20 시간 연속 관측된 조류를 분석한 결과 담수 플룸 내인 상층에서 평균유속이 0.2 m/s 이상인 북서방향의 흐름이 관측되었다. 관측된 평균흐름 및 염분전선의 위치변동은 금강 담수 플룸이 외해로 확장되는 과정으로 해석되며, 금강하구에서 유출되는 담수가 금강하구 인근 연안역의 표층해수 순환에 크게 영향을 줄 수 있음을 제시한다.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.67-85
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• 2007

황해 및 동중국해에 있어서 하계 조석, 담수유입량과 풍향 풍속 변화에 따른 잔차류와 샨샤댐 건설 전과 후 양쯔강의 유량 변동에 따른 저염분 확산과 바람의 영향 등을 해석하고, 평가하였다. 3차원 해수유동모델에 의해 각 분조($M_2,\;S_2,\;K_1$과 $O_1$)의 정량적 그리고 정성적 측면의 진폭, 위상 및 흐름장이 실측값과 비교해서 재현성있게 시뮬레이션 되었다. $M_2,\;M_2+S_2$ 그리고 반일주조에 일주조 성분($K_1$과 $O_1$)의 합성에 의한 잔차류 결과는 유속의 변화와 더불어서 일부 지역에서 흐름패턴이 다르게 계산되었다. 하계 탁월풍의 세기가 커지면 양쯔강 하구에서 유출하는 힘과 대륙붕단 경계역에서 북상하는 흐름의 유속이 다소 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 양쯔강에서 유출한 흐름은 근역에서는 동향성분이 강하게 나타나지만, 곧 황해에서 남하하는 성분에 의해 동쪽으로 충분히 확산하지 못하고 남하하거나 속도가 감소되는 것으로 나타났다. 육상 유입원의 하계 평균 유량(특히, 양쯔강은 약 $50,000\;m^3/s$)과 남풍 3.5 m/s를 고려했을 경우, 26 psu 이하의 저염수가 유입지점에서 약 95 km정도 확장되고, 30 psu 이하의 염분농도선도 약 160 km까지 확장되는 것으로 나타났고, 최대 홍수량인 $116,000\;m^3/s$를 고려했을 경우는 26 psu 이하의 저염수가 river mouth에서 약 150 km정도 확장되고, 30 psu 이하의 염분농도선도 약 300 km까지 확장되는 것으로 예측되었다. 하계 탁월풍에서 풍속이 약 1.5m/s 정도 강해지면, 저염의 확산 폭이 약 10 km정도 증가하는 것으로 나타났고, 외해에 있어서 저염수는 남서풍에 의해서는 남동방향으로 그리고 북서풍에 의해서는 남서방향으로 퍼져나가는 양상을 보였다. 양쯔강에서 유출되는 평균적인 담수량에 의한 관성력과 조류의 힘만으로는 저염수가 제주도까지 도달하는 것은 힘들겠지만, 바람장과 북상하는 난류의 흐름이 합쳐질 때는 충분히 제주도 인근 해역까지 그 영향을 미칠 수 있을 것으로 예측되었다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.217-232
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• 2017

An Eulerian-Lagrangian hybrid modeling system to analyze physical and chemical processes during the transport of air parcels was developed. The Backward-tracking Model Analyzer (BMA) was designed to take advantages of both Eulerian and Lagrangian modeling approaches. Simulated trajectories from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration HYSPLIT model were combined with the US Environmental Protection Agency Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ)-simulated concentrations and additional diagnostic analyses. In this study, we first introduced a generalized methodology to seamlessly match polylines (HYSPLIT) and threedimensional polygons (CMAQ), which enables mass-conservative analyses of physio-chemical processes of transporting air parcels. Two applications of the BMA were conducted: (1) a long-range transport case of pollutant plume across the Yellow Sea using CMAQ Integrated Process Rate analyses, and (2) a domestic circulation of pollutants within (and near) the South Korea based on the sulfate tracking analyzer. The first episode demonstrated a secondary formation of nitrate and ammonium during the transport over the Yellow Sea while sulfate is mostly transported after being formed over the China, and the second episode demonstrated a dominant impact of boundary condition with active sulfate formation from gas-phase oxidation near the Seoul Metropolitan Area.

• International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Korean Journal of Geophysical Research
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.15-29
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• 1998

The numerical simulation of heavy precipitation event occurred in the central Korean Peninsula on July 26-28, 1996 was performed using the fine mesh model. ARPS (Advanced Regional Prediction System) developed by the CAPS (Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms). Usually, the heavy rainfalls occurred at late July in the Korean Peninsula were difficult to predict, and showed very strong rainfall intensity. As results, they caused a great loss of life and property. As it usual, this case was unsuccessful to predict the location of rain band and the precipitation intensity with the coarse-mesh model. The same case was, however, simulated well with fine-mesh storm-scale model, ARPS. Moisture band at 850 hPa appeared along the Changma Front in the area of China through central Korea passed Yellow Sea. Also the low-level jet at 700 hPa existed in the Yellow Sea through central Korea and they together offered favorable condition to induce heavy rainfall in that area. The convective activities developed to a meso-scale convective system were observed at near the Yangtze River and moved to the central Korean Peninsula. Furthermore, the intrusion of warm and moist air, origninated from typhoon, into the Asia Continent might result in heavy rainfall formation through redistribution of moisture and heat. In the vertical circulation, the heavy rainfall was formed between the upper- and low-level jets, especially, the entrance region of the upper-level jet above the exit the region of the low-level jet. The low level convergence, the upper level divergence and the strong vertical wind were organized to the very north of the low level jet and concentrated on tens to hundreds km horizontal distance. These result represent the upper- and low-level jets are one of the most important reasons on the formation of heavy precipitation.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2016

Recently, there has been a growing interest in physical-biological ocean-modeling systems by communities in the fields of science and business. In this paper, we present preliminary results from a coupled physical-biological model for the Northwestern Pacific marginal seas. The ocean circulation component is an implementation of the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS), and the lower trophic level ecosystem component is a Nutrient-Phytoplankton-Zooplankton-Detritus (NPZD) model. The ROMS-NPZD coupled system, with a 25 km resolution, is forced by climatological atmospheric data and predicts the physical variables and concentrations of nitrate, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and detritus. Model results are compared with remote-sensed sea surface temperature and chlorophyll, and with climatological sea surface salinity and nitrate. Our model adequately reproduces the observed spatial distribution and seasonal variability of nitrate and chlorophyll concentrations as well as physical variables, showing a high correlation in the East Sea (ES) and Kuroshio/Oyashio Extension (KOE) region but relatively low correlation in the Yellow Sea (YS) and East China Sea (ECS). Although some deficiencies were found in the biological components, such as the over/underestimation of the intensity of phytoplankton blooms in the ES and KOE/the YS and ECS, our system demonstrates the capability of the model to capture and record dominant seasonal variability in physical-biological processes and this holds out the promise of coming to a better understanding of such processes and making better predictions .

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.53-57
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• 2003

한반도 서남부해역은 하계 양자강의 유출에 의해 저염분 현상이 발생한다. 중국 대통(Datong)에서 지난 65년(1922­1986)간 장기관측한 자료에 의하면 매년 양자강 유출량은 일정하지 않으며, 최대 유출량은 최소유출량의 2배 이상이 됨을 보여주고 있다. 따라서 양자강의 유출량을 달리하여 저염확산을 수치모델로 연구하고자 하였다. 수치모델은 POM(Princeton Ocean Model)을 사용하였다. POM은 연직적으로 $\sigma$­좌표계를 사용하는 3차원 해양순환모델이다. 모델 수행 후 연구해역내 대륙사면에서 유속이 강하게 나타났다. 또한 제주도 서쪽을 통해 북상하여 황해중앙부로 들어가는 흐름이 있으며, 대륙연안을 따라 남하하는 흐름이 있음을 알 수 있다. 양자강 유출량을 부여한 후 수행한 모델의 결과를 보면 양자강 유출량이 많을수록 저염분역이 제주도에 가깝게 나타남을 알 수 있다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제55권11호
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• pp.865-875
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• 2022

서해안에 위치한 구시포 해안에서 구조물 설치가 해수유동의 변화에 미치는 영향을 해석하기 위해 조석·조류의 현장관측과 EFDC 모형을 이용하여 수치모형실험을 수행하였다. 해수유동 모델의 재현성을 검토하기 위하여 조석·조류의 모델 결과와 현장관측 결과를 비교·검증하였으며, 검증결과 비교적 서로 잘 일치하는 것으로 나타났다. 구시포 해수욕장 전면해역에서 최강 유속분포는 약 20~40 cm/sec이고, 해수욕장 외해에서는 60~80 cm/sec로 나타났다. 구시포 해안에서 전형적인 해수유동 패턴은 등수심선에 평행하며, 창조시에는 북동방향으로 유입하고, 낙조시에는 남서방향으로 유출되는 특성을 보였다. 구조물의 설치로 인한 조류의 유속 및 유량의 변화율을 대조기 24시간 동안 평균유속을 이용하여 산출하였다. 전반적인 유속의 변화는 구조물의 설치로 인하여 차폐된 해역은 유속이 크게 감소하고, 구조물의 외해 영역에서는 유속이 증가하는 경향이 뚜렷하게 나타났다. 구시포 해안의 해수유동 변화에 영향을 미치는 각 구조물의 영향은 초기상태(모든 구조물 설치전)를 기준으로 했을 때, 유량의 변화율은 ① 현 상태(방류제·돌제, 구시포항·연륙교 설치)에서는 약 28.4%, ② 방류제·돌제만 있을 경우는 약 21.3%, ③ 구시포항·연륙교만 있을 경우는 약 9.8% 감소하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.433-441
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• 2005

To investigate the characteristics of tidal currents and water circulation in the coastal waters off the Taean Peninsula, tidal currents and sea levels were measured at the study area from 1998 to 2004. In the central waterway to the south of Changan Sand Ridge, mean speed of tidal currents and residual currents were 74.0cm/s, 17.8cm/s respectively; the dominant residual currents flowed northeastward, and the amplitudes of semi-diurnal components $(M_2,\;S_2)$ were larger than diurnal components $(O_1,\;K_1)$. The flood and ebb tidal currents were northeastward and southwestward, respectively, and each period was about 6 hours for them, which was consistent with the period of sea levels at the study area. In the coastal region near Hakampo, Taean, mean velocities of tidal currents and residual currents were 46.1cm/s, 30.8cm/s respectively, and the dominant residual currents flowed southwestward. The amplitudes of shallow water constituents $(M_4,\;MS_4)$ were relatively laige, which were weaker to the northeastern coastal region off Mineodo. The northeastward flow continued for about $2{\sim}3$ hours, while the southwestward flow continued for about $9{\sim}10$ hours near Hakampo during the tidal period. Tidal currents flowed northeastward in the central area of the waterway during the period from the Low Water Level (LWL) to the High Water Level (HWL). While the currents in the coastal region flowed northeastward for the first 3 hours after the LWL, southwestward counter-currents flowed between 3 and 6 hours after the LWL. During the period from the HWL to the LWL, the dominant currents flowed southwestward in the study area except to the northeastern coastal region off Mineodo. Along the shorelines, the counter-currents flowed northward between 4 and 6 hours after the HWL. It seems that the counter-currents near the coastal region are caused by the topography and the geography of the shorelines at the study area.