• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.23-35
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• 2015

A 450 m-long sediment section was recovered from Hole U1359D located at the eastern levee of the Jussieau submarine channel on the Wilkes Land continental rise (East Antarctica) during IODP Expedition 318. The age model for Hole U1359D was established by paleomagnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, and the ages of core-top and core-bottom were estimated to be about 5 Ma and 13 Ma, respectively. Biogenic opal content during this period varied between 3% and 60%. In the Southern Ocean, high biogenic opal content generally represents warm climate characterized by the increased light availability due to the decrease of sea-ice distribution. The surface water productivity change in terms of biogenic opal content at about 10.2 Ma in the Wilkes Land continental rise was related to the development of Northern Component Water. After about 10.2 Ma, more production of Northern Component Water in the North Atlantic caused to increase heat transport to the Southern Ocean, resulting in the enhanced diatom production. Miocene isotope events (Mi4~Mi7), which are intermittent cooling intervals during the Miocene, appeared to be correlated to the low biogenic opal contents, but further refinement was required for precise correlation. Biogenic opal content decreased abruptly during 6 Ma to 5.5 Ma, which most likely corresponds to the Messinian salinity crisis. Short-term variation of biogenic opal content was related to the extent of sea-ice distribution associated with the location of Antarctic Polar Front that was controlled by glacial-interglacial paleoclimate change, although more precise dating and correlation will be necessary. Diatom production in the Wilkes Land continental rise increased during the interglacial periods because of the reduced sea-ice distribution and the southward movement of Antarctic Polar Front.

• 대기
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.321-329
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• 2013

This study examines the effect of aerosols on the vertical invigoration of continental stratiform clouds, using a dataset of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Intensive Operational Period (IOP, March 2000) at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. To provide further support to our observation-based findings, the weather research and forecasting (WRF) sensitivity simulations with changing cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations have been carried out for the golden episode over SGP. First, cross correlation between observed aerosol scattering coefficient and cloud liquid water path (LWP) with a 160-minutes lag is the highest of r = 0.83 for the selected episode, which may be attributable to cloud vertical invigoration induced by an increase in aerosol loading. Modeled cloud fractions in a control run are well matched with the observation in the perspective of cloud morphology and lasting period. It is also found through a simple sensitivity with a change in CCN that aerosol invigoration (AIV) effect on stratiform cloud organization is attributable to a change in the cloud microphysics as well as dynamics such as the corresponding modification of cloud number concentrations, drop size, and latent heating rate, etc. This study suggests a possible cloud vertical invigoration even in the continental stratiform clouds due to aerosol enhancement in spite of a limited analysis based on a few observed continental cloud cases.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.113-126
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• 2022

This study was carried out to investigate the benthic polychaetous community and benthic ecosystem quality status on the adjacent continental shelf of Jeju Island, and field surveys were conducted at 31 stations in July and August, 2020. The surface sediment was generally composed of muddy sand facies and sandy mud facies, and the average particle size was medium silt (6.1±1.6∅). The benthic polychaetous community revealed a total of 73 species with a mean density of 242 ind./m². The major dominant species were Notomastus latericeus, Ampharete arctica and Onuphis shirikishinaiensis. By the cluster analysis and nMDS results based on species composition of the benthic polychaetous community, the study area was divided into three station groups arranged from east to west by the water depth and sedimentary facies. The station group located in the west was subdivided into two station groups from south to north. From results of correlation analysis and PCA, it was found that the benthic polychaetous community in the study area had a strong correlation with the sedimentary environment and water depth. The benthic faunal community (or ecosystem) on the adjacent continental shelf of Jeju Island was assessed to be in a healthy state by biotic indices such as AMBI and BPI.

• Water Engineering Research
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.139-148
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• 2001

The teleconnections between El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and droughts in Korea and the continental United States(U.S.) are investigated using cross analysis. For this purpose, monthly ENSO data and Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for Korea and for seven states in the U.S. are used. This study shows that there are significant statistical associations between ENSO indices and PDSI for Korea; however, the associations are very weak. It is found that dry conditions in Korea are positively correlated with El Nino, while wet conditions with La Nina. SOI, SSt in the Nino 4 and Ship track 6 regions among ENSO indices are more strongly correlated with PDSI than the other ENSO indices when using the original standardized data, but the SST Nino 3, SST Nino 4, and Darwin SSP exhibit abetter correlations with PDSI when using filtered data to be removed autocorrelation components of the original standardized data. The response time lag for maximum correlation between ENSO indices and PDSI appears to be affected by filtering the data. This is expecially true for Korea than for state analyzed in U.S. In addition, it is found that the PDSI in the continental U.S. is more strongly correlated wiht ENSO than in Korea. Furthermore, in analyzing the El Nino and La Nina aggregate composite data, it is found that the dry anomalies in Korea occur from the year following El Nino to about tow years after while the wet anomalies occur from La Nina year for a period of about two years.

• 한국해안해양공학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.254-261
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• 2001

장주기파가 깊은 바다에서 수심이 급격히 감소하는 대륙사면을 지나 대륙붕 위로 전파해 들어오는 경우 육지에서 반사된 파가 대륙사면에서 외해로 전파해 나가지 못하고 재반사되어 들어오기 때문에 육지 쪽에서 커다란 수위진동을 일으키는 것은 잘 알려진 사실이다. Liu(1986)는 반원형 외해 경계를 따라 수심의 불연속이 존재하는 지형을 가정하여 이러한 현상을 해석하였으나 그의 해석해에는 오류가 있었다. 본 논문에서는 직선해안 및 직사각형 항만에 대한 Liu(1986)의 해석해를 수정하고, 이를 정 등(1998)의 확장형 완경사방정식에 기초한 Galerkin 유한요소 모형에 의한 결과와 비교하여 확인하였다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.419-427
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• 2002

Meiobenthic community structure near Dokdo was investigated during two survey periods of June, 1999 and October 2000. Meiobenthos were separated from the sediment core samples collected from eight stations. A total of 19 meiobenthic animal groups were identified from those core samples. The most abundant meiobenthic animals belonged to Phylum Nematoda in both seasons and all stations. Sarcomastigophorans, nauplius of crustaceans, and benthic harpactiocoids were the next abundant meiobenthos. Vertical distribution of meiobenthic animals showed the highest individual numbers in the surface sediment layers of 0-1cm depth with a steep decreasing trend with depth for the three sampling stations (A0, A9', A19) located in the continental slope. Horizontal distribution of meiobenthic animals for the study area near Dokdo showed lower density at the sampling stations near Dokdo and the lowest density of meiobenthos in A19 (depth-2261 m). For size distribution, analysis showed that animals which fit onto the mesh size of 0.125mm were abundant. This study suggested that the continental shelf near Dokdo have a more unstable environment fo meiobenthos than the continental slope.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2012

An empirical predictive relationship correlating bracketed duration to earthquake magnitude, site-to-source distance, and local site conditions (i.e. rock vs. stiff soil) for stable continental regions of North America is presented herein. The correlation was developed from data from 620 horizontal motions for central and eastern North America (CENA), consisting of 28 recorded motions and 592 scaled motions. The bracketed duration data was comprised of nonzero and zero durations. The non-linear mixed-effects regression technique was used to fit a predictive model to the nonzero duration data. To account for the zero duration data, logistic regression was conducted to model the probability of zero duration occurrences. Then, the probability models were applied as weighting functions to the NLME regression results. Comparing the bracketed durations for CENA motions with those from active shallow crustal regions (e.g. western North America: WNA), the motions in CENA have longer bracketed durations than those in the WNA. Especially for larger magnitudes at far distances, the bracketed durations in CENA tend to be significantly longer than those in WNA.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.493-499
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• 1997

한반도 동해 남부 대륙붕에 분포하는 탄산질-쇄설성분 혼합 퇴적물에서 성분별 입도분석을 실시하여, 퇴적 환경 및 퇴적기작을 해석하였다. 쇄설성분은 평균입도가 중립사와 세립사 범위였으며, 분급이 양호한 단빈도 입도분포를 나타내었다. 이들 쇄설 퇴적물은 해수면이 낮았던 지난 빙하기동안 해빈 퇴적환경에서 집적되었으며, 전형적인 잔류퇴적물로 해석된다. 패각류가 우세한 탄산질 성분은 거의 파쇄된 상태이며, 표면이 심하게 풍화되었다. 이들 패각도 빙하기동안 천해환경에서 서식하였던 잔류기원 패각편으로 해석된다. 한편 입도특성은 쇄설성 성분에 비하여 다소 조립하며, 분급도는 불량하였다. 이들 패각편 탄산질 성분은 집적된 이후 지속적인 파쇄 및 분급작용에 의해 입도분포의 특징이 조절된 것으로 해석된다.

• 암석학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 1993

The high-P metamorphic belt in central China, between the Sino-Korean and the Yangtze continental plates, is composed of the low-T and high-P metamorphic belt on the south and the high-T and high-P metamorphic belt on the north. The low-T and high-P metamorphic belt consists predominantly of bimodal metamorphic volcano-sedimentary sequences of Middle to Upper Proterozoic, characterized by the occurrences of blueschists, which have undergone a progressive metamorphism from blueschist through greenschist to epidote amphibolite facies with metamorphic conditions of 7~14 kb and 350~$560^{\circ}C$. The high-T and high-P and high-P metamorphic belt mainly consists of the Upper Archean to Lower Proterozoic crystalline basement characterized by the aboundant occurrences of eclogites formed at 12~28 kb and 620~$840^{\circ}C$. The formation of high-P metamorphic belt is related to the collision between the Sino-Korean and the Yangtze continental plates during Indosinian orogeny. The two belts may extend to central Korean Peninsula correlating respectively to the Okchon belt and the Kyonggi massif based on comparative studies of geography, tectonics and petrology. Therefore, much attention should be paid to search for such high-P metamorphic rocks as blueschists or eclogites in those two areas, which can play a key role for understanding the tectonic evolution of the Korean Peninsula.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 1989

남해 대륙붕에서 채취된 70개의 표층퇴적물과 130개의 해수시료를 대상으로 하여 이 환경에서의 표층퇴적물 분포, 표층퇴적물과 해저지형 및 부유물질 분포에 대하여 연구하였다. 이토(mud)는 남해 대륙붕 수심 약 40m인 연안 및 내대륙붕 해역에서 우세하나 대륙붕 지역의 대부분은 조립물질인 모래가 우세하여 일부 지역에 따라 자갈 또는 패각 모래가 발달한다. 이와 같은 분포경향은 현세 (Holocene)해수면 상승(변동)과 그에 따른 수력학적인 조건에 의한 것으로 해석된다. 현세 간빙기의 최초기 즉, 현세 간빙기 직전의 빙기 (Wisconsin 혹은 Wurm) 후기에 위치하였던 해수면(약 18000y.B.P.)에 관련된 퇴적상과 그 당시의 연안해저지형의 특징이 본 연구결과의 하나로서 규명되었다.