• 대한지하수환경학회지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.155-161
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• 1998

토립자 표면에서의 흡착에 의한 토양에서의 중금속의 지연효과는 잘 알려진 현상이다. 본 연구에서는 배치시험과 주상시험을 수행함으로써 사질 토양에서 Zn의 이동성에 대한 지연효과를 조사하였다. 주상시험은 파과곡선(BTC)으로 알려진 시간에 따른 용액의 농도를 측정함으로써 수행되었다. 추적자로는 10 g/L 농도의 NaCl과 ZnCl$_2$를 사용하였고, 각각의 용액을 토양시료의 상부경계에 순간주입한 후 정상류 상태에서 배출구로 빠져나온 용탈수의 농도를 EC-meter와 ICP-AES를 이용하여 측정하였다. 배치시험은 표준절차에 근거하여 이루어졌으며, 토양시료로부터 선별된 미세입자들을 다양한 초기농도의 ZnCl$_2$용액과 반응시켜 평형상태의 Zn 이온의 농도를 ICP를 이용하여 분석하였다. 주상시험의 결과는 i) ICP-AES에 의해 분석된 ZnCl$_2$의 첨두농도는 NaCl이나 총전기전도도로부터 구한 값보다 상당히 낮았고, ii) 두 종류의 추적자 모두 첨두농도의 도달시간은 상당히 일치하였다. 상대적으로 낮은 Zn의 농도는 Zn과 다른 양이온들간의 이온교환반응이 일어났고, 용탈수의 pH가 높은 값의 범위(7.0~7.9)에 있는 것으로 보아 Zn(OH)$_2$의 형태로 침전되었을 가능성이 있다는 것으로 설명될 수 있다. 첨두농도의 도달시간이 일치한다는 결과는 토양시료에서 지연효과가 일어나지 않았다는 것을 지시한다. Zn 이온의 뚜렷한 감소를 설명할 수 있는 유일한 방법은 CDE 모델에 용액상태에서 Zn 이온의 절대적 감소를 고려하는 감쇄계수(decay or sink coefficient)를 적용하는 것이었다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.286-290
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• 2009

The stability of three different kinds of pUC-derived plasmids, pDsRed, pZsYellow, and pGFPuv, was investigated in Pectobacterium strains to utilize those plasmids as tracers. All three plasmids pDsRed, pZsYellow and pGFPuv showed their specific colors in Pectobacterium strains. Especially, the plasmid pDsRed conferred bright pink colonies on the Pectobacterium strains. When the bacteria lost the plasmid pDsRed, the colonies turned white, suggesting that the plasmid could be a good marker system for Pectobacterium strains on different environmental conditions. The effect of the antibiotic pressure on the stability of the plasmid was different depending on the host bacteria. P. carotovorum subsp. betavasculorum was more sensitive to the antibiotic pressure than P. carotovorum subsp. carotovorum Pcc21. However, temperature change significantly affected plasmid stability on both Pectobacterium strains. Almost all strains lost the plasmids with the shift in temperature from $28^{\circ}C$ to $37^{\circ}C$. Presence of the plasmids did not affect bacterial pathogenicity on their own host plants. Among three plasmids, pZsYellow was not useful as a marker because the yellow fluorescent proteins from pZs Yellow were interfered with the yellow natural fluorescence of the plant tissues induced by the defense system. Since the red color of DsRed can be seen with naked eyes, plasmid pDsRed was applicable as a marker. However, the color change was slow so that additional manipulation to increase the expression speed was necessary. Plasmid pGFPuv could serve as a perfect marker without any problem, tracing the reproduction and spread of the plant pathogens perfectly.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.475-489
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• 2010

In order to verify the enhancement of ozone and carbon monoxide (CO) during springtime in East Asia, we investigated weather conditions and data from remote sensors, air quality models, and air quality monitors. These include the geopotential height archived from the final (FNL) meteorological field, the potential vorticity and the wind velocity simulated by the Meteorological Mesoscale Model 5 (MM5), the back trajectory estimated by the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model, the total column amount of ozone and the aerosol index retrieved from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), the total column density of CO retrieved from the Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT), and the concentration of ozone and CO simulated by the Model for Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers (MOZART). In particular, the total column density of CO, which mightoriginate from the combustion of fossil fuels and the burning of biomass in China, increased in East Asia during spring 2000. In addition, the enhancement of total column amounts of ozone and CO appeared to be associated with both the upper cut-off low near 500 hPa and the frontogenesis of a surface cyclone during a weak Asian dust event. At the same time, high concentrations of ozone and CO on the Earth's surface were shown at the Seoul air quality monitoring site, located at the surface frontogenesis in Korea. It was clear that the ozone was invaded by the downward stretched vortex anomalies, which included the ozone-rich airflow, during movement and development of the cut-off low, and then there was the catalytic photochemical reaction of ozone precursors on the Earth's surface during the day. In addition, air pollutants such as CO and aerosol were tracked along both the cyclone vortex and the strong westerly as shown at the back trajectory in Seoul and Busan, respectively. Consequently, the maxima of ozone and CO between the two areas showed up differently because of the time lag between those gases, including their catalytic photochemical reactions together with the invasion from the upper troposphere, as well as the path of their transport from China during the weak Asian dust event.

• 대기
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.639-657
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• 2015

There is an increasing need to improve the air quality over South Korea to protect public health from local and remote anthropogenic pollutant emissions that are in an increasing trend. Here, we evaluate the performance of the WRF-Chem (Weather Research and Forecasting-Chemistry) model in simulating near-surface air quality of major Korean cities, and investigate the impacts of time-varying chemical initial and lateral boundary conditions (IC/BCs) on the air quality simulation using a chemical downscaling technique. The model domain was configured over the East Asian region and anthropogenic MICS-Asia 2010 emissions and biogenic MEGAN-2 emissions were applied with RACM gaseous chemistry and MADE/SORGAM aerosol mechanism. Two simulations were conducted for a 30-days period on April 2010 with chemical IC/BCs from the WRF-Chem default chemical species profiles ('WRF experiment') and the MOZART-4 (Model for OZone And Related chemical Tracers version 4) ('WRF_MOZART experiment'), respectively. The WRF_MOZART experiment has showed a better performance to predict near-surface CO, $NO_2$, $SO_2$, and $O_3$ mixing ratios at 7 major Korean cities than the WRF experiment, showing lower mean bias error (MBE) and higher index of agreement (IOA). The quantitative impacts of the chemical IC/BCs have depended on atmospheric residence time of the pollutants as well as the relative difference of chemical mixing ratios between the WRF and WRF_MOZART experiments at the lateral boundaries. Specifically, the WRF_MOZART experiment has reduced MBE in CO and O3 mixing ratios by 60~80 ppb and 5~10 ppb over South Korea than those in the WRF-Chem default simulation, while it has a marginal impact on $NO_2$ and $SO_2$ mixing ratios. Without using MOZART-4 chemical IC, the WRF simulation has required approximately 6-days chemical spin-up time for the East Asian model domain. Overall, the results indicate that realistic chemical IC/BCs are prerequisite in the WRF-Chem simulation to improve a forecast skill of local air quality over South Korea, even in case the model domain is sufficiently large to represent anthropogenic emissions from China, Japan, and South Korea.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.133-142
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• 2009

2009년으로 예정된 산샤댐 완공 후 인근해역에 대한 장강 유출수의 영향을 예측하기 위해 라듐 동위원소의 방사능비($^{228}Ra/^{226}Ra$)와 염분을 이용하여 북부 동중국해의 표층수를 쿠로시오수(Kuroshio Water; KW), 동중국해수(East China Sea Water; ECSW), 장강수(Changjiang Water; CW)등 세가지 단성분 수괴로 나누고, 세 단성분 사이의 혼합비를 추정하였다. 2005년 11월에 동중국해 북부해역의 32개 정점(조사선 '탐구3호'), 2006년 7월에 20개 정점(조사선 '해양 2000호'), 2006년 8월에 17개 정점(조사선 '이어도호')에서 표층해수의 시료 각 300 L씩을 망간섬유에 통과시켜 라듐을 농축하였고, $Ba(Ra)SO_4$형태로 공침된 라듐 동위원소를 감마선 분광분석법으로 측정하였다. 라듐 동위원소 방사능비와 염분을 이용하여 추정된 세 단성분의 혼합비는 풍수기에 장강수가 약 1-23%, 쿠로시오수가 0-30 %, 동중국해수는 58-100% 사이에 분포하였다. 여름철 인공위성 이미지에서 장강수 플룸이 동쪽으로 향하는 것이 관찰되듯, 이 연구에서도 장강수 혼합비가 동쪽으로 갈수록 감소하는 것이 관찰되는데 이는 이 지역에 여름에 우세한 남동계절풍에 의한 표층수의 엑크만 수송 때문이라고 생각된다. 갈수기에는 연구해역의 표층수에 장강수가 거의 포함되지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 장강수의 혼합비가 증가할수록 용존 무기질소의 농도가 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 이는 용존 무기질소의 주 공급원이 장강수임을 의미하며, 혼합곡선이 제거의 형태를 보이는 것은 장강수가 인근 해수와 혼합시에 식물플랑크톤의 섭취 같은 생물작용에 의하여 질산염이 소모되는 것으로 설명할 수 있다.