• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.599-616
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• 2020

해수면온도는 해양-대기 상호작용, 열속 변화, 대양의 해양 순환을 이해할 수 있는 가장 중요한 해양 변수들 중의 하나이다. 0℃ 이하 -2℃까지 극저 해수면온도는 기후변화 및 지구환경 변화를 유도하고 조절하기 때문에 다른 범위의 해수면온도보다 더 중요하게 다루어져야 한다. 전구 대양에서 이러한 극저 해수면온도의 시간적 공간적 변동성을 이해하기 위하여 1982년부터 2018년까지의 기간 동안 관측된 인공위성 일별 해수면온도 데이터베이스를 활용하여 평균 기후장을 산출하였다. 또한 장기간의 해양 실측 자료에 기반하여 생산된 표층 수온의 기후 평균장을 활용하여 극저 해수면온도가 전구 대양에서 존재하는 해역과 0℃ 등온선의 월별 공간 변동을 분석하였다. 그 결과 극저 해수면온도는 북극해와 남극해와 같은 극지 해역과 고위도의 연해에서 상당한 해양의 표면적을 차지하고 있었다. 이러한 극저 해수면 온도가 어떻게 시각화되어 있는지 검토하기 위하여 6종 지구과학교과서를 분석하였다. 대부분의 교과서에서 해수면온도 삽화는 0℃ 혹은 그 이상 수온에서 부터 도시하여 학생들이 극저 해수면온도에 대한 개념과 역할에 대한 이해를 획득하는 것을 저해하고 있었다. 데이터 시각화는 데이터 리터러시의 주요한 요소 중에 하나이므로 위성 해수면온도 자료가 교과서에 적절하게 시각화되도록 교과서 삽화의 개선이 필요하다. 본 연구는 인공위성 해수면온도 자료와 해양 실측 자료를 활용하여 해양 데이터의 시각화를 통하여 해양학적 소양과 데이터 리터러시가 동시에 함양되고 강화될 수 있음을 강조하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.499-510
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• 2022

Computational Wind Engineering has rapidly grown in the last decades and it is currently reaching a relatively mature state. The prediction of wind loading by means of numerical simulations has been proved effective in many research studies and applications to design practice are rapidly spreading. Despite such success, caution in the use of simulations for wind loading assessment is still advisable and, indeed, required. The computational burden and the know-how needed to run high-fidelity simulations is often unavailable and the possibility to use simplified models extremely attractive. In this paper, the applicability of some well-known 2D unsteady RANS models, particularly the k-ω SST, in the aerodynamic characterization of extruded bodies with bluff sections is investigated. The main focus of this paper is on the drag coefficient prediction. The topic is not new, but, in the authors' opinion, worth a careful revisitation. In fact, despite their great technical relevance, a systematic study focussing on sections which manifest a fully detached flow configuration has been overlooked. It is here shown that the considered 2D RANS exhibit a pathological behaviour, failing to reproduce the transition between reattached and fully detached flow regime.

• 대기
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.283-301
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• 2014

In 2010, only 14 tropical cyclones (TCs) were generated over the western North Pacific (WNP), which was the smallest since 1951. This study summarizes characteristics of TCs generated in 2010 over the WNP and investigates the causes of the record-breaking TC genesis. A long-term variation of TC activity in the WNP and verification of official track forecast in 2010 are also examined. Monthly tropical sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly data reveal that El Ni$\tilde{n}$o/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event in 2010 was shifted from El Ni$\tilde{n}$o to La Ni$\tilde{n}$a in June and the La Ni$\tilde{n}$a event was strong and continued to the end of the year. We found that these tropical environments leaded to unfavorable conditions for TC formation at main TC development area prior to May and at tropics east of $140^{\circ}E$ during summer mostly due to low SST, weak convection, and strong vertical wind shear in those areas. The similar ENSO event (in shifting time and La Ni$\tilde{n}$a intensity) also occurred in 1998, which was the second smallest TC genesis year (16 TCs) since 1951. The common point of the two years suggests that the ENSO episode shifting from El Ni$\tilde{n}$o to strong La Ni$\tilde{n}$a in summer leads to extremely low TC genesis during La Ni$\tilde{n}$a although more samples are needed for confidence. In 2010, three TCs, DIANMU (1004), KOMPASU (1007) and MALOU (1009), influenced the Korean Peninsula (KP) in spite of low total TC genesis. These TCs were all generated at high latitude above $20^{\circ}N$ and arrived over the KP in short time. Among them, KOMPASU (1007) brought the most serious damage to the KP due to strong wind. For 14 TCs in 2010, mean official track forecast error of the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) for 48 hours was 215 km, which was the highest among other foreign agencies although the errors are generally decreasing for last 10 years, suggesting that more efforts are needed to improve the forecast skill.

• 천문학회보
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.115.2-115.2
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• 2012

In this study we have used the data of various instruments onboard the THEMIS spacecraft to study the characteristics of the outer radiation belt during the ascending phase of solar cycle 24. The most astonishing result is that we discovered four long-term (a month or so) periods during which the belt has nearly disappeared. The first disappearance started late 2008, followed by reappearance in ~a month, and three more similar events repeated until early 2010 when the belt has reappeared. This is well revealed at 719 keV electrons, which is the currently available uppermost energy channel from the THEMIS SST observation, but also seen at even lower energies. Overall consistent features were confirmed using the NOAA-POES observations. The vanished belt periods are associated with extremely weak solar wind conditions, low geomagnetic disturbances (in terms of Kp and AE/AL), greatly suppressed wave (ULF and chorus) activities, greatly reduced storm and substorm activities (little source particle supply), and expanded plasmapause locations. The direct observations of such events shed light on the fundamental question of the origin of the radiation belt, which is the main focus of our presentation.