• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2015

한반도 주변을 연구해역으로 하는 지역 해양순환예측시스템을 이용하여 관측기반의 분석 자료인 Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis(OSTIA) 해수면 온도 자료의 동화를 통한 초기장 개선효과가 황해, 동중국해 그리고 동해의 해수면온도 예측결과에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 이를 위해서, 본 연구에서는 3차원 최적내삽법을 적용한 실험(Exp. DA)과 적용하지 않은 실험(Exp. NoDA)을 수행하여 각각의 실험결과를 관측자료와 비교 분석하였다. 2011년 9월 OSTIA 해수면 온도 자료와의 비교결과, Exp. NoDA는 24, 48, 72 예측시간에서 약 $1.5^{\circ}C$의 비교적 높은 Root Mean Square Error(RMSE)를 보였으나, Exp. DA에서는 모든 예측시간에서 $0.8^{\circ}C$ 이하의 상대적으로 낮은 RMSE가 나타났다. 특히, 초기 24시간 예측결과에서 RMSE는 $0.57^{\circ}C$를 보여 Exp. NoDA에 비해 예측성능이 크게 향상된 결과를 보였다. 해역별로는 황해와 동해에서 자료동화 적용 시, 60% 이상의 높은 RMSE 감소율이 나타났다. 기상청 8개 지점 연안 계류부이의 표층수온 자료를 이용하여 자료동화 효과를 계절적으로 살펴본 결과, 전반적으로 여름철을 제외한 모든 계절에서 자료동화 적용 후 70% 이상의 높은 RMSE 감소율을 보여 한반도 연안 표층수온의 단기 예측성이 향상됨을 확인하였다. 또한, 해수면 온도 자료의 동화로 인한 해양상층부의 수온구조 변화를 살펴보기 위해 동해를 대표해역으로 하여 Argo 수온 프로파일 자료와 실험결과를 비교하였다. 특히 연직 혼합이 강한 겨울철 해양 상층부(<100 m) 경우 Exp. DA의 RMSE가 Exp. NoDA에 비해 약 $1.5^{\circ}C$ 감소한 결과를 보여 해수면 온도의 자료동화 효과가 해양상층부의 수온 예측성 향상에 기여함을 확인하였다. 하지만, 겨울철 혼합층 아래에서는 Argo 관측 대비 수온 오차가 오히려 증가한 해역도 존재하여 해수면 온도 자료동화의 한계성도 나타났다.

• 한국환경농학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경농학회 2009년도 정기총회 및 국제심포지엄
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• pp.228-239
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• 2009

The observations on climate change show a clear increase in the temperature of the Earth's surface and the oceans, a reduction in the land snow cover, and melting of the sea ice and glaciers. The effects of climate change are likely to include more variable weather, heat waves, increased mean temperature, rains, flooding and droughts. The threat of climate change and global warming on human and animal health is now recognized as a global issue. This presentation is described an overview of the latest scientific knowledge on the impact of climate change on zoonotic diseases. Climate strongly affects agriculture and livestock production and influences animal diseases, vectors and pathogens, and their habitat. Global warming are likely to change the temporal and geographical distribution of infectious diseases, including those that are vector-borne such as West Nile fever, Rift Valley fever, Japanese encephalitis, bluetongue, malaria and visceral leishmaniasis, and other diarrheal diseases. The distribution and prevalence of vector-borne diseases may be the most significant effect of climate change. The impact of climate change on the emergence and re-emergence of animal diseases has been confirmed by a majority of countries. Emerging zoonotic diseases are increasingly recognized as a global and regional issue with potential serious human health and economic impacts and their current upward trends are likely to continue. Coordinated international responses are therefore essential across veterinary and human health sectors, regions and countries to control and prevent emerging zoonoses. A new early warning and alert systems is developing and introducing for enhancing surveillance and response to zoonotic diseases. And international networks that include public health, research, medical and veterinary laboratories working with zoonotic pathogens should be established and strengthened. Facing this challenging future, the long-term strategies for zoonotic diseases that may be affected by climate change is need for better prevention and control measures in susceptible livestock, wildlife and vectors in Korea. In conclusion, strengthening global, regional and national early warning systems is extremely important, as are coordinated research programmes and subsequent prevention and control measures, and need for the global surveillance network essential for early detection of zoonotic diseases.

• Mass Spectrometry Letters
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.192-199
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• 2021

Alpine glaciers harbor a large quantity of bio-labile dissolved organic matter (DOM), which plays a pivotal role in global carbon cycling as glacial-fed streams are headwaters of numerous large rivers. To understand the complexity, origin, and fate of DOM in glaciers and downstream-linked streams and lakes, we elucidated the molecular composition of DOM in two different Tibetan Plateau glaciers, eight glacial-fed streams and five lakes, using an ultrahigh-resolution 15 Tesla Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometer. The compositional changes of the DOM samples revealed that glacier DOM mostly exhibited sulfur-containing organic compounds (CHOS species). We also found that aliphatic formulae contributed more than 50% of the total abundance of assigned molecules in glacier samples, and those compounds were significantly related to CHOS species. The CHO proportions of glacial-fed streams and lakes samples increased with increasing distance from glacial terminals. The relative contribution of terrestrial-derived organics (i.e., lignins and tannins) declined while microbial-originated organics (aliphatics) increased with increasing elevation. This suggested the gradual input of allochthonous materials from non-glacial environment and the degradation of microbe-derived compounds along lower elevations. Alpine glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change and they nourished numerous streams, rivers, and downstream-linked lakes. Therefore, the interpretations of the detailed molecular changes in glacier ice, glacial-fed streams, and alpine lakes on the Tibetan Plateau could provide broad insights for understanding the biogeochemical cycling of glacial DOM and assessing how the nature of DOM impacts fluvial ecosystems.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.63.3-63.3
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• 2019

Active asteroids are celestial bodies that distinctively have asteroid-like orbital elements but show comet-like activity. They exhibit the activities due to the sublimation of volatile ices, impacts with small objects or break-up by rapid rotations. As of 2019 February, 30 active asteroids are detected in the outer main belt (i.e., the semimajor axes a>2.5 au) while only 3 of them in the inner main belt (a<2.5 au), suggesting that sublimation of remaining icy volatiles can be one of the most fundamental mechanisms for the activities. A sudden activity of (6478) Gault was reported in early 2019. The asteroid was discovered in 1988 and has exhibited its inactive appearance until the end of last year. Soon after the report, we have conducted imaging observations using the Seoul National University Observatory 1.0-m telescope and the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) to monitor the activity. The observed images showed a primary dust tail that consists of dust grains ejected early November in 2018. Later, another tail developed, indicating further dust ejection occurred around late December 2018. Our model simulation to reproduce the morphology of the dust cloud suggests that the slightly-curved primary dust tail results from a continuous dust ejection over weeks. The total mass of ejecta was estimated to XX kg (XX% of the asteroid mass). Such continuous dust ejection for the inner active asteroids was unexpected because ice might have already sublimated from subsurfaces of inner main belt. Based on our observational evidence, we will discuss how inner asteroids are activated and eject dust continuously.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.213-226
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• 2003

Kongsfjorden near Korean Arctic Station, Dasan, is a glacial fjord in the Svalbard archipelago, Arctic that is influenced by both Atlantic and Arctic water masses. During the Arctic field season August 2002, surface temperature, salinity, density, and phytoplankton biomass (chi a) was measured in Kongsfjorden. A total of 15 surface samples were collected for the phytoplankton related measurements. Chl a values ranged from 0.08 to 1.4mg chi a $m^{-3}$ (mean of 0.53mg chl a $m^{-3}$) in the overall surface stations. The highest values of the chi a concentrations (> 1.0mg chi a $m^{-3}$) were found near glacier in the northeastern part of Kongsfjorden. Nanoplanktonic (< $20{\mu}m$) phytoflagellates were important contributors for the increase of the chi a. The nano-sized phytoflagellates accounted for more than 90% of the total chi a biomass in the study area. Surface temperatures and salinities ranged from 2.5 to $7.18^{\circ}C$ (mean of $4.65^{\circ}C$) and from 22.55 to 32.97 psu (mean of 30.16 psu), respectively. The physical factors were not highly correlated with phytoplankton distribution. The character of surface water due to down-fjord wind was highly similar to phytoplankton distribution. Drifting ice, freshwater, and semdiment inputs from large tidal glaciers located in the inner part of Konsfjorden create steep physico- and biogeochemical environmental gradients along the length of this ford. The glacial inputs cause reduced biodiversity biomass and productivity in the pelagic community in the inner fjord. Primary production of benthic and pelagic microalgae is reduced due to the limited light levels in the turbid and mixed inner waters. The magnitude of glacial effects diminishes towards the outer fjord. Kongsfjorden is an important feeding ground fer marine mammals and seabirds. Especially, seabirds play the largest energy intake and also export nutrients for primary production of the marine microalgae. Kongsfjorden has received a lot of research attention as a site for exploring the impacts of climate changes. Dasan Station in Kongsfjorden will be an important Arctic site for monitoring and detecting future environmental changes.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.38-43
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• 2011

The recent global warming may be estimated to give lots of impacts to the human society and biosphere of influencing climate change included by the natural climate variations through the human activity which can directly and/or indirectly play a major role of total atmospheric composition overall. Therefore it currently appears evidences such as hot wave, typhoon, and biosphere disturbance, etc. over the several regions to be influenced by global warming due to increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere through inducing forest destruction, fossil fuel combustion, greenhouse gases emission, etc. since industrial revolution era. Through the working group report of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for climate change was analyzed by the individual country's current status and figure out the important issues and problems related to the future trend of climate change science with advanced countries preparedness and research, In this study, the first working group report of IPCC focuses on those aspects of the current understanding of the physical science of climate change that are judged to be most relevant to policymakers. As this report was assessed and analyzed by including the progress of climate change science, the role of climate models and evolution in the treatment of uncertainties. This consists of the changes in atmospheric constituents(both aerosols and gases) that affect the radiative energy balance in the atmosphere and determine the Earth's climate, considering the interaction between biogeochemical cycles that affect atmospheric constituents and climate change, including aerosol/cloud interactions, the extensive range of observations snow available for the atmosphere and surface, for snow, ice, and frozen ground and for the oceans, respectively and changes in sea level, the paleoclimate perspective and assessment of evidence for past climate change and the extension, the ways in which physical processes are simulated in climate models and the evaluation of models against observed climate, the development plans and methods of improving expert and building manpower urgently and R&D fund expansion in detail for climate change science in Korea will be proposed.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제39권10호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2023

달 극지방에 얼음이 존재한다는 사실을 발견하고 달 현지자원활용과 유인기지 건설에 국제적 관심이 증대되고 있다. 대기가 없는 달은 지구환경과 다르게 운석충돌, 우주방사선, 극한 온도편차의 위험에 노출되고 있다. 이러한 3대 위협요소로부터 유인 우주기지를 보호하기 위해 보호층 시공이 반드시 요구된다. 월면토를 보호층 시공 재료로 사용하는 것은 지구-달 운송에 필요한 비용 절감과 대량의 원자재 확보라는 관점에서 상당히 매력적이다. 또한, 별도의 제작 및 통합 일정을 위한 추가적인 시간이 필요치 않고 지구에서 재보급 없이 쉽게 수리 및 개조가 가능하다. 환경이 변하는 경우에도 유인 우주기지의 구조적 한계 내에서 보호층 두께 조절이 가능하다. 월면토를 이용한 보호층과 관련한 다양한 연구들이 진행되어 왔으나, 보호층의 요구조건에 대해서는 다양한 의견들이 제시되어 왔다. 본 논문에서 달 지상 3대 위협요소별로 상세히 살펴본 결과를 토대로 장기 유인거주를 위해서는 2m 이상의 보호층 시공이 필요한 것으로 판단하였다. 이를 기반으로 보호층 시공에 필요한 기술과 달 지상에서 급속으로 시공이 가능한 방안을 제시하고자 한다.