• 대기
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.349-364
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• 2007

The main purpose of this study is to examine the sensitivity of the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) in the wind field to the steepness of mountains in the case with a strong downslope wind occurred in the Yeongdong province. We conducted WRF simulations for February 13 2006. The initial and boundary data are from the NCEP/NCAR $1^{\circ}{\times}1^{\circ}$ GDAS. Arbitrary terrains of the mountains with a symmetric orography and an asymmetric one with steeper leeward slope, were introduced to examine the sensitivity of the shape of the mountains. The simulation with an asymmetric terrain results in stronger maximum surface wind by about $10ms^{-1}$ than with a symmetric terrain, especially in the narrow region from the peak to ~ 4 km away in the downstream. However, the maximum surface wind speed is weaker by $20ms^{-1}$ than with a symmetric terrain away from the narrow peak region. This indicates that the steeper slope leads to the intensification of downslope wind in the narrower region leeward. In addition, for the simulation with an asymmetric terrain, the strength of wave breaking is greater and the Lee wave is more dominant than for that with a symmetric terrain.

• 한국해양학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.97-109
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• 1988

한국 동해의 wind stress와 wind-stress curl의 값을 수산진흥원 정선관측 바람자료를 근거로 하여 계산하였다. 바람에 의한 해수 이용을 염두에 두고 주로 지속적이고 강한 바람을 취해서 구한 월평균 wind stress 값들은 동해 전체에서 구한 기존의 값들과 거의 같았으나 wind-stress curl의 경우는 그 값이 훨씬 크게 나타났다. 이는 동해가 국지적으로 지형적인 영향을 받은 것으로 판단된다. 한편 바람에 의한 상층수의 이동으로 울릉도 부근에는 계절에 관계없이 난수괴(warm core)가 존재 하나 그 위치는 고정되어 있지 않다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.653-660
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• 1999

The flow of non-rotation atmosphere with uniform stratification and wind past an isolated three dimensional topography obstacle is investigated with three-dimensional hydrostatic and non- hydrostatic numerical model. The characteristic of turbulence created the back of topography obstacle is usually defined by Froude number which is the function of upstream wind speed, the height of topography obstacle, and atmospheric stability. Turbulence tends to be formed more easily at the non-hydrostatic model than hydrostatic model. Especially, the difference between flow patterns of two models generated by isolated obstacle is more clear under low Froude number. The difference of flow patterns can be only seen at relatively low altitude, but at high altitude the patterns of two models are almost same. In this research, wind velocity in the parameters related with Froude number have great sensitivity at responsibility of numerical models. and slop of obstacle is also important factor at the flow pattern regardless of the species of numerical model

• Wind and Structures
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.75-90
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• 2023

Turbulent wind flow over hilly terrains has been extensively investigated in the scientific literature and main findings have been included in technical standards. In particular, turbulent wind flow over nominally two-dimensional hills is often adopted as a benchmark to investigate wind turbine siting, estimate wind loading, and dispersion of particles transported by the wind, such as atmospheric pollutants, wind-driven rain, windblown snow. Windblown sand transport affects human-built structures and natural ecosystems in sandy desert and coastal regions, such as transport infrastructures and coastal sand dunes. Windblown sand transport taking place around any kind of obstacle is rarely in equilibrium conditions. As a result, the modelling of windblown sand transport over complex orographies is fundamental, even if seldomly investigated. In this study, the authors present a wind-sand tunnel test campaign carried out on a nominally two-dimensional sinusoidal hill. A first test is carried out on a flat sand fetch without any obstacle to assess sand transport in open field conditions. Then, a second test is carried out on the hill model to assess the sand flux overcoming the hill and the morphodynamic evolution of the sand sedimenting over its upwind slope. Finally, obtained results are condensed into a dimensionless parameter describing its sedimentation capability and compared with values resulting from other nominally two-dimensional obstacles from the literature.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.153-161
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• 2023

Wind speed data from Nepal and adjoining countries have been analyzed to estimate an extreme wind speed climatology for the region. Previously wind speed information for Nepal was adopted from the Indian National Standard and applied to two orographically different regions: above and below 3000 m elevation respectively. Comparisons of the results of this analysis are made with relevant codes and standards. The study confirms that the assigned basic wind speed of 47 m/s for the plains and hills of Nepal (below 3000 m) is appropriate, however, data to substantiate a basic wind speed of 55 m/s above 3000 m is unavailable. Using a composite analysis of 15 geographically similar stations, the study also generated 435 years of annual maxima wind data and fitted them to Type I and Type III extreme value distributions. The results suggest that Type III distribution may better represent the data. The findings are also consistent with predictions made by Holmes and Weller (2002) and to a certain extent those of Sarkar et al. (2014), but lower than the analysis undertaken by Lakshmanan et al. (2009) for northern India. The study also highlights that the use of a load factor of 1.5 on wind load implies lower strength design MRI's of around 260 years compared to the 700 years of ASCE 7-22.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

Sensitivity analysis of wind resource micrositing has been performed through the application case at the Antarctic King Sejong station with the most representative micrositing softwares: WAsP, WindSim and Meteodyn WT. The wind data obtained from two met-masts separated 625m were applied as a climatology input condition of micro-scale wind mapping. A tower shading effect on the met-mast installed 20m apart from the warehouse has been assessed by the CFD software Fluent and confirmed a negligible influence on wind speed measurement. Theoretically, micro-scale wind maps generated by the two met-data located within the same wind system and strongly correlated meteor-statistically should be identical if nothing influenced on wind prediction but orography. They, however, show discrepancies due to nonlinear effects induced by surrounding complex terrain. From the comparison of sensitivity analysis, Meteodyn WT employing 1-equation turbulence model showed 68% higher RMSE error of wind speed prediction than that of WindSim using the ${\kappa}-{\epsilon}$ turbulence model, while a linear-theoretical model WAsP showed 21% higher error. Consequently, the CFD model WindSim would predict wind field over complex terrain more reliable and less sensitive to climatology input data than other micrositing models. The auto-validation method proposed in this paper and the evaluation result of the micrositing softwares would be anticipated a good reference of wind resource assessments in complex terrain.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

In this study, we performed a sensitivity analysis to see how the true north error of a wind direction vane installed to a meteorological mast affects predictions of the annual-average wind speed and the annual energy production. For this study, two meteorological masts were installed with a distance of about 4km on the ridge in complex terrain and the wind speed and direction were measured for one year. Cross predictions of the wind speed and the AEP of a virtual wind turbine for two sites in complex terrain were performed by changing the wind direction from $-45^{\circ}$ to $45^{\circ}$with an interval of $5^{\circ}$. A commercial wind resource prediction program, WindPRO, was used for the study. It was found that the prediction errors in the AEP caused by the wind direction errors occurred up to more than 20% depending on the orography and the main wind direction at that site.

• 대기
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.135-148
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• 2022

This study investigates the influence of atmospheric river (AR) on precipitation over South Korea with a focus on regional characteristics. The 42-year-long catalog of ARs, which is obtained by applying the automatic AR detection algorithm to ERA5 reanalysis data and the insitu precipitation data recorded at 56 weather stations across the country are used to quantify their relationship. Approximately 51% of the climatological annual precipitation is associated with AR. The AR-related precipitation is most pronounced in summer by approximately 58%, while only limited fraction of precipitation (26%) is AR-related in winter. The heavy precipitation (> 30 mm day^-1) is more prone to AR activity (59%) than weak precipitation (5~30 mm day^-1; 33%) in all seasons. By grouping weather stations into the four sub-regions based on orography, it is found that the contribution of AR precipitation to the total is largest in the southern coast (57%) and smallest in the eastern coast (36%). Similar regional variations in AR precipitation fractions also occur in weak precipitation events. The regional contrast between the northern and southern stations is related to the seasonal variation of AR-frequency. In addition, the regional contrast between the western and eastern stations is partly modulated by the orographic forcing. The fractional contribution of AR to heavy precipitation exceeds 50% in all seasons, but this is true only in summer along the eastern coast. This result indicates that ARs play a critical role in heavy precipitation in South Korea, thus routine monitoring of ARs is needed for improving operational hydrometeorological forecasting.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제48권11호
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• pp.937-944
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 실측자료를 기반으로 한 새로운 면적강우량 산정기법인 '레이더 폴리곤 기법(Radar polygon Method, PRM)'을제시하였다. RPM은(1) 강우공간분포의 실측자료인 기상레이더 자료를 이용하여 지점관측소가 위치한 곳에서의 강우강도와 주변지역의 강우강도를 비교하여 유사강우 발생지도 작성; (2) 위의 단계를 관측소별로 반복하여 각 관측소별 유사강우 발생 확률 지도 작성; (3) 주어진 격자에서의 각 관측소의 유사강우 발생 확률의 비교를 통한 지배범위 결정의 알고리즘으로 관측소별 가중치를 결정하는 방법이다. RPM 방법을 안성천 유역에 적용하여 Thiessen법과 결과를 비교하였다. 안성천 유역의 경우 RPM과 Thiessen방법에 근거한 다각형의 공간적 형태는 관측소 위치의 강우 특성에 따라 차이를 보였으나 관측소별 가중치 값의 차이는 크지 않았다. 본 연구는 관측기간 및 정확도의 문제로 인하여 제한적으로 활용되어 온 레이더 강우관측자료의 새로운 활용분야를 개척하였다는 점에서 큰 의미를 찾을 수 있다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제26권7호
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• pp.732-743
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 2003년 기상청에서 분류한 강수유발 기압유형을 근거로 1973년부터 2002년까지 30년간 전국 61소의 시간별 강수자료를 사용하여 우리나라 강수의 특성을 살펴보았다. 시간강수자료를 이용하여 강수의 시작과 종료를 정의하여 지속시간과 집중호우까지의 도달시간을 조사하였고 집중호우 발생 확률을 분석하였다. 지난 30년 동안 한반도의 강수현상을 조사한 결과 연평균 약 179회의 강수가 발생하였으며, 강수지속시간과 강수량은 각각 2.9시간과 7.1 mm로 나타났다. 저기압형에 의한 강수가 전체의 약 $59\%$를 차지했고, 여름에는 장마형, 가을에는 전선형과 태풍형, 겨울에는 지세형의 강수가 나타나는 계절적 특징을 보여주었다. 태풍과 장마 등 열대기류와 관련된 강수유형들은 10 mm 이상의 강수량을 보인 반면에, 국지적인 규모로 나타나는 유형들은 5 mm 미만의 약한 강수량을 보였다. 전체 강수현상 중 집중호우로 이어진 경우는 $1.24\%$로 호우 기준까지 약 12.9 시간이 소요되었다. 집중호우를 자주 유발하는 유형은 장마형과 저기압형으로 나타났으나, 발생 확률은 태풍직접형, 태풍변질형, 열대류수렴형이 높았다. 지역별로는 남해안 지역은 태풍직접형과 태풍변질형, 영동지역은 태풍직접형, 경기 및 강원북부는 태풍변질형, 열대류수렴형과 장마형이, 그리고 충청지역은 태풍변질형과 열대류수렴형에 의한 집중호우의 가능성이 큰 것으로 분석되었다. 기상청에서 분류하였던 강수의 유형은 다소 주관적인 면을 가지고 있으나 한반도 강수의 특성을 파악하는 데 별 무리가 없었다. 특히 새롭게 분류를 시도한 열대류수렴형은 여름철에 많은 강수를 유발하는 기압계로 주목할 필요가 있다고 본다.