• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2018

Previous studies have indicated a great regional difference in Sea Level Rise (SLR) in the Pacific and it has been suggested that this is linked to climate variability over the past two decades. In this study, we seek to identify the possible linkage between regional sea level and Pacific climate variability from altimetry-based sea level data (1993-2012) and further investigate how the Pacific sea level has changed spatially and temporally over the past 60 years from long-term sea level reconstruction data (1953-2008). Based on the same method as Zhang and Church (2012), the Inter-annual Climate Index (ICI) associated with the El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o-Southern$ Oscillation (ENSO) and the Decadal Climate Index (DCI) associated with Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) are defined and then the multiple variable linear regression is used to analyze quantitatively the impact of inter-annual and decadal climate variability on the regional sea levels in the Pacific. During the altimeter period, the ICI that represents ENSO influence on inter-annual time scales strongly impacts in a striking east-west "see-saw mode" on sea levels across the tropical Pacific. On the other hand, the decadal sea level pattern that is linked to the DCI has a broad meridional structure that is roughly symmetric in the equator with its North Pacific expression being similar to the PDO, which largely contributes to a positive SLR trend in the western Pacific and a negative trend in the eastern Pacific over the two most recent decades. Using long-term sea level reconstruction data, we found that the Pacific sea levels have fluctuated in the past over inter-annual and decadal time scales and that strong regional differences are presented. Of particular interest is that the SLR reveals a decadal shift and presents an opposite trend before and after the mid-1980s; i.e., a declining (rising) trend in the western (eastern) Pacific before the mid-1980s, followed by a rising (declining) trend from the mid-1980s onward in the western (eastern) Pacific. This result indicates that the recent SLR patterns revealed from the altimeters have been persistent at least since the mid-1980s.

• 한국해안해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해안해양공학회 1995년도 정기학술강연회 발표논문 초록집
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• pp.101-103
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• 1995

Beaches and low-tying coastal areas have been seriously eroding at many places along the global coastlines during the past century. The coastal erosion problem during the next century is said to be potentially worse due to the sea-level rise by global warming. Coastal erosion, whatever the time scale is, is the result as a response of land to oceanic, atmospheric, and human impacts. (omitted)

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume I
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• pp.29-33
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• 2006

The potential impact of past Caribbean tsunamis generated by earthquakes and/or massive submarine slides/slumps, as well as the tsunamigenic potential and population distribution within the Intra-Americas Sea (IAS) was examined to help define the optimal location for coastal sea level gauges intended to serve as elements of a regional tsunami warning system. The goal of this study was to identify the minimum number of sea level gauge locations to aid in tsunami detection and provide the most warning time to the largest number of people. We identified 12 initial, prioritized locations for coastal sea level gauge installation. Our study area approximately encompasses $7^{\circ}N$, $59^{\circ}W$ to $36^{\circ}N$, $98^{\circ}$ W. The results of this systematic approach to assess priority locations for coastal sea level gauges will assist in developing a tsunami warning system (TWS) for the IAS by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's Regional Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE-GOOS).

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.39-54
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• 2019

In this paper, based on evidence of coastal sediment, we show that erosion and sedimentation environments are very sensitive to sea level changes during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA). We identified four sedimentary units(4.57-3.07m), which formed in the Dark Age Cool Period (DACP), MWP and LIA were classified based on the lithostratigraphy, grain size distribution, magnetic susceptibility and geochemistry of a drilling core taken from the west coast of Hwaseong City. The unconformity surfaces as boundaries of the units were also identified by the lithostratigraphy shown on the drilling core. We propoese that sedimentation was dominant in the area during the periods of sea level rise, whereas erosion prevailed during the periods of sea level fall. Particularly, extreme events, such as floods and typhoons are believed to have accelerated these processes, and we found the associated evidence in sediments of two units. This study provides an example of estimating the relative sea level variation using coastal sediments and may be useful for studying past sea level changes around the Korean Peninsula.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.49-62
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• 2023

Background: Over the past three decades, gradual eustatic sea-level rise has been considered a primary exogenous factor in the increased frequency of flooding and biological changes in several salt marshes. Under this paradigm, the potential importance of short-term events, such as ocean storminess, in coastal hydrology and ecology is underrepresented in the literature. In this study, a simulation was developed to evaluate the influence of wind waves driven by atmospheric oscillations on sedimentary and vegetation dynamics at the Skallingen salt marsh in southwestern Denmark. The model was built based on long-term data of mean sea level, sediment accretion, and plant species composition collected at the Skallingen salt marsh from 1933-2006. In the model, the submergence frequency (number yr^-1) was estimated as a combined function of wind-driven high water level (HWL) events (> 80 cm Danish Ordnance Datum) affected by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and changes in surface elevation (cm yr^-1). Vegetation dynamics were represented as transitions between successional stages controlled by flooding effects. Two types of simulations were performed: (1) baseline modeling, which assumed no effect of wind-driven sea-level change, and (2) experimental modeling, which considered both normal tidal activity and wind-driven sea-level change. Results: Experimental modeling successfully represented the patterns of vegetation change observed in the field. It realistically simulated a retarded or retrogressive successional state dominated by early- to mid-successional species, despite a continuous increase in surface elevation at Skallingen. This situation is believed to be caused by an increase in extreme HWL events that cannot occur without meteorological ocean storms. In contrast, baseline modeling showed progressive succession towards the predominance of late-successional species, which was not the then-current state in the marsh. Conclusions: These findings support the hypothesis that variations in the NAO index toward its positive phase have increased storminess and wind tides on the North Sea surface (especially since the 1980s). This led to an increased frequency and duration of submergence and delayed ecological succession. Researchers should therefore employ a multitemporal perspective, recognizing the importance of short-term sea-level changes nested within long-term gradual trends.

• 대기
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.209-219
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• 2012

Extreme heavy snowfall episodes have been investigated in case of accumulated snowfall amount larger than 50 cm during the past ten years, in order to understand the association of low-level stability with heavy snowfall in the Yeongdong region. In general, the selected 4 events have similar synoptic setting such as the Siberian High extended to East Sea along with the Low passing by the southern Korean Peninsula, eventually inducing easterly in the Yeongdong region. Specifically moist-adiabatically neutral layer has been observed during the heavy snowfall period, which was easily identified using vertical profiles of equivalent potential temperature observed at Sokcho, whereas convective unstable layer has been formed over the East sea due to relatively warm sea surface temperature (SST) about $8{\sim}10^{\circ}C$ and lower temperature around 1~2 km above the surface, obtained from RDAPS. Difference of equivalent potential temperature between 850 hPa and surface as well as difference between air and sea temperatures altogether gradually increased before the snowfall period. Instability-induced moisture supply to the atmosphere from the East sea, being cooled and saturated by the upper cold surge, would make low-level ice cloud, and eventually move inland by the easterly flow. Heavy snowfall will be enhanced in association with low-level convergence by surface friction and upslope wind against Taebaek mountains. This study emphasizes the importance of low level stability in the Yeongdong region using the radiosonde sounding and RDAPS data, which should quantitatively be examined through numerical model as well as heat and moisture supply from the ocean.

• 한국해양학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.92-98
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• 1971

본고는 지난 12년동안 한국연안에 내습한 태풍 및 각 검조소에 출현한 매년의 최고 이상고조와 1970.8.29∼9.2에 있었던 태풍 빌리호 내습시 남 서해안의 각 검조소에서 얻은 자료에 의하여 해면변화에 대한 사례조사를 시도한 것이다. 한국연안은 매년 빈번한 기상교란 (태풍, 저기압등) 에 의하여 이상고조 또는 기상해일현상이 발생, 항만이나 연안지대에서는 적지 않은 피해를 받고 있으나 이에 관한 조사는 전혀 없었으며, 이후 연안지대의 고도이용이나 연안방재를 위하여 먼저 정확한 사례조사가 필요하다고 본다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.68-79
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• 2009

제주도는 투수성이 좋은 화산암류로 형성이 되어 지표수의 발달이 빈약하므로 수원의 대부분을 지하수에 의존하고 있다. 따라서 지구 온난화로 인한 해수면 상승이 발생하여 지하수로의 해수 침투가 발생할 경우 매우 심각한 문제에 봉착할 수 있는 취약성을 지녔다. 본 연구에서는 장기 조위 관측 자료를 토대로 한반도 주변과 제주도 근해의 장기적인 해수면 변화를 분석하였다. 그 결과, 최근 40년 간 한반도 주변에서 해수면이 $2.16\;{\pm}\;1.71\;mm/yr$의 속도로 뚜렷한 상승 양상을 보였으며 제주도 해안에서는 더욱 빠른 속도로 해수면이 상승해 왔음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 제주특별자치도의 지하수/해수침투관측망의 지하수 관측 자료를 통하여 갈수기 중 해수면이 연주기적으로 상승하는 4-5개월 정도의 시기 동안 해수면의 상승에 따라 염수대가 육지 쪽으로 확장하여 침투하고 있는 것을 관측할 수 있었다. 이를 통하여 제주도 동부 지역이 장기적으로 해수면의 상승에 따라 염수대가 육지 쪽으로 확장하여 침투하였음을 간접적으로 보였다. 이는 지구 온난화에 의한 해수면의 상승이 그 동안 관찰되어 왔던 제주도 동부 지역의 해수 침투현상의 한 원인이 될 수 있음을 제시하고 있다.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2004

The variation of volume transport during the period from 1965 to 2000 through the western channel of the Korea Strait was estimated by obtaining an relation function between the ADCP volume transport and the geostrophic volume transport estimated by the sea level difference between Pusan and Izuhara. The estimated climatological mean volume transport during past 36 years has seasonal variation with a minimum of 1.15 Sv in February and a maximum of 1.88 Sv in October. The mean volume transport for 36 years is 1.51 Sv. The annual mean volume transport has an interannual variation with a minimum of 1.26 Sv in 1968 and maximum of 1.90 Sv in 1973, with three dominant periods of variations of 14.96 years, 4.96 years and 2.99 years.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2004

최근 NGIS 사업의 일환으로 문화재청과 각 지자체가 중심이 되어 문화유적지도 제작 사업이 진행되고 있다. 문화재 통합 지리정보 시스템은 문화재 관리자와 도시계획, 건축/토목 등의 토지와 관련한 사업을 진행하는 기관에서 설계단계 적용 시 반드시 필요한 사항이다. 급격하게 늘어나는 국토개발사업에서는 문화재보호법(제74조의 2)으로 지정하여 문화재 지표조사를 의무화 시켰다. 본 연구는 사천시 문화재 유적지도 제작 중 일부지역을 선정하여 유적수치지도로 제작되어진 2차원 수치자료를 GIS를 활용하여 3차원 입체지형 모델로 구축하였다. 또한, 관계형 구조로 설계되어진 기존의 데이터베이스를 개선하여 구체화한 모델로 설계하였다. 유적 지표조사에서부터 유적발굴 단계로 나아가 발굴되어질 유적 형상과 종류, 유물 등에 이르기까지 보다 정확하고 구체적인 정보를 3차원으로 구현할 수 있도록 방향을 제시하였다. 그리고 남해안 지역의 해수면 변화에 대한 과거의 연구에 기초하여 해당 지역의 과거 해수면에 대한 복원을 시도하였다. 해수면 변화의 적용 결과 현재 해수면 상황에서는 내륙쪽에 위치하고 있는 패총유적이 과거의 해수면에서는 강에 인접하여 위치함으로써 패총이라는 유적의 성격을 명확히 하는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 유적 지표조사에서부터 유적발굴 단계로 나아가 발굴될 유적 형상과 종류, 유물 등에 이르기까지 보다 정확하고 구체적인 정보를 3차원으로 구현할 수 있도록 방향을 제시하고자한 논문이다.