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Comparative Analysis of SSM/I and AMSR-E Sea Ice Concentration using Kompsat-l EOC Images of the Antarctic (Kompsat-l EOC 영상을 이용한 남극의 SSM/I 와 AMSR-E 해빙 면적비 비교 분석)

  • Han, Hyang-Sun;Lee, Hoon-Yol
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.03a
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2007
  • 2005년 남극의 해빙을 촬영한 Kompsat-1 EOC 영상을 이용하여 SSM/I와 AMSR-E 해빙 면적비를 비교, 분석하였다. EOC 영상은 남극의 봄철에 해당하는 9-11월 사이에 남극 대륙의 가장자리를 가로지르는 11 개 궤도로부터 총 676개 영상이 획득되었으며, 이 중 대기 및 광량 조건이 양호한 68개 의 영상을 선별하였다. EOC 영상에 감독분류 방볍 을 적 용하여 표면 유형 을 White ice(W), Grey ice(G), Dark-grey ice(D), Ocean(O)로 분류하였고 해빙 면적비를 산출하였으며, 이를 NASA Team Algorithm(NT)으로 계산된 SSM/I 해빙 면적비, NASA Team2 Algorithm(NT2)으로 계산된 AMSR-E 해빙 면적비와 비교하였다. 남극의 봄철에 SSM/I 해빙 면적비는 EOC W+G 면적비와 잘 일치하였고,AMSR-E 해빙 면적비는 EOC W+G+D 면적비와 좋은 상관성을 나타내었다. 따라서 이 시기의 남극 SSM/I NT 해빙 면적비는 W와 G만을 반영하며, AMSR-E NT2 해빙 면적비는 D도 포함하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 AMSR-E가 SSM/I보다 높은 해빙 면적비를 나타내는 것을 확인하였으며,두 수동 마이크로파 해빙 면적비의 차이는 EOC D 면적비와 높은 상관성을 보였다. 이로부터 EOC 영상에서 분류된 D와 NT2에 서 고려되는 Ice type C가 서로 유사한 해빙 유형임을 추정할 수 있었다.

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Antarctic Marine Microorganisms and Climate Change: Impacts and Feedbacks

  • Marchant Harvey J.;Davidson Andrew T.;Wright Simon W.
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.401-410
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    • 2001
  • Global climate change will alter many such properties of the Southern Ocean as temperature, circulation, stratification, and sea-ice extent. Such changes are likely to influence the species composition and activity of Antarctic marine microorganisms (protists and bacteria) which playa major role in deter-mining the concentration of atmospheric $CO_2$ and producing precursors of cloud condensation nuclei. Direct impacts of climate change on Antarctic marine microorganisms have been determined for very few species. Increasing water temperature would be expected to result in a southward spread of pelagic cyanobacteria, coccolithophorids and others. Growth rates of many species would be expected to increase slightly but nutrient limitation, especially micronutrients, is likely to result in a negligible increase in biomass. The extent of habitats would be reduced for those organisms presently living close to the upper limit of their thermal tolerance. Increased UVB irradiance is likely to favour the growth of those organisms tolerant of UVB and may change the trophic structure of marine communities. Indirect effects, especially those as a consequence of a diminution of the amount of sea-ice and increased upper ocean stratification, are predicted to lead to a change in species composition and impacts on both trophodynamics and vertical carbon flux.

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Validation of Ocean General Circulation Model (FMS-MOM4) in Relation with Climatological and Argo Data

  • Chang, You-Soon;Cho, Chang-Woo;Youn, Yong-Hoon;Seo, Jang-Won
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.545-555
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    • 2007
  • Ocean general circulation model developed by GFDL on the basis of MOM4 of FMS are examined and evaluated in order to elucidate the global ocean status. The model employs a tripolar grid system to resolve the Arctic Ocean without polar filtering. The meridional resolution gradually increases from $1/3^{\circ}$ at the equator to $1^{\circ}$ at $30^{\circ}N(S)$. Other horizontal grids have the constant $1^{\circ}$ and vertical grids with 50 levels. The ocean is also coupled to the GFDL sea ice model. It considers tidal effects along with fresh water and chlorophyll concentration. This model is integrated for a 100 year duration with 96 cpu forced by German OMIP and CORE dataset. Levitus, WOA01 climatology, serial CTD observations, WOCE and Argo data are all used for model validation. General features of the world ocean circulation are well simulated except for the western boundary and coastal region where strong advection or fresh water flux are dominant. However, we can find that information concerning chlorophyll and sea ice, newly applied to MOM4 as surface boundary condition, can be used to reduce a model bias near the equatorial and North Pacific ocean.

Ice-Binding Protein Derived from Glaciozyma Can Improve the Viability of Cryopreserved Mammalian Cells

  • Kim, Hak Jun;Shim, Hye Eun;Lee, Jun Hyuck;Kang, Yong-Cheol;Hur, Young Baek
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.25 no.12
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    • pp.1989-1996
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    • 2015
  • Ice-binding proteins (IBPs) can inhibit ice recrystallization (IR), a major cause of cell death during cryopreservation. IBPs are hypothesized to improve cell viability after cryopreservation by alleviating the cryoinjury caused by IR. In our previous studies, we showed that supplementation of the freezing medium with the recombinant IBP of the Arctic yeast Glaciozyma sp. (designated as LeIBP) could reduce post-thaw hemolysis of human red blood cells and increase the survival of cryopreserved diatoms. Here, we showed that LeIBP could improve the viability of cryopreserved mammalian cells. Human cervical cancer cells (HeLa), mouse fibroblasts (NIH/3T3), human preosteoblasts (MC3T3-E1), Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO-K1), and human keratinocytes (HaCaT) were evaluated. These mammalian cells were frozen in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)/fetal bovine serum (FBS) solution with or without 0.1 mg/ml LeIBP at a cooling rate of -1℃/min in a -80℃ freezer overnight. The minimum effective concentration (0.1 mg/ml) of LeIBP was determined, based on the viability of HeLa cells after treatment with LeIBP during cryopreservation and the IR inhibition assay results. The post-thaw viability of mammalian cells was examined. In all cases, cell viability was significantly enhanced by more than 10% by LeIBP supplementation in 5% DMSO/5% FBS: viability increased by 20% for HeLa cells, 28% for NIH/3T3 cells, 21% for MC3T3-E1, 10% for CHO-K1, and 20% for HaCaT. Furthermore, addition of LeIBP reduced the concentrations of toxic DMSO and FBS down to 5%. Therefore, we demonstrated that LeIBP can increase the viability of cryopreserved mammalian cells by inhibiting IR.

Variation of Biogenic Opal Production on the Conrad Rise in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean since the Last Glacial Period (남극해 인도양 해역에 위치한 콘래드 해령 지역의 마지막 빙하기 이후 생물기원 오팔 생산의 변화)

  • JuYeon Yang;Minoru Ikehara;Hyuk Choi;Boo-Keun Khim
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.141-153
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    • 2023
  • Biological pump processes generated by diatom production in the surface water of the Southern Ocean play an important role in exchanging CO2 gas between the atmosphere and ocean. In this study, the biogenic opal content of the sediments was measured to elucidate the variation in the primary production of diatoms in the surface water of the Southern Ocean since the last glacial period. A piston core (COR-1bPC) was collected from the Conrad Rise, which is located in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. The sediments were mainly composed of siliceous ooze, and sediment lightness increased and magnetic susceptibility decreased in an upward direction. The biogenic opal content was low (38.9%) during the last glacial period and high (73.4%) during the Holocene, showing a similar variation to that of Antarctic ice core ΔT and CO2 concentration. In addition, the variation of biogenic opal content in core COR-1bPC is consistent with previous results reported in the Antarctic Zone, south of the Antarctic Polar Front, in the Southern Ocean. The glacial-interglacial biogenic opal production was influenced by the extent of sea ice coverage and degree of water column stability. During the last glacial period, the diatom production was reduced due to the penetration of light being limited in the euphotic zone by the extended sea ice coverage caused by the lowered seawater temperature. In addition, the formation of a strong thermocline in more extensive areas of sea ice coverage led to stronger water column stability, resulting in reduced diatom production due to the reduction in the supply of nutrient-rich subsurface water caused by a decrease in upwelling intensity. Under such environmental circumstances, diatom productivity decreased in the Antarctic Zone during the last glacial period, but the biogenic opal content increased rapidly under warming conditions with the onset of deglaciation.

Future Sea Level Projections over the Seas Around Korea from CMIP5 Simulations (CMIP5 자료를 활용한 우리나라 미래 해수면 상승)

  • Heo, Tae-Kyung;Kim, Youngmi;Boo, Kyung-On;Byun, Young-Hwa;Cho, Chunho
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.25-35
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    • 2018
  • This study presents future potential sea level change over the seas surrounding Korea using Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 9 model ensemble result from Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), downloaded from icdc.zmaw.de. At the end of 21st century, regional sea level changes are projected to rise 37.8, 48.1, 47.7, 65.0 cm under RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 scenario, respectively with the large uncertainty from about 40 to 60 cm. The results exhibit similar tendency with the global mean sea level rise (SLR) with small differences less than about 3 cm. For the East Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the southern sea of Korea, projected SLR in the Yellow Sea is smaller and SLR in the southern sea is larger than the other coastal seas. Differences among the seas are small within the range of 4 cm. Meanwhile, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) data in 23 years shows that the mean rate of sea level changes around the Yellow Sea is high relative to the other coastal seas. For sea level change, contribution of ice and ocean related components are important, at local scale, Glacial Isostatic Adujstment also needs to be considered.

Diel Cycles of Nitrogen Uptake by Marine Phytoplankton in NO$_3^-$-high and -low Environments

  • Park, Myung-Gil;Shim, Jae-Hyung;Yang, Sung-Ryull;Lee, Sang-Hoon;Cho, Byung-Cheol
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.191-201
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    • 1997
  • To test the roles of NO$_3^-$ concentration and light as controlling factors of NO$_3^-$ uptake in the NO$_3^-$-low and -high environments and to assess the significance of night-time nitrogen (N) uptake in estimating the daily N uptake rate, 2 diel studies of N uptake were conducted in NO$_3^-$-low (the eastern part of the Yellow Sea) and NO$_3^-$-high (the marginal ice zone of the northwestern Weddell Sea) environments on June 14 to 15, 1996 and January 15 to 16, 1995, respectively. Ourobservations confirmed that NO$_3\;^-$ uptake by phytoplankton is mainly determined by ambient NO$_3^-$ concentration in NO$_3^-$-low environment and by light in NO$_3^-$-high environment, respectively, Our results suggest the need for diel studies to accurately estimate the daily N uptake rates and thus new and regenerated production because the daily rates calculated without considering the night-time N uptake would be significantly underestimated (up to 41%), particularly in the NO$_3^-$-low environment.

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Past sea surface temperature of the East Sea inferred from alkenone

  • Lee, Kyung-Eun;Kim, Kyung-Ryul
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2002
  • We measured the alkenone concentration of bulk sediments from a piston core collected from the Ulleung Basin in the East Sea in order to reconstruct past sea surface temperatures (SST). Sediment ages are well constrained by AMS $^{14}C$ dates of the planktonic foraminifera Globigerina bulloides. Coretop alkenone SST calibration with modern surface temperatures and sediment trap dat (Hong et al., 1996) indicate that the SST estimated from alkenones most likely represent the temperatures of late fall. Downcore variations in the alkenone saturation index indicate that between 19 and 15 kyr BP the surface waters were about $3^{\circ}C$ warmer than today. Between 15 and 11 kyr BP, the temperatures were about $3^{\circ}C$ lower than today. A rapid SST increase of about $3^{\circ}C$ occurred at approximately 10 kyr BP. After considering the factors which might influence the SST reconstruction from the $U^{k'}_{37}$ values, we conclude that the alkenone temperature estimates are reliable. The reason for glacial warming in the East Sea is not clear, although there is a possibility that it could be caused by shift in the season of maximum alkenone production from summer during the last glaciation to late fall during the Holocene. Cooling between 15 and 11 kyr BP may be due to inflow of cold water into the East Sea such as via the Oyashio Current or ice-melt water. Warming at the early Holocene could be due to inflow of the Tsushima Current into the East Sea through the Korea Strait.

Oxygen-18 and Nutrients in the Surface Waters of the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica during Austral Summer 1990/91 (1990/91년 남극하계 브렌스필드 해협 표층해수의 $\delta$/SUP 18/O와 영양염 분포)

  • KANG, DONG-JIN;CHUNG, CHANG SOO;COOPER, LEE W.;KANG, CHEONG YOON;KIM, YEA DONG;HONG, GI HOON
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.250-258
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    • 1992
  • The oxygen isotope composition of surface waters in the Bransfield Strait was determined as one extra state variable in order to characterize water masses in the region, since salinity is significantly modified due to the freezing and ice-melting in the polar region. The salinity, temperature, and $\delta$/SUP 18/O values vary from 34.0 to 34.5$\textperthousand$, -.05 to 2.1$^{\circ}C$ and -0.50 t -0.26$\textperthousand$, respectively. The combined effects of evaporation, precipitation, freezing, ice-melting are reflected in the widely scattered data. Although it is small, the distribution of $\delta$/SUP 18/O of the Bransfield Strait is strongly affected by the freezing-ice melting rather than the evaporation-precipitation. The ice melted fresh water which has higher temperature, depleted salinity and nutrients may be injected to the Bransfield Strait from the north. The concentrations of nutrients are decreasing gradually from the north to the south. The waters were characterized by two groups of higher (about 19.4) and lower N/P ratio (about 16.7). The lower N/P ratio is found in the northern part where ice-melted fresh water is injected. and the higher N/P ratio is found in the southern part of the Bransfield Strait. Although more precise work is needed, the deference of N/P ratio can be an evidence of the ice melted water injection to the Bransfield Strait. Chlorophyll a concentrations, in general, increase from northwest (Waddell Sea) to the southeast (Smith and Hosseason Islands). Probably the injection of nutrient depleted fresh water from the ice melting reduce the chlorophyll a concentration.

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Origins and Paleoceanographic Significance of Layered Diatom Ooze from Bransfield Strait in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula around 2.5 kyrs BP

  • Yoon, Ho-Il;Kim, Yea-Dong;Park, Byong-Kwon;Kang, Cheon-Yun;Bae, Sung-Ho;Yoo, Kyu-Chul
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.301-311
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    • 2002
  • We used diatom and porewater data of two piston cores from the central subbasin and one from the western subbasin in the Bransfield Strait in the northern Antarctic Peninsula to elucidate the depositional mechanism of the layered diatom ooze. The layered diatom ooze is characterized by an abundance of organic carbon, biogenic silica, sulfde sulfur, and lower porewater sulfate concentration. This lack of pore-water sulfate concentration in the diatom ooze interval may reflect development of reducing micro-environment in which bacterially mediated sulfate reduction occurred. The negative relationship between the total organic carbon and sulfate contents, however, indicates that sulfate reduction was partly taking place but does not control organic carbon preservation in this unit. Rather, well-preserved Chaetoceros resting spores in the layered diatom ooze indicate a rapid sedimentation of the diatom as a result of repetitive iceedge blooms on the Bransfield shelf during the cold period (around 2500 yrs BP) when the permanent seaice existed on the shelf, During this period, it is expected that the downslope-flowing cold and dense water was also formed on the Bransfield shelf as a result of sea ice formation, playing an important role for the formation of layered diatom ooze in the Bransfield subbasins.