• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.225-242
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• 2012

이 연구는 인공위성 고도계로 관측한 해수면 높이 자료를 이용하여 동해 표층해류를 생산하고, 동해 전체 영역에 대하여 동시성 있는 표층해류 분포를 동해 해류 정보 사용자에게 제공하기 위한 최초의 시도이다. 동해 전 영역에서 인공위성 고도계와 연안 조위관측소의 해수면 높이 자료를 동시에 얻을 수 있으므로 준실시간으로 넓은 해역에 대하여 동시성 있는 표층 지형류의 산출이 가능하다. 산출된 동해 표층 지형류로부터 주요 해류의 위치와 세기 그리고 중규모 이상의 소용돌이 발달 양상을 살펴볼 수 있다. 따라서 이들 해류의 이름과 평균적인 위치를 알 수 있도록 동해 해양지명에 대한 명칭과 위치를 기술하고, 개념적인 해류도를 제시하였다. 동해 해류정보가 실제 실용화될 수 있도록 인공위성 고도계 자료를 이용하여 산출한 지형류의 월 계절 연도별 해류 분포 예를 들고, 각 해류 분포를 설명하였다. 또한 시 공간적으로 변화하는 동해 표층해류 분포 형태를 객관적으로 분류하기 위하여 16년(1993~2008년)간의 표층해류 자료를 경험직교함수(Empirical Orthogonal Function, EOF)를 이용하여 분석하였다. EOF분석 제1모드(mode)는 주로 한국 동해안을 따라 북쪽으로 흐르는 동한난류와 야마도분지 남서부 시계방향 순환의 강화 또는 약화를 나타냈다. 제2모드는 동한난류가 동해 남부를 가로지르며 사행하는 정도를 나타냈으며, 해류 사행의 파장은 약 300 km이었다. 제1모드와 제2모드가 모두 해류의 연간 변동성을 나타냈으며, 제1모드와 제2모드의 시간계수에 따라 동해 표층해류 분포를 관성 경계류 패턴(pattern), 대마난류 패턴, 사행 패턴, 외해분지류 패턴으로 분류할 수 있다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume I
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• pp.352-355
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• 2006

In this study, the seasonal and inter-annual variation of sea surface current in the Gulf of Thailand were revealed through the use of WOD temperature and salinity data and monthly sea surface dynamic heights (SSDH) from TOPEX/Poseidon and ERS-2 altimetry data during 1995-2001. The mean dynamic height and mean geostrohic current were derived from the climatological data while SSDH data gave monthly dynamic heights and their geopstrophic currents. The mean geostrophic current showed strong southward and westward flow of South China Sea water along the gulf entrance. Counterclockwise eddy in the inner gulf and the western side of the gulf entrance associated with upwelling in the area. Seasonal geostrophic currents show basin-wide counterclockwise circulation during the southwest monsoon season and clockwise circulation during the northeast monsoon season. Upwelling was enhanced during the southwest monsoon season. The circulation patterns varied seasonally and inter-annually probably due to the variation in wind regime. And finally we found that congregation, spawning, and migration routes of short-bodied mackerel conform well with coastal upwelling and surface circulation in the gulf.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.133-139
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• 2001

Ocean currents estimated from sea height anomalies derived from inter-calibrated TP/ERS are compared with daily mean currents measured with satellite-tracked drifters. The correlation coefficient between the geostrophic current from TP/ERS and surface current at 15 m depth from drifter tracks was found to be about 0.5. Due to the limitation of satellite ground tracks, small scale eddies less than 80 km are poorly resolved from TP/ERS. One of the interesting results of this study is that coastal currents along the eastern coast of Korea were well reproduced from sea height anomalies when the coastal currents were developed in association with eddies near the South Korean coast. The eddy kinetic energy (EKE) estimated from drifters, TP/ERS, and a numerical model are also compared. The EKE estimated from drifters was about 22 % higher than EKE calculated from TP/ERS. The pattern of low EKE level in the northern basin and high EKE level in the southern East Sea is shown in the EKE estimates derived from both the drifters and TP/ERS.

• Ocean Science Journal
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2005

A simple analytical model is considered in an attempt to demonstrate a formation mechanism of the abyssal current in the East Sea. In this model, the abyssal currents are driven by wind through an outcrop region and flow along closed geostrophic contours. A rough estimate of the abyssal currents, arrived at by applying this model to the region of deep mixing in the East Sea, gives currents comparable to those observed, although there is an uncertainty in the surface area of the outcrop region. It seems that the spin-up of deep water by wind forcing through the region of deep winter mixing is, at least partly, an important contribution to the formation of the abyssal currents in the East Sea.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.161-169
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• 2016

The interannual variability of the water masses was analyzed from the CTD data measured in the tropical northwestern Pacific from 2006 to 2014. There are two typical water masses NPTW and NPIW that reveal the interannual variability in the survey area, in addition to two other water masses; the surface water mass TSW with a large seasonal variability and the deep water mass AACDW with a constant temperature-salinity characteristic at the depths deeper than 2,000 meters. In 2012 and 2014 NPTW was the most widely extended horizontally and thicker than 100 meters vertically, which was found over the entire survey area. However, NPTW was reduced and became much narrower in 2009 than in the other years. NPIW seemed to expand southwards from the north of $21^{\circ}N$ to $15^{\circ}N$ in 2008 and in 2012, which showed the salinity minimum in 2013 (< 34.15 psu). The sea surface height estimated by Absolute Dynamic Topography (ADT) approximately along $135^{\circ}E$ section showed the high peaks (> $1.45dyn{\cdot}m$) between $16^{\circ}N$ and $18^{\circ}N$ during the periods between 2007 and 2009 and between 2012 and 2013; the former peak lasted wider and longer in latitude and time (about three times) than the latter. The vertical section of the geostrophic currents in the upper 1,000 meters shows that there was a mesoscale pattern of repeated eastward and westward flows a few times in some years (2010 and 2014), which seemed to disappear in some other years (2008 and 2012); the former was closely related to the mesoscale eddies and the latter implied the pattern with the permanent currents. The persistent eastward flow between $17^{\circ}N$ and $19^{\circ}N$ seems to be related to the Subtropical Countercurrent (STCC).

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.195-204
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• 2009

인공위성 고도계로 측정한 해수면 높이 자료를 사용하여 준 실시간 동해 표층해류를 추정하기 위해, 세 가지 방법으로 평균 역학지형(또는 평균 해류장)을 계산하고 각각의 특징들을 살펴보았다. 프랑스 AVISO(Archiviing, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data)는 인공위성 고도계 자료와 수치모델을 이용하여 전 지구 해양에 대하여 수평적으로 $0.25^{\circ}$의 해상도를 갖는 평균 역학지형을 계산하고 지형류 방정식을 적용하여 평균 해류장을 만들어 제공하고 있다. 동해에서 장기간 관측한 수온과 염분 자료를 사용하여 500 dbar를 기준면으로 사용한 역학적 해면(steric height)을 계산하고 이를 평균 여각지형으로 환산하였다. 또한 14년 동안 동행의 표층을 이동한 표층뜰개들(ARGOS)의 궤적을 이용하여 평균 해류장을 구하였다. 인공위성 고도계로 관측한 해수면 편차와 세 가지 평균 역학지형을 합하여 절대 역학지형을 얻고, 각각의 절대 역학지형에 지형류 방정식을 적용하여 세 가지 표층해류를 추정하였다. 각 방법으로 추정된 표층해류를 2005년에 동해 남서부 해역에서 선박장착 초음파 해류계(ADCP)로 관측한 해류 자료와 정량적으로 비교하였다. 육지에서 50 km 이상 떨어진 해역에서는 인공위성 고도계로 측정한 해수면 자료에 지형류 방정식을 적용하여 구한 표층해류와 현장 관측 해류의 상관계수(R)가 0.58~0.73이며 두 자료의 제곱 평균 제곱근 편차(Root Mean Square Deviation, RMSD)는 $17.1{\sim}21.8cm\;s^{-1}$이다. 육지에서 50 km 이내의 연안에서 두자료의 R이 0.06~0.46로 상대적으로 낮고 RMSD는 $15.5{\sim}28.0cm\;s^{-1}$이다. 이처럼 연안에서는 인공위성 고도계로 관측한 해수면 높이 자료의 오차가 크므로 향후 연안에 대해서는 새로운 표층해류 추정 방법에 대한 추가 연구가 필요하다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2010

해양현상을 이해하기 위한 관측분야의 노력 중에서 해류 정보의 생산은 가장 어려운 작업 중의 하나이다. 이를 극복하기 위한 대안으로서 연속 화상 자료로부터 해류벡터를 추정하려는 많은 연구들이 진행 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 한반도 주변의 SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor) chlorophyll-a 해색 자료와 AVHRR/SST 를 이용하여 연속 화상 사이의 유사한 형태를 추적하는 최대상 관계수법을 사용한 표층 유속 벡터의 추정을 시도하였다. 한국의 남해역에서 적용한 유속 벡터 결과는 해면 고도계를 이용한 지형류, ADCP 관측 결과와 비교하여 유속은 약 15% 정도 작고, 유향은 약 $36^{\circ}$의 차이로 근접하여 기존 연구 결과에 비해 양호하게 나타났다. 이는 향후 GOCI 자료의 응용적 측면에서 매우 고무적이다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.299-309
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• 2004

Conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data obtained along a meridional section in the eastern tropical Pacific in July 2003 have been analyzed to identify various water masses, and to examine the hydrographic structure and zonal geostrophic currents in the upper 1000 m. Water mass analysis shows the existence of subtropical and intermediate waters, characterized by layers of subsurface salinity maximum and minimum, originating from both hemispheres of the Pacific. Vertical section of temperature in the upper 200 m shows the typical trough-ridge structure associated with the zonal current system for most of the tropical Pacific. Water with the lowest salinity of less than 33.6 was found in the upper 30 m between $8.5^{\circ}N$ and $10.5^{\circ}N$ in a boundary zone between the North Equatorial Current and North Equatorial Countercurrent. Temporal changes in water properties observed at $10.5^{\circ}N$ over a period of 9 days suggest both the local rainfall and horizontal advection is responsible for the presence of the low-salinity water. Development of a barrier layer was also observed at $10.5^{\circ}N$. In the North Equatorial Current region a local upwelling was observed at $15^{\circ}N$, which brings high salinity and cooler subtropical water to the sea surface. A band of countercurrent occurs in the upwelling region between $13^{\circ}N$ and $15^{\circ}N$.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.283-295
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• 2007

We investigated the longitudinal variations in zooplankton abundances and their related physicochemical properties at nine stations located between $136^{\circ}W$ and $128^{\circ}W$ at $10.5^{\circ}N$ in the northeastern Pacific in summer 2004. Temperature, salinity, inorganic nutrients, chlorophyll-a (hereafter chl-a) and zooplankton ($>200\;{\mu}m$) were sampled within the depth from the surface to 200 m depth at $1^{\circ}$ longitude intervals. Zooplankton($>200\;{\mu}m$) samples were vertically collected at two depth intervals from surface to 200 m, consisting of surface mixed and lower layers (thermocline$\sim$200 m). Longitudinal distributional pattern of hydrological parameters (especially salinity) was physically influenced by the intensity of westward geostrophic current passage relating to the NEC (North Equatorial Current). Data from the longitudinal survey showed clear zonal distributions in the hydrological parameters(temperature, salinity and nutrients). However, spatial patterns of the chl-a concentrations and zooplankton abundances were mostly independent of the zonal distributions of hydrological parameters. The two peaks of zooplankton abundance in the surface mixed layer were characterized by different controlling factors such as bottom-up control from nutrients to zooplankton ($129^{\circ}W$) and accumulation by increment of friction force and taxonomic interrelationship ($133^{\circ}$ and $134^{\circ}W$). Divergence-related upwelling caused introduction of nutrients into surface waters leading to the increment of chl-a concentration and zooplankton abundances ($129^{\circ}W$). Increased friction force in relation to reduced flow rates of geostrophic currents caused accumulation of zooplankton drifting from eastern stations of study area($133^{\circ}$ and $134^{\circ}W$). Besides, high correlation between immature copepods and carnivorous groups such as chaetognaths and cyclopoids also possibly contributed to the enhanced total abundance of zooplankton in the surface mixed layer (p<0.05). Zooplankton community was divided into three groups (A, B, C) which consecutively included the eastern peak of zooplankton($129^{\circ}W$), the western peak($133^{\circ}$ and $134^{\circ}W$) and high nutrient but low chl-a concentration and zooplankton abundance ($136^{\circ}W$). Moreover, Group B corresponded to the westward movement of low saline waters(<33.6 psu) from 128 to $132^{\circ}W$. In summary, longitudinal distributions of zooplankton community was characterized by three different controlling factors: bottom-up control ($129^{\circ}W$), accumulation by increased friction force and relationships among zooplankton groups ($133^{\circ}$ and $134^{\circ}W$), and mismatch between hydrological parameters and zooplankton in the high nutrient low chlorophyll area ($136^{\circ}W$) during the study period.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.97-110
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• 2000

To investigate characteristics of water masses and current structures around Noto Peninsula located in south-east coastal region of the East Sea, observation results of CREAMS (Circulations Research of the East Asian Marginal Seas) cruise and data report of oceanographic observation (Japan Meteorological Agency) in June, 1995 and 1996 were used. Water mass showing characteristics of Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) exists over the continental shelf. The depth is shallower than 200m and its width and thickness are 190km and 200m, respectively. Minimum level of dissolved oxygen occurred at the layers of maximum salinity. In the current structure, a noteworthy phenomenon is that the positions of the high-salinity water (more than 34.6 psu) match well with the distributions of the southwestward flow. In June of 1995 and June of 1996, a southwestward flow were separated into two parts along line C and line G. Current directions derived from the temperature and salinity match well with the distributions of the geostrophic currents in the vertical sections. The isothermal lines and the isohaline, which exist horizontally along the coastal area of the Japan, change abruptly at the frontal area of the Noto Peninsula, then turn toward the center of the East Sea. The dynamic depth anomalies centering around the region far northwest of the Noto Peninsula were relatively high, compared to those of other regions. The isopycnic surface (sigma-t, 25.8) existed near the surface in the central part of the East Sea, but, at the depth of 100m, the isopycnic surface was found in the coastal waters.