• Quantitative Bio-Science
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.91-101
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• 2018

This study has analyzed applicable characteristics on big data of the meteorology and climate depending on press releases in the media. As a result, more than half of them were conducted by governmental departments and institutions (26.9%) and meteorological administration (25.0%). Most articles were written by journalists, especially the highest portion stems from straight articles focusing on delivering simple information. For each field, the number of cases had listed in order of rank to be exposed to the media; information service, business management, farming, livestock, and fishing industries, and disaster management, but others did rank far behind; insurance, construction, hydrology and energy. Application of big data about meteorology and climate differed depending on the seasonal change, it was directly related to temperature information during spring, to weather phenomenon such as monsoon and heat wave during summer, to meteorology and climate information during fall, and to weather phenomenon such as cold wave and heavy snow during winter.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.415-422
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• 2009

The wave observation system in Korea has been established with an emphasis on pointmeasurement based on in situ instrumentations. However, the system cannot fully investigate the coastal wave-related problems that are significantly localized and intensified with three-dimensional regional geometries. Observation technique that can cover local processes with large time and spatial variation needs to be established. Video imaging techniques that can provide continuous monitoring of coastal waves and related phenomena with high spatial and temporal resolutions at minimum cost of instrumentation risks are reviewed together with present status of implementation in Korea. Practical applications of the video imaging techniques are suggested to tackle with various coastal issues of public concern in Korea including, real-time monitoring of wave runup and overtopping of swells on the east coast of Korea, longshore and rip currents, morphological and bathymetric changes, storm surge and tsunami inundation, and abnormal extreme waves in the west coast of Korea, etc.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.205-215
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• 2016

The relationship between the climate and the number of heat-related patients in South Korea was analysed in this study. The number of the patients was 1,612 during the summer 2011 to 2015 according to the Heat-related Illness (HRI) surveillance system. The coefficient of determination between the number of the patients and the daily maximum temperature was higher than that between the number of them and the other elements: the daily mean/minimum temperature and relative humidity. The thresholds of daily maximum and minimum temperature in metropolitan cities (MC) were higher than those in regions except for MC (RMC). The higher the maximum and minimum temperature became, the more frequently the heat-related illness rate was observed. The regional difference of this rate was that the rate in RMC was higher than that in MC. Prolonged heat wave and tropical night tended to cause more patients, which continued for 20 days and 31 days of maximum values, respectively. On the other hand, the relative humidity was not proportional to the number of the patients which was rather decreasing at over 70% of relative humidity.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.169-176
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• 2014

Since the operation of the King Sejong Station (KSS) started in Antarctic Peninsula in 1989, there have been continuous efforts to perform the observation for the upper atmosphere. The observations during the initial period of the station include Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) and Michelson Interferometer for the mesosphere and thermosphere, which are no longer in operation. In 2002, in collaboration with York University, Canada, the Spectral Airglow Temperature Imager (SATI) was installed to observe the temperature in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region and it has still been producing the mesopause temperature data until present. The observation was extended by installing the meteor radar in 2007 to observe the neutral winds and temperature in the MLT region during the day and night in collaboration with Chungnam National University. We also installed the all sky camera in 2008 to observe the wave structures in the MLT region. All these observations are utilized to study on the physical characteristics of the MLT region and also on the wave phenomena such as the tide and gravity wave in the upper atmosphere over KSS that is well known for the strong gravity wave activity. In this article, brief introductions for the currently operating instruments at KSS will be presented with their applications for the study of the upper atmosphere.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.120-127
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• 2012

속초 연안에서 관측한 장기간의 파랑자료를 이용하여 다양한 파랑환경 특성을 분석하였다. 파랑환경 분석 결과 발견된 대표적인 특성은 다음과 같다. 파고 및 주기의 평균에 대한 변동계수는 각각 0.11, 0.02 정도로 주기 평균의 변동계수가 매우 낮은 것으로 파악되었다. 또한 변동주기 성분분석결과 1년 주기성분이 우세하였으며, 변동 범위는 0.24 m, 주기는 0.56초로 파악되었다. 계절 변동범위도 연간 변동범위보다 약 2배 정도 크다. 한편 파고 및 주기자료의 확률밀도함수를 추정한 결과, 단주기파의 파고 및 주기는 대수정규분포와 GEV 분포함수와 유사하며, 장 주기파의 경우, 파고는 대수정규분포, 주기는 GEV 분포함수와 유사하지만, KS 검정결과는 모두 기각으로 판정되었다. 파고 및 주기자료는 AR(3) 모형으로 추정된다. 파랑 강도를 분석한 결과는 연속 지속시간의 평균 및 최대지 속시간은 파고의 멱함수(power function) 함수로 감소하였으며, 전체 지속시간은 지수함수 형태로 감소하는 양상을 보였다. 또한 속초연안 환경은 전형적인 파랑 우세환경으로 파악되었다.

• 한국방재안전학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.19-31
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• 2023

미래 기후 시나리오에 따르면 우리나라 자연재해의 주요 요인인 태풍의 강도는 강해질 것으로 전망된다. 태풍 강도 증가는 내습 파고 상승으로 이어져 주거, 산업, 관광 등의 용도로 인구 및 건물 밀집도가 높은 연안 지역의 대규모 피해발생 가능성이 높은 상황이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 동해 해양기상부이 관측자료를 분석하여 최대 유의파고가 나타난 태풍 마이삭(202009) 내습 기간에 대해 파랑추산 수치모형실험을 수행하였다. 파랑추산실험 경계조건은 JMA-MSM의 바람장과 SSP5-8.5 미래 기후 시나리오의 태풍 중심기압 감소율을 적용한 바람장을 사용하였다. 파랑추산실험 결과 SSP5-8.5 시나리오에서 속초항 방파제 전면에서의 파고는 4.06 m에서 4.68 m로 15.27% 증가하였다. 또한, 심해설계파 147-2 격자점 위치에서의 재현빈도는 최소 2배 이상 증가하는 것으로 산출되어, 현재 해안구조물 설계 시 관행적으로 적용하는 50년 재현빈도 심해설계파에 대한 제고가 필요하다.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.49-64
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• 2015

This paper presents a method for assessing the risk of wave run-up and overtopping of existing coastal defences and for analysing the probability of failure of the structures under future hydraulic conditions. The recent UK climate projections are employed in the investigations of the influence of changing environments on the long-term performance of sea defences. In order to reduce the risk of wave run-up and overtopping caused by rising sea level and to maintain the present-day allowances for wave run-up height and overtopping discharge, the future necessary increase in crest level of existing structures is investigated. Various critical failure mechanisms are considered for reliability analysis, i.e., erosion of crest by wave overtopping, failure of seaside revetment, and internal erosions within earth sea dykes. The time-dependent reliability of sea dykes is analysed to give probability of failure with time. The results for an example earth dyke section show that the necessary increase in crest level is approximately double of sea level rise to maintain the current allowances. The probability of failure for various failure modes of the earth dyke has a significant increase with time under future hydraulic conditions.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.773-784
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• 2020

In order to protect the lives and property of citizens, the central and local governments are responding by enacting municipal ordinances and regulations as the frequency of extreme weather conditions due to climate change increases and intensity increases gradually. Accordingly, the basic contents and strategies of domestic and foreign policies to cope with cold and heat waves were reviewed, referring to measures suitable for application to the Daegu metropolitan area. In addition, it is intended to provide a policy alternative to Daegu metropolitan area to minimize damage from extreme weather by identifying the current status, characteristics, and future prospects of extreme weather in Daegu metropolitan area. Since the damage caused by the cold wave in Daegu area is not as great as that of other regions, it is urgent to come up with cold wave measures for the health and transportation sectors, and to come up with measures against the heat wave as the damage caused by the heat wave is the most serious in the country. Also we will identify spatial characteristics so that the districts and counties with high vulnerability to extreme weather can be identified and implemented first, and present civic life-oriented facilities and civic action guidelines to overcome cold and heat waves.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2016

This study is about interdisciplinary education model of using Davis Guggenheim's documentary film on global warming which is a big concern in climate change issues, An Inconvenient Truth. It based on Al Gore's slide speech. Through a course student analyzed the cause and phenomenon of global warming resulted from increase of $CO_2$ by using fossil fuel and its environmental science effects-heat wave, desertification, tornado, hurricane, sea level rise caused by melting glaciers, destroying ecosystem like habitat degradation of wild animals, for example polar bear, extreme cold wave caused by change of ocean currents- of global warming. After, student discussed of efforts to prevent global warming. This educational model is appropriate for lower grade student of environmental engineering and also available for converged majors or general education class.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.51-62
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• 2014

Objectives: The objective of study was to calculate the municipal level environmental burden of disease (EBD) due to heat wave. Methods: The data used were Korea National Health Insurance 2011 claim data and 2011 death registry. Heatwave related diseases included hypertensive heart diseases, ischemic heart diseases, cerebrovascular disease, and heat related illness. According to the method that WHO proposed, the study computed population-attributable fraction with relative risk which come from previous study and proportion of exposure which the study calculated with historical meteorology data. Results: The Average of 251 municipal EBD was 2.11 per thousand persons. The value of years lost due to disability was 11 times higher than that of years of life lost. On average EBD of county and southern geographical areas tended to be higher than those of District or city areas. The relationship between municipal deprivation index (composite deprivation index) and EBD showed the positive association, which means that the worse deprived municipal is, the higher EBD takes. Conclusions: Climate change is getting one of the major risk factors of cardio-cerebrovascular disease, which is the second leading cause of death. The study results suggested the urgent policy planning and reaction of climate change adaptation.