• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.297-304
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• 2009

We investigated the response of the westerly winds over the Southern Ocean (SO) to glacial boundary conditions for the Last Glacial Maximum using the CCM3 atmospheric general circulation model. In response to glacial boundary conditions, the zonally averaged maximum SO westerly winds weakened 20-35% and were displaced toward the equator by 3-4 degrees. This weakening of the SO westerly winds arose from a substantial increase in mean sea level pressure (MSLP) in the southern part of the SO around Antarctica relative to the northern part. The increase in MSLP around Antarctica is associated with a marked temperature reduction caused by an increase in sea ice cover and ice albedo feedback during the glacial time. The weakened westerly winds in the SO and their equator-ward displacement might play a role in reducing the atmospheric $CO_2$ concentration by reducing upwelling of the carbon rich deep water during the glacial time.

• International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Korean Journal of Geophysical Research
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.29-45
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• 1996

Before (March 26, 1994) or after the occurrence of a downslope windstorm (March 29), the NO, $NO_2$, and $SO_2$ at the ground level of Kangnung city were monitored with high concentrations in the afternoon, due to a large amount of gases emitted from combustion of motor vehicle and heating apparatus, especially near 1600-1800 LST and 2000-2100 LST, but at night, they had low concentrations, resulting from small consumptions of vehicle and heating fuels. When both moderate westerly synoptic-scale winds flow over Mt. Taegwallyang and easterly meso-scale sea breeze during the day, atmospheric pollutants should be trapped by two different wind systems, resulting in higher concentration at Kangnung city in the afternoon. At night, the association of westerly synoptic wind and land breeze can produce relatively strong winds and the dissipation by the winds cause these low concentrations to lower and lower, as nightime goes on. From March 27 through 28, an enforced localized windstorm could be produced along the lee side of the mountain near Kangnung, generating westerly internal gravity waves with hydraulic jump motions. Sea breeze toward inland appartantly confines to the bottom of the eastern side of the mountain, due to the interruption of eastward violent internal gravity waves. As the windstorm moves down toward the ground, an encountering point of two opposite winds approaches Kangnung, and a great amount of NO and $NO_2$ were removed by the strong surface winds. Thus, their maximum concentrations are found to be near 18 and 20 LST, 17 and 21 LST. In the nighttime, the more developed storm should produce very strong surface winds and the NO and $NO_2$ could be easily dissipated into other place. The $SO_2$ concentration had no maximum value, that is, almost constant one all day long, due to its removal by the strong surface winds. Especially, the CO concentrations were slightly lower during the strom period than both before or after the strom, but they were nearly constant without much changes during the during the daytime and nighttime.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.131-140
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• 1996

Analysis of hourly variations of sulfur dioxide ($SO_2$) concentrations affected by regional climates for the period of yellow sandy dusts was carried out from March 31 through April 9, 1993. The concentration of 50, at a coastal city, Kangnung city, was much higher than that at an inland city Wonju in the west, but the hourly distrbutions of $SO_2$ concentrations show a similar tendency at both cities. Under the prevailing synoptic-scale westerly winds blowing over a high Mt. Taegualyang in the west toward Kangnung city in the eastern coastal region, the $SO_2$ at Kangnung is trapped by an easterly sea-breeze during the day and under prevailing easterly winds, it is also isolated by the high wall of Mt. Taegualyang, with its high concentration from 14 to 16 LST. Furthermore, when the westerly winds were dominent all day long the high $SO_2$ concentrations at Kangnung were produced by its intrusion from a urban city, Wonju or China in the west into a mountainous coastal city, Kangnung, to some extent, and when the air becomes rapidly cooled down at the clear daytime or the nighttime, their concentrations are also increased by a great amount of heating fuel combustion. Especilly, its maximum concentrations were shown in Wonju and Kangnung from 08 LST through 10 LST, due to the increase of auto vehicles near the beginning time of office hour and were detected again after sunset due to both increases of vehicles at the end of office hour and heating fuel combustion. During the period of Yellow Sandy Dusts which are transported from China into Korea, the $SO_2$ concentrations on rainy days at Wonju and Kangnung were much lower than the monthly mean values of $SO_2$, and their low concentrations could be caused by the scavenging process of rain.

• International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Korean Journal of Geophysical Research
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.18-33
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• 1995

동쪽 연안지역에서 큰 경사를 갖인 산맥위를 흘러가는 종관규모의 서풍하에서 내부 중력파와 같은 강한 하강폭풍이 산의 후면에서 발생되어 진다. 주간에 해양에서 내륙으로 향하는 중규모의 열적 강화에 의해 유도되는 해풍순환이 동쪽으로 향하는 내부중력파에 기인하여 연안의 앞바다까지만 국한된다. 따라서 연안해 근처의 표층풍은 외해나 내륙의 위치에서보다 상대적으로 더 약하다. 명백하게 서풍의 내부중력파순환파 해면 근처에서 동풍 및 상층에서 서풍을 갖는 해풍순환과 같은 두개의 상이한 종류의 대기순환이 뚜렷하게 나타났다. 이런 상황에서 강릉시에서의 대기오염물질은 반대 방향의 두개의 상이한 순환에 의해 갇히게 되고 부유분진과 오존의 고농도가 초래되었다. 야간에 육지에서 연안해로 향하는 중규모의 육풍은 기존의 동쪽으로 향하는 하강풍과 협력하여 연안지역에서 서풍의 더욱 강화를 유도할 수 있었다. 산쪽에서 연안해로 향하여 부는 강한 표층풍에 의해 조절되는 부유분진의 농도는 추간의 경우보다 야간에 비교적 더 높았으며, 상층대기로 부터 지표면으로 오존의 하양수송에 기인하여 오존의 농도가 주간보다 야간에 매우 높았다. 결과로 바람폭풍하의 산악연안지역에서 대기오염농도는 바람푹풍 전.후보다 더 높았다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.104-114
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• 2014

주풍에 따른 강수의 산성도, 전기전도도, 이온 성분의 변화를 알아보기 위하여 2009년 부산지역 강수를 분석하였다. 부산지역에서는 남서풍과 북동풍이 우세하게 나타났다. 주풍이 서풍인 경우, 강수의 산성도는 약 pH 7로 중성으로 나타났으나 전기전도도는 약 200 ${\mu}scm^{-1}$로 다른 풍향에 비해 월등히 높게 나타나 강수에 이온성분이 많이 함유된 것을 알 수 있었다. 양이온 $K^+$와 음이온 $Cl^-$가 다른 이온에 비해 높게 나타났으며, 북풍과 남서풍이 불 때 다른 풍향에 비해 전체적으로 높은 농도로 나타났다. 산성비의 주 원인물질인 $NO{_3}^-/SO{_4}^{2-}$의 구성비는 북풍에서 3 이상으로 월등히 높은 값이 나타났다. 다른 풍향에 비해 북동풍, 동풍, 남서풍, 서풍에서의 $K^+$의 중화기여도는 전체적으로 1 이상으로 높은 값을 나타내었는데, 이는 산성이온을 중화시키는데 있어서 알카리성 이온인 $K^+$의 중화기여도가 크게 작용하였음을 알 수 있다. 또한 해염입자는 북풍, 북동풍, 남서풍에서 800 ${\mu}sm^{-3}$ 이상으로 다른 풍향에 비해 상대적으로 많은 양을 나타내었다. 역궤적 분석 결과, 북풍, 서풍, 북서풍계열에서는 봄, 가을, 겨울철에 만주, 내몽골 고원, 중국, 러시아 지역으로부터 공기덩어리의 이동을 볼 수 있었다. 반면, 동풍, 북동풍, 남서풍계열에서는 여름철에 해양으로부터 공기덩어리의 이동을 볼 수 있었다. 따라서 부산지역의 강수중 산성도, 전기전도도, 이온 성분 농도는 내륙과 연안해역의 특성을 가진 주풍에 의한 변동 특성을 잘 나타내고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.24-34
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• 2017

등학교에서 사용되는 고급지구과학 교과서에서는 서풍이 대규모 산맥을 넘어갈 때 풍하측에 파동이 발생하는 현상을 개략적인 그림으로 제시하여 간략히 이론적으로만 설명하고 있다. 이 현상은 편서풍 파동 현상으로 산을 넘어가는 공기 기둥의 소용돌이도(잠재와도) 보존 이론으로 설명될 수 있다. 그러나 우리나라와 같이 소규모 산맥이 존재하는 지역에서 관측자료를 바탕으로 중규모 편서풍 파동 현상에 대한 사례 연구는 부재하였다. 또한 서풍에 의한 파동이 형성되는 조건인 산맥의 폭과 길이에 따라 서풍의 풍속, 지속시간을 명확히 규정한 선행연구는 미미하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우선적으로 소백산맥을 대상으로 근처의 지표 관측소에서 관측한 지역별 상세관측자료를 이용하여 파동이 실제로 형성되는 지 확인하였다. 또한 소백산맥에 의하여 지표 근처에서 서풍 파동이 생성되기 위한 서풍의 최저속도인 임계 속도를 이론적으로 유도하여, 대략 $0.6m\;s^{-1}$의 값을 구하였다. 더 나아가 기상청 2014년 지역예보모델의 4-차원 자료동화 자료를 추가하여 소백산맥 풍하측 서풍 파동 발생의 연중 빈도와 서풍 파동의 진행 발달과정을 고도별로 분석하였다. 발생한 서풍 파동은 meso-${\beta}$ 또는 -${\gamma}$ 규모였다. 파동의 생성 및 소멸은 풍속 또는 풍향과 밀접한 관계가 있으며, 풍속이 감소함에 따라 산맥에 의한 서풍 파동은 점차 소멸되었다. 서풍이 강할수록 상층에 meso-${\beta}$ 규모의 파장을 갖는 와도 생성 비율이 높았다. 분석 범위를 동아시아 권역으로 넓혔을 때 중국 동북부 옌산 산맥에서도 서풍 파동 현상을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 유체지구에 대한 이론과 현상의 이해, 특히 우리나라 산맥에 의해 발생하는 대기의 파동 현상을 실제 관측 자료를 바탕으로 이해를 돕는 교육 자료로 활용될 수 있다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.291-302
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• 2015

The seasonal variations of sea surface winds and significant wave heights were investigated using the data observed from the marine meteorological buoys (nine stations) and Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) in lighthouse (nine stations) around the Korean Peninsula during 2010~2012. In summer, the prevailing sea surface winds over the East/West Sea and the South Sea were northerly/southerly and easterly/westerly winds due to both of southeast monsoon and the shape of Korean Peninsula. On the other hand, the strong northerly winds has been observed at most stations near Korean marginal seas under northwest monsoon in winter. However, the sea surface winds at some stations (e.g. Galmaeyeo, Haesuseo in the West Sea) have different characteristics due to topographic effects such as island or coastal line. The significant wave heights are the highest in winter and the lowest in summer at most stations. In case of some lighthouse AWSs surrounded by islands (e.g. Haesuseo, Seosudo) or close to coast (e.g. Gangan, Jigwido), very low significant wave heights (below 0.5 m) with low correlations between sea surface wind speeds and significant wave heights were observed.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.1017-1028
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• 2016

Wind information is one of the major inputs for the prediction of urban air flow using computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models. Therefore, the numerical characteristics of the wind data formed at their mother domains should be clarified to predict the urban air flow more precisely. In this study, the formation characteristics of the wind data in the Seoul region were used as the inlet wind information for a CFD based simulation and were analyzed using numerical weather prediction models for weather research and forecasting (WRF). Because air flow over the central part of the Korean peninsula is often controlled not only by synoptic scale westerly winds but also by the westerly sea breeze induced from the Yellow Sea, the westerly wind often dominates the entire Seoul region. Although simulations of wind speed and air temperature gave results that were slightly high and low, respectively, their temporal variation patterns agreed well with the observations. In the analysis of the vertical cross section, the variation of wind speed along the western boundary of Seoul is simpler in a large domain with the highest horizontal resolution as compared to a small domain with the same resolution. A strong convergence of the sea breeze due to precise topography leads to the simplification of the wind pattern. The same tendency was shown in the average vertical profiles of the wind speed. The difference in the simulated wind pattern of two different domains is greater during the night than in the daytime because of atmospheric stability and topographically induced mesoscale forcing.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2005

Using three-dimensional non-hydrostatical numerical model with one way double nesting technique, atmo­spheric circulation in the mountainous coastal region in summer was investigated from August 13 through 15, 1995. During the day, synoptic westerly wind blows over Mt. Mishrung in the west of a coastal city, Sokcho toward the East Sea, while simultaneously, easterly upslope wind combined with both valley wind from plain (coast) toward mountain and sea-breeze from sea toward inland coast blows toward the top of the mountain. Two different directional wind systems confront each other in the mid of eastern slope of the mountain and the upslope wind goes up to the height over 2 km, becoming an easterly return flow in the upper level over the sea and making sea-breeze front with two kinds of sea-breeze circulations of a small one in the coast and a large one in the open sea. Convective boundary layer is developed with a thickness of about 1km over the ground in the upwind side of the mountain in the west and a thickness of thermal internal boundary layer from the coast along the eastern slope of the mountain is only confined to less than 200 m. On the other hand, after sunset, no prohibition of upslope wind generated during the day and downward wind combined with mountain wind from mountain towardplain and land-breeze from land toward under nocturnal radiative cooling of the ground surfaces should intensify westerly downslope wind, resulting in the formation of wind storm. As the wind storm moving down along the eastern slop causes the development of internal gravity waves with hydraulic jump motion in the coast, bounding up toward the upper level of the coastal sea, atmospheric circulation with both onshore and offshore winds like sea-breeze circulation forms in the coastal sea within 70 km until midnight and after that, westerly wind prevails in the coast and open seas.

• 대기
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.185-196
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• 2011

The performance assessment in radiosonde observation on the special observation program (ProbeX-2009) is performed and the characteristics of precipitation using Auto Weather System (AWS) and radiosonde data in 2009 at the Ulleungdo are investigated. The launching time, observation time, and maximum altitude of radiosonde are satisfied with the regulation from Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) but the duration of observational time of radiosonde is much shorter than that of the ProbeX-2007 because the altitude of launching site is higher than others in 2007. From the analysis of trajectories of radiosonde, most radiosondes at the Ulleungdo tend to move into the east because the westerly prevail at the middle latitude. However, when the Okhotsk high is expanded to the Korean peninsula and the north-westerly winds strengthen over the East Sea as the subtropical high is retreated, radiosonde tends to move into the south-west and south-east, respectively. Maximum distance appears at the end of observation level before May but the level of maximum distance is changed into 100 hPa after June because the prevailing wind direction is reversed from westerly to easterly at the stratosphere during summer time. The condition of precipitation was more correlated with the dynamic instability except Changma season. Precipitation in 2009 at the Ulleungdo occurred under the marine climate so that total precipitation amounts and precipitation intensity were increased and intensified during nighttime. The local environment favorable for the precipitation during nighttime was while the wind speed at the surface and the inflow from the shoreline were strengthened. Precipitation events also affected by synoptic condition but the localized effect induced by topography was more strengthened at the northern part of Ulleungdo.