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Chemical Composition of Post-Harvest Biomass Burning Aerosols in Gwangju, Korea

  • Kim, Young-J.;Ryu, Seong-Y.;Kang, Gong-U.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.79-84
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    • 2003
  • The main objective of this study was to investigate the chemical characteristics of post-harvest biomass burning aerosols from field burning of barley straw in late spring and rice straw in late fall in rural area in Korea. 12-hr integrated intensive sampling of $PM_{10}$ and $PM_{2.5}$ biomass burning aerosols had been conducted continuously at Gwangju, Korea 4-15 June 2001 and 8 October-14 November 2002. The fine and coarse particles of biomass burning aerosols were collected for mass, ionic, elemental, and carbonaceous species analysis. Average fine and coarse mass concentrations of biomass burning aerosols were measured to be 129.6, 24.2 ${{\mu}gm}^{-3}$ in June 2001 and 47.1, 33.2 ${{\mu}gm}^{-3}$ in October to November 2002, respectively. Exceptionally high level of $PM_{2.5}$ concentration up to 157.8 ${{\mu}gm}^{-3}$ well above 24-hour standard was observed during the biomass burning event days under stagnant atmosphere condition. During biomass burning periods dominant ionic species were $Cl^{-}$, ${NO_3}^{-}$, ${SO_4}^{2-}$, and ${NH_4}^{+}$ in fine and coarse mode. In the fine mode $Cl^{-}$ and ${KCl}^{+}$ were unusually rich due to the high content of the semiarid vegetation. High OC values and OC/EC ratios were also measured during the biomass burning periods. Increased amount of fine aerosols with high enrichment, which were originated from biomass burning of post-harvest agricultural waste, resulted in extremely severe particulate air pollution and visibility degradation in the region. Particulate matters from open field burning of agricultural wastes cause great adverse impact on local air quality and regional climate.

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Riparian forest and environment variables relationships, Chichibu mountains, central, Japan (일본 Chichibu산지 계반림의 입지환경)

  • Ann, Seong-Won
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2003
  • In most mountainous parts of the temperate zone of Japan along the Pacific Ocean, some climatic climax forests, whose main dominant species is Fagus crenate, F. japonica or Quercus mongolica var. grosseserrata, are distributed. In the riparian regions of the zone, however, there appear summer green forests composed of the different species from the climatic climax forests. Climate plays an important role in determining the overall distribution of vegetation, but some environmental factors, i.e., topography, soil type, soil moisture content, etc. have a great influence on vegetation formation. Riparian forests seem to be controlled by various geomorphologic disturbances, such as landslide, soil erosion and accumulation. The study aims to present the relationships among vegetation, soils and landforms in the process of determining riparian forests dominated by Fraxinus platypoda and Pterocarya rhoifolia establishment in the mountainous region of central Japan. The study area extends an area of 302 ha with a range of elevation between 925 m and 1,681 m at the Chichibu mountains. The landforms were corditied at sampling grids (25 $\times$ 25 m, n = 4,843) using a hierarchical system, and a brief description of the forest soil classification was also given. The mutual relationship analysis indicated that forest soils and landforms play a significant role in determining the geomorphological process of riparian forest, and shaping the ultimate pattern of vegetation. At the study area, riparian forests were mainly found on the $B_E$ forest soil type and steep slopes ( > 30$^{\circ}$) at convex slopes along the streams. On the other hand, the direction of slopes did not have a significant impact on the establishment of the riparian forests. A mosaic of patchy distribution of those riparian forests on the slightly wetter $B_E$ forest soil type was one of the characteristic features of the study area. This particular soil which contained large talus gravels was found on the land formed by erosion and deposition of landslide.

Analysis of Vulnerability of Emergency Transport Service for Flooded Area (침수피해지역의 응급이송서비스 취약성 분석)

  • Lee, Yoon-Ha;Hong, Won-Hwa;Lee, Ji-Soo;Choi, Jun-Ho
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.122-130
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    • 2018
  • Recent urbanization, population densification, and the impact of global climate change are causing disasters to become larger and more complex. Meanwhile, in Korea, there is an emphasis on preventing, restoring, and recovering from disasters. However, disaster medical care, which is absolutely necessary to maintain life in a disaster, is being ignored. Therefore, in this study, we selected Seoul as the study area where flood damage is frequent and underground housing is densely populated. Assuming underground housing in the immersion history area as the emergency patient site, transfer distance and transfer time were analyzed. This study considered both accessibility to emergency medical facilities and disaster sites and accessibility from emergency services to disaster sites. Therefore, it seems to be meaningful as basic data for the improvement of emergency medical services.

Analysis of the Effect of Water Budget Elements on Flow Duration Characteristics using SWAT-Nak Dong (낙동강유역 SWAT 모형 구축 및 물수지 시나리오에 따른 유황분석)

  • Shin, Hyun-Suk;Kang, Du-Kee;Kim, Sang-Dan
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.251-263
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we constructed the integrated watershed model system, SWAT-Nak Dong that include areal mean precipitaiton, runoff and water balance components in the Nak Dong river basins and with this model system we are capable of estimating streamflows for ungaged river stations and analyzing the variations of the streamflows. SWAT(Soil and Water Assessment Tool) is a conceptual, continous time model that was developed in the early 1990s to assist water resource managers in assessing the impact of management and climate on water supplies and non-point source pollution III watersheds and large river basins. Using the SWAT-Nak Dong system and various scenarios, we analyzed and evaluated the dams and water uses effects on the streamflows.

Emotion Labor and Emotional Exhaustion : The Role of Emotional Intelligence (감정노동, 감성지능이 종업원의 감정고갈에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Yong-Ki
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.25
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    • pp.243-273
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    • 2008
  • A new research paradigm is emerging within organizational behavior, in both theory and empiricism, based on the increasing recognition of the importance of emotions to organizational life. This paper suggest that emotion intelligence play a moderate variables in relationship of emotion labor and emotional exhaustion. More specifically, it is proposed that emotional intelligence, the ability to understand and manage emotions in the employee self and others, contribute to effective emotions management in organizations. Four major aspects of emotion labor, appraisal and expression of emotion in oneself, appraisal and recognition of emotion in others, regulation of emotion in oneself and use of emotion to facilitate performance, are described. Also, the emotional intelligence are consists of four aspects, frequency of appropriate emotional display, attentiveness to required displayed rules, variety of emotions to be displayed and emotional dissonance. Then I propose how emotional intelligence contributes to of relations the emotion labor and emotional exhaustion. The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of emotion labor to employee's emotional exhaustion to explore the moderating effects of the emotional intelligence between the emotion labor and emotional exhaustion. To complete the research the data were collected through a questionnaire from 147 employees from service company. After multi-hierarchical regression analysis, the outcomes of this study are the employee's emotional exhaustion are affected negatively by the three factors: major aspects of emotion labor, regulation of emotion in oneself, use of emotion to facilitate performance, make the moderation effect between emotion labor and emotional intelligence. These results indicate that instilling in others an appreciation of the importance of work activities: encouraging of true expression individual emotions, generating and maintaining well emotional climate and cooperation situations, and managing a meaningful environment for an organizational life.

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Ground surface changes detection using interferometric synthetic aperture radar

  • Foong, Loke Kok;Jamali, Ali;Lyu, Zongjie
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.277-290
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    • 2020
  • Disasters, including earthquakes and landslides, have enormous economic and social losses besides their impact on environmental disruption. Iran, and particularly its Western part, is known as an earthquake susceptible area due to numerous strong ground motions. Studying ecological changes due to climate change can improve the public and expert sector's awareness and response to future disastrous events. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technologies are appropriate tools for modeling and surface deformation modeling. This paper proposes an efficient approach to detect ground deformation changes using Sentinel-1A. The focal point of this research is to map the ground surface deformation modeling is presented using InSAR technology over Sarpol-e Zahab on 25th November 2018 as a study case. For surface deformation modeling and detection of the ground movement due to earthquake SARPROZ in MATLAB programming language is used and discussed. Results show that there is a general ground movement due to the Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake between -7 millimeter to +18 millimeter in the study area. This research verified previous researches on the advanced image analysis techniques employed for mapping ground movement, where InSAR provides a reliable tool for assisting engineers and the decision-maker in choosing proper policies in a time of disasters. Based on the result, 574 out of 682 damaged buildings and infrastructures due to the 2017 Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake have moved from -2 to +17 mm due to the 2018 earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 Richter. Results show that mountainous areas have suffered land subsidence, where urban areas had land uplift.

A Basic Study on the Effect of the Wind Pressure according to Form on the Flat Roof mounted PV System (평지붕 PV거치 시스템의 형태에 따른 풍압영향에 관한 기초연구)

  • Yun, Doo-Young;Lee, Eung-Jik
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2013
  • The new renewable energy became popular as a clean and sustainable alternative energy under the circumstances that the entire world is facing severe abnormal climate due to the use of fossil fuel, and among which, solar energy can be obtained anywhere and is not difficult to apply it into the existing buildings, which makes it possible to be widely distributed. However, as PV module is installed into a single plate system, it shows structural weaknesses which are vulnerable to wind load and give loss to design elements in external appearance. Accordingly, this study planned one-step parallel system to complement the problems occurring from a single plate system and used STAR-CCM+ V.8 made by CD-Adapco, a computational fluid dynamics(CFD) simulation tool to measure wind load stability and support based on the design standards for a single plate system and one-step parallel system. Building height was limited to less than 10m and wind speed was given when increasing from 35m/s to 50m/s by 5m/s on PV system installed into the flat roof. In this case, our analysis suggested that step-one parallel system was in class 7-9 according to Beaufort's wind power classification, which did not have an impact on the fixed PV system, and the single plate system is considered to cause risks in designing wind speed in central districts because it is more than wind power class 12.

Retrieval of the Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) using SPOT/VEGETATION over Korea (SPOT/VEGETATION 자료를 이용한 한반도의 광합성유효복사율(FPAR)의 산출)

  • Pi, Kyoung-Jin;Han, Kyung-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.537-547
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    • 2010
  • The importance of vegetation in studies of global climate and biogeochemical cycles is well recognized. Especially. the FPAR (fraction of photosynthetically active radiation) is one of the important parameters in ecosystem productivity and carbon budget models. Therefore, accurate estimates of vegetation parameters are increasingly important in environmental impact assessment studies. In this study, optical FPAR using the Terra MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer), SPOT VEGETATION and ECOCLIMAP data reproduced on the Korean peninsula. We applied the empirical method which is usually estimated as a linear or nonlinear function of vegetation indices. As results, we estimated the accurate expression which is 0.9039 of $R^2$ in cropland and 0.7901 of $R^2$ in forest. Finally, this study could be demonstrated to calibrate that produced FPAR while the overall pattern and random noise through the comparative analysis of FPAR on the reference data. Optimal use of input parameter on the Korean peninsula should be helping the accuracy of output as well as the improved quality of research.

Analysis of Climate Change Impact on River Runoff Change in the Mekong River basin (기후변화에 따른 메콩강유역의 유출변화 분석)

  • Lee, Dae Eop;Jung, Sung Ho;Lee, Gi Ha;Lee, Seung Soo;Song, Bong Geun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.37-37
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    • 2018
  • 메콩강 유역은 중국, 미얀마, 라오스, 태국, 캄보디아 및 베트남의 6개국이 공유하는 국제하천으로 각국의 안보, 경제성장 및 발전 등에 밀접한 영향을 주며 유역의 개발과정에서 국가별 개발전략 및 경제발전의 차이, 환경문제에 대한 입장의 차이로 인한 다양한 문제가 발생하고 있다. 특히 상류인 중국의 댐 건설 이후 갈수기에 메콩 강 하류지역의 수위가 매년 하락하는 현상이 발생하면서 중국의 수자원 무기화에 대한 우려가 심화되고 있다. 이와 같은 수자원의 통제는 메콩 강 하류 국가의 홍수나 가뭄조절에 대한 대응을 어렵게 하며 최근 급격한 기후변화로 인한 재난위험의 증가는 이에 대한 우려를 심화시키고 있다. 이에 대한 대응으로 하류 국가들 또한 메콩 강 곳곳에 댐을 건설하려는 계획을 수립하고 있어 메콩 강 유역의 무분별한 댐 건설에 대한 문제들이 제기되고 있다. 이러한 문제의 해결방안 마련을 위해서는 기후변화 또는 유역개발이 사회 경제 및 환경에 미치는 영향에 대한 사전분석이 매우 중요하며 기본적으로 강우-유출해석 시스템의 구축을 통한 사회 경제적 영향에 대한 예측 및 검토는 정책결정 및 수자원관리측면에서 매우 중요한 요소이다. 본 연구에서는 메콩강 유역을 대상으로 준 분포형 모형인 SWAT 모형에 전 세계적으로 구축되어 제공되는 범용 공간정보자료 및 기후변화 시나리오를 이용하여 강우-유출해석 시스템을 구축하고 메콩강 유역의 2100년까지의 미래 유출변화를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 메콩강유역을 총 33개의 소유역으로 분할하고 HadGEM의 RCP45 및 RCP85 기후변화시나리오를 소유역별 과거자료를 이용한 임의보정의 과정을 거쳐 적용하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 미래 메콩강 유역개발 및 수자원 관리 및 다양한 시나리오 적용을 위한 기초자료로 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단되며, 앞서 밝힌바와 같이 현재 메콩 강은 댐에 의한 수자원 통제의 영향이 커지고 있음에도 불구하고 방류데이터 등의 비공개로 이에 대한 영향은 고려하지 못하는 한계가 존재하기에 향후 이와 관련한 시나리오의 적용 등 추가적인 연구 또한 필요하다고 판단된다.

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Analysis of Disaster Vulnerability Impact on Climate Change Scenarios for Agricultural Reservoir (기후변화 시나리오에 의한 농업용 저수지의 재해 취약성 변화 분석)

  • Kwon, Hyungjoong;Kim, Sunjoo;Kang, Seungmook;Park, Hyunjun;Kim, Haedo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.243-243
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    • 2017
  • 산업화에 따른 온실가스 배출량 증가는 심각한 기후변화의 원인으로 작용하여 우리나라를 포함한 전세계는 이에 대응하고자 노력하고 있다. 지구온난화 및 엘리뇨 현상 등으로 인하여 가뭄, 홍수, 한파, 혹서 등의 재해와 기상이변이 속출하고, 최근 들어서는 우리나라의 경우 매년 가뭄이 발생하고 있어 이에 대한 대책이 시급한 실정이다. IPCC 제5차 평가보고서에 의하면 최근 10년간 전세계 온실가스 배출량은 이전보다 급격이 증가하였고, 우리나라 온실가스 총배출량도 1990년대에 비해 약 100% 이상 증가하는 것으로 보고되었다. 또한, 농촌지역에서의 주요 기후변화 영향은 농업용수의 가용성과 적정 공급, 식량 안보, 농업 소득 등에 영향을 미치게 되며 농업이나 물, 산림, 생물 다양성 등을 위한 추가적인 적응 대책을 농촌지역의 발전을 위한 의사결정 차원의 정책으로 실행할 필요가 있다고 제언하고 있다. 미국, 영국, 일본 등 주요 선진국에서는 기후변화 관련 법적, 제도적 근거를 마련하여 자국의 기후변화 적응 프로그램을 이미 시행하고 있으며, 우리나라도 기후변화에 대비하기 위하여 체계적인 현실적인 적응 전략 도출을 위한 필요기술을 개발함으로서 농업용수 뿐만 아니라 수자원 관리 기술 및 시설물의 적응 역량을 강화하는 것이 절실한 실정이다. 농업분야에 있어서는 "농업 농촌 및 식품산업 기본법"의 제47조의2, 시행령 제19조의2 제1항, 시행규칙 제5조에 의하여 "기후변화가 농업에 미치는 영향과 기후변화에 따른 취약성 조사 평가"에 관한 기준을 제정하였다. 이러한 법적 근거를 바탕으로 농촌진흥청에서는 작물, 병해충, 가축 등을 대상으로 실태조사를 실시하고 있으며, 기후변화 영향 및 취약성 평가 결과보고서를 5년마다 제출하도록 고시하였다. 농업생산기반시설물 역시 기후변화에 따른 취약성을 평가하고 이를 위한 실태조사를 실시하도록 법적 근거가 마련되었는 바, 본 연구에서는 농업용 저수지의 재해 취약성 평가지표를 개발하고, 기후변화 시나리오에 의한 미래 농업용수 수문량을 산정하여 농업용 저수지의 재해 취약성 변화를 분석하고자 한다.

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