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Estimating Ocean Tidal Constituents Using SAR Interferometric Time Series over the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, W. Antarctica

  • Baek, Sang-Ho;Shum, C.K.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.343-353
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    • 2018
  • Ocean tides in Antarctica are not well constrained mostly due to the lack of tidal observations. Especially, tides underneath and around ice shelves are uncertain. InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) data has been used to observe ice shelf movements primarily caused by ocean tides. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to estimate tidal constituents underneath the Sulzberger ice shelf, West Antarctica, solely using ERS-1/2 tandem mission DInSAR (differential InSAR) observations. In addition, the tidal constituents can be estimated in a high-resolution (~200 m) grid which is beyond any tidal model resolution. We assume that InSAR observed ocean tidal heights can be derived after correcting the InSAR data for the effect of atmospheric loading using the inverse barometric effect, solid earth tides, and ocean tide loading. The ERS (European Remote Sensing) tandem orbit configuration of a 1-day separation between SAR data takes diminishes the sensitivity to major tidal constituents including $K_1$ and $S_2$. Here, the dominant tidal constituent $O_1$ is estimated using 8 differential interferograms underneath the Sulzberger ice shelf. The resulting tidal constituent is compared with a contemporary regional tide model (CATS2008a) and a global tide model (TPXO7.1). The InSAR estimated tidal amplitude agrees well with both models with RMS (root-mean-square) differences of < 2.2 cm and the phase estimate corroborating both tide models to within $8^{\circ}$. We conclude that fine spatial scale (~200 m) Antarctic ice shelf ocean tide determination is feasible for dominant constituents using C-band ERS-1/2 tandem mission InSAR.

Analysis of Operating Characteristics in Tidal Power Generation According to Tide Level

  • Hong, Jeong-Jo;Oh, Young-sun
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.76-84
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    • 2022
  • Tidal power generation plays a critical role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It uses a tidal force generated by gravitational force between the moon, the earth, and the sun. The change of seawater height generates the tide-generating force, and the magnitude of the change is the tide level. The tide level change has the same period as the tide-generating force twice a day, every 29.5 days, every year, and every 18.6 years. Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station is Korea's first tidal power plant that began commercial power generation in August 2011 and has been accumulating a large volume of data on electricity production, power generation sales, sluice displacement, and tide levels. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the impact of the inefficiency factors affecting production and the tidal level change on tidal power generation and their characteristics using Sihwa Lake Tidal Power's operational performance data. Throughout this paper we show that tidal power generating operation is accurately predicting the trends of magnitude of tidal force to be periodical for each day. determining the drop to initiate the water turbine generator factoring the constraints on the operation of Sihwa Lake, and reflecting the water discharge through the floodgate and water turbine during the standby mode in the power generation plan to be in the optimal condition until the initiation of the next power generation can maximize power generation.

Investigation of Mental Models about Tide for Scientifically Talented Middle School Students by Analyzing Facet of Conceptual Types by Context (상황에 따른 개념 유형의 국면 분석을 통한 중학교 과학 영재아들의 조석에 관한 정신모형 탐색)

  • Lee, Ki-Young
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.6-14
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    • 2006
  • The study investigates mental models of scientifically gifted, middle school students when it comes to tides. This was done by analyzing facet of conceptual types for two contexts. We carried out two performance tasks of tide with different context. A large number of students showed different conceptual types by context. As a result of analyzing facet of conceptual types by context, there was a slight difference in content-specific facet, but a remarkable one in strategic facet. We classified four mental models about tide by configuring facets of conceptual types: (1) Tide model (2) Force model (3) Phase model (4) Hybrid model. The Tide model is scientifically accepted model, but Force model and Phase model are incorrect models, and Hybrid model is mixed model. In cases of Force model and Phase model, conceptual types concur with each other, but these types of students comprehend tides as a result of joined forces of Moon & Sun and phase change of Moon, respectively. Arranging low mental models in proportional order, Tide model (45.0%), Hybrid model (30.0%), Force model (12.5%), and Phase model (7.5%).

An Analytical Model with Three Sub-Regions for $M_2$ Tide in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea

  • Jung, Kyung-Tae;Park, Chang-Wook;Oh, Im-Sang;So, Jae-Kwi
    • Ocean Science Journal
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.191-200
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    • 2005
  • In this study an analytical tide model of uniform width with three sub-regions is presented. The three-subregions model takes into account step-like variations in depths in the direction of the channel as a way to examine the $M_2$ tide of the East China Sea (ECS) as well as the Yellow Sea (YS). A modified Proudman radiation condition has been applied at the northern open head, while the sea surface elevation is specified at the southern open boundary. It is seen that, due to the presence of an abrupt change in depth, co-amplitude lines of the $M_2$ tide are splitted to the east and west near the end of the ECS shelf region. Variations in depths, bottom friction and the open head boundary conditions all contribute to the determination of formation of amphidromes as well as overall patterns of $M_2$ tidal distribution. It is seen that increasing water depth and bottom friction in the ECS shelf results in the westward shift of the southern amphidrome. There is however no hint at all of the well-known degenerated tidal pattern being formed. It is inferred that a lateral variation of water depth has to be somehow incorporated to represent the tidal patterns in ECS in a realistic manner. Regarding the radiation factor introduced by Fang et al. (1991), use of a value larger than one, possibly with a phase shift, appears to be a proper way of incorporating the reflected waves from the northern Yellow Sea (NYS).

Investigation of Mental Models about Tide for Scientifically Talented Middle School Students by Analyzing Facet of Conceptual Types by Context (상황에 따른 개념 유형의 국면 분석을 통한 중학교 과학 영재아들의 조석에 관한 정신모형 탐색)

  • Lee, Gi-Yeong
    • 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.254-262
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    • 2005
  • 본 연구에서는 중학교 과학 영재아들이 가지고 있는 조석에 관한 정신모형을 탐색하기 위하여 상황에 따른 개념 유형을 분류하고, 각 유형들을 구성하는 국면들을 분석하였다. 조석 현상에 관해 두 가지 상황으로 구성된 과제 수행을 실시한 후 그 응답 결과를 분석한 결과, 상당수의 학생들이 상황에 따라 서로 다른 개념 유형을 나타내었다. 상황에 따른 개념 유형들을 구성하고 있는 국면을 분석한 결과, 각 유형들은 내용-일반적 국면을 공통적으로 포함하고 있었으나, 내용-특정적 국면과 전략적 국면에서는 많은 차이를 나타내었다. 두 가지 상황에서 나타나는 개념 유형들과 이들 유형을 구성하는 국면들을 조합하여 학생들의 정신모형을 분석한 결과 다음과 같은 4가지 모형으로 나눌 수 있었다: (1) Tide model (2) Force model (3) Phase model (4) Hybrid model. Tide model은 과학적으로 옳은 모형이며, Force model과 Phase model은 옳지 않은 모형이며, Hybrid model은 혼합 모형으로 상황에 따라 나타나는 개념 유형이 서로 부합되지 않는 모형이다. 중학교 과학 영재아들이 조석 현상에 대해 가장 많이 가지고 있는 모형은 Tide model(45.0%)이었으며, 그 다음으로는 Hybrid model(30.0%), Force model(12.5%), Phase model(7.5%) 순으로 나타났다.

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Analysis on optical property in the South Sea of Korea by using Satellite Image : Study of Case on red tide occurrence in August 2013 (위성영상을 활용한 한국 남해의 광학적 특성 연구 : 2013년 8월 발생한 적조 사례를 중심으로)

  • Bak, Su-Ho;Yoon, Hong-Joo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.723-728
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    • 2016
  • This study is analyzed the optical property of red tide pixel by using Landsat-7 ETM+, Landsat-8 OLI and COMS/GOCI image. In order to sample red tide pixel, Landsat-7, 8 true color image were used and obtained coordinate of red tide pixel in the true color image. Normalized water leaving radiance(nLw) and absorption coefficient were obtained from GOCI image in the same coordinate of the true color image. When red tide was not occurred the main absorption range was 412nm and 660nm but when red tide occurred it was 660nm and absorption coefficient in 412nm are drastically reduced. It made no difference of nLw spectrum between red tide pixel and non red tide pixel in nLw, but the absolute value of nLw was low than non red tide pixel, especially 660nm and 680nm wavelength sharply decrease.

A numerical study on the dispersion of the Yangtze River water in the Yellow and East China Seas

  • Park, Tea-Wook;Oh, Im-Sang
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.119-135
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    • 2004
  • A three-dimensional numerical model using POM (the Princeton Ocean Model) is established in order to understand the dispersion processes of the Yangtze River water in the Yellow and East China Seas. The circulation experiments for the seas are conducted first, and then on the bases of the results the dispersion experiments for the river water are executed. For the experiments, we focus on the tide effects and wind effects on the processes. Four cases of systematic experiments are conducted. They comprise the followings: a reference case with no tide and no wind, of tide only, of wind only, and of both tide and wind. Throughout this study, monthly mean values are used for the Kuroshio Current input in the southern boundary of the model domain, for the transport through the Korea Strait, for the river discharge, for the sea surface wind, and for the heat exchange rate across the air-sea interface. From the experiments, we obtained the following results. The circulation of the seas in winter is dependent on the very strong monsoon wind as several previous studies reported. The wintertime dispersion of the Yangtze River water follows the circulation pattern flowing southward along the east coast of China due to the strong monsoon wind. Some observed salinity distributions support these calculation results. In summertime, generally, low-salinity water from the river tends to spread southward and eastward as a result of energetic vertical mixing processes due to the strong tidal current, and to spread more eastward due to the southerly wind. The tide effect for the circulation and dispersion of the river water near the river mouth is a dominant factor, but the southerly wind is still also a considerable factor. Due to both effects, two major flow directions appear near the river mouth. One of them is a northern branch flow in the northeast area of the river mouth moving eastward mainly due to the weakened southerly wind. The other is a southern branch flow directed toward the southeastern area off the river mouth mostly caused by tide and wind effects. In this case, however, the tide effect is more dominant than the wind effect. The distribution of the low salinity water follows the circulation pattern fairly well.

ESTIMATION OF SEAWATER LEVEL ON SEA FARMS USING L-BAND RADAR INTERFEROMETRY

  • Kim, Sang-Wan;Won, Joong-Sun
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.312-316
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    • 2002
  • Satellite radar interferometry data shows a strong coherent signal on oyster sea farms where artificial structures installed on the bottom. We obtained 21 highly coherent interferograms from eleven JERS-1 SAR data sets despite of large orbital baseline (~2 km) or large temporal baseline (~l year). The phases observed in sea farms are probably induced by double bouncing on sea surface, and consequently reveal a tide height variation. To restore the absolute sea level changes we counted the number of wrapping by exploiting the intensity of backscattering. Backscattering intensity is closely correlated with the change in water surface height, while interferometry gives the detailed variation within the limit of 2$\pi$ (or 15.3 cm). Comparing the radar measurements with the tide gauge records yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.96 and an ms error of 6.0 cm. The results demostrate that radar interferometry is promising to measure sea level.

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Impacts of Land Cover Change of Tidal Flats on Local Meteorology in Gyeonggi Bay, West Sea of Korea (경기만 갯벌의 지표면 토지피복 변화가 국지기상에 미치는 영향 평가)

  • An, Hye Yeon;Kim, Yoo-Keun;Jeong, Ju-Hee
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.399-409
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    • 2017
  • The impact of land cover changed by tidal flats on local meteorology in Gyeonggi Bay was quantitatively evaluated based on a numerical modeling approach during 18 days (21 June to 9 July 2013). The analysis was carried out using three sets of simulation scenarios and the land cover of tidal flats for each simulation was applied as follows: (1) the herbaceous wetland representing coastal wetlands (i.e., EXP-BASE case), (2) the barren or sparsely vegetated representing low tide (i.e., EXP-LOW case), (3) the water bodies representing high tide (i.e., EXP-HIGH case). The area of tidal flats was calculated as about $552km^2$ (the ratio of 4.7% for analysis domain). During the daytime, the change (e.g. wetlands to water) of land cover flooded by high tide indicated the decrease of temperature (average $3.3^{\circ}C$) and the increase of humidity (average 13%) and wind speed (maximum $2.9m\;s^{-1}$). The changes (e.g. wetlands to barren or sparsely vegetated) of land cover induced by low tide were smaller than those by high tide. On the other hands, the effects of changed land cover at night were not apparent both high tide and low tide. Also, during the high tide, the meteorological change in tidal flats affected the metropolitan area (about 40 km from the tidal flat).