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Discovery of 500-day period component in the Earth's polar motion

  • Na, Seong-Ho;Jo, Jeong-Ho;Baek, Jeong-Ho;Gwak, Yeong-Hui;Park, Pil-Ho
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.53.1-53.1
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    • 2010
  • Earth's polar motion has been known for more than one century, and it has been monitored by astrometric observation and recently by space geodetic technique. The Chandler and the annual wobbles are two dominant parts of Earth's polar motion. But according to our recent analysis on a relevant and accurate dataset, another polar motion component, of which period is about 500 days, exists with an amplitude of 20 milliarcseconds in average. This third largest component of polar motion should be caused by resonance of unidentified oscillating mode of Earth, possibly Earth's inner core wobble.

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Characteristics of Perturbations in Recent Length of Day and Polar Motion

  • Na, Sung-Ho;Kwak, Younghee;Cho, Jung-Ho;Yoo, Sung-Moon;Cho, Sungki
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.33-41
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    • 2013
  • Various features of the existing perturbations in the Earth's spin rotation are investigated for the recent and most reliable data by spectral analysis, filtering, and comparison with idealized model. First, theory of Earth's spin rotational perturbation is briefly re-derived in the Earth-fixed coordinate frame. By spectral windowings, different periodic components of the length of day perturbation are separated, and their characters and excitations are discussed. Different periodic components of polar motion are acquired similarly and described with further discussion of their excitations. Causes of the long time trends of both the length of day and polar motion are discussed. Three possible causes are considered for the newly discovered 490-day period component in the polar motion.

Residual Polar Motion excluding Chandler and Annual components

  • Na, Sung-Ho;Baek, Jeong-Ho;Kwak, Young-Hee;Yoo, Sung-Moon;Cho, Jung-Ho;Cho, Sung-Ki;Park, Jong-Uk;Park, Pil-Ho
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.22.1-22.1
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    • 2011
  • Two dominant components of polar motion are the Chandler and the annual components. Recently, the existence of 500-day period component in the Earth's polar motion has been manifested. But its existence is not clear on Fourier spectrum. One cause of difficulty involved here is that the amplitudes of the two main components are slightly variable in time by certain amounts (Chandler: 0.15~0.28 arcsec, annual: 0.09~0.15 arcsec). A residual polar motion time series excluding the two main components for a time span between 1962 Jan and 2010 Nov from IERS C04 time series dataset was constructed by least square fitting. For faithful fitting, 43 time segments of 6.8 year length (each starts on January 1st of successive years) were separately acquired and later combined together. The period of dominant peak in the spectrum of this residual polar motion time series is 490 days. Next peaks have their periods as semi-annual, 300~330 days, ~560 days, 670 days, and 1360 days.

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The Horizontal Wind and Vertical Motion Field Derived from the NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites

  • Lee, Dong-Kyou
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 1988
  • The operational NOAA satellite temperature soundings are utilized to determine the horizontal wind and vertical motion fields for a polar low case over the East Asian region by solving the nonlinear balance equation and the omega equation. Preliminary results demonstrate that the balanced wind and vertical motion fields derived from the satellite data give reasonable synoptic patterns associated with the polar low. This encourages the use of satellite information as inputs in the numerical weather prediction models.

MPM-Based Angular Animation of Particles using Polar Decomposition Theory (극 분해 이론을 활용한 MPM기반의 입자 회전 애니메이션)

  • Song, Chang-yong;Kim, Ki-hoon;Kim, Sun-jeong;Kim, Changhun
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.13-22
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, we propose a single framework based on the MPM(Material Point Method) that can represent the dynamic angular motion of the elementary particle unit. In this study, the particles can have various shapes while also describing linear and angular motion. As a result, unlike other particle-based simulations, which only represent linear movements of spherical (e.g. Circle, Sphere) particles, it is possible to express the visually dynamic motion of them. The proposed framework utilizes MPM, due to the fact that rotational motion can be decomposed and derived from large deformation. During the integration process of the presented technique, a deformation gradient tensor is decomposed by polar decomposition theory for extracting rotation tensor. By applying this together with the linear motion of each particle, as a result, it is possible to simultaneously express the angluar and linear motion of the particle itself. To verify the proposed method, we show the simulation of rotating particles scattering in the wind field, and the interaction(e.g. Collision) between a moving object and them by comparing the traditional MPM

A Least Square Fit Analysis on the Earth's Polar Motion Time Series: Implication against Smylie's Conjecture (지구의 극운동에 대한 최소제곱법 분석: 스마일리의 추측에 상반됨)

  • Chung, Tae-Woong;Na, Sung-Ho
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.91-96
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    • 2016
  • From the Earth's polar motion time series (IERS 08 C04, since 1981), after removal of seasonal variation by band-pass filtering, we acquired Earth's free Eulerian motion (Chandler wobble) time series. By successive least square error fittings on it, we analyzed amplitude and phase variation of Chandler wobble. We attempted to identify any precursory behavior of the pole before large earthquakes but only to fail. Unlike Smylie's conjecture there was no appreciable motion of the Earth's pole detected at around the each times of recent six largest earthquakes of magnitude over 8.5.

A Study on the Multipolarization of a Moving Magnet Type Linear DC Motor (가동 자석형 선형 직류 전동기의 다극화에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, H.J.;Kim, Y.;Baek, S.H.;Kim, P.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.85-87
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    • 1998
  • In the industrial field, the necessity for the linear motion is increasing. Because of the motion converting mechanism there exist many losses. So the application of linear machines instead of rotating machines is increasing. As compared with a mono-polar type linear DC motor, it is possible for a multi-polar type linear BC motor to have a longer stroke and more thrust with thin shape. However, there are thrust ripple on multi-polar type one. In this paper, a design to multi-polarize of the linear DC motor is discussed. In order to make a smoother thrust on multi-polar type linear BC motor. a method is proposed.

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Effect of Temperature on Photoinduced Reorientation of Azobenzee Chromophore in the Side Chain Copolymers

  • 최동훈
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.1010-1016
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    • 1999
  • We synthesized the photoresponsive side chain polymers containing aminonitro azobenzene for studying the effect of temperature on photoinduced birefringence. Four different copolymers were prepared using methacrylate, α-methylstyrene, and itaconate monomer. Photoisomerization was observed under the exposure of UV light using UV-VIS absorption spectroscopy. Reorientation of polar azobenzene molecules induced optical anisotropy under a linearly polarized light at 532 nm. The change of the birefringence was observed with increasing the sample temperature under a continuous irradiation of excitation light. We could estimate the activation energy of molecular motion in thermal and photochemical mode. Besides the effect of glass transition temperature on the activation energy, we focused our interests on the effect of geometrical hindrance of polar azobenzene molecules and cooperative motion of environmental mesogenic molecules in the vicinity of polar azobenzene molecules.

Robot motion planning for time-varying obstacle avoidance using distance function (거리 함수를 이용한 로보트의 시변 장애물 회피 동작계획)

  • 전흥주;고낙용;남윤석;이범희;고명삼
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1991.10a
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    • pp.1034-1039
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    • 1991
  • A robot motion planning algorithm for time-varying obstacle avoidance is proposed. The robot motion planning problem is replaced with the optimization problem by using the distance function with the divided configuration space. To divide the configuration space, the polar coordinate system is used. For each divided configuration space, the admissible region where the robot can reach without collisions is obtained using the distance function. For an object moving in a plane, the admissible region is described by linear constraints on the polar coordinate system. A numerical algorithm that solves the optimization problem is shown and the computer simulation is carried out.

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Development and Evaluation of 1 Layer Polar Motion Control System for Solar Tracker (태양광 추적장치용 1층 구조의 극좌표 운동기구 개발 및 평가)

  • Kim, Sun Ho;Kim, Byung Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2010
  • Finding sufficient supplies of clean energy for future is one of the society's most important challenges according to technologies. Alternative renewable energy source such as sun energy can be substituted for exceeding human energy need. The main factor affect to solar performance is a collective intensity. To enhance intensity, suitable equipment is a solar tracker. This paper presents design and evaluation of 1 layer polar motion control system for solar tracker suitable for building integrated system. To evaluation of tracking accuracy and adaptability, solar tracker with 64 links is implemented. In experimental results, the accuracy of tracking has under ${\pm}0.0287^{\circ}$ and the thickness has under 140mm.