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Detection of Asian Dust Air-mass based on Short Wavelength Observation of SeaWiFS

  • Fukushima, H.;Hagihara, Y.;Hoshikuma, Y.;Ohta, S.;Uno, I.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.1203-1205
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    • 2003
  • To detect dust-loaded air-mass over land and ocean, we propose an index, which is essentially the difference in Rayleigh-corrected reflectance between 412 and 443 nm bands of SeaWiFS. Radiative transfer simulations are conducted to show that the index is linearly related to the optical thickness of modeled dust-contaminated aerosol while showing insensitivity against non-absorbing model aerosols. Asian SeaWiFS data set of 2001 spring is used to produce daily composite imagery of the index, which compares well with TOMS Aerosol Index and with predicted aerosol optical thickness predicted by CFORS chemical weather forecast.

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Evaluation of the daylight performance of four-sided atria with various well configurations for interior vegitation growth (실내 조경 식물의 생육을 고려한 4면형 아트리움의 형태변수별 자연채광 성능평가)

  • Song, Il-Hak;Kim, Ji-Hyun;Song, Kyoo-Dong
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2011
  • An atrium space, unlike ordinary office rooms, accommodates variety of activities such as moving and resting of people and usually houses variety of vegitation to improve amenity and indoor environment. Many atrium buildings in Korea have been designed by considering the environmental criteria for human beings, not for the vegitation in the atrium space. Especially the daylighting designs are mostly focused on the required illuminances for various visual tasks of the occupants and glare controls. As a result, some atrium spaces do not provide sufficient light to the interior plants. Consequently, these atrium spaces require a high level of electric lighting to compensate the deficit of natural light for the photosynthesis of the vegitation. The purpose of this study was to suggest design guidelines for 4-sided atrium spaces having different well indices (WI), plan aspect ratio (PAR), and cardinal orientation. The findings from this study might be referenced by building designers when designing or selecting canopy systems by considering the daylight performances of the uncovered atrium spaces. In the study, the daylight performance was evaluated in terms of daylight autonomy (DA).

Characteristics of East Asian Cold Surges in the CMIP5 Climate Models (CMIP5 기후 모형에서 나타나는 동아시아 한파의 특징)

  • Park, Tae-Won;Heo, Jin-Woo;Jeong, Jee-Hoon;Ho, Chang-Hoi
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.199-211
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    • 2017
  • The cold surges over East Asia can be grouped to two types of the wave-train and the blocking. Recently, the observational study proposed new dynamical index to objectively identify cold surge types. In this study, the dynamical index is applied to the simulations of 10 climate models, which participate in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). Focusing on assessment of cold surge simulation, we discuss characteristic of the wave-train and blocking cold surges in the climate models. The wave-train index (WI) and the blocking index (BI) based on potential temperature anomalies at dynamical tropopause over the subarctic region, the northeast China, and the western North Pacific enable us to classify cold surges in the climate models into two types. The climate models well simulate the occurrence mechanism of the wave-train cold surges with vertical structure related to growing baroclinic wave. However, while the wave-train in the observation propagates in west-east direction across the Eurasia Continent, most of the models simulate the southeastward propagation of the wave-train originated from the Kara Sea. For the blocking cold surges, the general features in the climate models well follow those in the observation to show the dipole pattern of a barotropic high-latitude blocking and a baroclinic coastal trough, leading to the Arctic cold surges with the strong northerly wind originated from the Arctic Sea. In both of the observation and climate models, the blocking cold surges tend to be more intense and last longer compared to the wave-train type.

The Application of Fuzzy Delphi Method in Forecasting of the price index of stocks (주가지수의 예측에 있어 Fuzzy Delphi 방법의 적용)

  • 김태호;강경식;김창은;박윤선;현광남
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.15 no.26
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    • pp.111-117
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    • 1992
  • In the stock marketing. investor needs speedy and accurate decision making for the investment. A stock exchange index provides the important index of the early of 1993 in Korea using Fuzzy Delphi Method(F. D. M) which is widely used to a mid and long range forecasting in decision making problem. In the Fuzzy Delphi method, considerably qualified experts an first requested to give their opinion seperately and without intercommunication. The forecasting data of experts consist of Triangular Fuzzy Number (T.F.N) which represents the pessimistic, moderate, and optimistic forecast of a stock exchange index. A statistical analysis and dissemblance index are then made of these subject data. These new information are then transmitted to the experts once again, and the process of reestimation is continued until the process converges to a reasonable stable forecast of stock exchange index. The goal of this research is to forecast the stock exchange index using F.D.M. in which subjective data of experts are transformed into quasi -objective data index by some statistical analysis and fuzzy operations. (a) A long range forecasting problem must be considered as an uncertain but not random problem. The direct use of fuzzy numbers and fuzzy methods seems to be more compatible and well suited. (b) The experts use their individual competency and subjectivity and this is the very reason why we propose the use of fuzzy concepts. (c) If you ask an expert the following question: Consider the forecasting of the price index of stocks in the near future. This experts wi11 certainly be more comfortable giving an answer to this question using three types of values: the maximum value, the proper value, and the minimum value rather than an answer in terms of the probability.

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Optical Simulation of Transparent Electrode for Application to Organic Photovoltaic Cells

  • Jo, Se-Hui;Yang, Jeong-Do;Park, Dong-Hui;Wi, Chang-Hwan;Choe, Won-Guk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.02a
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    • pp.440-440
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    • 2012
  • The optical characteristics of transparent electrode with various kind of materials and thickness to be used for organic photovoltaic cells were studied by simulation methodology. It demonstrated that the transmittance varies with the kinds of materials, the number of layers and change in the thickness of each layer. In the case of the structure composed of dielectric/Ag/dielectric, optimized transmittance was higher than 90% at 550 nm and the thickness of the Ag layer was ~10nm. Top and bottom dielectric materials can be changed with different refractive index and extinction coefficient. The relation between the optical transmittance of device and transparent electrode with different refractive indices was discussed as well. By processing numerical simulations, an optimized optical transmittance can be obtained by tunning the thickness and materials of transparent electrode.

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OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF ASIAN DUST AEROSOL DERIVED FROM SEAWIFS AND LIDAR OBSERVATIONS: A CASE STUDY OF DUST OVER CLOUDS

  • Fukushima, H.;Kobayashi, H.;Murayama, T.;Ohta, S.;Uno, I.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.367-372
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    • 2002
  • Asian dust aerosol layer of 4-6 km altitude accompanied by low clouds was observed by LIDAR and sky-radiometer in Tokyo urban area on April 10, 2001. To synthesize the top of atmosphere (TOA) reflectance, radiative transfer simulation conducted assuming aerosol/cloud vertical structure and aerosol size distribution that were modeled after the ground observations. The refractive index of Asian dust is derived from a laboratory measurement of sampled Chinese soil particles. The synthesized TOA reflectance is compared to the SeaWiFS-derived one sampled at the low cloud pixels whose airmass is the same as the one passed at the observation site. While the two TOA reflectances compare generally well with few percent difference in reflectance, possible sources of the discrepancy are discussed.

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Enhanced Throughput and QoS Fairness for Two-Hop IEEE 802.16j Relay Networks

  • Kim, Sang-Won;Sung, Won-Jin;Jang, Ju-Wook
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.32-42
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    • 2011
  • Frequency reuse among relay stations (RSs) in a down-link access zone is widely adopted for throughput enhancement in IEEE 802.16j relay networks. Since the areas covered by the RSs or the base station (BS) may overlap, some mobile stations (MSs) at the border between two neighboring transmitting stations (RS or BS) using an identical frequency band may suffer severe interference or outage. This co-channel interference within the cell degrades the quality of service (QoS) fairness among the MSs as well as the system throughput. Exclusive use of a frequency band division (orthogonal resource allocation) among RSs can solve this problem but would cause degradation of the system throughput. We observe a trade-off between system throughput and QoS fairness in the previously reported schemes based on frequency reuse. In this paper, we propose a new frequency reuse scheme that achieves high system throughput with a high fairness level in QoS, positioning our scheme far above the trade-off curve formed by previous schemes. We claim that our scheme is beneficial for applications in which a high QoS level is required even for the MSs at the border. Exploiting the features of a directional antenna in the BS, we create a new zone in the frame structure. In the new zone, the RSs can serve the subordinate MSs at the border and prone to interference. In a 3-RS topology, where the RSs are located at points $120^{\circ}$ apart from one another, the throughput and Jain fairness index are 10.64 Mbps and 0.62, respectively. On the other hand, the throughput for the previously reported overlapped and orthogonal allocation schemes is 8.22 Mbps (fairness: 0.48) and 3.99 Mbps (fairness: 0.80), respectively. For a 6-RS topology, our scheme achieves a throughput of 18.38 Mbps with a fairness of 0.68; however, previous schemes with frequency reuse factors of 1, 2, 3, and 6 achieve a throughput of 15.24 Mbps (fairness: 0.53), 12.42 Mbps (fairness: 0.71),8.84 Mbps (fairness: 0.88), and 4.57 Mbps (fairness: 0.88), respectively.

A Investigation on the Soil-Peel Methods in Conservation Method of Historical Site (유구 보존방법론 중 토층전사에 관한 고찰)

  • Wi, Koang-Chul;Seo, Jeong-Ho
    • Journal of Conservation Science
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.341-348
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    • 2010
  • After excavation work of relics, historical site which has historically meaningful, are preserved using the various methods. There are three method in the relocation methods that are original relocation method, the remaining structure-peel method, and soil peel method. The original relocation method is restored after relocating in historical site such as residential site, iron foundry site, kiln site, old mound. The remaining structure-peel method are restored only the feature of exposed remaining structure using polymeric resin, when it is difficult to relocate the entire remaining structure. And soil-peel method is exhibited after peeling in case when soil layers such as grave of old mound, foundation of building site, sedimentary deposit layer, shell heap, and etc. Soil-peel method becomes important historical data of changes according to environment at that time, that is, flooding by storm, traces of fire and living features of that time such as heaps of shells discarded after eating shellfish and living wastes. In particular, in case of soil layer for preparing foundation sites of building by compacting in turn soils with different components such as clay soil, rough sand soil and etc, it becomes important data which can judge foundation technology of that time. It can be said to be an important data preservation method for utilizing these historical data as historical data as well as for the purpose of education, exhibitions and public relations which can be shared not only by experts but also by general public. In this paper, we present the reliable definition of soil-peel method in various preservation methods and explain the using polymer in this method. So, we will come up with the accurate index about this method that is used the eminent analysis method for soil layer.

Culture of Tricholoma matsutake Mycelium using Solid Matrix (고체 매질을 이용한 송이(松栮)(Tricholoma matsutake)균 배양)

  • Lee, Wi Young;Ahn, Jin Kwon;Ka, Kang Hyeon;Park, Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.95 no.3
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    • pp.358-364
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    • 2006
  • This study was conducted to develop optimal solid culture medium for Tricholoma matsutake. As the solid matrix, granitic soil, perlite, vermiculate, pine sawdust and peat moss were compared regarding their effected on mycelial growth. Ergosterol content which is a fungal wall component was used as the growth index of the mycelia. Among the various solid matrixes, the granitic soil, perlite and mixture of the two supported the growth most. Barely flour appeared to be very effective on the stimulating of the mycelial growth when added to the solid matrix. An mixture of the matrix contained an even (1:1:1:1, v/v/v/v) mixture of granitic soil, perlite, vermiculate and pine sawdust. T. matsutake started growth 2 weeks after inoculation and reached stationary growth phase after 8th weeks in the solid matrix mixture. The mycelial density in the solid matrix was 7 times higher than that in fairy-ring soil. In addition, 30~70% water content and 10% humus soil in the solid matrix also supported good growth suggesting that T. matsutake needs humus soil for a nutrient sources. The solid matrix developed in the present study could be used to study physiological characteristics of T. matsutake as well.