• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.42-54
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• 1989

This study was carried out to investigate the phenomena of acid precipitation. The pH value, electro conductivity and major anions (sulfate, nitrate and chloride) were measured by automatic acid rain monitor and ion chromatography at 5 points in Seoul area from Jan. to Dec. 1988. 1. The acidity of rainfall was in order winter (4.31) spring (4.77) fall (4.94) summer (5.31). Rainfall with a pH of less than 5.6 was appeared 83.2 percent. 2. The range of the highest appearence frequency rate both at Hannam-dong and Songsu-dong was from pH 4.6 to 5.0 and appeared 30.7 percent and 38.3 percent respectively, Bang-i-dong was 36.3 percent in the ranged from pH 4.1 to 4.5 and Guro and Ssangmun-dong were 26 percent and 30.3 percent in the ranged from pH 5.1 to 5.5 respectively. 3. The sulfate and nitrate ion concentration in earlier rainwater ranged from 0.1 ppm to 50.2 ppm and from 0.01 ppm to 15.8 respectively. The earlier rainwaters were generally more acidic than the after rainwaters. 4. The order of the major anion concentration in rainwater was $SO_4^{2-} > Cl^- > NO_3^-$ and the acidity of it was more effective by sulfate ion than others. The correlation between pH value and anions concentration was shown positive correlationship at Guro-dong and Bang-i-dong and negative correlation at Hannam-dong but not at the other sites.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.105-114
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• 2012

Soil moisture plays a pivotal role in hydrological processes, especially in the forest which covers more than 64% of the national land. Soil moisture was monitored to analyze soil moisture change characteristics in terms of time and soil layers in this study. 2 Years soil moisture change data was obtained from the experimental nut pine forest and statistical analysis including auto-correlation and cross-corelation among soil moisture data from different soil layers was conducted. Using the monitored soil moisture data, a relationship between soil moisture change and precipitation was analyzed and seasonal soil moisture change characteristics were analyzed. From the result of inter-relationships among soil layers in terms of season and time lag, soil moisture change characteristics in the nut pine forest were upper soil layers were much sensitive than lowers, and seasonal variation if soil moisture for upper soil layers were bigger than lowers showing low correlation with precipitation in winter and spring due to freezing and snowfalls.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.50-62
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• 2011

Temporal trends and spatial distributions of ozone concentrations in Pohang were investigated using data measured at 4 air quality monitoring stations (i.e., Daedo, Jukdo, Jangheung, and Desong) during 2002-2006. The monthly mean ozone concentrations were highest during April and June and decreased during July and August, which follows the typical trend in the Northeast Asia region. The high springtime ozone concentration might have been strongly influenced by the enhanced photochemical ozone production of accumulated precursors during the winter under increased solar radiations. In July and August, ozone levels were decreased by frequent and severe precipitation that caused lower mean monthly solar radiation and efficient wash-out of ozone precursors. This suggests that precipitation is extremely beneficial in the aspect of ozone pollution control. High ozone concentrations exceeding 80ppb dominantly occurred in May and June during the late afternoon between 16:00~17:00. Ozone concentrations were higher in Jangheung and Daesong relative to Daedo and Jukdo, whereas total oxidants $(O_3+NO_2)$ were higher in Jangheung and Daedo. In the suburban area of Daesong, ozone concentrations seem to be considerably higher than those in urban sites of Daedo and Jukdo due to lower ozone loss by NO titration with lower local NO level.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.306-316
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• 2003

We conducted a time-series analysis of temperature and salinity of sea water around Jeju Island, Korea. Monthly mean temperature and salinity was influenced by precipitation and weather conditions on Jeju as well as by oceanographic conditions of the open sea such as the Tsushima Warm Current and sea water in coastal areas. Salinity of Jeju coastal waters was the highest in April, and it was always over 34.00 psu with tiny fluctuation between December and June. Due to the effects of the Tsushima Warm Current, Jeju coastal waters maintained high salinity and stability. Low salinity and its large fluctuations during summer were closely associated with the China Coastal Water and precipitation in Jeju. The place of the lowest water temperature was the northeast coasts of Jeju (Gimneong, Hado, Jongdalri). In winter, as warmer water of the Tsushima Warm Current appeared in western area of Jeju dwindled flowing along the northern coasts of Jeju area and becoming cool, the lowest water temperature often appeared locally in Gimnyeong and its vicinitly in summer. The Tsushima Warm Current flows into the east entrance of Jeju Strait, but its influence is weak because of geometry and strong vertical mixing due to fast tidal currents.

• 대기
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.333-341
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• 2010

The stratiform rain fraction is investigated in the tropical boreal winter Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) and summer intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Rader data for the 11-yr period from 1998 to 2008. Composite analysis shows that the MJO/ISO produces larger stratiform rain rate than convective rain rate for nearly all phases following the propagating MJO/ISO deep clouds, with the greatest stratiform rainfall amount when the MJO/ISO center is located over the central-eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. The fraction of the intraseasonally filtered stratiform rainfall compared to total rainfall (i.e., convective plus stratiform rainfall) amounts to 53~56%, which is 13~16% larger than the stratiform rain fraction estimated for the same data on seasonal-to-annual time scales by Schumacher and Houze. This indicates that the MJO/ISO exhibits the organized rainfall process which is characterized by the shallow convection/heating at the incipient phase and the subsequent flare-up of strong deep convection, followed by the development of stratiform clouds at the upper troposphere.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2018

This study is intended to investigate that it is possible to analyze the public awareness and satisfaction of the weather forecast service provided by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) through social media data as a way to overcome limitations of the questionnaire-based survey in the previous research. Sentiment analysis and association rule mining were used for Twitter data containing opinions about the weather forecast service. As a result of sentiment analysis, the frequency of negative opinions was very high, about 75%, relative to positive opinions because of the nature of public services. The detailed analysis shows that a large portion of users are dissatisfied with precipitation forecast and that it is needed to analyze the two kinds of error types of the precipitation forecast, namely, 'False alarm' and 'Miss' in more detail. Therefore, association rule mining was performed on negative tweets for each of these error types. As a result, it was found that a considerable number of complaints occurred when preventive actions were useless because the forecast predicting rain had a 'False alarm' error. In addition, this study found that people's dissatisfaction increased when they experienced inconveniences due to either unpredictable high winds and heavy rains in summer or severe cold in winter, which were missed by weather forecast. This study suggests that the analysis of social media data can provide detailed information about forecast users' opinion in almost real time, which is impossible through survey or interview.

• 대기
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.19-33
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• 2016

Water vapor in the atmosphere is an important element that generates various meteorological phenomena and modifies a hydrological cycle. In general, the Yeongdong region has a lot of snow compared to the other regions in winter due to the complex topography and an adjacent East Sea. However, the phase change from water vapor to ice cloud and further snowfall has little been examined in detail. Therefore, in this study, we investigated phase change of liquid water in terms of a quantitative budget as well as time lag of water vapor conversion to snowfall in the ESSAY (Experiment on Snow Storms At Yeongdong) campaign that had been carried out from 2012 to 2015. First, we classified 3 distinctive synoptic patterns such as Low Crossing, Low Passing, and Stagnation. In general, the amount of water vapor of Low Crossing is highest, and Low Passing, Stagnation in order. The snowfall intensity of Stagnation is highest, whereas that of Low Crossing is the lowest, when a sharp increase in water vapor and accordingly a following increase in precipitation are shown with the remarkable time lag. Interestingly, the conversion rate of water vapor to snowfall seems to be higher (about 10%) in case of the Stagnation type in comparison with the other types at Bukgangneung, which appears to be attributable to significant cooling caused by cold surge in the lower atmosphere. Although the snowfall is generally preceded by an increase in water vapor, its amount converted into the snowfall is also controlled by the atmosphere condition such as temperature, super-saturation, etc. These results would be a fundamental resource for an improvement of snowfall forecast in the Yeongdong region and the successful experiment of weather modification in the near future.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.1129-1140
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• 2018

Temporal and spatial characteristics of the frequency of several weather types and the change in air pollutant concentrations according to these weather types were analyzed over a decade (2007-2016) in seven major cities and a remote area in Korea. This analysis was performed using hourly (or daily) observed data of weather types (e.g., mist, haze, fog, precipitation, dust, and thunder and lighting) and air pollutant criteria ($PM_{10}$, $PM_{2.5}$, $O_3$, $NO_2$, CO, and $SO_2$). Overall, the most frequent weather type across all areas during the study period was found to be mist (39%), followed by precipitation (35%), haze (17%), and the other types (${\leq}4%$). In terms of regional frequency distributions, the highest frequency of haze (26%) was in Seoul (especially during winter and May-June), possibly due to the high population and air pollutant emission sources, while that of precipitation (47%) was in Jeju (summer and winter), due to its geographic location with the sea on four sides and a very high mountain. $PM_{10}$ concentrations for dust and haze were significantly higher in three cities (up to $250{\mu}g/m^3$ for dust in Incheon), whereas those for the other four types were relatively lower. The concentrations of $PM_{2.5}$ and its major precursor gases ($NO_2$ and $SO_2$) were higher (up to $69{\mu}g/m^3$, 48 ppb, and 16 ppb, respectively, for haze in Incheon) for haze and/or dust than for the other weather types. On the other hand, there were no distinct differences in the concentrations of $O_3$ and CO for the weather types. The overall results of this study confirm that the frequency of weather types and the related air quality depend on the geographic and environmental characteristics of the target areas.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.371-382
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• 1999

여름과 겨울철 남해의 해수에 포함되어 있는 영양염의 분포 특성을 수온, 염분, 겉보기 산소 소모량, pH 등의 환경 인자들과의 상관도를 통해 파악하고자 하였다. 여름철에 영양염의 분포는 염분보다는 수온과 양호한 상관도를 보였으며 생물 활동과 관련이 갚은 pH, 겉보기 산소 소모량과 유의한 상관관계를 보였다. 이로 보아 여름철에 형성되는 염전선역에서 일차생산자에 의한 영양염 소비가 활발하여 염분과 영양염과의 상관성을 강력하게 변형시키는 것으로 판단된다. 겨울철에는 수온이 영양염과 가장 유의한 상관관계를 나타내어 수직 혼합된 냉수와 북상하는 난류의 세력이 만나는 열전선의 위치가 영양염 분포에 가장 중요한 요인으로 분석되었다. 여름철에 가장 우수한 상관도를 보였던 ($R^2$ >0.6) pH의 경우 겨울철에 생물 활동이 미약하여 상관도가 크게 낮아졌다($R^2$ <0.5). 수심에 대해 적분한 질산염+아질산염 인산염 규산염의 값은 각기 여름철에는 321 $mmol{\cdot}m^{-2}$, 23 $mmol{\cdot}m^{-2}$, 637 $mmol{\cdot}m^{-2}$이었고 겨울철에는 261 $mmol{\cdot}m^{-2}$, 31 $mmol{\cdot}m^{-2}$, 742 $mmol{\cdot}m^{-2}$로 계산되었다. 영양염의 질소 대 인의 비는 여름철에는 인이 상대적으로 부족한 반면 겨울철에는 이와 반대로 질소가 결핍되어 우기에 강우와 하천을 통한 질소의 유입이 남해 생태계 유지에 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제45권9호
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• pp.887-900
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• 2012

가뭄은 자연의 무시할 수 없는 재해이며, 비록 가뭄의 정의가 많이 있지만 가뭄은 장기간의 강우의 부족으로부터 기인한다. 기상학적 가뭄심도의 정도를 표현하기 위해 널리 이용되는 표준강수지수(Standardized Precipitation Index, SPI)는 강수 이외의 기온과 관련된 변수를 고려하지 않기 때문에 기후변동으로 인한 강수, 증발산 등의 물수지 변화를 고려할 수 없다는 한계점이 있다. 그러나 최근에 SPI와 유사하지만 기후변동으로 인한 강수 변화 뿐만 아니라 기온의 변동성이 미치는 영향을 반영할 수 있는 새로운 개념의 가뭄지수인 표준강수증발산지수(Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index, SPEI)가 개발되었다. 본 연구에서는 기상청 산하의 60개 기상관측소의 1973~2011년까지 기상자료를 대상으로 SPEI를 적용하여 남한지역의 가뭄발생의 변화를 평가하였다. 적용결과, 전국적으로 SPI와 SPEI 모두 봄과 겨울에 가뭄이 심화되고 여름철에는 가뭄이 완화되는 경향을 보였으며, SPEI는 SPI보다 가뭄심도를 크게 나타내었다. 또한, 지속기간 12개월의 SPI와 SPEI는 전반적으로 6년 내외의 저빈도 주기성을 갖는 극심한 가뭄이 반복되고 있음을 보였다.