• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.2_1
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• pp.249-265
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• 2018

The Korea Meteorological Administration has been operating wind profiler at 9 stations since the year of 2007. Among these stations, Bukgangneung is the only one that produces regularly both rawinsonde and wind profiler wind measurements at the same time. In this study, wind profiler measurements were compared with rawinsonde wind at Bukgangneung. Unlike most other studies which have used the temporal measurements for several days in summer season, in this study the routine rawinsonde measurments during almost one year (2016) were employed for the accuracy test of the wind. The monthly mean maximum observation height in Bukgangneung shows a large seasonal variation; it was relatively high in summer (4,310 m in July) and low in winter (2,130 m in December). The vertical observation rates at the altitude above these heights were less than 50%. The monthly and vertical wind comparison between rawinsonde and wind profiler shows that absolute bias and RMSE of zonal and meridional wind velocity are mostly less than 1 m/s and less than 2 m/s, respectively. In winter season the RMSE of wind velocity increased to 2~3 m/s. However, at some high altitudes and certain months, large errors were found. It is shown that these errors were related with very weak wind (less than 1 m/s) of wind profiler at 3,500~4,000 m from January to May and dramatic changes of wind the height of 1,500~2,500 m for in April. For Snow events the errors were lower than those for the winter season and for the heavy rain events the errors increased to 3~4 m/s at the height of 4~5 km.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.448-464
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to optimize the parameters related to consensus coherency within the PCL 1300, the operating program of wind profiler, from a validation of wind data between rawinsonde and wind profiler at Chupungryeong ($36^{\circ}13^{\prime}$, $127^{\circ}59^{\prime}$) site in Korea. It is then to analyze the diurnal and seasonal characteristics of the turbulence energy dissipation rate (${\varepsilon}$) in clear and rainy days from March 2009 to February 2010. In comparison of the wind data between wind profiler and rawinsonde during April 22-23, 2010, it was shown in a big error more than $10ms^{-1}$ over the height of 3,000 meters in the zonal (u) and meridional (v) wind components. When removing more than $10ms^{-1}$ in each wind speed difference of u an v components between the two instruments, the correlation coefficients of these wind components were 0.92 and 0.88, respectively, and the root mean square errors were 3.07 and $1.06ms^{-1}$. Based on these results, when the data processing time and the minimum available data within the PCL 1300 program were adjusted as 30 minutes and 60%, respectively, the bias errors were small. In addition, as a result of an analysis of sensitivity to consensus coherency of u and v components within the PCL1300 program, u components were underestimated in radial coherency, instantaneous and winbarbs coherency, whereas v components were overestimated. Finally by optimizing parameters of the PCL1300 program, the diurnal and seasonal means of ${\varepsilon}$ at each height were higher in rainy days than those in clear days because of increasing in the vertical wind speed due to upward and downward motions. The mean ${\varepsilon}$ for clear and rainy days in winter was lower than those of other seasons, due to stronger horizontal wind speed in winter than those in other seasons. Consequently, when the turbulence energy dissipation rates in the vertical wind speed of more than ${\pm}10cm\;s^{-1}$ were excluded for clear and rainy days, the mean ${\varepsilon}$ in rainy days was 6-7 times higher than that in clear days, but when considering them, it was 4-5 times higher.