• Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.272-277
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• 2018

Objective While the effect of typhoons on emergency medicine has been evaluated, data are scarce on their effects on the emergency medical service (EMS). This study evaluated the effect of typhoons on EMS patients and performance. Methods The study period was January 2010 to December 2012. Meteorological data regarding typhoons were provided by the Korean Meteorological Administration. EMS data were retrieved from the EMS database of the national emergency management agency. The database includes ambulance run sheets, which contain clinical and operational data. In this case-crossover study, the cases and controls were EMS calls on the day of typhoon warnings and calls one week prior to the typhoon warnings, respectively. Results During the study period, 11 typhoons affected Korea. A total of 14,521 cases were selected for analysis. Overall, there were no obvious differences between the case and control groups. However, there were statistically significant differences in age, place, and time requests. There were fewer patients between 0 and 15 years of age (P=0.01) and more unconscious patients (P=0.01) in the case group. The EMS operational performance, as measured by the times elapsed between call to start, call to field, and call to hospital did not differ significantly. There was also no significant difference in the time from hospital arrival between the cases (28.67, standard deviation 16.37) and controls (28.97, standard deviation 28.91) (P=0.39). Conclusion Typhoons did not significantly affect the EMS system in this study. Further study is necessary to understand the reasons for this finding.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.325-334
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• 2022

기후변화라는 용어가 대중화되기 시작한 지 30여 년이 훨씬 지났지만, 최근 들어 급속히 가속화된 모습들이 전 세계에서 기상이변의 모습으로 나타나고 있다. 미국 데스밸리 사막에서는 폭우가 내리고, 유럽은 기온이 40도 이상 상승하는 등 예년과 확연히 다른 현상을 보여주고 있다. 한반도에서는 수년 전부터 풍속이 매우 강한 슈퍼 태풍이 큰 재난 위험이 되었으며, 해수 온도 상승에 의한 더 많은 에너지 공급으로 슈퍼 태풍의 발생 가능성이 높아져 이에 대한 사전 대응이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구는 수치해석을 이용한 방법과 달리 과거 태풍 자료를 분석하여, 해안 방재를 목적으로 태풍 특성의 변화를 연구하였다. 기존의 연구는 발생한 모든 열대폭풍을 대상으로 하고 있지만, 본 연구에서는 한반도 남쪽 해역에 특정 구역을 설정한 후 연구를 수행하였다. 연구 대상은 1980년부터 현재까지 40여년간 발생한 태풍들이며, 한반도에 영향을 주는 태풍의 최대 풍속이 다소 증가한 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 특정 해역에서 태풍의 풍속은 일생 최대 풍속의 80% 정도이며, ENSO와의 상관관계는 확인할 수 없었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권2B호
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• pp.193-205
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• 2009

태풍은 열대태평양 지역에서 발생하여 북상하면서 우리나라에 영향을 끼치게 되며, 태풍이 우리나라를 지나면서 강풍과 호우를 통하여 자연재해를 유발시키게 된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 태풍으로 인해 발생하는 호우 사상을 여러 통계적 기법을 통해 정량적으로 평가하였다. 첫 번째로 빈도해석을 통해 확률강우량과 태풍 확률강우량을 산정하여 비교하였다. 두 번째로 미공병단에서 개발한 EST 기법을 통해 태풍의 극치강우량을 평가하여 EST 확률강우량을 산정하였다. 마지막으로 비매개변수적 모의발생기법과 지역가중다항식을 결합하여 태풍에 의한 NL 확률강우량을 추정하였다. 분석결과에서 대상지점 중에서 강릉과 목포는 태풍의 영향을 다른 지점에 비해 많이 받으며, 서울과 인천은 태풍에 의한 호우의 영향이 미비한 것으로 나타났다. 또한, EST 확률강우량과 NL 확률강우량은 관측 자료를 이용하여 장기간의 모의를 통하여 quantile을 산정하므로 주요 수공구조물과 태풍의 영향이 큰 지역에서는 이를 검토할 필요성이 있으며, 태풍특성인자의 모의를 통하여 강우량을 평가하므로 지구온난화 등에 따른 기후변화의 영향에 대한 연구에 활용 할 수 있다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2010

Recently, the intensity and frequency of typhoons have been on the increase due to unusual weather phenomena and climate change. In particular, on September 13, 2003, typhoon MAEMI (0314) caused heavy damage in the provinces of Busan and Gyongnam, but also provided an opportunity to perform a variety of studies on storm surge. According to investigation reports on the damage resulting from typhoon MAEMI, the areas where coastal inundation occurred were located in reclaimed land under coastal development. In this study, through an image data analysis of historic and present day typhoons affecting Masan, we found that the inundation damage areas corresponded to reclaimed lands. Therefore, using the area around Busan, including the southeastern coast of Korea where typhoons lead to an increased storm surge risk, we performed a storm surge/inundation simulation, and examined the inundation effect on reclaimed land due to the intensified typhoons predicted for the future by climate change scenarios.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.19-30
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• 1994

By use of the recent tropical cyclones' data in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, the occurrence frequency and region of typhoon as well as the features of the monthly mean track were analyzed. As the result of this study, (1) mean occurrence frequency of typhoon per year is 27.5, and 68% of total typhoons were formed in July to October and shown the highest frequency in August. (2) The ave-rage duration of typhoons is 8.5 days, and super typhoon which maximum sustained surface wind speeds is more than 130 knots occurs most frequently in October and November. (3) The highest frequency ap-pears around the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall Islands, and in wintertime, typhoon occurs in lower lati-tude comparing with those in summertime. (4) The typhoon track depends upon the distribution of pres-sure system and steering current in neighbouring areas. The mean track of typhoon can be classified into three types such as westward-moving type, northward-moving type and abnormally moving type. The west-ward-moving typhoons make landfall on the southern China by way of the South China Sea in June and July, on mid-part of China in August and September, and on Indo-china Peninsula in October and Novem-ber. The northward-moving typhoons approximately move on north~northwestward track to $20~30^{\circ}N$ from the occurrence region, then recurve to the East Sea through Korean Peninsula and Kyushu Island in June and July, to the Noth Pacific Ocean along the Japanese Islands in August and September and to the North Pacific Ocean through the seas far south off the Japan in October and November.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 최근 20년간(1992-2011년)의 기상 데이터를 이용하여 태풍의 전향에 대하여 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 연별 전향하는 태풍의 수는 연별 태풍 발생 수의 감소와 함께 서서히 줄어드는 경향을 보였다. 전향하는 태풍은 특히 8-10월에 많고, 7-10월에 전향하는 태풍의 수는 전체 전향 태풍의 71 %를 차지하였다. 남중국해를 제외한 북태평양에서 전향한 태풍의 수명은 5일과 7일이 가장 많았고, 전향한 태풍의 평균 수명은 6.8일이었다. 이는 전향, 비전향의 모든 태풍의 평균 수명보다 다소 긴 값이다. 전향 태풍의 대부분은 태풍으로 발달한 후 5일 이내에 북위 20-34도, 동경 120-139도에서 북동쪽으로 전향하였다. 평균 전향 위도는 북위 25도, 평균 전향 경도는 동경 135도이었다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.269-285
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• 2020

The statistical characteristics of typhoon wind speed records tend to have a considerable time-varying trend; thus, the stationary wind model may not be appropriate to estimate the wind characteristics of typhoon events. Several nonstationary wind speed models have been proposed by pioneers to characterize wind characteristics more accurately, but comparative studies on the applicability of the different wind models are still lacking. In this study, three landfall typhoons, Ampil, Jongdari, and Rumbia, recorded by ultrasonic anemometers atop the Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC), are used for the comparative analysis of stationary and nonstationary wind characteristics. The time-varying mean is extracted with the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) method, and the time-varying standard deviation is calculated by the autoregressive moving average generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARMA-GARCH) model. After extracting the time-varying trend, the longitudinal wind characteristics, e.g., the probability distribution, power spectral density (PSD), turbulence integral scale, turbulence intensity, gust factor, and peak factor, are comparatively analyzed based on the stationary wind speed model, time-varying mean wind speed model and time-varying standard deviation wind speed model. The comparative analysis of the different wind models emphasizes the significance of the nonstationary considerations in typhoon events. The time-varying standard deviation model can better identify the similarities among the different typhoons and appropriately describe the nonstationary wind characteristics of the typhoons.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제30권9호
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• pp.753-762
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• 2021

This study analyzed the characteristics of strong winds accompanying typhoons for a period of 116 years, from 1904 to 2019, when modern weather observations began in Korea. Analysis shows that the average wind speed and high wind rate caused by typhoons were higher over the sea and in the coastal areas than in the inland areas. The average wind speed was higher over the West Sea than over the South Sea, but the rate of strong wind was greater over the South Sea than over the West Sea. The average wind speed decreased by 1980 and recently increased, while the rate of strong winds decreased by 1985 and has subsequently increased. By season, the strong winds in autumn (september and october) were stronger than those in summer (june, july, and august). Strong winds were also more frequent in autumn than in summer. The analysis of the changes in strong winds caused by typhoons since the 1960s shows that the speed of strong winds in august, september, and october has increased more recently than in the past four cycles. In particular, the increase in wind speed was evident in fall (september and october). Analysis of the results suggests that the stronger wind is due to the effects of autumn typhoons, and the increased possibility of strong winds.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.119-127
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• 2022

최근 들어 기후변화로 인한 태풍의 강도는 강력해졌다. 광산지역의 광미와 폐석은 수해로 인해 환경에 악영향을 미쳤을 것으로 추정된다. 강릉지역은 3,693호(1936), 루사(2002), 매미(2003), 메기(2004) 등의 국내 최대 태풍의 영향은 받았다. 이번 연구는 태풍으로 인한 수해 이후 하천을 따라 그 주변에 높은 농도의 비소가 검출된 사례를 기초로 하였다. 환경피해 관련 법은 오염 원인자의 책임을 명확히 하고 있지만, 잠재적인 자연재해 지역에서는 세심한 적용이 필요하다. 이러한 지역에서 자연재해의 영향을 최소화하기 위해서 관련 법들의 개선과 연계가 필요하다. 이 연구가 하류 지역에서 혼재된 오염물질 대응에 도움이 되길 기대한다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.293-314
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• 2015

In this paper, wireless monitoring of typhoon-induced variation of dynamic characteristics of a cable-stayed bridge is presented. Firstly, cable-stayed bridge with the wireless monitoring system is described. Wireless vibration sensor nodes are utilized to measure accelerations from bridge deck and stay cables. Also, modal analysis methods are selected to extract dynamic characteristics. Secondly, dynamic responses of the cable-stayed bridge under the attack of two typhoons are analyzed by estimating relationships between wind velocity and dynamic characteristics. Wind-induced variations of deck and cable vibration responses are examined based on the field measurements under the two consecutive typhoons, Bolaven and Tembin. Finally, time-varying analyses are performed to investigate non-stationary random properties of the dynamic responses under the typhoons.