• 대기
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.37-51
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• 2009

Kinematic characteristics of a heavy rainfall event occurred in Changma front are analyzed using synoptic weather charts, satellite imagery and NCEP(National Centers for Environmental Prediction) / NCAR(National Centers for Atmospheric Research) reanalysis data. The heavy rainfall is accompanied with mesoscale rain clouds developing over the Southwest region of Korea during the period from 0300 LST to 2100 LST 25 June 2006. The surface cyclone in the Changma front is generated and developed rapidly when it meets following vertical conditions: The maximum value of relative vorticity is appeared at 700 hPa and is extended gradually near the surface. It is thought that the vertical structure of relative vorticity is closely related with the descent of strong wind zone exceeding $10ms^{-1}$. The jet core at 200 hPa is shifted southward and extended downward and the low-level jet stream associated with upper-level jet stream appeared at 850 hPa. Kinematic features of heavy rainfall system at cyclone-generating point are as follows: In the generating stage of cyclone, the relative vorticity below 850 hPa increased and the convergence below 850 hPa and the divergence at 400 hPa are intensified by southward movement of jet core at 200 hPa. The heavy rainfall system seems to locate to the south of the exit region of upper-level jet streak; In the developing stage of cyclone, the relative vorticity below 850 hPa and the convergence near surface are further strengthened and upward vertical velocity between 850 hPa and 200 hPa is increased.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.372-378
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 농경지 상태 이미지 취득 장치와 농작업 데이터, 날씨 데이터를 데이터베이스화하여 관리할 수 있는 시스템을 구성하는 것이다. 농업관련 외국 회사들은 이미 다양한 방법으로 농업에 관한 데이터베이스를 구축하고 농업의 과학화를 이루어내고 있다. 본 연구의 시스템의 구성은 무인항공기에 탑재되는 GPS와 디지털카메라, PC를 이용한 영상취득 장치, 취득한 여러 영상을 하나의 이미지로 정합하는 부분, GPS와 정합된 영상 간 매칭, 최종적으로 일자별 기상청 날씨정보와 농작업 데이터, 이미지를 데이터베이스화 하는 부분으로 구성된다. 본 연구의 결과로 우리나라 농업의 총 생산량만의 데이터가 아닌 기후와 농작업 데이터 등의 요인과 함께 농경지 이미지로써 결과 확인 및 데이터베이스화 할 수 있는 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안한 시스템을 통해 인공위성 사진에 비하여 최대 약 5배 좋은 화질의 이미지를 얻을 수 있었으며, 농작업과 환경요인 등이 농경지 전체에 미치는 영향 분석 사용 될 기초 데이터를 얻을 수 있었다. 무인항공기를 이용한 농경지 모니터링 시스템을 통하여 우리나라 농업의 과학적 분석에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2004

가뭄은 주요 자연 재해 중의 하나이다. 가뭄 파악을 위하여 주로 강우량과 같은 기상자료를 주요 입력 자료로 활용하여 분석하고 있으나, 이러한 기상 자료는 한정된 기상 관측소로부터 얻어진 점자료에 해당된다. 따라서, 위성을 이용한 원격탐사 자료를 기상자료에서 포착할 수 없는 문제점을 보완하기 위한 자료로 활용할 수 있다는 확신 하에 본 연구를 진행하게 되었다. 본 연구에서는 NOAA 위성에 탑재되어 있는 AVHRR 센서로부터 얻어지는 자료를 이용하여 가뭄파악을 위한 분석을 실시하였다. NOAA/AVHRR로부터 얻어진 식생지수(NDVI)와 이로부터 얻을 수 있는 식생상태지수(VCI)를 이용하여 가뭄분석을 실시하였으며, 또한 광역적인 가뭄분석을 위해 위성자료를 이용하여 기후학적 물수지에 근거하는 간편한 방법을 제안하고 있다. 본 연구를 통하여 가뭄에 대한 시간적, 공간적 특성을 파악하는데 위성자료가 유용하게 이용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었으며, 습윤지표를 통하여 가뭄 지역도 작성이 가능함을 보여주고 있다.

• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2016

Recently, the increased complexity of systems has made systems engineering necessary. It is very useful for system designers to understand the whole context of the concerned system based on systems engineering. A system model can be used to describe the outcome of a system design. A system model describes the system from the viewpoint of the stakeholder's needs using the mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive principle. A system model can be used to smoothly design a large and complicated system based on the systems engineering development process. Many companies and countries are attempting to apply model-based systems engineering, and the significance of the system model quality is increasing as system models are referenced during system development. In this paper, we propose a quality assessment method for ontology which is one of system models by focusing on the system development process. First, in this process, a system developer should explicitly show the relationship between viewpoints. Then, the system developer should select dependent rather than independent viewpoints. With dependent viewpoints, each viewpoint used to describe the system has some logical relationship. The set of viewpoints makes it possible to show, not only tangible and physical system parts, but also conceptual system parts. In this paper, we develop an ontological system model of a Japanese weather observation system. By comparing some ontological system models, we verify the effectiveness of explicitly describing the relationships between viewpoints and select dependent viewpoints.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.407-438
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• 2013

Current status and future direction of air quality modeling for monitoring and forecasting air quality in East Asia were discussed in this paper. An integrated air quality modeling system, combining (1) emission processing and modeling, (2) meteorological model simulation, (3) chemistry-transport model (CTM) simulation, (4) ground-based and satellite-retrieved observations, and (5) data assimilation, was introduced. Also, the strategies for future development of the integrated air quality modeling system in East Asia was discussed in this paper. In particular, it was emphasized that the successful use and development of the air quality modeling system should depend on the active applications of the data sets from incumbent and upcoming LEO/GEO (Low Earth Orbit/Geostationary Earth Orbit) satellites. This is particularly true, since Korea government successfully launched Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) in June, 2010 and has another plan to launch Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) in 2018, in order to monitor the air quality and emissions in/around the Korean peninsula as well as over East Asia.

• 대기
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.301-319
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• 2016

The evolutionary process of the polar low, which caused the heavy snowfall in the East Coast area on 11~12 February 2011, was investigated to describe in detail using synoptic weather charts, satellite imageries, and ERA (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Re-Analysis) -Interim reanalysis data. It was revealed that 1) the polar low was generated over the sea near Busan where a large cyclonic shear in the inverted trough branched from the parent low existed, 2) during the developing and mature stages, there was a convectively unstable region in the lower layer around the polar low and its south side, 3) the polar low was developed in the region where the static stability in the 500~850 hPa layer was the lowest, 4) the result from the budget analysis of the vorticity equation indicated that the increase in the vorticity at the lower atmosphere, where the polar low was located, was dominated mainly by the stretching term, 5) the warm core structure of the polar low was identified in the surface-700 hPa layer during the mature stage, 6) there was a close inverse relationship between a development of the polar low and the height of the dynamic tropopause over the polar low, and 7) for generation and development of the polar low, large-scale circulation systems, such as upper cold low and its combined short wave trough, major low (parent low), and polar air outbreak, should be presented, indicating that the polar low has the nature of the baroclinic disturbance.

• 대기
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.321-336
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• 2016

Damages caused by torrential rain occur every year in Korea and summer time convection can cause strong thunderstorms to develop which bring dangerous weather such as torrential rain, gusts, and flash flooding. On 6 August 2013 a sudden torrential rain concentrated over the inland of Southern Korean Peninsula occurred. This was an event characterized as a mesoscale multicellular convection. The purpose of this study is to analyze the conditions of the multicellular convection and the synoptic and mesoscale nature of the system development. To this end, dynamical and thermodynamic analyses of surface and upper-level weather charts, satellite images, soundings, reanalysis data and WRF model simulations are performed. At the beginning stage there was a cool, dry air intrusion in the upper-level of the Korean Peninsula, and a warm humid air flow from the southwest in the lower-level creating atmospheric instability. This produced a single cell cumulonimbus cloud in the vicinity of Baengnyeongdo, and due to baroclinic instability, shear and cyclonic vorticity the cloud further developed into a multicellular convection. The cloud system moved southeast towards Seoul metropolitan area accompanied by lightning, heavy precipitation and strong wind gusts. In addition, atmospheric instability due to daytime insolation caused new convective cells to develop in the upstream part of the Sobaek Mountain which merged with existing multicellular convection creating a larger system. This case was unusual because the system was affected little by the upper-level jet stream which is typical in Korea. The development and propagation of the multicellular convection showed strong mesoscale characteristics and was not governed by large synoptic-scale dynamics. In particular, the system moved southeast crossing the Peninsula diagonally from northwest to southeast and did not follow the upper-level westerly pattern. The analysis result shows that the movement of the system can be determined by the vertical wind shear.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.215-226
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 경안천 유역에 대해 초단시간 강수예보모델인 VSRF(Very Short Range Forecast of precipitation) 모델에서 생산되는 예측강우량의 검증을 실시하고, 이를 NWSPC(National Weather Service PC) 강우-유출 모형에 적용하였다. 강수는 기상학적 검증과 수문학적 검증으로 구분하여 검증하였다. 기상학적 검증은 유역 내에 존재하는 AWS 강수량과 VSRF모델 강수량의 정성적 관계를 객관적으로 제시하였고, 수문학적 검증은 AWS 면적 가중치를 고려한 유역평균 강우량과 VSRF유역평균 강우량과의 정량적 검증결과를 제시하였다. 또한 예보모델에서 생산된 6시간 예측강수량을 NWSPC 모형에 적용해 강수예보모델의 수문연계 가능성을 검토해 본 결과 0.6 이상의 높은 상관관계를 보여 예보모델의 수자원 활용 가능성을 제시하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.21-30
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• 1999

구름 수액량은 일기예보나 수치예보 모델링 분야에 매우 중요하다. 그리고 중간규모의 기상현상에서 잠열의 크기를 좌우하며, 여러 규모의 기상 관련 모델 시스템을 개발 할 때에도 중요한 요소로 작용한다. 본 연구에서는 GMS-5 자료를 이용하여 구름 수액량을 추정하고, SSM/I 자료와 지상 마이크로복사계에 의한 구름 수액량과 비교하였다. 먼저, 본 연구는 구름알베도와 구름 두께와의 관계를 찾아내고 이 관계를 이용하여 구름 수액량을 계산하였다. 그리고 여기서 구해진 결과를 SSM/I 자료와 지상 마이크로파복사계에 의한 구름 수액량과 비교하였다. GMS-5 자료와 지상 마이크로파복사계에 의한 구름 수액량값의 상관계수는 0.86, RMSE 는 9.23 mg/$cm^2$로 나타났고, SSM/I 자료와의 상관계수는 0.84, RMSE = 14.02 mg/$cm^2$ 이였다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2024

The Korean heliospheric community, led by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), is currently assessing the viability of deploying a spacecraft at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point L4 in collaboration with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The aim of this mission is to utilize a combination of remote sensing and in situ instruments for comprehensive observations, complementing the capabilities of the L1 and L5 observatories. The paper outlines longterm scientific objectives, underscoring the significance of multi-point in-situ observations to better understand critical heliospheric phenomena. These include coronal mass ejections, magnetic flux ropes, heliospheric current sheets, kinetic waves and instabilities, suprathermal electrons and solar energetic particle events, as well as remote detection of solar radiation phenomena. Furthermore, the mission's significance in advancing space weather prediction and space radiation exposure assessment models through the integration of L4 observations is discussed. This article is concluded with an emphasis on the potential of L4 observations to propel advancements in heliospheric science.