• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.297-304
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• 2009

We investigated the response of the westerly winds over the Southern Ocean (SO) to glacial boundary conditions for the Last Glacial Maximum using the CCM3 atmospheric general circulation model. In response to glacial boundary conditions, the zonally averaged maximum SO westerly winds weakened 20-35% and were displaced toward the equator by 3-4 degrees. This weakening of the SO westerly winds arose from a substantial increase in mean sea level pressure (MSLP) in the southern part of the SO around Antarctica relative to the northern part. The increase in MSLP around Antarctica is associated with a marked temperature reduction caused by an increase in sea ice cover and ice albedo feedback during the glacial time. The weakened westerly winds in the SO and their equator-ward displacement might play a role in reducing the atmospheric $CO_2$ concentration by reducing upwelling of the carbon rich deep water during the glacial time.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.24-34
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• 2017

등학교에서 사용되는 고급지구과학 교과서에서는 서풍이 대규모 산맥을 넘어갈 때 풍하측에 파동이 발생하는 현상을 개략적인 그림으로 제시하여 간략히 이론적으로만 설명하고 있다. 이 현상은 편서풍 파동 현상으로 산을 넘어가는 공기 기둥의 소용돌이도(잠재와도) 보존 이론으로 설명될 수 있다. 그러나 우리나라와 같이 소규모 산맥이 존재하는 지역에서 관측자료를 바탕으로 중규모 편서풍 파동 현상에 대한 사례 연구는 부재하였다. 또한 서풍에 의한 파동이 형성되는 조건인 산맥의 폭과 길이에 따라 서풍의 풍속, 지속시간을 명확히 규정한 선행연구는 미미하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우선적으로 소백산맥을 대상으로 근처의 지표 관측소에서 관측한 지역별 상세관측자료를 이용하여 파동이 실제로 형성되는 지 확인하였다. 또한 소백산맥에 의하여 지표 근처에서 서풍 파동이 생성되기 위한 서풍의 최저속도인 임계 속도를 이론적으로 유도하여, 대략 $0.6m\;s^{-1}$의 값을 구하였다. 더 나아가 기상청 2014년 지역예보모델의 4-차원 자료동화 자료를 추가하여 소백산맥 풍하측 서풍 파동 발생의 연중 빈도와 서풍 파동의 진행 발달과정을 고도별로 분석하였다. 발생한 서풍 파동은 meso-${\beta}$ 또는 -${\gamma}$ 규모였다. 파동의 생성 및 소멸은 풍속 또는 풍향과 밀접한 관계가 있으며, 풍속이 감소함에 따라 산맥에 의한 서풍 파동은 점차 소멸되었다. 서풍이 강할수록 상층에 meso-${\beta}$ 규모의 파장을 갖는 와도 생성 비율이 높았다. 분석 범위를 동아시아 권역으로 넓혔을 때 중국 동북부 옌산 산맥에서도 서풍 파동 현상을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 유체지구에 대한 이론과 현상의 이해, 특히 우리나라 산맥에 의해 발생하는 대기의 파동 현상을 실제 관측 자료를 바탕으로 이해를 돕는 교육 자료로 활용될 수 있다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.21-29
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• 1990

This study investigated to find out the patterns of the wind direction and wind speeds influenced by concentration of sulfur dioxide in Taegu area for a year in 1988.The results were as follows: Prevailing wind by months where easterly wind from May to September and the other months were westerly and / or west-north-westerly wind. Condition of calm was the most at December(8.6%). Prevailing wind by seasons were westerly and easterly wind in spring and autumn, east-north-easterly and/or west-south wind in summer, the other hand, west-south-westerly and/or west-north-westerly wind in winter. Mean concentration of sulfur dioxide (SO$_{2}$) at each sites were influenced by prevailing wind and location of industrial estates. Mean wind speeds by times were the highest at the before and after 4 P.M.,but the lowest at the before and after 5 A.M. Average wind velocity were highest at Spring (3.38m / sec).

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.177-187
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• 2006

현재 고등학교 지구과학실험 중 가시화가 어렵고, 재현성이 떨어지는 편서풍 파동장치를 개선한 유체실험장치를 개발하였다. 실험장치는 기존 실험장치의 문제점을 파악하고, 수조내 온도 차이를 명확히 하기 위한 열전도성이 높은 소재로 개발되었으며, 디지털 가시화 장치를 설치하여 기록과 분석을 용이하게 하였다. 그리고 이 장치를 통하여 편서풍파동의 이론적인 상사성과 재현성을 살펴보았다. 본 장치는 감온 액정 시트지를 이용해 유체 흐름의 가시화뿐만 아니라 유체의 온도분포와 상층기류와 하층기압골의 위치관계도 파악할 수 있다. 그리고 본 실험장치에서 재현된 편서풍 파동은 실제 대기의 편서풍 파동과 잘 상사됨을 확인하였으며, 현직 교사들을 대상으로 한 리커드 척도 평가에 의해 편서풍 파동장치의 효율성을 입증하였다.

• Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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• 제10권S_1호
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• pp.29-33
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• 2001

A numerical simulation was carried out to investigate the mechanism of snowfall around the Seoul region during a cold air-outbreak in the winter season. A particular case was selected for this study(Dec. 19, 1999). The inflow directions of the synoptic flow in the upper and lower levels were westerly and north-westerly, respectively. Plus, there was a deep trough and thermal ridge at a level of 500/700/850 hPa over the Bal-Hae region, in the northern part of the Korean peninsula. According to the model results, snowfall occurred around the Seoul region with the simultaneous existence of a strong static instability in the lower atmosphere, northerly or westerly dry air advection, and strong thermal advection toward the Seoul region. There was a strong convergence thereby indicating the existence of convective rolls in the clouds. The main energy source of convection over the Yellow sea was a sensible heat flux. The main moisture source was convection. Radiative cooling in the cloud layer intensified the static instability in the lower atmosphere.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.65-75
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 전산유체역학 모델과 지리정보시스템 자료를 이용하여 밀양시 내이동에 위치한 자동지상관측소(AWS 288)의 지상 바람 관측환경을 분석하였다. AWS 288 인근 지역에 건축 중인 아파트 단지에 의한 관측환경 변화를 분석하기 위하여 16방위의 유입류를 고려하였다. AWS 위치에서 수치 모의된 풍속과 풍향 변화를 중점적으로 분석하였고, 3가지 유입류(남남서풍, 남남동풍, 북북서풍)에 대해서는 AWS 288 주위의 흐름 특성을 상세하게 분석하였다. 남남서풍의 경우, AWS 288 지점에서는 남서쪽에 위치한 아파트 단지의 영향으로 아파트 단지 건축 전과 후의 풍속 차이가 가장 크게 나타났다. 아파트 단지 건축 전에 상대적으로 높은 풍향 빈도가 나타난 남남동풍과 북북서풍의 경우에는 아파트 단지 건축 전 대비 건축 후의 AWS 288 지점에서 수치 모의된 풍속과 풍향 차이는 크지 않았다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.135-146
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• 2002

The upper ocean in the western equatorial Pacific warm pool during TOGA-COARE IMET IOP was simulated using a one-dimensional turbulence closure ocean mixed-layer model, which considered recent observations, such as the remarkable enhancement of turbulent kinetic energy near the ocean surface. The shoaling/deepening of the mixed layer and warming/cooling subsurface water in the model were in reasonable agreement with the observations. There was a significant improvement in simulating the cooling trend of the sea surface temperature under a westerly wind burst with heavy rainfall over previous simulations using bulk mixed-layer models. By contrast the simulated sea surface salinity (SSS) departed significantly from the observed SSS, especially during a westerly burst and the subsequent restratification period, which might be due to 3-D control processes, such as downwelling/upwelling or advection.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.1017-1028
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• 2016

Wind information is one of the major inputs for the prediction of urban air flow using computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models. Therefore, the numerical characteristics of the wind data formed at their mother domains should be clarified to predict the urban air flow more precisely. In this study, the formation characteristics of the wind data in the Seoul region were used as the inlet wind information for a CFD based simulation and were analyzed using numerical weather prediction models for weather research and forecasting (WRF). Because air flow over the central part of the Korean peninsula is often controlled not only by synoptic scale westerly winds but also by the westerly sea breeze induced from the Yellow Sea, the westerly wind often dominates the entire Seoul region. Although simulations of wind speed and air temperature gave results that were slightly high and low, respectively, their temporal variation patterns agreed well with the observations. In the analysis of the vertical cross section, the variation of wind speed along the western boundary of Seoul is simpler in a large domain with the highest horizontal resolution as compared to a small domain with the same resolution. A strong convergence of the sea breeze due to precise topography leads to the simplification of the wind pattern. The same tendency was shown in the average vertical profiles of the wind speed. The difference in the simulated wind pattern of two different domains is greater during the night than in the daytime because of atmospheric stability and topographically induced mesoscale forcing.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2005

Using three-dimensional non-hydrostatical numerical model with one way double nesting technique, atmo­spheric circulation in the mountainous coastal region in summer was investigated from August 13 through 15, 1995. During the day, synoptic westerly wind blows over Mt. Mishrung in the west of a coastal city, Sokcho toward the East Sea, while simultaneously, easterly upslope wind combined with both valley wind from plain (coast) toward mountain and sea-breeze from sea toward inland coast blows toward the top of the mountain. Two different directional wind systems confront each other in the mid of eastern slope of the mountain and the upslope wind goes up to the height over 2 km, becoming an easterly return flow in the upper level over the sea and making sea-breeze front with two kinds of sea-breeze circulations of a small one in the coast and a large one in the open sea. Convective boundary layer is developed with a thickness of about 1km over the ground in the upwind side of the mountain in the west and a thickness of thermal internal boundary layer from the coast along the eastern slope of the mountain is only confined to less than 200 m. On the other hand, after sunset, no prohibition of upslope wind generated during the day and downward wind combined with mountain wind from mountain towardplain and land-breeze from land toward under nocturnal radiative cooling of the ground surfaces should intensify westerly downslope wind, resulting in the formation of wind storm. As the wind storm moving down along the eastern slop causes the development of internal gravity waves with hydraulic jump motion in the coast, bounding up toward the upper level of the coastal sea, atmospheric circulation with both onshore and offshore winds like sea-breeze circulation forms in the coastal sea within 70 km until midnight and after that, westerly wind prevails in the coast and open seas.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.131-140
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• 1996

Analysis of hourly variations of sulfur dioxide ($SO_2$) concentrations affected by regional climates for the period of yellow sandy dusts was carried out from March 31 through April 9, 1993. The concentration of 50, at a coastal city, Kangnung city, was much higher than that at an inland city Wonju in the west, but the hourly distrbutions of $SO_2$ concentrations show a similar tendency at both cities. Under the prevailing synoptic-scale westerly winds blowing over a high Mt. Taegualyang in the west toward Kangnung city in the eastern coastal region, the $SO_2$ at Kangnung is trapped by an easterly sea-breeze during the day and under prevailing easterly winds, it is also isolated by the high wall of Mt. Taegualyang, with its high concentration from 14 to 16 LST. Furthermore, when the westerly winds were dominent all day long the high $SO_2$ concentrations at Kangnung were produced by its intrusion from a urban city, Wonju or China in the west into a mountainous coastal city, Kangnung, to some extent, and when the air becomes rapidly cooled down at the clear daytime or the nighttime, their concentrations are also increased by a great amount of heating fuel combustion. Especilly, its maximum concentrations were shown in Wonju and Kangnung from 08 LST through 10 LST, due to the increase of auto vehicles near the beginning time of office hour and were detected again after sunset due to both increases of vehicles at the end of office hour and heating fuel combustion. During the period of Yellow Sandy Dusts which are transported from China into Korea, the $SO_2$ concentrations on rainy days at Wonju and Kangnung were much lower than the monthly mean values of $SO_2$, and their low concentrations could be caused by the scavenging process of rain.