The electrical, mechanical and optical capabilities have been tested of the microdensitometer PDS 1010GMS at the Korea Astronomy Observatory. The highest stage of scan speed 255 csu (conventional speed unit) is measured to be 47 mm/s. At this speed the position is displaced by 4 μ m to the direction of scanning and the density is underestimated by 0.4 ∼ 0.7 D . Standard deviation in the measured density is proportional to A − 0.46 , where A is the area of scan aperture. The accuracy of position repeatability is ± 1 μ m , and that of density repeatability is ± ( 0.003 ∼ 0.03 ) D . Callier coefficient is determined to be 1.37; the semispecular density is directly proportional to the diffuse density up to 3.5D. Because the logarithmic amplifier has a finite response time, the densities measured at high scan speeds are underestimated to the degree that speeds higher than 200 csu are inadequate for making an accurate astronomical photometry. After power is on, an about 5 hour period of warming is required to stabilize the system electrically and mechanically as well. On the basis of this performance test, we have determined the followings as the optimum scan parameters for the astronomical photometry: For the scan aperture 10 ∼ 20 μ m is optimal, and for the scan speed. 20 ∼ 50 csu is appropriate. These parameter values are chosen in such a way that they may keep the density repeatability within ± 0.01 D , the position displacement under 1 μ m , and the density underestimation below 0.1D even in high density regions.

Intraseasonal variability of the tropical convection over the Indian/western Pacific is studied using the Geostationary Meteorological Satellite high cloud amount. This study is directed to find the tropical-extratropical interaction in the frequency range of intraseasonal and interannual variabilities of the summer monsoon occured over the domain of 90E-171W and 49S-50N. Especially, in order to investigate the intraseasonal interaction of East Asia summer monsoon associated with the tropical convections in the high cloud amounts, the spatial and time structure of the intraseasonal oscillation for the movement and the evolution of the large-scale convections are studied. To describe the spatial and the time evolution, the extended empirical orthogonal function analysis is applied. The first mode may be considered to a normal structure, indicating that the strong convection band over 90E-120E is extended to eastward, but this mode was detected as a variable mode near Korea and Japan. The second, third and fourth modes were amplified with the intraseasonal variability during summer monsoon. It is found that the dominant intraseasonal mode of the tropical convection consists of the spatial changes over a broad period range centered around 40∼50days.