The characteristics of the anomaly level, variability and distribution of monthly mean precipitation have been investigated at 4 different weather stations on Cheju Island, Korea. The results of this study are as follows : 1) The SE area of Cheju Island turns out to be the heavy rain area from February to July than the NW area of the island. The heavy rain area migrates from the SE area to the NE area during the period from August to January. 2) The rainy season, in which monthly mean precipitation is more than 180mm, appears in Cheju City and Sungsan from June to August, in Seoguipo from April to August, and in Daejung from June to July. On the other hand, the dry season, in which monthly mean precipitation is less than 100㎜, appears in Cheju City from October to May, in Sungsan from December to February in Seoguipo from October to February, and in Daejung from October to March. 3) The variability of precipitation on Cheju Island appears high during the 'Changma' spell and it is also high in autumn, particularly in October, and appears low in March and April. 4) The frequency of the anomaly level shows maximum not only on the normal level but the lower normal level and the upper normal level in monthly precipitation. The annual frequency distribution of each anomaly level shows maximum on the normal level, and the frequency of the lower normal level is a lot higher than the lower normal level. 5) The precipitation of the summer season acts as an important variable in deciding between the dry year and the moisture year. In particular, this applies to the large precipition of June in the moisture year and the small precipitation of July and August in the dry year.
The effective temperatures and the bolometric corrections of 0-G type stars and derived from de-reddened monochrometric and integrated fluxes obtained by absolute spectrophotometry on the ground and satellite (IUE, 1985, OAO : Code and Meade, 1979 ; Code et al., 1980), using the method simillar to that of Code et al.(1976) with the LTE model atmospheres by Kurucz(1979). The effective temperatures and the bolometric corrections derived from this work are found to be in good agreement with those of Code et al. (1976), Morossi and Malagnini (1985), Malagnini et al. (1985) etc., being significant for basic astrophysical quantities.
The plate tectonics is the theory which can systematically interpret various kinds of changes of crusts on the earth surfaces. If the concepts of this theory is taken a triangular position and systematically played up at the curricula of the earth science in the high school, this theory may be able to become the most adequate subject for students to interest in the earth science. The aim of this study is the making out the expanded model of the unit of plate tectonics for the purpose of the more effective teaching-learning of the plate tectonics and the improvement of curricula on the plate tectonics in the high school.
A power spectral analysis is made seasonally for the data of daily mean temperature and pressure at Seoul(37°34'N, 126°58'E), Chupungnyong(36°13'N, 128°00'E), Kwangju(35°08'N, 126°55'E) from March 1961 to February 1986. The time sequences of the power spectra for the daily mean pressure show that power spectral density is generally high at the period of 20-30days and 10 days in winter, 15-20 days and 8.6 days in spring, summer and autumn. For the daily mean temperature, the power spectral density is generally lower than that of pressure and changes largely following the seasons, high in winter and low in summer. The time sequences of the' power spectra are much the same pattern as that of pressure in spring and autumn, but in winter show high power spectral density at the period of 5.5-7.5 days, much the same period as '3 cold days and 4 warm days' which is the popular weather lore on the winter temperature fluctuations in Korea. Judging from the phase differences between observation stations of temperature and pressure changes, which is less than 20 degrees, the phase changes of temperature occurs in sequence of Seoul, Chupungnyong, Kwangju and in case of pressure much the same as in the temperature at the period of above 15 days, but below the period of about 15 days in the opposite sequence. The correlations between the interannual changes of seasonal mean of weather elements and the power spectral density at each period are investigated to show that the positive correlation is between the power spectral density at the period of above 20 days and temperature in summer, that at below 4.5 days and precipitation in spring, that at below 6.7 days and temperature in winter.
We study the luminosity and mass functions of open clusters using the data published by the United States Navel Observatory to figure out the relationships between these functions and the cluster ages. Slope ranges of the luminosity (dlogN/dMv) and mass function (-dlogN/d(log m/m@)) are 0.09-0.52(avg.=0.26, var.=0.01), 0.43-5.49(avg.=1.7, var.=0.63) respectively. These large ranges do not support the mass function is universal, but the function is time dependent. Despite of the poor relationship between the luminosity function and the cluster age, we obtain a good relationship in the mass function. We can understand this good relationship with a viewpoint of stellar evolution. We do age analyses in terms of the metal abundance and the number density of the open clusters. We get the fact that the less metal abundances and the less number densities, the more steep in the slopes of the mass function.
The structure and change of the salinity front formed by the outflow of Keum River into the adjacent sea is investigated through the analysis of some possible data. The outflow of the river has no peculiar direction and controlled by the various factors. The analysis of data which are obtained at March and October show that at March, the salinity front is weakened as compared with October. The outflow pattern is not uniform but varies significantly with time period less than one week.