In order to simulate and investigate the major characteristics of El Nino/Southern Oscillation(ENSO) and Madden Jullian Oscillation(MJO), an intermediate type atmosphere-ocean coupled model is developed and their results are examined. The atmosphere model is a time-dependent non-linear perturbation moist model which can determine the internal heating for itself. The counterpart of the atmosphere model is GCM-type tropical ocean model which has fine horizontal and vertical grid resolutions. In the coupled experiment, warm SST anomaly and increased precipitation and eastward wind and current anomalies associated with ENSO and MJO are properly simulated in Pacific and Indian Oceans. In spite of some discrepancies in simulation MJO, the observed atmospheric and oceanic low-frequency characteristics in the tropics are successfully identified. Among them, positive SST anomalies centered at the 100m-depth of tropical eastern-central Pacific due to the eastward advection of warm water and reduced equatorial upwelling, and negative anomalies in the Indian and western Pacific seem to be the fundamental features of tropical low-frequency oscillations.

The present study intends to investigate the transient response of an atmosphere/ocean general circulation model to a gradual increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. To detect the climatic change of the surface air temperature due to gradual increasing carbon dioxide for 100 years, two runs of GFDL CGCM for 1 % CO_2 run with increasing CO_2 and the control run with fixed CO_2 are compared. From results it is noted that the transient response of surface air temperature is more increased over the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere. However, in Northern Hemisphere the transient response of the surface air temperature due to the gradual increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide is slowly increased with latitudes and is clearly larger over continents than oceans. The annual global mean temperature is continuously increased with 0.03552 per one year with strong S/N ratio and distinguished from the natural variability. The time dependent response of the gradual increasing CO_2 has the strong seasonal variability with small change in summer and large change in winter, and the strong regionality in the Asian and the American continents. It has been suggested that the direct and the feedback processes in the climate systems should be investigated by the detailed sensitivity runs to get the meaningful estimate of the CO_2 forced variability.

한라산에 자생하는 왕벚나무(Prunus yedonesis)의 미성숙 접합자배로부터 체세포배를 직접 유도할 수 있었으며, 이들 직접 체세포배로부터 식물체를 재분화 시킬 수 있었다. 0.1mg/L GA3 와 0.1mg/L BAP 또는 0.5mg/L GA3와 0.1mg/L BAP 가 첨가된 배지에서는 캘러스가 형성되지 않고 80~93%로 체세포배가 직접 발생하였으며, 그 중 정상적인 구형 또는 심장형의 체세포배 비율은 43~58%, 자엽상의 비정상적인 체세포배 비율은 42~57%로 나타났다. 자엽상의 비정상적인 체세포배는 생장조절물질이 첨가되지 않은 MS 배지에 계대배양하면 16주 이후부터 신초가 다수 발생되었고, 이들 신초들은 0.5mg/L IBA가 첨가된 MS 배지에서 80% 이상의 발근을 보여 정상적인 식물체로 발달하였다. 또한 종자 성숙 시기에 따라서 정상적인 체세포배는 만개 후 30일된 종자의 접합자배에서 전체 62.5%가 직접 발생되었으나 45일된 종자의 배에서는 37.5%가 발생되어 종자가 성숙할수록 체세포배의 직접적인 유도율은 점차 낮아졌다.