Accurate simulation of the meteorological field is very important to assess the wind resources. Some researchers showed that sea surface temperature (SST) plays a leading role on the local meterological simulation. New Generation Sea Surface Temperature (NGSST), Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA), and Real-Time Global Sea Surface Temperature (RTG SST) have different spatial distribution near the coast and OSTIA shows the best accuracy compared with buoy data in the southeastern coast of the Korean Peninsula. Those SST products are used to initialize the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model for November 13-23 2008. The simulation of OSTIA shows better result in comparison with NGSST and RTG SST. NGSST shows a large difference with OSTIA in horizontal and vertical wind fields during the weak synoptic condition, but wind power density shows a large difference during strong synoptic condition. RTG SST shows the similar patterns but smaller the magnitude and the extent.

As the damages due to natural disasters continue to increase, a growing interest is being witnessed in such studies that focus on preventive measures to reduce damages rather than on their recovery. As such, the U.S. has been actively conducting projects to develop new models that can forecast potential damages due to natural disasters and widely employing them in actual cases. With no specific models developed in Korea yet, this study aimed to introduce an overseas typhoon model as part of the advanced efforts and apply it the actual cases occurring across the nation. This model estimates wind loads by measuring the impact of a strong wind upon buildings, and measurements require a number of parameters. Those parameters should include the types and dimensions of buildings and the type of the roofs. As for the FPHLM(Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model), a precedent model for our study, we were able to take advantage of number of the statistics and detailed categorizations on the residential buildings in the U.S., which enabled us to select the representative building types and produce their wind loads. With no sufficient relevant statistics available for the nation, however, we may not be able to readily measure the wind loads on the nation's residential buildings. Therefore, this study tried to choose the representative types, heights and dimensions of the buildings for the measurement of wind loads. We consequently came up with a representative house having an area between 62.81 and 95.56 ㎡, either a flat roof or hip roof, a height of 2.6 m, an side ratio of 1.5, and the width and length of the mean 85 ㎡ sized house being 11,300 mm and 7,530 mm, respectively.

In order to make sure the impact of spatial resolution of wind energy map on the estimation of wind power density in the Korean Peninsula, the comparison studies on the characteristics of wind energy map with three different spatial resolutions were carried out. Numerical model used in the establishment of wind map is MM5 (5th generation Mesoscale Model) with RDAPS (Regional Data Assimilation and Prediction System) as initial and boundary data. Analyzed Period are four months (March, August, October, and December), which are representative of four seasons. Since high spatial resolution of wind map make the undulation of topography be clear, wind pattern in high resolution wind map is correspond well with topography pattern and maximum value of wind speed is also increase. Indication of island and mountains in wind energy map depends on the its spatial resolution, so wind patterns in Heuksan island and Jiri mountains are clearly different in high and low resolutions. And area averaged power density can be changed by estimation method of wind speed for unit area in the numerical model and by treatment of air density. Therefore the studiable resolution for the topography should be evaluated and set before the estimation of wind resources in the Korean Peninsula.

Comparison study on the land surface temperatures, which are calculated from four different algorithms for MODIS data, was carried out and the characteristics of each algorithm on land surface temperature estimation were also analysed in this study. Algorithms, which are well used for various satellite data analysis, in the comparisons are proposed by Price, Becker and Li, Ulivieri et al., and Wan. Verification of estimated land surface temperature from each algorithm is also performed using observation based regression data. The coefficient of determination (R2) for daytime land surface temperature estimated from Wan's algorithm is higher than that of another algorithms at all seasons and the value of R2 reach on 0.92 at spring. Although R2 for Ulivieri's algorithm is slightly lower than that for Wan's algorithm, the variation pattern of land surface temperature for two algorithms are similar. However, the difference of estimated values among four algorithms become small at the region of high land surface temperature.

This study aims to find out a state of the damages and vulnerable areas from natural disasters in the Korean peninsula using the prevention meteorological database information made by Park(2007b). Through the correlation analysis between damage elements and total property losses, we investigate the damages of public facilities, which have high correlation coefficient, and the cause of disasters and want to propose the basic information to set up the disaster prevention measures in advance. As a result, because most of the total property losses is the damages of public facilities, we can reduce the damages of natural disasters if we can predict the damages of public facilities or carry out the prevention activities in advance. The most vulnerable area for the natural disasters are Gangwon-do and Gyeongsangnam-do provinces. The vulnerable areas for the damages of public facilities by typhoon are Daegu metropolitan city, Gangwon-do, and Gyeongsangbuk-do provinces. These vulnerable areas will take place more frequently due to the climate change including Gyeongsangnam-do province so that we need to set up the disaster prevention measures and natural disaster mitigation plan. Also, we think that it has effect on reducing the damages of natural disasters to predict the damage scale and strongly perform the prevention activities in advance according to typhoon track and intensity.

Daily time series of longshore sea surface temperature (SST) data at 3 stations, sea surface SST data at 58 stations in the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsular from 2001 to 2005 were used in order to study the temporal and spatial variations of the upwelling coastal cold water occurred in summer season. When the cold water occurred, SST has been decreased more than -5℃ in a day. The cold water occurred frequently in the eastern coastal areas of Korea such as Ulgi, Kampo, Jukbyun. Daily variations of cold water temperature were quantified using remote control buoy system at Kijang in the southeastern coastal water from July to August in 2004. Hourly variations of SST occurred around ±3℃ when cold water disappeared at Kijang. There were close relationship between the strength of East Korean Warm Current, North Korean Cold Water and the scale of spatio-temporal cold water variations in summer season.

국내 화강암에는 수많은 점토세맥들이 단층, 절리, 열극 등을 따라 형성되어 있다. 화강암은 지질시대로 보아 쥬라기의 대보화강암, 백악기의 불국사 화강암, 고제3기의 호암 화강암으로 나누어진다. 이들 중에 운모점토광물(일라이트)을 주성분으로 하는 점토세맥의 시료와 그 모암에 대하여 K-Ar 방법에 의해 연대측정을 행하였다 그 결과, 쥬라기 화강암은 143.7 Ma 및 160 Ma이고 그 점토세맥은 104 Ma 및 107 Ma이였고, 백악기 화강암은 133.2 Ma이고, 그 점토세맥은 93.6 Ma, 84.2 Ma, 84.3Ma를 보였고, 고제3기 화강암은 39.7 Ma와 35.4 Ma이고, 그 점토세맥은 27.1 Ma 및 23.9 Ma를 나타냈다. 이와 같이 점토세맥의 연대는 모암인 화강암의 연대와는 큰 차이로 젊게 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 일본 남서부에 분포하는 백악기 및 고제3기 화강암류 중 점토세맥의 연대가 모암의 연대와 약간 젊든지 혹은 거의 같은 것으로 알려진 것과는 큰 대조를 보인다.

Recently, we are suffered enormous loss from a natural disaster and making an effort to prepare measures for dealing with disasters. This study shows the major causes of natural disasters and stricken area with the analysis of meteorological data based on the Korean Meteorological Administration and the Central Disaster Relief Center records during 1987-2003 and classifies natural disasters according to the causes and damaged conditions. In this study, the most damaged area were Gangwon, Gyeongnam and Gyeongi province as a result of a typhoon and a localized heavy rain. To establish an effective disaster measure for these area, detailed prevention plans should be established by its causes after investigating precise regional damage data analysis.

Sea level (MSL, MHWL, or MLWL) change has been main concern to scientists and engineers and it can be primarily due to both change of climate and vertical movement of land. This paper reports the intensive analysis of the sea level changes and broad discussion of the future at the southwestern coast of Korean peninsula. Regression analysis was conducted to investigate general tendency and periodicity of the sea levels at the six different study sites such as Gunsan-I(inner port), Gunsan-O(outer port), Mokpo, Yeosu, Heuksan and Jeju and the results were compared with global values. Besides the changes of sea levels due to global warming, the influence of the man-made structure such as seadike and seawall was attempted to quantify using the minimization of the Root Mean Square(RMS) error. The results show that it is a general tendency that the values of mean sea level rise at the southwestern coast of Korean Peninsula, especially at Gunsan-I and Jeju, are somewhat larger compared to global average values. There is also some evidence that tidal amplifications are found just after construction of man-made structure at Gunsan-I and Mokpo. However, both sites show different mechanism in relation to tidal choking, tidal flat and river discharge. The impact due to construction of man-made structure is considerably larger at Mokpo site, while the impacts due to man-made structure and the effect of sea level rise are relatively identical at Gunsan-I site. This study is expected to provide some intuition to future design.

본 연구는 한국경제의 장기발전모델로 한반도의 어느 구역에 “특구형 국제물류센터”를 설립하는 방안을 제시하고 있다. 이 제안의 요체는 인류(人流)와 물류(物流)가 원활히 흐르는 “물류 경제 특구”를 건설하여 한반도를 동아시아의 물류거점으로 재탄생시키자는 것이다. 설문조사로 물류센터 유치에 있어서의 한국의 경쟁력을 분석하였고 설문 조사시 수집되었던 각종 아이디어를 정리하여 “물류센터”의 성공적 지정 전략을 제시하였다.

한반도 동남부 일대에 발견된 제4기 단층인 상천, 입실, 왕산단층 비 지대에서 단층운동과 이에 수반된 유체의 영향으로 생긴 미구조 및 광물학적인 변화 양상을 알아보기 위해 단층 비지와 주위 모암의 전암분석과 전자현미분석이 수행되었다. 단층 비지와 주위 모암의 X-선형광분석 결과 유동성이 낮은 원소 즉 TiO2, MgO, P2O5 , Fe2O3가 신선한 모암에 비해 비지대에 집적되는데 이는 단층운동과 이에 수반된 유체들의 활동이 활발했음을 이야기 해준다. 단층 비지 물질의 X-선회절분석 결과 관찰되는 광물은 석영, 장석, 방해석과 점토광물이고, 점토광물은 대부분 스멕타이트이며 (060) 회절선의 값은 평균 1.50 a으로써 이팔면체 구조를 가진다. 전자현미분석 결과 비지대 및 모암내 다양한 종류의 황화, 탄산염 및 인산염광물들이 관찰된다. 상천단층 회색 비지대의 제노타임, 입실단층 접촉부 안산암과 왕산단층 접촉부 회색 안산암의 황화광물은 제4기 이전의 단층운동과 관련된 열수의 유입으로 인해 생성된 것으로 추측 된다. 입실 접촉부 안산암과 비지대의 맥상의 탄산염광물은 제4기 이전의 단층운동과 관련된 유체에 의해 생성되었고, 이들 탄산염광물이 물리적으로 심하게 파쇄되어 있으며 탄산염광물 가장자리에 반응연이 있는 것으로 보아 탄산염광물이 생성되고 난 후에도 단층운동과 유체의 활동이 활발했음을 알 수 있다. 왕산단층의 맥상의 방해석은 제4기 단층운동과 동시기 또는 후기에 생성된 것으로 볼 수 있다.

The magnitudes of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies at 13 coastal stations along the Korean peninsula in the summer and winter for the past 29years (1969-1997) are more larger than those in the spring and autumn. The periods of positive SST anomalies (negative SST anomalies) longer than 1℃ were 75(74.5) months in the eastern coast of Korea, 47.8(51.6) months in the southern coast of Korea and 69.5(69.8) months in the western coast of Korea during the past 348 months (1969-1997). The predominant periods of the low-pass filtered monthly SST anomalies are 3 years or 13 months, even another predominant period is 24 months. The spatial variation of SST anomalies were confined by regional seas of the Korean peninsula, such as the East Sea, the South Sea and the West Sea itself.

The observations on the seasonal fluctuation and distributional characteristic of organic matters on surface sediments and its origin were carried out at the 25 stations in Keogeum-sudo, southern coast of Korean Peninsula from February to October in 1993. I made an analysis on the environmental factors for surface sediments such as temperature, ignition loss, chemical oxygen demand, pheopigment, total sulphide, water content, mud content in grain size, COD/IL ratio and COD/sulphide ratio. The results are as follows ; 1) The range of temperature on the surface sediments was between 6.2℃ and 24.6℃. The highest mean temperatuer of mud was 24.0℃ in summer, the lowest 6.6℃ in winter. 2) Ignition loss(IL) fluctuated between 1.2% in winter and 16.8% in spring, that is to say, the seasons of increasing in temperature were very high ignition loss. 3) Chemical oxygen demand(COD) showed the highest mean value of 20.52 ㎎/g dry in summer within the range of 15.46∼32.78 ㎎/g dry, while showed the lowest of 5.79 ㎎/g dry in winter within the range of 7.4∼17.39 ㎎/g dry. 4) Pheopigment concentrations showed the highest mean value of 4.85 ㎍/g dry in autumn within the range of 0.84∼9.21 ㎍/g dry, while it did the lowest mean value of 1.97 ㎍/g dry in summer within the range of 0.23∼4.83 ㎍/g dry. 5) Total sulphide (H2S) fluctuated between no detect(ND) in spring, and 2.43 ㎎/g dry in autumn. The highest mean value was 0.68 ㎎/g dry in autumn, the lowest was 0.16 ㎎/g dry in spring. 6) Water content(WC) and mud content in grain size showed the mean value of 43.2% within the range of 26.5∼59.7% and 91.0% within the range of 57.8∼99.2%, respectively. 7) By the analytical results on the source of organic matter, it had been dumped from the seaweed farms in Keogeum-sudo coastal waters.

김해지역의 덕봉납석광상은 모암이 안산암질응회암과 안산암으로 구성된 백악기말기의 화산암류가 열수변질작용을 받아서 형성되었으며, 딕카이트와 엽납석이 주구성광물이다. 이 연구에서는 산출하는 광물의 특성과 모암의 열수변질작용을 규명하고, 광물과 열수용액 간의 반응관계를 통하여 광상의 성인을 밝히고자 한다. 암석 내의 화학적 특성을 보면 열수변질작용동안 알칼리원소와 실리카는 유동성을 보이나 알루미나는 비교적 유동성이 작다. 모암으로부터 실리카의 용탈과 알루미나의 부화로 인하여 납석광체가 형성되고, 외곽부로 이동된 실리카의 재침전이 규화대를 생성시켰음을 볼 수 있다. 딕카이트와 엽납석과 밀접히 수반되는 다량의 미정질의 석영은 실리카의 활동도가 증가함에 따라서 형성된 것으로 해석된다. Argillic 변질대에서는 열수용액의 실리카의 용해도가 증가하였고, 규화대에서는 온도와 pH가 저하되면서 그 용해도가 저하되었다. Argillic 변질대로부터 빠져나간 Si는 광상의 가장자리에 침전하여 규화대를 형성시켰다. 딕카이트가 다양한 범위의 결정도를 보여주는 것은 계내의 부분적인 상안정성의 변화를 시사한다. 이 연구에서 계산된 열역학 값에 따르면, Al2O3-SiO2-H2O 계에서 엽납석-딕카이트 (카오리나이트)-다이아스포아-석영이 500 바에서 공존가능한 온도는 약 300 ℃이다. 광물조합과 기존실헙자료를 종합하면 주요 열수변질 시기의 온도는 최소한 270-300 ℃이며 XCO2는 0.025 미만으로 추정된다. 광물의 산상과 화학적 변화양상에 따르면 Al의 활동도는 광상의 상부에, 그리고 Si의 활동도는 하부와 연변부에서 높음을 보여준다. 덕봉광상에서 흔히 관찰되는 비평형 상관계는 열역학적 변수와 용액운반특성의 국부적인 변화로 인하여 화학적으로 비평형인 상들이 여러 단계에 걸쳐 형성되었음을 지시한다.

Extreme environments and freak wave characteristics in the coastal waters of Korean Peninsula are analyzed using the observed wave data. Freak wave has been intensely emphasized as an important environmental force parameter in several recent research works. However, the mechanism and occurrence probability of freak wave are not clarified. The aims of this study are: to summarize the distribution of extreme environment for wind waves, and to find occurrence probability of freak wave in the coastal waters of Korean Peninsula. These extreme sea conditions are discussed by applying extreme value analysis method, and the statistic characteristics are summarized which can be used to the design and analysis of coastal structures. The mechanism and the occurrence probability of freak wave are also discussed in detail using wave parameters in considered with wave deformation in the coastal waters.

The Yellow Sand Events observed over the Korean peninsula during 22-24 April, 1993 were examined using the synoptic data and GMS visible image to identify the transport path of the Yellow Sand and the main factor governing the duration of the Yellow Sand phenomenon. The 850 hPa convergence chart and the 700 hPa trajectory analyses of the air mass laden with Yellow Sand particles suggested that the Yellow Sand particles observed over Korea were probably transported from the Gobi Desert and the Loess Plateau. The duration of the Yellow Sand Events was about 35-40 hours rather shorter than normal as the high pressure system centered near the Mongolia region moved rapidly toward the Yellow Sea, which drove away the Yellow Sand particles over the Korean peninsula toward the Japan Islands, furthermore the low-level stratification of the air mass over the Korean. peninsula showed the unstable atmospheric condition leading to atmospheric diffusion of the particles. The trajectory analyses and the GMS visible image indicated that the long-range transport of the air mass laden with the Yellow Sand particles of this case was more dependent on the 700 hPa air flow than on the 850 hPa air flow.