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.

Heavy snowfall was occurred over the south-western part of the Korean Peninsula called as Honam Districts, on two days from 21 December 2005. The development mechanism of snowfall and its characteristics were analysed using observation and numerical data provided by Korea Meteorological Administration. In comparison with other years Arctic air mass developed and maintained during all December 2005 due to active planetary waves with three branches. And jet streams at lower and higher levels make easy development of snow convection cells. Especially thermal low induced by mesoscale heat and dynamic sources, also help the developments of convection cells in strong ascension. The understanding the relation between synoptic and mesoscale circumstance, therefore, is also important to predict the heavy snowfall and to prevent the disaster.

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.

During the period of every summer to early autumn seasons, ships have been wrecked or grounded from effect of a typhoon in the water areas around Korean Peninsula Typhoon Rusa killed more than 100 people in September 2002. Super Typhoon Maemi passed southeast of South Korea in September 12-13, 2003, with a strong gale blowing at a record 60 m/s and caused much ship groundings, collisions and sinkings over 3000 in dockyards, harbors and places of refuge. These are things that could have been prevented had there merely been prior warning. This study outlines the occurrence characteristics of maritime accidents caused by a typhoon in South Korea for the period from 1962 to 2002. The distribution of the accident records is also compared with the trajectories, winds, central pressures of typhoons, passed during the 1990-2003. It is shown that attack frequency of typhoon and number of marine accidents is the highest in August and the marine accidents due to typhoon have a close relation to the distribution of accumulated wind and pressure fields.

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.

장래 의 증가에 따른 지구 기온의 상승은 그 정도의 차이는 있으나 불가피한 것으로 예측되고 있으며, 강수량의 경우는 대기대순환모형(General Circulation Model, GeM)의 종류에 따라 감소에서 증가까지 다양한 결과를 보이고 있다. 특히, 강수량의 변화는 평균적인 개념의 연평균, 계절평균이나 월 평균도 중요하지만 국가적인 재해와 관련된 홍수나 가뭄의 발생도 중요한 관심사항이 된다. 홍수나 가뭄의 발생변화를 적절히 예측하기 위해서는 기술적

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.