본 연구는 2003년부터 2022년까지 동해 남서부 해역에서 초미소(0.2-2 ㎛) 식물플랑크톤의 군집, 표층 수온 상승, 그리고 무기 영양염 간의 복잡한 상호작용을 다루었다. 동해에서 관측된 표층 수온의 상승 추세는 전 지구규모의 수온 상승과 일치하며, 여름에는 최 대 온도가 나타나지만 봄에는 최소 온도를 보여 일반적인 온대해역의 계절적 수온 변동과는 다른 양상을 보였다. 표층 무기 영양염의 농 도는 겨울에 증가하며 봄을 거치면서 서서히 감소하는 계절적 변동성을 나타냈다. 식물플랑크톤의 생물량을 대표하는 표층 총 chlorophyll-a 농도는 온대 해역의 전형적인 쌍봉분포(bimodal distribution) 양상을 보였다. 연구 기간 동안 초미소 식물플랑크톤의 기여도는 연평균 0.5%씩 지속적으로 증가하였으나, 총 chlorophyll-a 농도는 약한 감소 추세를 보였다. 초미소 식물플랑크톤의 기여도와 영양염 간에 는 강한 상관관계가 나타났으며, 이는 이러한 변동이 식물플랑크톤의 크기별 영양염의 가용성과 밀접하게 연관되어 있음을 의미한다. 이 러한 분석 결과는 해양 생태계의 변화 조건에서 식물플랑크톤이 어떻게 반응할는지 예측 가능하게 하므로, 생태학적으로 중요한 의미를 갖는다.

To broaden the utilization of nuclear energy, uranium as a fuel should be mined indispensably. Mining accounts for the largest portion of the cost of producing the uranium assembly. Therefore, this study analyzes the trends of uranium prices, which have a significant impacts on the mining cost. Uranium production contributing to the price fluctuations is explained in five periods from 1945 to the present. Moreover, the series of events affecting uranium prices from the 1970s until the present are verified. Among them, the most recent incidents considered in this study are the following: COVID-19 pandemic, Kazakhstan unrest, and Russia-Ukraine war. European countries have started to reconsider the transition to nuclear power to reduce their dependence on Russian oil and gas, which has contributed to the surge in uranium prices. Based on the results of this study, various international issues have been closely associated with the nuclear power industry and uranium, affecting the production of uranium and its price.

본 연구는 전국자연환경조사 어류 데이터를 이용하여 국내 담수 생태계에 도입된 배스의 분포 현황을 파악하고 공간분석을 통해 핫스팟 지역을 분석하였다. 위해성 평가를 통해 배스의 잠재적 침습성을 평가하여 수생태계 생물 다양성 교란에 대한 영향을 재고하였다. 분포 분석 결과, 제주도 지역을 포함하여 한강권역과 낙동강권역, 금강권역, 영산강·섬진강권역 전체에서 분포하는 것으로 분석되었다. 낙동강권역에서 가장 높은 출현율을 나타내었으며, 제주도 지역을 제외한 영산강·섬진강권역에서 비교적 낮은 출현율을 나타내는 것으로 분석되었다. 배스의 공간적 군집 밀도가 높은 지역으로는 낙동강권역의 낙동강수계가 선정되었으며, 반대로 낮은 지역으로는 한강권역과 금강권역의 인접한 지역으로 분석되었다. 국내 대부분의 담수하천에 서식하는 것으로 나타난 배스의 위해성 평가를 실시한 결과, 31점의 높은 침습성을 보이는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구를 통해 우리나라 담수 생태계에 정착한 것으로 파악되는 생태계교란종인 배스로부터 실질적인 관리 우선지역을 도출하여 담수 생태계 다양성 보전을 위한 과학적 기초자료를 마련할 수 있을 것으로 전망한다.

본 연구에서는 여름철 동해안 냉수대 해역의 바람의 세기 및 방향과 수온의 장기 변동성을 살펴보았다. 바람분석 결과, 과거 22년(1997년~2011년)과 최근 7년(2012년~2018년)을 비교해 보면 여름철 동안 과거에 비해 최근에 남풍계열 바람의 빈도가 줄었고, 풍속도 약해지는 경향을 보였다. 그러나 6월의 바람은 남풍계열 바람의 빈도와 풍속이 과거에 비해 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 이는 7월과 8월에 주로 나타난 냉수대 시기가 빨라졌다고 분석되었다. 최근 7년 사이 강릉(EN) 해역에서 0.5℃~ 1.8℃의 수온 상승을 보였으며, 영덕(EC)과 기장(ES)은 0.1℃~ 0.3℃의 수온 상승을 보였다. 평년(1990년~2011년, NOAA/AVHRR 위성수온자료) 대비 최근 7년의 냉수대 출현일은 영덕 과 기장에서 줄어드는 경향을 보였고, 강릉은 상대적으로 냉수대 출현일이 증가하는 추세를 보였다. 또한 강릉, 영덕, 기장 해역에서 6월에 냉수대 출현이 증가하는 경향을 보여 냉수대 발생 해역과 시기에 변화가 발생 된 것으로 분석된다. 이러한 결과는 우리나라 주변의 여름철 동아시아 몬순의 약화가 냉수대의 발생원인인 풍향과 풍속에 영향을 미쳤기 때문으로 판단된다.

Ozone precursor emissions and meteorological conditions have large impact on ozone concentrations. In this research, Data referring to an approximately 14-year period (1996~ 2009) are analyzed in order to estimate the trend of the daily maximum hourly value of ozone concentration at national capital region. A Kolmogorov-Zurbenko (KZ) filter is applied to remove the short-term component from the raw time series of ozone and meteorological variables. Meteorological effects are removed from filtered ozone series using multiple linear regression based on meteorological variables. The results show significant differences in local ozone concentrations. Especially, Ulsan area shows continuously increasing trend in ozone concentrations.

영산강을 대상으로 1992년부터 2009년까지 18년 동안 수집된 환경부 물환경정보시스템의 수질측정망 자료를 이용하여 수질 변동에 대한 장기적 경향을 통계 분석하 였다. 영산강 본류에 위치한 9개 지점(우치, 광주1, 광주2, 광산, 나주, 영산포, 함평, 무안1, 무안2)에서 월별로 표층 수에서 수질항목에 대해 측정하였고, 클로로필 a, 전기전 도도, BOD, TN, TP 자료를 시계열 형태로 정리, 분석하 였다. 경향분석은 MYSYSTAT 12 통계패키지를 이용하여 계절 맨-켄달 검정법과 LOWESS 검정법을 실시하였다. 경향분석 결과, 최상류 지점인 우치 정점에서 수질 항목 들의 수치가 증가하는 것으로 나타났으나 나머지 정점에 서는 전체적으로 클로로필 a와 더불어 수질이 개선되고 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 다만 클로로필 a (조류 발생), BOD, COD 등은 2007년 이후인 최근에 다시 수치가 증 가하는 것으로 나타나 이에 대한 원인조사와 대책마련이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

Weather is an important variable to form the characteristic natural ecosystem of the region along with topography and soil. Since the ecosystem change is expected by the global warming, the preparation for the change has to be made to accumulate the investigative data for the relationship on local weather and ecosystem. As the study method, the measurement data and sea surface temperature data were analyzed and the atmospheric model was performed. As the result, the weather characteristics, changing patterns and the causes of the weather change in Ulreungdo and Dokdo regions could be analyzed. For the last 67 years since the weather measurement was started in Ulreungdo, annual temperature elevation rate was 0.013oC and 0.88oC was elevated for 68 years, and the temperature elevation rate during the winter season recorded the highest elevation rate of 0.024oC/year. The amount of rainfall in Ulreungdo has been significantly increased recently. The strength of a typhoon that had affects on the peninsula and the increase of rainfall was mainly attributable to the increase of sea surface temperature alleviation at the East Sea. Sea surface temperature near Ulreungdo and the weather of the Ulreungdo weather station has high correlation each other. The acute sea surface temperature elevation could be assumed to cause the temperature elevation in Ulreungdo. According to the weather model of MM5, the simulated effect of sea surface temperature elevation on the atmospheric temperature resulted the average 1.3oC temperature increase in Ulreungdo as the sea surface temperature was increased 2oC. Therefore, it was able to confirm that the major reason of temperature elevation at the Ulreungdo weather station was attributable to sea surface temperature elevation.

국립수산과학원에서 장기간 관측한 정선해양관측자료와 연안정지관측자료를 이용하여 한국주변해역의 수온과 염분의 장기변화경향과 수층별 상관성을 보고자 하였다. 장기변화의 분석결과 한국연안수온은 하계냉수역이 발생하는 한국남서연안을 제외하고 상승하는 것으로 나타났다. 근해수온은 동해의 경우 표층은 상승하는 경향을 보인 반면 50m 와 l00m 수층은 하강하는 경향을 보였다. 남해의 경우 전 수층에서 상승하는 것으로 나타났으며, 서해의 경우 표층에서는 상승하나 50m 수층은 하강하는 것으로 나타났다. 근해염분은 동해의 경우 표층에서 하강하는 경향을 보인 반면, 50m 수층에서는 상승하는 경향을 보였으며, 100ml 수층 하강정도가 미미하게 나타났다. 남해의 경우 표층에서는 하강하는 경향을 보였으며, 50m 와 l00m 수층에서는 상승하는 경향을 보였다. 서해의 경우 표층과 50m 수층 모두 하강하는 경향을 보였다. 수층별 상관성을 보면 수온의 경우 동해와 남해에서 50m 수층과 100m 수층이 높은 상관도를 보였으나 서해의 경우 표층과 50m 수층 사이에는 상관성이 없는 것으로 나타났다. 염분의 경우 동해에서는 표층과 50m 수층이, 남해에서는 50m 와 l00m 수층이, 서해에서는 표층과 50m 수층이 높은 상관도를 보였다.

In this study, seasonal Mann - Kendall test method was applied to 12 stations of the water quality measurement network of Nam-River based on data of BOD, COD, TN and TP for 11 years from January 2005 to December 2015 The changes of water quality at each station were examined through linear trends and the tendency of water quality change during the study period was analyzed by applying the locally weighted scatter plot smoother (LOWESS) method. In addition, spatial trends of the whole Nam-River were examined by items. The flow-adjusted seasonal Kendall test was performed to remove the flow at the water quality measurement station. As a result, BOD, COD concentration showed "no trand" and TN and TP concentration showed "down trand" in regional Kendall test throughout the study period. BOD and TP concentration in "no trand", COD, and TN concentration showed an "up trand" tendency in Nam-River dam. LOWESS analysis showed no significant water quality change in most of the analysis items and stations, but water quality fluctuation characteristics were shown at some stations such as NR1 (Kyungho-River 1), NR2 (Kyungho-River 2), NR3 (Nam-River), NR6 (Nam-River 2A). In addition, the flow-adjusted seasonal Kendall results showed that the BOD concentration was "up trand" due to the flow at the NR3 (Nam-River) station. The COD concentration was "up trand" due to the flow at NR1 (Kyungho-River 1) and NR2 (Kyungho-River 2) located upstream of the Nam-River. The effect of influent flow on water quality varies according to each site and analysis item. Therefore, for the effective water quality management in the Nam-River, it is necessary to take measures to improve the water quality at the point where the water quality is continuously "up trand" during the study period.

To determine the effect of air pollution reduction policies, the long-term trend of air pollutants should be analyzed. Kolmogorov-Zurbenko (KZ) filter is a low-pass filter, produced through repeated iterations of a moving average to separate each variable into its temporal components. The moving average for a KZ(m, p) filter is calculated by a filter with window length m and p iterations. The output of the first pass subsequently becomes the input for the next pass. Adjusting the window length and the number of iterations makes it possible to control the filtering of different scales of motion. To break down the daily mean PM10 into individual time components, we assume that the original time series comprises of a long-term trend, seasonal variation, and a short-term component. The short-term component is attributable to weather and short-term fluctuations in precursor emissions, while the seasonal component is a result of changes in the solar angle. The long-term trend results from changes in overall emissions, pollutant transport, climate, policy and/or economics. The long-term trend of the daily mean PM10 decreased sharply from 59.6 ug/m3 in 2002 to 44.6 ug/m3 in 2015. This suggests that there was a long-term downward trend since 2005. The difference between the unadjusted and meteorologically adjusted long-term PM10 is small. Therefore, we can conclude that PM10 is unaffected by the meteorological variables (total insolation, daily mean temperature, daily mean relative humidity, daily mean wind speed, and daily mean local atmospheric pressure) in Busan.

High temporal resolution precipitation data can provide information about rainfall intensity, and can better reveal the essential physical process of precipitation intensity than daily totals do. Using hourly precipitation data at 14 stations during 1961-2014, the changes in the characteristics of summer precipitation in South Korea analysed. Although the precipitation amount in summer has increased at all stations, hourly precipitation in summer shows different directions and magnitudes of changes at each station in South Korea. Results showed that the change pattern of hourly precipitation is mostly attributed to change in the frequency of hourly precipitation of 10mm or more.

The government has conducted a plan of total maximum daily loads(TMDL), which divides with unit watershed, for management of stable water quality target by setting the permitted total amount of the pollutant. In this study, BOD concentration trends over the last 10 years from 2005 to 2014 were analyzed in the Geumho river. Improvement effect of water quality throughout the implementation period of TMDL was evaluated using the seasonal Mann-Kendall test and a LOWESS(locally weighted scatter plot smoother) smooth. As a study result of the seasonal Mann-Kendall test and the LOWESS smooth, BOD concentration in the Geumho river appeared to have been reduced or held at a constant. As a result of quantitatively analysis for BOD concentration with exploratory data analysis(EDA), the mean and the median of BOD concentration appeared in the order of GH8 〉GH7 〉GH6 〉GH5 〉GH4 〉GH3 〉GH2 〉GH1. The monthly average concentration of BOD appeared in the order of Apr 〉Mar 〉Feb 〉May 〉Jun 〉Jul 〉Jan 〉Aug 〉Sep 〉Dec 〉Nov 〉Oct. As a result of the outlier, its value was the most frequent in February, which is estimated 1.5 times more than July, and was smallest frequent in July. The outlier in terms of water quality management is necessary in order to establish a management plan for the contaminants in watershed.

To solve a problem of water supply on urban areas, groundwater recharge has to be assessed not only for evaluating the possibility of groundwater development but also for identifying a sustainable aquifer system for water resource development. The assessment of groundwater recharge has been challenged since the land use has been changed constantly. In this study, the groundwater recharge and its ratio were assessed from 1961 to 2007 in Su-yeong-gu, Busan, South Korea by analyzing precipitation, land use, and soil characteristics. For land use analysis, the urbanization change was considered. The land use areas for the residential, agricultural, forest, pasture, bare soil, and water in 1975 occupy 18.6 %, 30.0%, 48.8%, 0.1%, 2.0%, and 0.5% of total area, respectively. The land use ratios were sharply changed from 1980 to 1985; the agricultural area was decreased to 18.3%, and the residential area was increased to 15.0%. From 1995 to 2000, the agricultural area was decreased to 5.5%, and the residential area was increased to 5.4%. The annual averages of precipitation, groundwater recharge, and its ratio were 1509.3 mm, 216.0 mm, and 14.3% respectively. The largest amount of the groundwater recharge showed in 1970 as 408.9 mm, comparing to 2138.1 mm of annual rainfall. Also, the greatest ratio of the groundwater recharge was 19.8% in 1984 with 1492.6 mm of annual rainfall. The lowest amount and ratio of the groundwater recharge were 71.9 mm and 8.0% in 1988, relative to 901.5 mm of annual precipitation. As a result, it is concluded that rainfall has increased, whereas groundwater recharge has decreased between 1961 and 2007.