Biogeochemical processes play an important role in ocean environments and can affect the entire Earth’s climate system. Using an ocean-biogeochemistry model (NEMO-TOPAZ), we investigated the effects of changes in albedo and wind stress caused by phytoplankton in the equatorial Pacific. The simulated ocean temperature showed a slight decrease when the solar reflectance of the regions where phytoplankton were present increased. Phytoplankton also decreased the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) amplitude by decreasing the influence of trade winds due to their biological enhancement of upper-ocean turbulent viscosity. Consequently, the cold sea surface temperature bias in the equatorial Pacific and overestimation of the ENSO amplitude were slightly reduced in our model simulations. Further sensitivity tests suggested the necessity of improving the phytoplankton-related equation and optimal coefficients. Our results highlight the effects of altered albedo and wind stress due to phytoplankton on the climate system.

As the size of the wind power becomes larger, the development of the assembly type wind power which is advantageous in transportation and installation is active. This advantage comes from the economic point of view, and the stiffener is applied to the inner side, so that the safety is high. Large wind power require door openings for maintenance. The door opening has an irregular cross-section, and an excessive stress active due to the door opening. In this paper, the stresses occurring around the door opening was analyzed. As a result, small stress values were appeared in the tower, as the number of stiffeners were increased. Also, stress values were decreased a little in the tower as the opening shape become to ellipse was closer.

북서태평양의 바람 변동이 1970년대 이후에 나타난 ENSO의 십년 주기 변화에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. SODA 자료를 이용한 SVD 분석을 통하여 ENSO 절정기에 북서태평양에서 나타나는 양의 바람 응력 컬이 적도 지역에서의 열함유량을 방출/재충전(discharge/recharge)시켜 ENSO의 위상을 변화시킨다는 것을 보였다. ENSO와 연관된 북서태평양의 바람 응력 컬은 1970년대 이전에 강하게 나타났다. 이러한 강한 바람 응력 강제력은 적도의 열함유량을 빠르게 방출시켰고, 결과로서 1960-1970년대 기간 동안에 ENSO의 주기가 짧고 강도가 악하게 나타났다 반면에 1970년대 후반 이후에는 북서태평양 바람 응력의 컬이 약해지면서 ENSO의 주기가 길어지고 강도가 강해졌다. 간단한 대기-해양 접합 모델 실험으로 관측 자료 분석 결과와 유사하게 북서태평양 지역에서 바람 응력 컬이 더 많이 해양에 작용할 때 ENSO의 진폭과 주기가 감소하는 것을 보였다. 이 결과들은 1970년대 후반 이후에 나타난 ENSO특징의 변화가 북서태평양 지역에서의 바람 응력의 변화와 관련이 있다는 것을 제시한다.

The transition piece of the offshore wind power support structure transmits the load of the tower stably to the support structure on the lower side. The transition piece of the offshore wind power support structure should solve the stress concentration problem in design. In this paper, in order to solve the stress concentration problem occurring at the transition piece of the offshore wind power support structure, the location and the mitigation of the stress concentration have been studied.