Variability and Risk Analysis of Hong Kong Air Quality Based on Monsoon and El Nino Conditions     

Jong-Suk KIM  ZHOU Wen  Ho Nam CHEUNG  Chak Hang CHOW 《大气科学进展》2013,30(2):280-290

This study presents an exploratory analysis aimed at improving understanding of the variability of Hong Kong air quality associated with different climate conditions. Significantly negative correlations were found when Nino 3 led particulate matter ≤10 μm PM₁₀) and NO₂ by 2--3 months over the Hong Kong territory, while the other pollutants (e.g., O₃, SO₂) showed modest correlations. A significant decreasing trend in visibility was observed during the autumn and winter, which has potential implications for the air-quality degradation and the endangerment of human health in Hong Kong. In an El Nino summer, the visibility was relatively better, while visibility in other seasons was diminished. On the other hand, in La Nina events, significant changes occurred in visibility in winter and autumn. Air pollution indices were less sensitive to the South China Summer Monsoon (SCSM), but a relatively high correlation existed between the East Asian Winter Monsoon (EAWM) and air pollutants. Rainfall was lower during most of the strong EAWM years compared to the weak years. This result suggests that the pollutants that accumulate in Hong Kong are not easy to wash out, so concentrations remain at a higher level. Finally, based on the conditional Air Pollution Index (API) risk assessment, site-specific vulnerabilities were analyzed to facilitate the development of the air-quality warning systems in Hong Kong.  相似文献   

On the use of the Webb–Pearman–Leuning theory for closed-path eddy correlation measurements     

ANDREAS IBROM  EBBA DELLWIK  SØREN EJLING LARSEN  KIM PILEGAARD 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2007,59(5):937-946

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Radon-222 in boundary layer and free tropospheric continental outflow events at three ACE-Asia sites     

WLODEK ZAHOROWSKI  SCOTT CHAMBERS  TAO WANG  CHANG-HEE KANG  ITSUSHI UNO  STEVEN POON  SUNG-NAM OH  SYLVESTER WERCZYNSKI  JIYOUNG KIM  ANN HENDERSON-SELLERS 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2005,57(2):124-140

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Assessment of winter fluxes of CO₂ and CH₄ in boreal forest soils of central Alaska estimated by the profile method and the chamber method: a diagnosis of methane emission and implications for the regional carbon budget     

YONGWON KIM  MASAHITO UEYAMA  FUMIKO NAKAGAWA  URUMU TSUNOGAI  YOSHINOBU HARAZONO  NORIYUKI TANAKA 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2007,59(2):223-233

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Correlation assessment and monitoring of the potential pollutants in the surface sediments of Pyeongchang River, Korea   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Md.Imran KABIR  Hosik LEE  Geonha KIM  Taesung JUN 《国际泥沙研究》2011,26(2):152-162

The study provides a baseline for the assessment of the organic and inorganic pollution specially, heavy metal contamination in the surface sediments of Pyeongchang River,South Korea.The assessment of the study areas was done with respect to metal pollution load,ecological risk and geoaccumulated risk.Based upon the used indices,a priority index(P_index) was used to rank the utmost contaminated sites.Though the concentrations of mercury in all sediments were below the guideline, the significant enriched contamination was observed by all applied indices.As expected,the values of pollution load index（PLI）,ecological risk index（RI） and geoaccumulation risk index(I_geo) demonstrated lower heavy metal contamination in upstream areas compared to the downstream. Admittedly,sediments were unpolluted to slightly-polluted according to PLI while high to extremely high ecological risks were observed in several sediment samples.Furthermore,all the samples were uncontaminated as per I_geo.After simplification of I_geo,the P_index,showed the utmost contaminated sediments with a value of 2.537.Notably,protective measures should be taken to the highly contaminated areas which are prioritized by P_index Admittedly,the maximum concentrations of total organic carbon,total nitrogen,inorganic nitrogen,total phosphorous,inorganic phosphorous,calcium, magnesium,sodium and potassium were significantly observed as 7.8×10⁴,3,185,36,1,032,3.7, 1,5163,2,881,669 and 4,076mg/kg accordingly.  相似文献   

Correlation between Rimjingang belt and Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt     

KIM Byongsong  KIM Myonghak  CHAE Yongsik 《世界地质(英文版)》2012,15(2):97-104

The Dabic-Sulu orogenic belt in central-eastern China is considered as a high-pressure and ultrahighpressure metamorphic belt that demensions are comparatively large,and formed as a result of the colli...  相似文献   

Beta Gyres in Global Analysis Fields     

Sun-Hee KIM  H. Joe KWON  R. L. ELSBERRY 《大气科学进展》2009,26(5)

A three-component decomposition is applied to global analysis data to show the existence of a beta gyre, which causes Tropical Cyclone (TC) to drift from a large-scale environmental steering current. Analyses from the Global Data Assimilation and Prediction System (GDAPS) of the Korea Meteorological Adminis-tration (KMA), the Global Forecast System (GFS) of NCEP, and the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) are used in this study. The structure of the beta gyre obtained in our anal...  相似文献   

Local Meteorological and Synoptic Characteristics of Fogs Formed over Incheon International Airport in the West Coast of Korea   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Chang Ki KIM  Seong Soo YUM 《大气科学进展》2010,27(4):761-776

Fogs observed over Incheon international airport (IIA) in the west coast of Korea from January 2002 to August 2006 are classified into categories of coastal fog, cold sea fog, and warm sea fog based on the areal extent of the fogs and the difference between the air temperature (T) and the SST, i.e., cold sea fog if TSST = T-SST>0^oC and warm sea fog if TSST <0^oC. The numbers of coastal, cold, and warm sea fog cases are 64, 26, and 9. Coastal fogs form most frequently in winter, while cold sea fogs occur mostly in summer and warm sea fogs are observed from January to May but not in November and December. On average the air gets colder by 1.6^oC during the three hours leading up to the coastal fog formation, and an additional cooling of 1.1^oC occurs during the fog. The change in the dew point temperature (T_d) is minimal except during the fog (0.6^oC). Decreases in T for the cold and warm sea fogs are relatively smaller. The average T_d is higher than SST during the cold sea fog periods but this T_d is more than 4^oC higher than that for the corresponding non-fog days, suggesting that cold sea fogs be formed by the cooling of already humid air (i.e., T_d>SST). Increases of T_d are significant during the warm sea fog periods (1.4^oC), implying that efficient moisture supply is essential to warm sea fog formation. Four major synoptic patterns are identified in association with the observed fogs. The most frequent is a north Pacific high that accounts for 38% of cases. Surface or upper inversions are present in 77%, 69%, and 81% of the fog periods for coastal, cold, and warm sea fogs, respectively.  相似文献   

中国海—西太平洋莫霍面深度分布特征及其地质意义   总被引：4，自引：4，他引：0       下载免费PDF全文

胡立天  郝天珧  邢健  胡卫剑  SUH Man-Cheol  KIM Kwang-Hee 《地球物理学报》2016,59(3):871-883

中国海—西太平洋位于欧亚板块、印澳板块和太平洋板块的交汇处,构造运动剧烈,地质情况复杂,是认识板块运动、洋陆相互作用、物质交换和能量传递不可多得的窗口,而莫霍面深度对于研究壳幔结构以及深部动力过程有着重要的意义.本文使用最新的覆盖全球的重力和地形数据,收集了深地震测深、多道地震测深等剖面183条,数字化得到2982个控制点,使用带控制点的三维界面反演方法来约束反演过程,得到中国海—西太平洋莫霍面深度,由莫霍面形态分析可知大洋板块的俯冲和印澳板块与欧亚板块的碰撞对西太平洋边缘海的形成演化有着重要作用.结合地热、岩石圈厚度、地震活动等地质地球物理资料,分析得知研究区内各个海域莫霍深度和地壳性质的变化是处于不同构造演化阶段的表现.并在马里亚纳沟弧盆拟合一条重力2.5维剖面,结果表明热物质上涌导致了马里亚纳海槽处地幔密度减小,马里亚纳海槽以及帕里西维拉海盆到西马里亚纳海岭的下地壳高密度异常是由残留的岩浆岩引起的.  相似文献   

Numerical Study on Air Turbines with Enhanced Techniques for OWC Wave Energy Conversion     

CUI Ying  HYUN Beom-Soo  KIM Kilwon 《海洋工程》2017,31(5):517-527

In recent years, the oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converter, which can capture wave energy from the ocean, has been widely applied all over the world. As the essential part of the OWC system, the impulse and Wells turbines are capable of converting the low pressure pneumatic energy into the mechanical shaft power. As an enhanced technique, the design of endplate or ring attached to the blade tip is investigated numerically in this paper. 3D numerical models based on a CFD-software FLUENT 12.0 are established and validated by the corresponding experimental results from the reports of Setoguchi et al. (2004) and Takao et al. (2001). Then the flow fields and non-dimensional evaluating coefficients are calculated and analyzed under steady conditions. Results show that the efficiency of impulse turbine with ring can reach up to 0.49 when φ=1, which is 4% higher than that in the cases for the endplate-type and the original one. And the ring-type Wells turbine with fixed guide vanes shows the best performance with the maximal efficiency of 0.55, which is 22% higher than that of the original one. In addition, the quasi-steady analysis is used to calculate the mean efficiency and output-work of a wave cycle under sinusoidal flow condition. Taking all together, this study provides support for structural optimization of impulse turbine and Wells turbine in the future.  相似文献