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Sea-Level Pressure Response to the Fast Solar Wind Stream

  • Cho, Il-Hyun;Kwak, Young-Sil;Marubashi, Katsuhide;Chang, Heon-Young;Cho, Kyung-Suk;Kim, Yeon-Han;Park, Young-Deuk;Choi, Ho-Sung
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2010.04a
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    • pp.39.3-39.3
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    • 2010
  • Solar-terrestrial links in short-time scales(daily ~monthly) are extensively explored in recent years: such as a response of low cloud amounts to the Forbush decrease, a response of Northern Atlantic oscillation index to sudden increase in electric field intensity of solar wind and so on (e.g., Svensmark et al., 2009; Boberg & Lundstedt, 2002). In this study, we perform the superposed epoch analysis to see any possible response of the sea-level pressure over Korean peninsula to the fast solar wind stream. Data sets are daily values, and zero days are determined to be days when the solar wind velocity exceeds 800km/s. Average profile of superposed sea-level pressure shows a gradual increase during the first 2 days and a decrease afterward below the normal level with a low pressure condition maintained for a few days. This result indicates that the sea-level pressure may respond to the fast solar wind stream. In other words, the average profile of sea-level pressure mimics the average velocity profiles. The correlation coefficient between two average profiles is 0.80, with 2 day lag.

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Effect of a vertical guide plate on the wind loading of an inclined flat plate

  • Chung, Kung-Ming;Chou, Chin-Cheng;Chang, Keh-Chin;Chen, Yi-Jun
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.537-552
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    • 2013
  • Wind tunnel experiments were performed to study the wind loads on an inclined flat plate with and without a guide plate. Highly turbulent flow, which corresponded to free-stream turbulence intensity on the flat roof of low-rise buildings, was produced by a turbulence generation grid at the inlet of the test section. The test model could represent a typical solar collector panel of a solar water heater. There are up-stream movements of the separation bubble and side-edge vortices, more intense fluctuating pressure and a higher bending moment in the turbulent flow. A guide plate would result in higher lift coefficient, particularly with an increased projected area ratio of a guide plate to an inclined flat plate. The value of lift coefficient is considerably lower with increased free-stream turbulent intensity.

A Periodic Analysis of Sidereal Shifts for GPS Satellites and the Solar Wind Stream

  • Cho, Changhyun;Choi, Byung-Kyu
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2017
  • The sidereal day of a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite was intended to equal one half of a sidereal day of the Earth. However, the sidereal day of GPS satellites has become unequal to one half of a sidereal day of the Earth. This is fundamentally caused by the non-sphericity of the Earth and the gravity of the Moon. The difference between sidereal days of GPS satellites and the Earth is known as a sidereal shift. The details surrounding sidereal shifts and their origins have yet to be fully understood. We calculated the periodicity of sidereal shifts for GPS satellites using broadcast ephemeris data. To conduct a periodic analysis of the sidereal shift, we employ the Lomb-Scargle periodogram method. It shows that the orbit periods of GPS satellites have small-amplitude perturbations with a 13.6-day period. In addition, we compare the GPS satellite orbit periods with the periodicity of geomagnetic indices and the solar wind parameters to identify the cause of the perturbations. Our results suggest that the solar wind stream might also affect the 13.6-day period of the sidereal shifts.

Geosynchronous Relativistic Electron Events Associated with High-Speed Solar Wind Streams in 2006 (2006년 발생한 고속 태양풍과 관련된 정지궤도에서의 상대론적 전자 증가 이벤트)

  • Lee, Sung-Eun;Hwang, Jung-A;Lee, Jae-Jin;Cho, Kyung-Suk;Kim, Khan-Hyuk;Yi, Yu
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.439-450
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    • 2009
  • Recurrent enhancements of relativistic electron events at geosynchronous orbit (GREEs) were observed in 2006. These GREE enhancements were associated with high-speed solar wind streams coming from the same coronal hole. For the first six months of 2006, the occurrence of GREEs has 27 day periodicity and the GREEs were enhanced with various flux levels. Several factors have been studied to be related to GREEs: (1) High speed stream, (2) Pc5 ULF wave activity, (3) Southward IMF Bz, (4) substorm occurrence, (5) Whistler mode chorus wave, and (6) Dynamic pressure. In this paper, we have examined the effectiveness about those parameters in selected periods.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE INTERPLANETARY SHOCKS BY SHOCK DRIVERS

  • OH SU YEON;YI YU;NAH JA-KYUNG;CHO KYUNG-SEOK
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.151-157
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    • 2002
  • From the data of solar wind observation by ACE spacecraft orbiting the Earth-Sun Lagrangian point, we selected 48 forward interplanetary shocks(IPSs) occurred in 2000, maximum solar activity period. Examining the profiles of solar wind parameters, the IPSs are classified by their shock drivers. The significant shock drivers are the interplanetary coronal mass ejection(ICME) and the high speed stream(HSS). The IPSs driven by the ICMEs are classified into shocks driven by magnetic clouds and by ejectas based on the existence of magnetic flux rope structure and magnetic field strength. Some IPSs could be formed as the blast wave by the smaller energy and shorter duration of shock drivers such as type II radio burst. Out of selected 48 forward IPSs, $56.2\%$ of the IPSs are driven by ICME, $16.7\%$ by HSS, and $16.7\%$ of the shocks are classified into blast-wave type shocks. However, the shock drivers of remaining $10\%$ of the IPSs are unidentified. The classification of the IPSs by their driver is a first step toward investigating the critical magnitudes of the IPS drivers commencing the magnetic storms in each class.

Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of a Comet : When a Comet Crosses a Heliopheric Sector Boundary

  • Yu, Yi
    • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Korean Journal of Geophysical Research
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.6-23
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    • 1994
  • A disconnection event (DE) of the cometary plasma tail is one of most spectacular phenomena observed in comets. Yet, for years it has remained one of the great unsolved problems I astronomy and space physics. The solar wind is thought to play a major role in the creation of comet plasma tail (type Ⅰ) disconnection events. The goal of this paper is to present a mechanism that explains the disconnection event in terms of the local conditions at the comet. Comparison of the solar wind conditions and 16 DEs in Halley's comet shows that DEs are associated primarily with crossings of the heliospheric sector boundary and apparently not with any other properties of the solar wind, such as a high speed stream[Yi et al., 1994]. A 3-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation in this paper supports this association by showing that only front-side magnetic reconnection between the reversed interplanetary magnetic fields that exist when a comet crosses the heliospheric sector boundary [Niedner and Brandt, 1978] could reproduce the morphology of a DE, including ray formation [Brandt, 1982].

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A Study on the Analytical Methods for the Aerodynamic Characteristics of Vertical-Axis Darrieus Wind Turbine (수직축(垂直軸) Darrieus 풍력(風力) 터어빈의 공기역학적특성(空氣力學的特性) 해석(解析)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Keon-Hoon;Lee, Chul-Hyung;Lee, Kyu-Hyun
    • Solar Energy
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.74-85
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    • 1987
  • Performances of 3 different aerodynamic analytical models, single multiple and double multiple stream tube, for vertical axis Darrieus turbine were analyzed comparatively. From the study it has been found that the models derived from stream tube assumptions can be useful for simple prediction of basic design characteristics of Darrieus turbine. But, for a large tip speed and solidity ratios, the models has shown a certain limit in its applicability according to the formulation scheme applied. The results have shown that for the case having large tip speed and solidity ratios the consideration due to stream conditions, such as trailing vortices or wakes, should be included for accurate prediction of the aerodynamic performances of Darrieus turbine.

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ON THE DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE JET SYSTEM IN THE DISK WITH THE KEPLERIAN ROTATION (회전 원반계 내 제트 현상의 역학적 구조)

  • 정경숙;최윤정;최규홍;최승언
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.17-28
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    • 1989
  • The classical solar wind theory proposed by Parker(1963) explains well the dynamics of the wind pheonomena such as stellar wind and accretion disk. While the stellar wind system like the solar wind has the spherically symmetric wind structure, there are various jet phenomena which collimate the system into the narrow space. We can find these dynamical structures in SS433, in the optical jet of M87, and around the active galactic nulei. We present the dynamical structure of the jet system in disks, which conserves the angular monetum, with the Keplerian rotation and the strong relation between the geometrical cross section and the physical change of the jet stream on the basis of the hydrodynamic equations.

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