Our university’s Research Institute of Global Environment has been registered on NDACC
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2013-06-11
Our university’s The Research Institute of Global Environment has also been officially registered as a designated climate change observatory by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (herein after referred to as ‘NOAA’). Recently, NOAA posted a pictured and description of the Research Institute of Global Environmentas the only Korean observatory to be registered at NDACC on its agency’s website. NDACC is an agency under NOAA and is very active with the approval of international scientific organizations such as, the United Nations Environment Program and the International Ozone Commission.
The Institute was able to become a NDACC registered observatory due to its extensive research accomplishments since 2007, through cumulative data collection subsequent to real-time monitoring of the ozone and vapor of the middle atmosphere which is receiving much attention for main greenhouse gases. Director Jung Jin Oh of the Institute stated “This official registration is the result of accomplishments, such as the acquisition of basic technologies concerning the atmospheric composition change detection utilizing radiofrequency spectroscopy even though it is an unexplored field of study within Korea,” and made an assessment noting “There is much significance in the acknowledgement as an international cooperation institution responsible for the verification and revision of satellite data, as well as climate change models beyond the scope of the organizations.”
The Institute was formerly the Environmental Science Research Center, which was built as an auxiliary institute in 1992, and was raised to the status and title in 2001. Earlier in 1999, the institute had constructed an ozone observatory on the rooftop of the College of Science, to observe changes in ozone of the stratosphere, and have been monitoring Korea’s middle atmosphere for 10 years.
The Institute is known to retain observation technology with the widest range in Korea using a microwave receiver which was developed in-house, as well the highest time resolution. Director Oh stated that “As the only institute observing the atmosphere utilizing radiofrequency spectroscopy, our Institute has acquired the source technology for the field of atmospheric molecular observation, from equipment development to observation and analysis” and disclosed that “We have prepared a foundation to provide outstanding research results with guaranteed observation equipment and reliability concerning research results by an international agency.”