Patents Assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES
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Publication number: 20240142397Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus for detecting rain using a wire mesh sensor including: a wire mesh which is configured to include a plurality of transmitters and a plurality of receivers; and a fixing part for fixing the wire mesh; wherein the plurality of transmitters supply electricity to the wire mesh, and wherein, in response to rain being positioned between a specific transmitter among the plurality of transmitters and a specific receiver among the plurality of receivers, the specific receiver is configured to receive the electricity from the specific transmitter and then transmit the electricity to a measuring part, to thereby allow the measuring part to measure conductivity. This hemispherical apparatus can detect rain accurately by making the incident angles of the rain to be vertical regardless of the directions of the rain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Kyu Young Reno CHOI, Ki Hoon KIM, So Ra IN, Min Woo KIM, Byeong Taek KIM
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Patent number: 11971517Abstract: Described is a mobile apparatus for observing precipitation, the mobile apparatus including a bottom plate including a plurality of precipitation gauges and a movable member, a movement unit configured to move a position of the bottom plate from a first position to a second position by using the movable member, an observation time determination unit configured to determine a precipitation observation time on the basis of seasonal information, and a control unit configured to control the plurality of precipitation gauges on the basis of the precipitation observation time when precipitation is detected.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Bo Yeong Ahn, Yoo Jun Kim
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Patent number: 11874428Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining a seeding effect area and a non-seeding effect area in accordance with a wind system according to the present invention can use numerical simulation data, radar precipitation data, and ground precipitation data to systematically specify the steps of determining the seeding effect area and the non-seeding effect area in accordance with the wind system. Moreover, the method according to the present invention can easily divide the seeding effect area and the non-seeding effect area according to the physical properties of clouds and quantitatively verify the effectiveness of artificial precipitation experiments conducted by purpose in the future.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Yonghun Ro, Ki-Ho Chang, Sanghee Chae, Joo-Wan Cha, Yunkyu Im, Woonseon Jung
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Publication number: 20240012175Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for calculating a sensible temperature in consideration of outdoor ground heating and a heatwave warning apparatus and method based on a sensible temperature in consideration of outdoor ground heating. The method of calculating a sensible temperature in consideration of outdoor ground heating includes classifying data which includes a globe temperature, an atmospheric temperature, a relative humidity, and a ground surface temperature and is observed by an automated synoptic observing system (ASOS) for a certain period of time, as precipitation data and non-precipitation data according to whether there is precipitation, clustering the non-precipitation data into K clusters, and deriving K+1 sensible temperature calculation formulae by performing regression analysis on the K clusters and the precipitation data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Hae Min KIM, Kyu Rang KIM, Ju Young SHIN
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Patent number: 11828907Abstract: There is provided with a precipitation meter which includes: an upper receiver in which an upper heating unit is embedded to provide heat to an upper surface of the upper receiver to prevent snow from being accumulated thereon, wherein the upper receiver is comprised of a first inner side surface forming inner space for collecting water and a first outer side surface which is an opposite surface of the first inner side surface; a lower receiver with a funnel-shaped part, positioned underneath the upper receiver; a siphon, positioned under the center area of the funnel-shaped part; a tipping bucket unit for receiving the waterdrops from the siphon; a precipitation calculation unit for receiving information on the seesawing movement of the tipping bucket unit and calculating an amount of precipitation by referring to the seesawing movement; and a drainage unit for allowing the waterdrops to be drained out.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Byeong Taek Kim, Young Tae Lee, Sung Eun Hwang, Kyu Young Reno Choi, Ki Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 11822047Abstract: There is disclosed a meteorological observation device for observing weather in an Atmospheric Boundary Layer or a Planetary Boundary Layer, comprising: a basic observation unit and one or more additional observation units which are connected directly or indirectly to the basic observation unit; a storage box whose inner space is compartmentalized to form a plurality of grids, wherein the grids include 1-st type cells, each of which holds the basic observation unit and each of the one or more additional observation units and 2-nd type cells, each of which forms 1-st sub space for holding a basic wire and 2-nd sub space for holding each of additional wires, wherein a size of each of the 2-nd type cells is determined as a size of each of the 1-st type cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Geon Tae Kim, Jin Hwa Lee, Mi Eun Park, Byung Hwan Lim
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Patent number: 11789180Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus for meteorological observation, including: a prop; a meteorological sensor, mounted on the prop, configured to measure at least wind direction information; a level configured to maintain a horizon of the prop; a first GPS, mounted on a first area of the prop, configured to acquire first longitudinal information and first latitudinal information; a second GPS, mounted on a second area of the prop, configured to acquire second longitudinal information and second latitudinal information, wherein the second area is separated from the first area by a predetermined distance; a processor configured to calibrate the wind direction information and thus output adjusted wind direction information by referring to a location of the first area, a location of the second area, the first latitudinal information, the first longitudinal information, the second latitudinal information and the second longitudinal information.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Mi Eun Park, Yong Hee Lee
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Patent number: 11782187Abstract: A method is provided of calculating the total amount of artificial precipitation in a seeded area compared to a non-seeded area, which is capable of increasing the reliability of quantitative determination of seeding effect, observation data, and numerical model prediction data obtained from artificial precipitation experiments, of increasing the amount of water resources through weather modification experiments, of accomplishing various effects (drought reduction, forest fire prevention, fine dust reduction, fog reduction, hail suppression, etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Yonghun Ro, Ki-Ho Chang, Joo-Wan Cha, Sanghee Chae, Woonseon Jung, Chulkyu Lee
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Publication number: 20230288394Abstract: The crop condition monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first capacitive moisture condition sensor detects a voltage according to a water condition, a second capacitive moisture condition sensor detects a voltage according to a water condition, a non-contact surface temperature sensor configured to detect a surface temperature of the first capacitive moisture condition sensor and generate a first surface temperature, a contact surface temperature sensor configured to detect a surface temperature of the second capacitive moisture condition sensor and generate a second surface temperature, the contact surface temperature sensor formed on the second capacitive moisture condition sensor, a temperature and humidity sensor configured to detect a dew point, and a crop condition monitoring server configured to predict the occurrence of dew and frost using the voltage according to the water condition received from the first capacitive moisture condition sensor, the voltageType: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Eun Su Jo, Kyu Rang Kim
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Publication number: 20230274520Abstract: Provided is a method of calculating high-resolution three-dimensional wind numerical information considering detailed topographic information, the method performing, when the wind numerical data of the operational LDAPS model is calculated (S100), a downscaling process based on the detailed topographic information using the wind numerical data as an input data, wherein the downscaling process performs a preprocessing process of converting a coordinate system and interpolating horizontal and vertical numerical data (S200), performs a process of adjusting roughness lengths (S300), correcting heights (S400), and correcting a subgrid-scale terrain drag effect (S500) on the basis of the detailed topographic information, and finally generating data that has gone through each of the processes as high-resolution wind numerical data (S600).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Yeon-Hee KIM, Sang-Hyun LEE, Hyeong-Se JEONG, Hee-Wook CHOI, DOO-IL LEE
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Patent number: 11733428Abstract: There is disclosed a self-powered apparatus for measuring precipitation, comprising: a housing; a display unit including one or more display lights capable of displaying an amount of precipitation, wherein the display lights are formed on at least one of outer surfaces of the housing; a water collecting vessel, having a funnel-shaped space to which the precipitation is introduced and gathered at a vertex part of the funnel-shaped space; a cup module, having an accommodating space for accommodating the precipitation dropped from the vertex part of the funnel-shaped space of the water collecting vessel; an electric signaling unit; a guiding module; a self-powered generator; and a final drainage opening, formed at a lower part of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Geon Tae Kim, Seon Jeong Kim, Jin Hwa Lee, Ji Seon Bak, Baek Jo Kim
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Patent number: 11693151Abstract: This application relates to an input data generating apparatus for generating forcing data used as input data for a climate change prediction model. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to, by executing the instructions, collect new ground type data from land-use harmonization (LUH) data that is restored through history database of the global environment (HYDE) and provided by the coupled model inter-comparison project (CMIP). The processor may also collect existing ground type data calculated by an existing model in a previous phase of the CMIP, generate aggregated ground type data by data-aggregating the new ground type data and the existing ground type data, with priority to the new ground type data. The processor may further generate the forcing data from the aggregated ground type data by performing a distortion correction on a data distortion that occurs during the data aggregation.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Hyun Min Sung, Kyung On Boo, Young Hwa Byun
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Publication number: 20230184994Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining a seeding effect area and a non-seeding effect area in accordance with a wind system according to the present invention can use numerical simulation data, radar precipitation data, and ground precipitation data to systematically specify the steps of determining the seeding effect area and the non-seeding effect area in accordance with the wind system. Moreover, the method according to the present invention can easily divide the seeding effect area and the non-seeding effect area according to the physical properties of clouds and quantitatively verify the effectiveness of artificial precipitation experiments conducted by purpose in the future.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Yonghun Ro, Ki-Ho Chang, Sanghee Chae, Joo-Wan Cha, Yunkyu Im, Woonseon Jung
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Publication number: 20230177236Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for calculating solar radiation numerical data based on a fixed slope angle. A method of calculating solar radiation numerical data based on a fixed slope angle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes receiving solar radiation numerical data, removing an existing terrain effect from the solar radiation numerical data and applying detailed terrain information with a 100 m resolution to the solar radiation numerical data, applying a fixed slope angle to the detailed terrain information to calculate a global radiation, and dividing the global radiation on the basis of at least one of a grid, a season, a month, a time of day, and a fixed slope angle to generate average data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Jinah YUN, Hee Wook CHOI, Yeon Hee KIM
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Patent number: 11644152Abstract: Disclosed is a gas injection apparatus which measures and displays a gas amount supplied to a radiosonde instrument. The gas injection apparatus includes: a body which includes an inlet port through which the gas is introduced from the storage tank, a flow passage through which the gas introduced from the inlet port flows, and an outlet port through which the gas passing through the flow passage is discharged; a valve which opens/closes the flow passage, and a flow meter which is installed in the body and is configured to measure and display the flow rate of the gas supplied to the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: REPUBLIC OF KOREA (National Institute of Meteorological Sciences)Inventors: Sung Eun Hwang, Byeong Taek Kim, Young Tae Lee, Ki Hoon Kim
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Publication number: 20230064365Abstract: Disclosed is a gas injection apparatus which measures and displays a gas amount supplied to a radiosonde instrument. The gas injection apparatus includes: a body which includes an inlet port through which the gas is introduced from the storage tank, a flow passage through which the gas introduced from the inlet port flows, and an outlet port through which the gas passing through the flow passage is discharged; a valve which opens/closes the flow passage, and a flow meter which is installed in the body and is configured to measure and display the flow rate of the gas supplied to the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: REPUBLIC OF KOREA (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES)Inventors: Sung Eun Hwang, Byeong Taek Kim, Young Tae Lee, Ki Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 11570954Abstract: Provided is a rocket for artificial rainfall using an ejection hygroscopic flare, the rocket including: a rocket body configured to descend with a parachute after flight by thrust, and having a hygroscopic flare discharge outlet; a communication module installed in the rocket body, and configured to transmit and receive a launch command and an ejection command with a ground station; an ejection hygroscopic flare installed in the rocket body and filled with cloud seeds and a burning material therein; and a hygroscopic flare ejection device configured to separate and eject the ejection hygroscopic flare from an inside of the rocket body to an outside thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Ji Man Park, Woon Seon Jung, Joo Wan Cha, Soo Jong Kim, Kyoung Jin Woo, Sung Hoon Ryu
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Patent number: 11467319Abstract: A rainwater guiding device for a meteorological observation balloon for preventing the observer and electronic devices held by the observer from getting wet by rainwater by guiding the rainwater flowing down along the surface of the balloon to the outside of the observer's workspace during the rawinsonde levitation operation for upper atmospheric observation, wherein the rainwater guiding device is composed of a double-cone structure comprising an inner cone closely contacted with the surface of the balloon around the inlet and an outer cone formed on the outside of the inner cone, wherein the inner cone and the outer cone have funnel shapes, each of which has a conical portion at the upper portion as a shape gradually widening in the upward direction, and an extension portion at the lower portion extending vertically downward from a neck portion, which is a neck portion below the conical portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Seon Jeong Kim, Geon Tae Kim, Hyoung Gu Nam
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Patent number: 11401021Abstract: A cover for a rawinsonde balloon includes a cover main body with an inner surface forming inner space and an outer surface. The rawinsonde balloon is inserted into the inner space of the cover main body. Further, the cover includes an inlet, positioned at a preliminary free end of the cover main body, for allowing the rawinsonde balloon to be inserted into the inner space and the cover additionally includes an inlet control member for controlling a size of the inlet and fixing a controlled size of the inlet. Furthermore, the cover includes a plurality of basic cover fixing members formed or located respectively at a plurality of basic preliminary fixed ends on the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: National Institute of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Geon Tae Kim, Seon Jeong Kim, Sang Don Lee, Seung Hyeop Lee
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Publication number: 20220206185Abstract: A rainwater guiding device for a meteorological observation balloon for preventing the observer and electronic devices held by the observer from getting wet by rainwater by guiding the rainwater flowing down along the surface of the balloon to the outside of the observer's workspace during the rawinsonde levitation operation for upper atmospheric observation, wherein the rainwater guiding device is composed of a double-cone structure comprising an inner cone closely contacted with the surface of the balloon around the inlet and an outer cone formed on the outside of the inner cone, wherein the inner cone and the outer cone have funnel shapes, each of which has a conical portion at the upper portion as a shape gradually widening in the upward direction, and an extension portion at the lower portion extending vertically downward from a neck portion, which is a neck portion below the conical portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Seon Jeong KIM, Geon Tae KIM, Hyoung Gu NAM