< Abstract >
Ocean-atmosphere observations utilizing the Korean ocean research stations are available to the scientific community to advance our understanding of air-sea interactions, atmospheric chemistry, oceanographic processes, and others.

The main purposes for establishing the Korean ocean research stations (KORS) are: for advancing an overall understanding of atmospheric and oceanic phenomena in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea; for providing core scientific data for the studies on global environmental change, typhoon dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, marine ecosystems and fisheries, atmospheric chemistry involving Asian dust and aerosols, air-sea interaction processes including sea fog, and regional oceanographic process studies; and for functioning as ground stations of ocean remote sensing. Here, ocean-atmosphere time-series observations with data service and case studies of KORS applications that will facilitate collaboration among researchers in the international atmospheric and oceanographic communities are presented.