High-quality informations on sea level pressure and sea surface wind stress are required to accurately predict storm surges over the Korean Peninsula. The storm surge on 31 March 2007 at Yeonggwang, on the western coast, was an abrupt response to mesocyclone development. In the present study, we...

World economy, which showed relatively robust growth from the second half of 2010 to early 2011, has a slowdown due to the financial crisis in advanced countries, especially Greece and Italy. Retrenchment has become a common policy trend in response to rising oil price and inflationary concerns...