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State of the Marine Environment Report for the East Asian Seas 2009 COBSEA COORDINATING BODY ON THE SEAS OF EAST ASIA

The Rise of Extreme Typhoon Power and Duration over South East Asia Seas

The study features an analysis of 40 years of records of longitude, latitude and power (wind speed) of tropical storms and typhoons over South East Asia seas. The results demonstrate the growing intensity of the most severe events. The singular spectrum analysis of wind speed series from 1960 till 2000 identified two sub-periods of roughly similar behavior. Then, the recorded events were classi...

Monsoon Disturbances over Southeast and East Asia and the Adjacent Seas

The objectives are: (1) to study the structure and the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of highimpact weather systems in the vicinity of the Southeast and East Asian monsoon region that stretches from Indian Ocean to the tropical Pacific, including the South China Sea and Yellow Sea, which are of particular interest to naval operations; and (2) to study the ability and sensitivity of Navy o...

East Asian Currency Union

This paper analyzes the feasibility of various types of currency unions, such as a dollar bloc, Euro bloc, Yen bloc, and basket currency bloc in East Asia, and empirically estimates welfare effects of a currency union for East Asian economies. Judging from optimum currency area (OCA) criteria, including the symmetry of output and price shocks across countries, commitment to price stability, and...

Are East Asian Versus Ability

The first systematic cross-national study of mathematical abilities was conducted in 1964 (Hu#n, 1967). The results of this study showed that American adolescents were among the most poorly educated students in mathematics in the industrialized world. In the ensuing 30 years, this basic finding has been replicated many times and has been shown to be true for nearly all mathematical domains, fro...