The characteristics of the basic statistics and steadiness of wind and the monthly normality test of surface wind distribution are investigated by using the observed wind data compiled from 10m meteorological observation tower at Seocheon district, where is located in the western coastal region of Korea, during the period from Feb. 7, 1996 to Feb. 7 1997. The northerly is appeared to be even in August and Sepember due to the influences of local circulation such as land and sea breeze. The correlation coefficients(γuv) between two wind components are seemed to be positive during the in the period of from June to September and negative from October to April, respectively. The constancy of wind is high in winter and low in summer. It is evident that the modal values of S decrease and their maximum values shifts to lower values with increasing sampling time. It is found from monthly normality test based on the skewness and the excess of kurtosis coefficients that the distribution of zonal wind component is normal in spring and meridional one is normal in late summer and early autumn.

• Sung-Euii Moon(Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Pusan National University)
• Baek-Jo Kim(Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Pusan National University)
• Sung-Sik Choi(Pusan Regional Meteorological Offlce)
• Jai-Ho Oh(Meteorological Research Institute)