1. Comparison of TRMM and water district rain rates over New Mexico

   • Long S. Chiu
   • Zhong Liu
   • Chandra Bales

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 13

2. The impact of the storm-induced SST cooling on hurricane intensity

   • Tong Zhu
   • Da-Lin Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 14 - 22

3. Temporal structures of the North Atlantic Oscillation and its impact on the regional climate variability

   • Huang Jianping
   • Ji Mingxia
   • Amir Shabbar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 32

4. Application of an error statistics estimation method to the PSAS forecast error covariance model

   • Runhua Yang
   • Jing Guo
   • Lars Peter Riishøjgaard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 44

5. The role of the halted baroclinic mode at the central equatorial Pacific in El Niño event

   • Sun Jilin
   • Peter Chu
   • Liu Qinyu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 53

6. Using statistical downscaling to quantify the GCM-related uncertainty in regional climate change scenarios: A case study of Swedish precipitation

   • Deliang Chen
   • Christine Achberger
   • Cecilia Hellström

   OriginalPaper Pages: 54 - 60

7. Statistical procedures for estimating and detecting climate changes

   • S. S. P. Shen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 68

8. An overview of MODIS radiometric calibration and characterization

   • Xiaoxiong Xiong
   • William Barnes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 79

9. Sensor calibration in support for NOAA’s satellite mission

   • Xiangqian Wu
   • Changyong Cao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 80 - 90

10. Explicit and parameterized episodes of warm-season precipitation over the continental United States

    • Changhai Liu
    • Mitchell W. Moncrieff
    • Richard E. Carbone

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 105

11. Retrieval of atmospheric and oceanic parameters and the relevant numerical calculation

    • Huang Sixun
    • Cao Xiaoqun
    • Xiang Jie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 106 - 117

12. An application of the adjoint method to a statistical-dynamical tropical-cyclone prediction model (SD-90) II: Real tropical cyclone cases

    • Xiang Jie
    • Liao Qianfeng
    • Zhou Fengcai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 118 - 126

13. Intermediately complex models for the hydrological interactions in the atmosphere-vegetation-soil system

    • Zeng Xiaodong
    • Wang Aihui
    • Samuel S. P. Shen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 140

14. A note on the relationship between temperature and water vapor over oceans, including sea surface temperature effects

    • C. -L. Shie
    • W. -K. Tao
    • J. Simpson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 148

15. The impact of atmospheric heat sources over the eastern Tibetan Plateau and the tropical western Pacific on the summer rainfall over the Yangtze-River basin

    • Jian Maoqiu
    • Qiao Yunting
    • Luo Huibang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 155

16. A further investigation of the decadal variation of ENSO characteristics with instability analysis

    • Meng Xiangfeng
    • Wu Dexing
    • Lan Jian

    OriginalPaper Pages: 156 - 164