1. Preface

   • Wang Huijun

   EditorialNotes 07 July 2009 Pages: 613 - 613

2. Variations in the summer monsoon rainbands across eastern China over the past 300 years

   • Zhixin Hao
   • Jingyun Zheng
   • Quansheng Ge

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 614 - 620

3. Drought reconstruction in the Qilian Mountains over the last two centuries and its implications for large-scale moisture patterns

   • Wenhuo Liu
   • Xiaohua Gou
   • Liya Jin

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 621 - 629

4. An overview of dry-wet climate variability among monsoon-westerly regions and the monsoon northernmost marginal active zone in China

   • Weihong Qian
   • Ting Ding
   • Aimin Qin

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 630 - 641

5. Climatological characteristics of the moisture budget and their anomalies over the joining area of Asia and the Indian-Pacific Ocean

   • Yanju Liu
   • Yihui Ding
   • Jin Zhang

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 642 - 655

6. Harmonious inter-decadal changes of July–August upper tropospheric temperature across the North Atlantic, Eurasian continent, and North Pacific

   • Tianjun Zhou
   • Jie Zhang

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 656 - 665

7. On the association between spring Arctic sea ice concentration and Chinese summer rainfall: A further study

   • Bingyi Wu
   • Renhe Zhang
   • Bin Wang

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 666 - 678

8. Surface turbulent flux measurements over the Loess Plateau for a semi-arid climate change study

   • Jinqing Zuo
   • Jianping Huang
   • Peijian Fu

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 679 - 691

9. Variability of soil moisture and its relationship with surface albedo and soil thermal parameters over the Loess Plateau

   • Xiaodan Guan
   • Jianping Huang
   • Guoyin Wang

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 692 - 700

10. Variability of Northeast China river break-up date

    • Huijun Wang
    • Jianqi Sun

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 701 - 706

11. The Antarctic oscillation-East Asian summer monsoon connections in NCEP-1 and ERA-40

    • Yali Zhu

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 707 - 716

12. Contribution of the sea surface temperature over the Mediterranean-Black Sea to the decadal shift of the summer North Atlantic Oscillation

    • Jianqi Sun
    • Wei Yuan

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 717 - 726

13. The dipole mode of the summer rainfall over East China during 1958–2001

    • Jinping Han
    • Renhe Zhang

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 727 - 735

14. A review on aspects of climate simulation assessment

    • Bin Wang
    • Xin Xie
    • Lijuan Li

    ReviewPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 736 - 747

15. Climate responses to direct radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols, tropospheric ozone, and long-lived greenhouse gases in eastern China over 1951–2000

    • Wenyuan Chang
    • Hong Liao
    • Huijun Wang

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 748 - 762

16. A daily temperature dataset over China and its application in validating a RCM simulation

    • Ying Xu
    • Xuejie Gao
    • F. Giorgi

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 763 - 772

17. How the “best” models project the future precipitation change in China

    • Huopo Chen
    • Jianqi Sun

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 773 - 782

18. Regional variability of climate change hot-spots in East Asia

    • Ying Xu
    • Xuejie Gao
    • F. Giorgi

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 783 - 792

19. Recent progress in studies on land cover change and its regional climatic effects over China during historical times

    • Jingyun Zheng
    • Shanshan Lin
    • Fanneng He

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 793 - 802

20. Modeling impacts of vegetation in western China on the summer climate of northwestern China

    • Junming Chen
    • Ping Zhao
    • Xiaoyin Guo

    OriginalPaper 07 July 2009 Pages: 803 - 812