1. Preface to the special issue on the program of “Carbon Budget and Relevant Issues”—A strategic scientific pioneering program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

   • Daren Lü

   Editorial Notes 29 June 2017 Pages: 939 - 940

2. Characteristics of temperature change in China over the last 2000 years and spatial patterns of dryness/wetness during cold and warm periods

   • Quansheng Ge
   • Haolong Liu
   • Zhixin Hao

   Original Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 941 - 951

3. Grid-cell aerosol direct shortwave radiative forcing calculated using the SBDART model with MODIS and AERONET observations: An application in winter and summer in eastern China

   • Yunfei Fu
   • Jiachen Zhu
   • Peng Liu

   Original Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 952 - 964

4. Monitoring carbon dioxide from space: Retrieval algorithm and flux inversion based on GOSAT data and using CarbonTracker-China

   • Dongxu Yang
   • Huifang Zhang
   • Daren Lü

   Original Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 965 - 976

5. Unprecedented warming revealed from multi-proxy reconstruction of temperature in southern China for the past 160 years

   • Yang Liu
   • Jingyun Zheng
   • Xuezhen Zhang

   Original Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 977 - 982

6. Aircraft measurements of cloud–aerosol interaction over East Inner Mongolia

   • Yuhuan Lü
   • Hengchi Lei
   • Jiefan Yang

   Original Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 983 - 992

7. Validation of MODIS C6 AOD products retrieved by the Dark Target method in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration, China

   • Jie Zhang
   • Jinyuan Xin
   • Lingbin Kong

   Original Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 993 - 1002

8. Airborne observations of cloud condensation nuclei spectra and aerosols over East Inner Mongolia

   • Jiefan Yang
   • Hengchi Lei
   • Yuhuan Lü

   Original Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 1003 - 1016

9. Optical properties and source analysis of aerosols over a desert area in Dunhuang, Northwest china

   • Yongjing Ma
   • Jinyuan Xin
   • Yongfeng Zhu

   Original Paper 29 June 2017 Pages: 1017 - 1026