1. Effect of data homogenization on estimate of temperature trend: a case of Huairou station in Beijing Municipality

   • Lei Zhang
   • Guo-Yu Ren
   • Ya-Qing Zhou

   Original Paper Open access 25 April 2013 Pages: 365 - 373

   

2. Large-scale and spatio-temporal extreme rain events over India: a hydrometeorological study

   • Ashwini Ranade
   • Nityanand Singh

   Original Paper 26 April 2013 Pages: 375 - 390

   

3. Impact of future climate change on wheat production in relation to plant-available water capacity in a semiaridenvironment

   • Yanmin Yang
   • De Li Liu
   • Yonghui Yang

   Original Paper 26 April 2013 Pages: 391 - 410

   

4. Rainfall-derived growing season characteristics for agricultural impact assessments in South Africa

   • Chiara Ambrosino
   • Richard E. Chandler
   • Martin C. Todd

   Original Paper 26 April 2013 Pages: 411 - 426

   

5. Terrestrial satellite records for climate studies: how long is long enough? A test case for the Sahel

   • Alexander Loew

   Original Paper 28 April 2013 Pages: 427 - 440

   

6. Frost-free season lengthening and its potential cause in the Tibetan Plateau from 1960 to 2010

   • Dan Zhang
   • Wenhui Xu
   • Di An

   Original Paper 30 April 2013 Pages: 441 - 450

   

7. Validation of TRMM-3B42 precipitation product over the tropical Indian Ocean using rain gauge data from the RAMA buoy array

   • Satya Prakash
   • R. M. Gairola

   Original Paper 01 May 2013 Pages: 451 - 460

   

8. Similarities between optimal precursors for ENSO events and optimally growing initial errors in El Niño predictions

   • Mu Mu
   • Yanshan Yu
   • Tingting Gong

   Original Paper 01 May 2013 Pages: 461 - 469

   

9. Some connections between aerosols, atmospheric transport, and relative humidity at peak Musala

   • Peter Nojarov
   • Ivo Kalapov
   • Todor Arsov

   Original Paper 07 May 2013 Pages: 471 - 482

   

10. On the association between synoptic circulation and wildfires in the Eastern Mediterranean

    • A. Papadopoulos
    • A. K. Paschalidou
    • G. McGregor

    Original Paper 07 May 2013 Pages: 483 - 501

    

11. Rainfall characterisation by application of standardised precipitation index (SPI) in Peninsular Malaysia

    • Fadhilah Yusof
    • Foo Hui-Mean
    • Kong Ching-Yee

    Original Paper 08 May 2013 Pages: 503 - 516

    

12. Impact of climate change on human-wildlife-ecosystem interactions in the Trans-Himalaya region of Nepal

    • Achyut Aryal
    • Dianne Brunton
    • David Raubenheimer

    Original Paper 08 May 2013 Pages: 517 - 529

    

13. Spatial patterns and temporal trends of precipitation in Iran

    • Tayeb Raziei
    • Jamal Daryabari
    • Luis S. Pereira

    Original Paper 08 May 2013 Pages: 531 - 540

    

14. Aroma types of flue-cured tobacco in China: spatial distribution and association with climatic factors

    • Chao Yang
    • Wei Wu
    • Qing Peng

    Original Paper 08 May 2013 Pages: 541 - 549

    

15. A method to calculate cloud-free long-wave irradiance at the surface based on radiative transfer modeling and temperature lapse rate estimates

    • Stefan Wacker
    • Julian Gröbner
    • Laurent Vuilleumier

    Original Paper 12 May 2013 Pages: 551 - 561

    

16. Observed spatiotemporal characteristics of drought on various time scales over the Czech Republic

    • Vera Potop
    • Constanţa Boroneanţ
    • Petr Skalák

    Original Paper 15 May 2013 Pages: 563 - 581

    

17. A practical model to estimate photosynthetically active radiation using general meteorological elements in a temperate humid area and comparison among models

    • Yasuko Mizoguchi
    • Yukio Yasuda
    • Katsumi Yamanoi

    Original Paper 15 May 2013 Pages: 583 - 589

    

18. Convective activity over heat-low region and Indian summer monsoon rainfall during contrasting phases of ESI tendency

    • S. B. Kakade
    • Ashwini Kulkarni

    Original Paper 16 May 2013 Pages: 591 - 597

    

19. Precipitation trends using in-situ and gridded datasets

    • Sharlene Lata Beharry
    • Ricardo Marcus Clarke
    • Kishan Kurmarsingh

    Original Paper 18 May 2013 Pages: 599 - 607

    

20. Tendencies for the amounts of chemical material used for cloud seeding in Serbia

    • Mladjen Ćurić
    • Dejan Janc

    Original Paper 18 May 2013 Pages: 609 - 614

    

21. Ground-based GPS measurements: time behavior from half-hour to years

    • Isabella Bordi
    • Klaus Fraedrich
    • Xiuhua Zhu

    Original Paper 18 May 2013 Pages: 615 - 625

    

22. Evaluation of support vector machine for estimation of solar radiation from measured meteorological variables

    • Ji-Long Chen
    • Guo-Sheng Li

    Original Paper 22 May 2013 Pages: 627 - 638

    

23. Climate change and water resources in the Bagmati River Basin, Nepal

    • Mukand S. Babel
    • Shyam P. Bhusal
    • Anshul Agarwal

    Original Paper 22 May 2013 Pages: 639 - 654

    

24. Impacts of extreme precipitation on tree plantation carbon cycle

    • Mei Huang
    • Jinjun Ji
    • Fengting Yang

    Original Paper 25 May 2013 Pages: 655 - 665

    

25. Vertical tilt structure of East Asian trough and its interannual variation mechanism in boreal winter

    • Shangfeng Chen
    • Xiaolong Chen
    • Tianjun Zhou

    Original Paper 25 May 2013 Pages: 667 - 683

    

26. Self-organized criticality of climate change

    • Zuhan Liu
    • Jianhua Xu
    • Kai Shi

    Original Paper 25 May 2013 Pages: 685 - 691

    

27. Comparison of Kalpana-1 atmospheric motion vectors with other observations

    • S. K. Deb
    • Inderpreet Kaur
    • P. K. Pal

    Original Paper 26 May 2013 Pages: 693 - 702

    

28. Spatiotemporal variations of precipitation regimes across Yangtze River Basin, China

    • Qiang Zhang
    • Juntai Peng
    • Vijay P. Singh

    Original Paper 26 May 2013 Pages: 703 - 712

    

29. Assessing the performance of satellite-based precipitation products and its dependence on topography over Poyang Lake basin

    • Xianghu Li
    • Qi Zhang
    • Chong-Yu Xu

    Original Paper 26 May 2013 Pages: 713 - 729