1. Preface to the special issue on the “Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters” (FEMD)

   • Huijun Wang

   Editorial Notes 07 January 2017 Pages: 127 - 127

2. Main energy paths and energy cascade processes of the two types of persistent heavy rainfall events over the Yangtze River–Huaihe River Basin

   • Yuanchun Zhang
   • Jianhua Sun
   • Shenming Fu

   Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 129 - 143

3. Responses of the East Asian jet stream to the North Pacific subtropical front in spring

   • Leying Zhang
   • Haiming Xu
   • Jiechun Deng

   Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 144 - 156

4. Impact of surface sensible heating over the Tibetan Plateau on the western Pacific subtropical high: A land–air–sea interaction perspective

   • Anmin Duan
   • Ruizao Sun
   • Jinhai He

   Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 157 - 168

5. Establishment of the South Asian high over the Indo-China Peninsula during late spring to summer

   • Lijuan Wang
   • Aiguo Dai
   • Jing Ge

   Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 169 - 180

6. On the contrasting decadal changes of diurnal surface temperature range between the Tibetan Plateau and southeastern China during the 1980s–2000s

   • Yang Yang
   • Rongcai Ren

   Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 181 - 198

7. Preliminary study on direct assimilation of cloud-affected satellite microwave brightness temperatures

   • Sibo Zhang
   • Li Guan

   Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 199 - 208

8. Regional frequency analysis of observed sub-daily rainfall maxima over eastern China

   • Hemin Sun
   • Guojie Wang
   • Tong Jiang

   Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 209 - 225

9. Impact of Taihu Lake on city ozone in the Yangtze River Delta

   • Liang Zhang
   • Bin Zhu
   • Hanqing Kang

   Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 226 - 234

10. Relationship between lightning activity and tropospheric nitrogen dioxide and the estimation of lightning-produced nitrogen oxides over China

    • Fengxia Guo
    • Xiaoyu Ju
    • Yijun Mu

    Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 235 - 245

11. Multi-scale cyclone activity in the Changjiang River–Huaihe River valleys during spring and its relationship with rainfall anomalies

    • Yujing Qin
    • Chuhan Lu
    • Liping Li

    Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 246 - 257

12. Analysis of a mesoscale convective system that produced a single sprite

    • Jing Yang
    • Gaopeng Lu
    • Morris Cohen

    Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 258 - 271

13. Derivation of cloud-free-region atmospheric motion vectors from FY-2E thermal infrared imagery

    • Zhenhui Wang
    • Xinxiu Sui
    • Zhiguo Zhang

    Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 272 - 282