1. Editorial: AAS will be included in the SCI database in 2009

   EditorialNotes 27 September 2008 Pages: 705 - 708

2. Sensitivity of East Asian climate to the progressive uplift and expansion of the Tibetan Plateau under the mid-Pliocene boundary conditions

   • Dabang Jiang
   • Zhongli Ding
   • Yongqi Gao

   OriginalPaper Open access 27 September 2008 Pages: 709 - 722

3. Response of the Asian summer monsoon to weakening of Atlantic thermohaline circulation

   • Riyu Lu
   • Buwen Dong

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 723 - 736

4. Impacts of initial conditions on cloud-resolving model simulations

   • Shouting Gao
   • Xiaofan Li

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 737 - 747

5. Effects of irrigation on nitrous oxide, methane and carbon dioxide fluxes in an Inner Mongolian steppe

   • Chunyan Liu
   • Jirko Holst
   • Xunhua Zheng

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 748 - 756

6. Relationships between surface albedo, soil thermal parameters and soil moisture in the semi-arid area of Tongyu, northeastern China

   • Huizhi Liu
   • Baomin Wang
   • Congbin Fu

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 757 - 764

7. Snowstorm over the southwestern coast of the Korean Peninsula associated with the development of mesocyclone over the Yellow Sea

   • Ki-Young Heo
   • Kyung-Ja Ha

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 765 - 777

8. Automated detection of contaminated radar image pixels in mountain areas

   • Liping Liu
   • Qin Xu
   • Shun Liu

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 778 - 790

9. Characteristics of atmospheric circulation associated with cold surge occurrences in East Asia: A case study during 2005/06 winter

   • Tae-Won Park
   • Jee-Hoon Jeong
   • Seong-Joong Kim

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 791 - 804

10. Diagnosing ocean tracer transport from Sellafield and Dounreay by equivalent diffusion and age

    • Steinar Orre
    • Yongqi Gao
    • Eric Deleersnijder

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 805 - 814

11. Spatial patterns of Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation and its numerical simulation

    • Bin Zheng
    • Dejun Gu
    • Chunhui Li

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 815 - 823

12. Sensitivity study of the seasonal mean circulation in the northern South China Sea

    • Bo Hong
    • Dongxiao Wang

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 824 - 840

13. The possible influence of stratospheric sudden warming on East Asian weather

    • Shumei Deng
    • Yuejuan Chen
    • Houfu Zhou

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 841 - 846

14. Chemical characteristics of carbonaceous aerosols during dust storms over Xi’an in China

    • Xuxiang Li
    • Junji Cao
    • John Watson

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 847 - 855

15. Decadal and interannual variability of the Indian Ocean Dipole

    • Yuan Yuan
    • C. L. Johnny Chan
    • Chongyin Li

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 856 - 866

16. Statistical downscaling for multi-model ensemble prediction of summer monsoon rainfall in the Asia-Pacific region using geopotential height field

    • Congwen Zhu
    • Chung-Kyu Park
    • Won-Tae Yun

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 867 - 884

17. Influences of the clearness index on UV solar radiation for two locations in the Tibetan Plateau-Lhasa and Haibei

    • Bo Hu
    • Yuesi Wang
    • Guangren Liu

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 885 - 896

18. A three-dimensional satellite retrieval method for atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles

    • Lei Zhang
    • Chongjian Qiu
    • Jianping Huang

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 897 - 904