1. An analysis of the spatial pattern of summer persistent moderate-to-heavy rainfall regime in Guizhou Province of Southwest China and the control factors

   • Zhi-Yong Yin
   • Yunlong Cai
   • Xiaoling Chen

   Original Paper 16 October 2008 Pages: 205 - 218

   

2. Combining the standardized precipitation index and climatic water deficit in characterizing droughts: a case study in Romania

   • Cr. Paltineanu
   • I. F. Mihailescu
   • Nicola Claudia

   Original Paper 21 October 2008 Pages: 219 - 233

   

3. Haze trends over the capital cities of 31 provinces in China, 1981–2005

   • Huizheng Che
   • Xiaoye Zhang
   • Xianjun Hao

   Original Paper 25 October 2008 Pages: 235 - 242

   

4. Operational model for direct determination of evapotranspiration for well watered crops in Mediterranean region

   • Gianfranco Rana
   • Nader Katerji

   Original Paper 25 October 2008 Pages: 243 - 253

   

5. Potential predictors for spring season dust storm forecast in Inner Mongolia, China

   • Tao Gao
   • Xuebin Zhang
   • Qiaobin Teng

   Original Paper 04 November 2008 Pages: 255 - 263

   

6. MODIS/Terra observed snow cover over the Tibet Plateau: distribution, variation and possible connection with the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM)

   • Zhaoxia Pu
   • Li Xu

   Original Paper 05 November 2008 Pages: 265 - 278

   

7. Synoptic conditions for rapid snowmelt in the Polish-German lowlands

   • Ewa Bednorz

   Original Paper 08 November 2008 Pages: 279 - 286

   

8. Effects of cloud types on cloud-radiation interaction over the Asian monsoon region

   • Bipasha Paul Shukla
   • V. Sathiyamoorthy
   • P. C. Joshi

   Original Paper 08 November 2008 Pages: 287 - 295

   

9. Variability of droughts in the Czech Republic, 1881–2006

   • R. Brázdil
   • M. Trnka
   • Z. Žalud

   Original Paper 11 November 2008 Pages: 297 - 315

   

10. Stratospheric intrusion index (SI²) from baseline measurement data

    • P. Cristofanelli
    • F. Calzolari
    • P. Bonasoni

    Original Paper 11 November 2008 Pages: 317 - 325

    

11. A sensitivity study of the Regional Climate Model (RegCM3) to the convective scheme with emphasis in central eastern and southeastern Europe

    • P. Zanis
    • C. Douvis
    • J. S. Pal

    Original Paper 21 November 2008 Pages: 327 - 337

    

12. A comparison among olive flowering trends in different Mediterranean areas (south-central Italy) in relation to meteorological variations

    • Fabio Orlandi
    • Carlo Sgromo
    • Marco Fornaciari

    Original Paper 21 November 2008 Pages: 339 - 347

    

13. Observed trends of heating and cooling degree-days in Xinjiang Province, China

    • Fengqing Jiang
    • Xuemei Li
    • Zhen Li

    Original Paper 26 November 2008 Pages: 349 - 360

    

14. Determination of the onset dates of the rainy season in central Amazon with equatorially antisymmetric outgoing longwave radiation

    • Sâmia R. Garcia
    • Mary T. Kayano

    Original Paper 29 November 2008 Pages: 361 - 372

    

15. Relationships among monsoon-season circulation patterns, gulf surges, and rainfall within the Lower Colorado River Basin, USA

    • Jeremy E. Diem
    • David P. Brown

    Original Paper 06 December 2008 Pages: 373 - 383

    

16. A correction of the recent air-temperature record at the historical meteorological station of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) due to instrument change

    • D. Founda
    • H. D. Kambezidis
    • C. Zerefos

    Original Paper 23 December 2008 Pages: 385 - 389

    

17. The urban heat island of Bucharest during the extreme high temperatures of July 2007

    • Sorin Cheval
    • Alexandru Dumitrescu
    • Aurora Bell

    Original Paper 06 January 2009 Pages: 391 - 401

    

18. Low-frequency sea-level variability in the South China Sea and its relationship with ENSO

    • Guoqi Han
    • Weigen Huang

    Erratum 20 February 2009 Pages: 403 - 403