1. Atmospheric conditions governing anomalies of the summer and winter cloudiness in Spitsbergen

   • Ewa Bednorz
   • Dominika Kaczmarek
   • Przemysław Dudlik

   Original Paper Open access 19 December 2014 Pages: 1 - 10

   

2. Assessment of multiple precipitation products over major river basins of China

   • Yang Fu
   • Jiangzhou Xia
   • Haicheng Zhang

   Original Paper 20 December 2014 Pages: 11 - 22

   

3. Assessing vegetation response to precipitation in northwest Morocco during the last decade: an application of MODIS NDVI and high resolution reanalysis data

   • M. Otto
   • C. Höpfner
   • D. Scherer

   Original Paper 20 December 2014 Pages: 23 - 41

   

4. Wind speed and temperature trends impacts on reference evapotranspiration in Southern Italy

   • Lorena Liuzzo
   • Francesco Viola
   • Leonardo V. Noto

   Original Paper 21 December 2014 Pages: 43 - 62

   

5. Partial duration series distributions of the European dry spell lengths for the second half of the twentieth century

   • C. Serra
   • Xavier Lana
   • M. D. Martínez

   Original Paper 23 December 2014 Pages: 63 - 81

   

6. Spatial variation of temperature and indicative of the urban heat island in Chennai Metropolitan Area, India

   • Anushiya Jeganathan
   • Ramachandran Andimuthu
   • Divya Subash Kumar

   Original Paper 23 December 2014 Pages: 83 - 95

   

7. Quantitatively evaluating the effects of climate factors on runoff change for Aksu River in northwestern China

   • Baofu Li
   • Yaning Chen
   • Heigang Xiong

   Original Paper 23 December 2014 Pages: 97 - 105

   

8. Changes in reference evapotranspiration over an agricultural region in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, China

   • Cungui Zhang
   • Yanjun Shen
   • Lei Meng

   Original Paper 24 December 2014 Pages: 107 - 115

   

9. Impacts of drought on grape yields in Western Cape, South Africa

   • Julio A. Araujo
   • Babatunde J. Abiodun
   • Olivier Crespo

   Original Paper 24 December 2014 Pages: 117 - 130

   

10. Impact of land use/land cover change on changes in surface solar radiation in eastern China since the reform and opening up

    • Cheng Qian

    Original Paper Open access 24 December 2014 Pages: 131 - 139

    

11. Effects of land use/cover change on land surface energy partitioning and climate in Northeast China

    • Fengshan Liu
    • Fulu Tao
    • Huizi Bai

    Original Paper 24 December 2014 Pages: 141 - 150

    

12. The effect of the time interval used to calculate mean wind velocity on the calculated drift potential, relative drift potential, and resultant drift direction for sands from three deserts in northern China

    • Zhengcai Zhang
    • Zhibao Dong
    • Aiguo Zhao

    Original Paper 24 December 2014 Pages: 151 - 160

    

13. Time irreversibility of mean temperature anomaly variations over China

    • Fenghua Xie
    • Zuntao Fu
    • Jiangyu Mao

    Original Paper 28 December 2014 Pages: 161 - 170

    

14. Hierarchical analysis of rainfall variability across Nigeria

    • Chidozie Charles Nnaji
    • Cordelia Nnennaya Mama
    • Okechukwu Ukpabi

    Original Paper 28 December 2014 Pages: 171 - 184

    

15. Damaging hailstorms in South Moravia, Czech Republic, in the seventeenth to twentieth centuries as derived from taxation records

    • Rudolf Brázdil
    • Kateřina Chromá
    • Ladislava Řezníčková

    Original Paper 30 December 2014 Pages: 185 - 198

    

16. Projected SST trends across the Caribbean Sea based on PRECIS downscaling of ECHAM4, under the SRES A2 and B2 scenarios

    • Leonard A. Nurse
    • John L. Charlery

    Original Paper 30 December 2014 Pages: 199 - 215

    

17. Precipitation intercomparison of a set of satellite- and raingauge-derived datasets, ERA Interim reanalysis, and a single WRF regional climate simulation over Europe and the North Atlantic

    • Gregor Skok
    • Nedjeljka Žagar
    • Andrej Ceglar

    Original Paper 04 January 2015 Pages: 217 - 232

    

18. Sensitivity of tree ring growth to local and large-scale climate variability in a region of Southeastern Brazil

    • Alejandro Venegas-González
    • Matheus Peres Chagas
    • Mario Tomazello Filho

    Original Paper 04 January 2015 Pages: 233 - 245

    

19. Shifts in Köppen-Geiger climate zones over southern Africa in relation to key global temperature goals

    • Christien J. Engelbrecht
    • Francois A. Engelbrecht

    Original Paper 04 January 2015 Pages: 247 - 261

    

20. Precipitable water vapor and its relationship with the Standardized Precipitation Index: ground-based GPS measurements and reanalysis data

    • Isabella Bordi
    • Xiuhua Zhu
    • Klaus Fraedrich

    Original Paper 04 January 2015 Pages: 263 - 275

    

21. Application of climatic indices to analyse viticultural suitability in Extremadura, south-western Spain

    • Francisco J. Moral
    • Francisco J. Rebollo
    • Enrique Martínez de Salazar

    Original Paper 06 January 2015 Pages: 277 - 289

    

22. Climate trends and crop production in China at county scale, 1980 to 2008

    • Zhao Zhang
    • Xiao Song
    • Wenjiao Shi

    Original Paper 06 January 2015 Pages: 291 - 302

    

23. Comparison of the spatiotemporal variability of rainfall from four different interpolation methods and impact on the result of GR2M hydrological modeling—case of Bani River in Mali, West Africa

    • S. Louvet
    • J. E. Paturel
    • M. Koité

    Original Paper 08 January 2015 Pages: 303 - 319

    

24. Understanding temporal and spatial complexity of precipitation distribution in Xinjiang, China

    • Jianhua Xu
    • Yaning Chen
    • Chunmeng Wei

    Original Paper 08 January 2015 Pages: 321 - 333

    

25. Comparison of spatial interpolation methods for the estimation of precipitation distribution in Distrito Federal, Brazil

    • Pablo de Amorim Borges
    • Johannes Franke
    • Christian Bernhofer

    Original Paper 09 January 2015 Pages: 335 - 348

    

26. The global warming hiatus—a natural product of interactions of a secular warming trend and a multi-decadal oscillation

    • Shuai-Lei Yao
    • Gang Huang
    • Xia Qu

    Original Paper 09 January 2015 Pages: 349 - 360

    

27. Surface air temperature changes from 1909 to 2008 in Southeast Asia assessed by factor analysis

    • Suree Chooprateep
    • Nittaya McNeil

    Original Paper 10 January 2015 Pages: 361 - 368

    

28. Daily characteristics of West African summer monsoon precipitation in CORDEX simulations

    • Nana Ama Browne Klutse
    • Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla
    • Matthias Büchner

    Original Paper 10 January 2015 Pages: 369 - 386

    

29. Quantifying the reliability of four global datasets for drought monitoring over a semiarid region

    • Pari-Sima Katiraie-Boroujerdy
    • Nasrin Nasrollahi
    • Soroosh Sorooshian

    Original Paper 10 January 2015 Pages: 387 - 398

    

30. Spatiotemporal trends in mean temperatures and aridity index over Rwanda

    • I. Muhire
    • F. Ahmed

    Original Paper 10 January 2015 Pages: 399 - 414