1. Preface

   • Duzheng Ye
   • Guoxiong Wu

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Research in China on Climate and its variability

   • G. -X. Wu
   • X. -H. Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 17

3. Year-to-Year and interdecadal variability in the activity of intraseasonal fluctuations in the Northern Hemisphere wintertime circulation

   • H. Nakamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 32

4. Where and when did an abrupt climatic change occur in China during the last 43 years?

   • J. -M. Jiang
   • X. -T. You

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 39

5. Recent climatic change, greenhouse gas emissions and future climate: The implications for India

   • P. Govinda Rao
   • P. M. Kelly
   • M. Hulme

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 64

6. Simulation of thermohaline circulation with a twenty-layer oceanic general circulation model

   • X. -H. Zhang
   • K. -M. Chen
   • Y. -Q. Yu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 87

7. Low-frequency time-space regimes in tropical convection

   • Hengyi Weng
   • K. -M. Lau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 98

8. Mean climate state simulated by a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model

   • Y. -F. Guo
   • Y. -Q. Yu
   • X. -H. Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 111

9. On the seasonal sea surface temperature variations in the tropical Pacific

   • T. -M. Li
   • Bin Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 120

10. Quasi-two weeks oscillation in the tropical atmosphere

    • C. -Y. Li

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 127

11. CH₄ emission from various rice fields in P.R. China

    • M. -X. Wang
    • X. -J. Shangguan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 138

12. Is it a global change impact that the climate is becoming better in the western part of the arid region of China

    • M. -Y. Du

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 150

13. Asymmetric changes in maximum and minimum temperature in Beijing

    • Z. Xie
    • H. -X. Cao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 156

14. Sensitivity of the IAP two-level AGCM to surface albedo variations

    • Z. -H. Lin
    • Q. -C. Zeng
    • Bing Ouyang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 162

15. Comparative tests and analyses on monsoon and regional precipitation

    • F. -L. Yang
    • C. -G. Yuan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 176

16. A stochastic weather generator applied to hydrological models in climate impact analysis

    • Jun Xia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 183

17. The effects of land surface heterogeneities on the hydrological cycle

    • L. S. Kuchment
    • E. L. Muzylev
    • Z. P. Startseva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 192

18. Wavelet analysis on the runoffs of the Changjiang River and the Huanghe River

    • X. -G. Dai
    • J. -F. Chou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 197

19. Some effects of rotation rate on planetary — scale wave flows

    • G. -Q. Li
    • R. Kung
    • R. L. Pfeffer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 210

20. Parameterization of the shortwave radiative properties of water clouds for use in GCMs

    • L. -S. Xu
    • G. -T. Zhang
    • H. -B. Cheng

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 219

21. Four-wave resonance in a forced-dissipative barotropic atmosphere

    • W. -S. Lu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 228