1. Preface

   • Fu Congbin
   • Ailikun

   EditorialNotes 13 November 2008 Pages: 905 - 905

2. An overview of the Semi-arid Climate and Environment Research Observatory over the Loess Plateau

   • Jianping Huang
   • Wu Zhang
   • Chou Jifan

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 906 - 921

3. Characteristics of elemental composition of PM_2.5 in the spring period at Tongyu in the semi-arid region of Northeast China

   • Renjian Zhang
   • Congbin Fu
   • Chongshu Zhu

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 922 - 931

4. Sensitivity of the Indian monsoon to human activities

   • B. Knopf
   • K. Zickfeld
   • V. Petoukhov

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 932 - 945

5. Characteristics of anthropogenic sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols over East Asia: Regional modeling and observation

   • Yan Huang
   • William L. Chameides
   • Robert E. Dickinson

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 946 - 959

6. Impacts of global warming on hydrological cycles in the Asian monsoon region

   • Koji Dairaku
   • Seita Emori
   • Toru Nozawa

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 960 - 973

7. Satellite monitoring of the surface water and energy budget in the central Tibetan Plateau

   • Kun Yang
   • Toshio Koike

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 974 - 985

8. Holocene climate evolution of the Ugii Nuur basin, Mongolia

   • Wolfgang Schwanghart
   • Brigitta Schütt
   • Michael Walther

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 986 - 998

9. Notes of numerical simulation of summer rainfall in China with a regional climate model REMO

   • Xuefeng Cui
   • Gang Huang
   • Wen Chen

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 999 - 1008

10. Three-year variations of water, energy and CO₂ fluxes of cropland and degraded grassland surfaces in a semi-arid area of Northeastern China

    • Huizhi Liu
    • Gang Tu
    • Liqing Shi

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1009 - 1020

11. Regional moisture source changes inferred from late holocene stable isotope records

    • Zhonghui Liu
    • Andrew C. G. Henderson
    • Yongsong Huang

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1021 - 1028

12. Land use changes in Himalaya and their impacts on environment, society and economy: A study of the Lake Region in Kumaon Himalaya, India

    • Prakash Tiwari

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1029 - 1042

13. Greenhouse gas emissions from agro-ecosystems and their contribution to environmental change in the Indus Basin of Pakistan

    • M. Mohsin Iqbal
    • M. Arif Goheer

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1043 - 1052

14. A modified moist ageostrophic Q vector

    • Caijun Yue
    • Shaowen Shou

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1053 - 1061

15. The effect of typhoon-induced SST cooling on typhoon intensity: The case of Typhoon Chanchu (2006)

    • Xiaoping Jiang
    • Zhong Zhong
    • Chunxia Liu

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1062 - 1072

16. Use of a land surface model to evaluate the observed soil moisture of grassland at the Tongyu reference site

    • Li Dan
    • Jinjun Ji
    • Huizhi Liu

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1073 - 1084

17. Simulation and analysis of China climate using two-way interactive atmosphere-vegetation model (RIEMS-AVIM)

    • Rong Gao
    • Wenjie Dong
    • Zhigang Wei

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1085 - 1097

18. Variation of radio refractivity with respect to moisture and temperature and influence on radar ray path

    • Jidong Gao
    • Keith Brewster
    • Ming Xue

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2008 Pages: 1098 - 1106