Variation in snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a key component of climate change
and variability, and critical for many hydrological and biological processes. This review first …

Analysis of the 140-year historical record suggests that the inverse relationship between the
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian summer monsoon (weak monsoon …

The Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere (TOGA) program sought to determine the
predictability of the coupled ocean‐atmosphere system. The World Climate Research …

The primary focus of this review is tropical‐extratropical interactions and especially the
issues involved in determining the response of the extratropical atmosphere to tropical …

A significant portion of the Tibetan Plateau is underlain by permafrost, and is highly sensitive
to climate change. Observational data from recent Chinese investigations on permafrost …

In recent two decades, North and Northeast China have suffered from severe and persistent
droughts while the Yangtze River basin and South China have undergone much more …

The onset and interannual variability of the Asian summer monsoon in relation to land–sea
thermal contrast and its contributing factors are studied using a 14-yr (1979–1992) dataset …

A study is presented of the geographical distribution and spatial and temporal variabilities of
the western China snow cover in the past 47 yr between 1951 and 1997. The data used …

Decadal Change of the Spring Snow Depth over the Tibetan Plateau: The Associated Circulation
and Influence on the East Asian Summer Monsoon in: Journal of Climate Volume 17 Issue 14 …

Both observational studies and numerical experiments demonstrate the sensitivity of the
atmosphere to variations in the extent and mass of snow cover. There is therefore a need for …