NEWS & VIEWS

1. First Global Carbon Dioxide Maps Produced from Tan Sat Measurements
2. SPARC Local Workshop on“WCRP Grand Challenges and Regional Climate Change”

ORIGINAL PAPERS

1. Im proved Land Use and Leaf Area Index Enhances WRF-3DVAR Satellite Radiance assimilation:A Case Study Focusing on Rainfall Simulation in the Shule River Basin during July 2013
2. Interannual Weakening of the Tropical Pacific Walker Circulation Due to Strong Tropical Volcanism
3. Evaluation of the New Dynamic Global Vegetation Model in CAS-ESM
4. Simulating Eastern-and Central-Pacific Type ENSO Using a Sim p le Coup led M odel
5. Regional Features and Seasonality of Land–Atmosphere Coup ling over Eastern China
6. Impact of the winter North Pacific Oscillation on the Surface Air Tem perature over Eurasia and North America:Sensitivity to the Index definition
7. Evaluating and Im proving wind Forecasts over South China:The Role of Orographic Parameterization in the GRAPES Model
8. M odeling the warming Im pact of Urban Land Expansion on Hot Weather Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model:A Case Study of Beijing,China
9. Subseasonal Reversal of East Asian Surface Temperature Variability in winter 2014/15