Authors’ email address

pjw@eas.gatech.edu,

trenbert@ucar.edu, jhurrell@cgd.ucar.edu,

cpchang@nps.navy.mil,

dingyh@cma.gov.cn, drsikka@yahoo.com,

duane.waliser@sunysb.edu,

Song.Yang@noaa.gov, lau@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov,

goswamy@caos.iisc.ernet.in,

johnson@atmos.colostate.edu,

b.j.Hoskins@reading.ac.uk, wangbi@hawaii.edu,

tmchen@iastate.edu,

yasunari@ihas.nagoya-u.ac.jp,

Gabriel.Lau@noaa.gov, wangbi@hawaii.edu,

yanai@atmos.ucla.edu, gxwu@lasg.iap.ac.cn,

tnk@io.met.fsu.edu,

kang@climate.snu..ac.kr, shukla@cola.iges.org,

steven_Clemens@brown.edu,

kitoh@mri-jma.go.jp,

sulo@caos.iisc.ernet.in,

linho@linho1,as.ntu.edu.tw,

sumi@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp