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CONTENTS

AN OVERVIEW OF LASG

THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

• Study of “spring predictability barrier” problem for El Nino-Southern Oscillation events
• Relationship between the Antarctic oscillation in the western North Pacific typhoon frequency
• How Well Do Coupled Climate Models Simulate the Past Climate Change?
• The TP Forcing in Winter and Persistent Rainfall in Early Spring in South China
• Coupled Model Simulations of Climate Change in the 20th Century and Future
• Evaluation of Snow/Ice Albedo Parameterizations and their Impacts on Sea Ice Simulations
• Influences of nonlinear factors of governing equations for the atmosphere on ENSO cycles in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model
• Interannual Variability in the Onset of the Summer Monsoon over the Eastern Bay of Bengal
• The Tropical Pacific-Indian Ocean Temperature Anomaly Mode and Its Effect
• New research achievement being highlighted in Geophysics Research Letter
• Meridional and Vertical Out-of-Phase Relationships of Temperature Anomalies Associated with the NAM Variability
• Recent Advances in Light Scattering by Arbitrary Shaped Particles
• Why Is There An Early Spring Cooling Shift Downstream Of the Tibetan Plateau?
     

FEATURES

• 2006 LASG Annual Academic Meeting was held on 11 January, 2007.
• Dr. Chris Gordon and Dr. Alberto Arribas from Met Office, UK, visited LASG on 3 April, 2007.
• The first LASG lunch seminar was held on 13 April, 2007.
• The Asian Monsoon Year (AMY08) International Workshop was held at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of CAS, Beijing, China, on 23rd-25th April, 2007
• The cooperation signing ceremony between LASG and Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University, Japan was held on 23 April, 2007