To provide an international journal for the publication of high-quality research on all aspects of the dynamics of the global climate system.

Papers containing original paleoclimatic, diagnostic, analytical or numerical modeling research on the structure and behavior of the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, biomass and land surface as interacting components of the dynamics of global climate are especially welcome, as are contributions focused on selected aspects of climate dynamics on particular scales of space or time.

Scholarly reviews or papers emphasizing an integrated view of the physical and biogeochemical processes governing climate and climate change are also welcome.

Executive Editors
Susanna Corti
ISAC-CNR
Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Gobetti, 101
40129 Bologna, Italy
e-mail: s.corti@isac.cnr.it
J.-C. Duplessy
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat 
et de l'Environnement Bâtiment12 
Parc du CNRS
91198 Gif surYvette Cedex
France
e-mail: Jean-Claude.Duplessy@lsce.ipsl.fr
V. Krishnamurthy
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
280 Research Hall, Mail Stop 6C5
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030 
USA
e-mail: vkrishna@gmu.edu
Jianping Li 
Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography/
Institute for Advanced Ocean Studies, 
Ocean University of China and 
Qingdao National Laboratory for 
Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266100, China
e-mail: ljp@ouc.edu.cn; ljp@bnu.edu.cn 

Jian Lu
Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change Division
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
902 Battelle Boulevard
P.O. Box 999, MSIN K9-24
Richland, WA 99352 USA
Tel: 509-375-4388
e-mail: jian.lu@pnnl.gov
Zhaohua Wu 
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Predictions Studies (COAPS)
Florida State University
2000 Levy Avenue
Building A, Suite 292
Tallahassee
FL 32306-2741
USA
e-mail: zwu@coaps.fsu.edu

Editorial Board
A. Berger, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium 
S. Björck, Lund, Sweden 
G.J. Boer, Victoria, Canada 
C. Brühl, Mainz, Germany
M. Claussen, Hamburg, Germany
P. Delecluse, Paris, France
K. Hasselmann, Hamburg, Germany 
E. Jansen, Bergen, Norway 
J.E. Kutzbach, Madison WI, USA 
H. Le Treut, Paris, France 
M.J. Manton, Melbourne, Australia 
V.P. Meleshko, St. Petersburg, Russia
J.F.B. Mitchell, Bracknell, UK 
G. North, College Station TX, USA 
D. Pollard, University Park PA, USA
K. E. Portney, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
C. Prentice, Sydney, Australia 
J.L. Sarmiento, Princeton NJ, USA
E.K. Schneider, Fairfax VA, USA
N. Smith, Melbourne, Australia
R.J. Stouffer, Princeton NJ, USA
W.M. Washington, Boulder CO, USA 
T.M.L. Wigley, Boulder CO, USA 
G-X Wu, Beijing, China