Appendix: Contributors

Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada

        D. Phillips

        R. Whitewood

Australian Bureau of Meteorology, National Climate Centre, Climate Analysis Section

        W. Wright

Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC), Brazil

        I. Cavalcanti

        J. Marengo

Climate Prediction Center/NCEP/NWS/NOAA

        D. Lecompte

        D. Garrett

        J. Janowiak

        C. Long

        P. Sabol

        W. Thiao

        R. Tinker

Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory/ERL/NOAA

        J. Elkins

        D. Hofmann

        K. Masarie

        S. Oltmans

Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, (UK)

        P. Jones

Department of Geography, Rutgers University

        D. Robinson

Global Precipitation Climatology Center, Deutscher Wetterdienst

        T. Fuchs

        B. Rudolph

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, (UK)

        B. Horton

        M. O'Donnell

        D. Parker

Japan Meteorological Agency

        K. Shida

Mexican Meteorological Service (SMN)

        J. Espinosa

National Climatic Data Center/NESDIS/NOAA

        W. Brown

        R. Heim, Jr.

Office of the New Jersey state climatologist

        T. Estilow