Chapter 14
					Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change
					 
									Coordinating Lead Authors
					
												Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
						Danish Meteorological Institute
						Denmark
					 
					
												Krishna Kumar Kanikicharla
						Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
						India
					 
									Lead Authors
					
												Edvin Aldrian
						Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics
						Indonesia
					 
					
												Soon-Il An
						Yonsei University
						Republic of Korea
					 
					
												Iracema Fonseca Albuquerque Cavalcanti
						National Institute for Space Research
						Brazil
					 
					
												Manuel de Castro
						University of Castilla-La Mancha
						Spain
					 
					
												Wenjie Dong
						Beijing Normal University
						China
					 
					
												Prashant Goswami
						CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation
						India
					 
					
												Alex Hall
						University of California Los Angeles
						USA
					 
					
												Joseph Katongo Kanyanga
						Zambia Meteorological Department
						Zambia
					 
					
												Akio Kitoh
						University of Tsukuba
						Japan
					 
					
												James Kossin
						National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
						USA
					 
					
												Ngar-Cheung Lau
						National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
						USA
					 
					
												James Renwick
						Victoria University of Wellington
						New Zealand
					 
					
												David B. Stephenson
						University of Exeter
						UK
					 
					
												Shang-Ping Xie
						Scripps Institution of Oceanography
						USA
					 
					
												Tianjun Zhou
						Chinese Academy of Sciences
						China
					 
									Review Editors
					
												John Fyfe
						Environment Canada
						Canada
					 
					
												Won-Tae Kwon
						National Institute of Meteorological Research
						Republic of Korea
					 
					
												Kevin Trenberth
						National Center for Atmospheric Research
						USA
					 
					
												David Wratt
						National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
						New Zealand
					 
					Contributing Authors
					
                                                - Libu Abraham – Qatar
 						
                                                - Tércio Ambrizzi – Brazil
 						
                                                - Bruce Anderson – USA
 						
                                                - Osamu Arakawa – Japan
 						
                                                - Raymond Arritt – USA
 						
                                                - Mark Baldwin – UK
 						
                                                - Mathew Barlow – USA
 						
                                                - David Barriopedro – Spain
 						
                                                - Michela Biasutti – USA
 						
                                                - Sébastien Biner – Canada
 						
                                                - David H. Bromwich – USA
 						
                                                - Josephine Brown – Australia
 						
                                                - Wenju Cai – Australia
 						
                                                - Leila V. Carvalho – USA
 						
                                                - Ping Chang – USA
 						
                                                - Xiangdong Zhang – USA
 						
                                                - Jung Choi – Republic of Korea
 						
                                                - Ole Bøssing Christensen – Denmark
 						
                                                - Clara Deser – USA
 						
                                                - Kerry Emanuel – USA
 						
                                                - Hirokazu Endo – Japan
 						
                                                - David B. Enfield – USA
 						
                                                - Amato Evan – USA
 						
                                                - Alessandra Giannini – USA
 						
                                                - Nathan Gillett – Canada
 						
                                                - Annamalai Hariharasubramanian – USA
 						
                                                - Ping Huang – China
 						
                                                - Julie Jones – UK
 						
                                                - Ashok Karumuri – India
 						
                                                - Jack Katzfey – Australia
 						
                                                - Erik Kjellström – Sweden
 						
                                                - Jeff Knight – UK
 						
                                                - Thomas Knutson – USA
 						
                                                - Ashwini Kulkarni – India
 						
                                                - Koteswara Rao Kundeti – India
 						
                                                - William K. Lau – USA
 						
                                                - Geert Lenderink – Netherlands
 						
                                                - Chris Lennard – South Africa
 						
                                                - Lai-yung Ruby Leung – USA
 						
                                                - Renping Lin – China
 						
                                                - Teresa Losada – Spain
 						
                                                - Neil C. Mackellar – South Africa
 						
                                                - Victor Magaña – Mexico
 						
                                                - Gareth Marshall – UK
 						
                                                - Linda Mearns – USA
 						
                                                - Gerald Meehl – USA
 						
                                                - Claudio Menéndez – Argentina
 						
                                                - Hiroyuki Murakami – USA
 						
                                                - Mary Jo Nath – USA
 						
                                                - J. David Neelin – USA
 						
                                                - Martin Olesen – Denmark
 						
                                                - Jan Polcher – France
 						
                                                - Yun Qian – USA
 						
                                                - Suchanda Ray – India
 						
                                                - Katharine Davis Reich – USA
 						
                                                - Belén Rodríguez de Fonseca – Spain
 						
                                                - Paolo Ruti – Italy
 						
                                                - James Screen – UK
 						
                                                - Jan Sedláček – Switzerland
 						
                                                - Silvina Solman – Argentina
 						
                                                - Martin Stendel – Denmark
 						
                                                - Samantha Stevenson – USA
 						
                                                - Izuru Takayabu – Japan
 						
                                                - John Turner – UK
 						
                                                - Caroline Ummenhofer – USA
 						
                                                - Geert Jan van Oldenborgh – Netherlands
 						
                                                - Kevin Walsh – Australia
 						
                                                - Bin Wang – USA
 						
                                                - Chunzai Wang – USA
 						
                                                - Ian Watterson – Australia
 						
                                                - Matthew Widlansky – USA
 						
                                                - Andrew Wittenberg – USA
 						
                                                - Tim Woollings – UK
 						
                                                - Sang-Wook Yeh – Republic of Korea
 						
                                                - Chidong Zhang – USA
 						
                                                - Lixia Zhang – China
 						
                                                - Xiaotong Zheng – China
 						
                                                - Liwei Zou – China