Edvin Aldrian, of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, BPPT, Jakarta (Indonesia); paper title: "Modeling Indonesian rainfall with a coupled regional model." Climate Dynamics (Published online May 2005) SSN: 0930-7575 (Paper) 1432-0894 (Online), DOI: 10.1007/s00382-004-0483-0. Issue: Online First at http:springerlink.com.

Abdou Ali, of IRD-LTHE (France), and Centre AGRHYMET (Niger); paper title: "Invariance in the spatial structure of Sahelian rain fields at climatological scales;" Journal of Hydrometeorology (2003) 4:996-1011.

Carlos Eduardo Cerri, of Centri de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA), Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil); paper title: "Modeling changes in soul organic matter in Amazon forest to pasture conversion with the century model;" Global Change Biology (2004) 10:815-832.

Bhola Ram Gurjar, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; paper title: "Emission estimates and trends (1990-2000) for megacity Delhi and implications;" Atmospheric Environment (2004) 38 (33):5663-5681.

Souleymane Konate, of the University of Abobo-Adjame, Ecological Research Station (Ivory Coast); paper title: "Effect of underground fungus-growing termites on carbon dioxide emission at the point- and landscape-scales in an African savanna;" Functional Ecology (2003) 17:305-314.

I-I Lin, of the National Taiwan University (Taiwan); paper title: "New evidence for enhanced ocean primary production triggered by tropical cyclone;" Geophysical Research Letters (2003) 30 (13), 1718, doi:10.1029/2003GL017141.

Kamdem Edouard Eugene Penlap, of the University of Yaounde (Cameroon); paper title: "Downscaling of GCM scenarios to assess precipitation changes in the little rainy season (March-June) in Cameroon;" Climate Research (2004) 26:85-96.

Ramasamy Selvaraju, of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (India); paper title: "Impact of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on Indian foodgrain production;" International Journal of Climatology (2003) 23:187-206.

Noureddine Semane, of the National Center for Meteorological Research, Direction de la Meteorologie Nationale (Morocco); paper title: "A very deep ozone minihole in the northern hemisphere stratosphere at mid-latitudes during the winter of 2000;" Tellus (2002) 54A:382-389.

Michael Taylor, of the University of the West Indies (Jamaica); paper title: "Influence of the tropical Atlantic versus the tropical Pacific on Caribbean rainfall;" Journal of Geophysical Research (2002) 107(C9): 3127, doi10.1029/2001JC001097.

Gina Ziervogel, of the University of Cape Town (South Africa); paper title: "Stakeholder networks: improving seasonal climate forecasts;" Climatic Change (2004) 65:73-101.

Honorable Mentions:

Weidong Guo, of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China); paper title: "Case analyses and numerical simulation of soil thermal impacts on land surface energy budget based on an off-line land surface model;" Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (2002) 19(3):500-512.

Jagdish Krishnaswamy, of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (India); paper title: "Tree model based eco-climatic vegetation classification and fuzzy mapping in diverse tropical deciduous ecosystems using multi-season NDVI;" Int. J. Remote Sensing (2004) 25(6):1185-1205.

Ranjit Kumar, of the Dayalbagh Educational Institute (India); paper title: "Direct measurement of atmospheric dry deposition to natural surfaces in a semiarid region of north central India;" (2003) Journal of Geophysical Research 108: NO. D20, 4625, doi:10.1029/2002JD003194.

Simangele Mgquba, of CSIR Division of Water, Environment and Forestry Technology (South Africa); paper title: "Living with environmental risks and change in Alexandra township." South African Geographical Journal (2004) 86 (1):30-38.