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Dr. Aiguo Dai (戴爱国), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) P. O. 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, USA; email: adai@ucar.edu Dr. Dai moved to SUNY, Albany in Fall 2012. This page has not been updated since then. Please visit his page at SUNY, Albany Dai, A., 2011: Drought under global warming: A review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, DOI: 10.1002/wcc.81. (News: UCAR, ScienceDaily, SciAmerican, NYTimes, MSNBC, Reuters, XinhuaNet, People'sDaily). Dai, A., T. Qian,  K. E. Trenberth, and J. D Milliman, 2009: Changes in continental freshwater discharge from 1948-2004. J. Climate, 22, 2773-2791. (Paper, Data News: UCAR, Reuters, USAToday, SciDaily, China.org). A Global Data Set of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870-2002: Relationship with Soil Moisture and Effects of Surface Warming. J. Hydrometeorology, 5, 1117-1130, 2004. (PDSI Dataset) Estimates of freshwater discharge from continents: Latitudinal and seasonal variations. J. Hydrometeorol., 3, 660-687, 2002 (Continental & River Discharge Data) Global precipitation and thunderstorm frequencies. Part I: Seasonal and interannual variations. J. Climate, 14, 1092-1111. Part II: Diurnal variations. J. Climate, 14, 1112-1128, 2001. (non-drizzle precip freq maps) (Thunderstorm Day freq maps) (non-drizzle precip diurnal phase maps) (Precip. Frequency Data ) Diurnal and Semidiurnal Tides in Global Surface Pressure Fields, J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 3874-3891, 1999 (S1 & S2 Maps) (Data Format) (Gridded S1, S2 Data) (Station S1 & S2) (Oceanic S1 & S2) Surface observed global land precipitation variations during 1900-1988, J. Climate, 10, 2943-2962, 1997 (Dataset: Readme and Fortran Binary Format, netCDF format). adai@ucar.edu (303)497-1357(o) Designed by Junhong Wang