Contents Preface Chapter 1Introduction Chapter2A Nine-Layer Atmospheric General Circulation Model and Its Performance Chapter 3 Radiation and Cloud Schemes Chapter 4 Land Surface Process Schemes for Snow Cover and Arid Region Chapter 5 Oceanic General Circulation and Sea-Ice Model Chapter 6 Schemes for Coupling AGCM and OGCM Part II Model Evaluation and Analyses Chapter 7 Evaluation of IAP/LASG GOALS Model Chapter 8 Impact of Cloud and Wind Stress on SST Variation in Western Equatorial Pacific Chapter 9 Interdecadal Climate Variability Chapter 10 Wintertime North Pacific Surface Heat Flux Anomaly and Air-Sea Interaction Chapter 11 Gearing between the Indo-Monsoon Circulation and the Pacific-Walker Circula- tion and ENSO as Simulated by GOALS/LASG Model Chapter 12 A Numerical Simulation Study of the Impact of Surface Albedo on the Summer- time North Africa Subropical High Chapter 13 Disposal of Negative Orography in a Spectral Modeling of Subtropical Climate Appendix 1 Users' Guide for Component AGCM+SSiB of the GOALS/LASG Model Appendix 2 Users' Guide for the Component OGCM of GOALS/LASG Model Appendix 3 Versions adn Output Data of the GOALS/LASG Model