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Lisa Goddard
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
International Research Institute
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0235

Nicholas E. Graham
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
International Research Institute
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0235

Peter J. Webster
University of Colorado, Boulder
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Campus Box 311
Boulder, CO 80309-311

Toshio Yamagata
University of Tokyo
Department of Earth and Planetary Physics
Graduate School of Science
Tokyo 113 0033
Japan

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 13, September 25, 1999, p. 196. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.