Global precipitations and climate change

Of the workshop and its recommendations / M. Desbois and F. Desalmand -- Natural variability of the Asian, Indian and African monsoons over the last 130 KA / N. Petit-Maire -- Fluctuations of the Indian monsoon regime during the last 170,000 years : evidence from sea surface temperature, salinity and organic carbon records / F. Rostek, G. Ruhland, F.C. Bassinot, L. Beaufort, P.J. Muller and E. Bard -- Accumulation at the surface of polar ice sheets : observation and modelling for global climate change / C. Genthon, J. Jouzel and M. Deque -- Global climate changes and humidity variations over East Europe and Asia by historical data / A.O. Selivanov -- Regional climate change scenario based on paleoclimatic data / M. Shabalova -- Precipitation changes over the Northern Hemispheric Extratropics during the last hundred years / P. Ya. Groisman and D.R. Easterling -- The recent West African rainfall variability through empirical and modelling investigations / S. Janicot.