FRONTIER Newsletter No.9 Jan.2000 Introduction of the research results in the FRSGC In the FRONTIER Newsletter, we introduce research results of the FRSGC upon occasion. This time we introduce examples of research results contributed by a sub-leader, Dr. Youichi Tanimoto and a research Dr. S.K. Behera, of the Climate Variations Research Program. Inter-Hemisphere Decadal Variations in SST, surface wind, heat flux, low-level cloud over the Atlantic basin Youichi Tanimoto (Climate Variations Research Program), Shangping Xie (IPRC) The unusual event of 1994 in the Asia-Pacific region Swadhin Kumar Behera (Climate Variations Research Program)