CORRECTION 14 March 2003

Figure1 and Table 1 contain the incorrect domain.
This should be 10S-10N, 135-170E and is therefore
NOT consistent with Cess.

The 5S-5N, 140-165 E results in Table 1 are as follows:

year swcf (obs) lwcf (obs) ncf (obs) N (obs) w (NCEP)

 1985 -65.273  61.152  -4.121  1.067  -0.037
 1986 -76.633  70.266  -6.367  1.091  -0.044
 1987 -75.445  66.387  -9.058  1.136  -0.033
 1988 -62.244  57.232  -5.012  1.088  -0.030
 1989 -65.423  60.887  -4.536  1.074  -0.030
 1994 -74.897  63.902 -10.995  1.172  -0.043
 1998 -45.898  36.873  -9.025  1.245  -0.021


ALSO, in table 1, 1999 should read 1989.