Home to a majority of the world's population and agricultural production, the southeast Asian region is of particular societal and economic significance. In part, the sustained productivity of the regional can be attributed to its abundant rainfall, more than 90% of which falls during June, July, August, and September (JJAS).

In an effort to improve our understanding of the processes which supply moisture to southeast Asia, a diagnostic study is conducted to assess best estimates of the mean seasonal distributions of precipitation, evaporation, precipitable water, and moisture transports in the eastern hemisphere during JJAS.  These estimates are then compared and contrasted with fields from the NCAR CCM3.

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