"The Fifth International Conference on Precipitaiton entitled "Space-Time Variablity and Dynamics of Rainfall" was held in Elounda, Crete, Greece, June 14-16, 1995. ...This issue of the Journal of Jeophysical Research (Atmospheres) contains 31 papers presented at the conference. ...The Fifth International Conference on Precipitation was sponsored by the American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, and European Geophysical Society."--Pref.