The description of the MRI atmospheric spectral GCM (MRI-GSPM) and its mean statistics based on a 10-year integration

Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-45

  Chiba, Masaru ^a,b   Yamazaki, Koji ^a,c   Shibata, Kiyotaka ^a   Kuroda, Yuhji ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b STA

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GCM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030368894     PISSN: 0031126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2467/mripapers.47.1     Document Type: Article

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