Reduction in tropical rainfall diurnal variation by global warming simulated by a 20-km mesh climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kitoh, Akio ^a   Arakawa, Osamu ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODEL; LAND SEA DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL DIURNAL VARIATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; RAINFALL; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 27744578737     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023350     Document Type: Article

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