Present-day climate and climate sensitivity in the Meteorological Research Institute coupled GCM version 2.3 (MRI-CGCM2.3)

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 333-363

  Yukimoto, Seiji ^a   Noda, Akira ^a   Kitoh, Akio ^a   Hosaka, Masahiro ^a   Yoshimura, Hiromasa ^a   Uchiyama, Takao ^a   Shibata, Kiyotaka ^a   Arakawa, Osamu ^a   Kusunoki, Shoji ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745189806     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.84.333     Document Type: Article

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