Preliminary results from the coupled atmosphere-ocean regional climate model at the Meteorological Research Institute

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 389-403

  Sasaki, Hidetaka ^a   Kurihara, Kazuo ^a   Takayabu, Izuru ^a   Murazaki, Kazuyo ^a   Sato, Yasuo ^a   Tsujino, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33745212879     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.84.389     Document Type: Article

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