Future projections in precipitation over Asia simulated by two RCMs nested into MRI-CGCM2.2

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 511-519

  Takayabu, Izuru ^a   Kato, Hisashi ^b   Nishizawa, Keiichi ^b   Takayabu, Yukari N ^c   Sato, Yasuo ^a   Sasaki, Hidetaka ^a   Kurihara, Kazuo ^a   Kitoh, Akio ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 35348963058     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85.511     Document Type: Article

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