Global cloud-system-resolving model NICAM successfully simulated the lifecycles of two real tropical cyclones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Fudeyasu, Hironori ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^b,c   Nasuno, Tomoe ^c   Miura, Hiroaki ^c   Yanase, Wataru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; STORMS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; CLIMATE PREDICTIONS; CLOUD SYSTEMS; DATA SETS; GLOBAL CLOUDS; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-END COMPUTERS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTIONS; INDIAN OCEANS; MESO SCALE STRUCTURES; MESO-SCALE; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 60149087760     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036003     Document Type: Article

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