Reproducibility and future projection of the midwinter storm-track activity over the Far East in the CMIP3 climate models in relation to "Haru-Ichiban" over Japan

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 581-588

  Nishii, Kazuaki ^a   Miyasaka, Takafumi ^a   Kosaka, Yu ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; EDDY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM TRACK; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 68049110336     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87.581     Document Type: Article

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