Evaluation of precipitation and high-level cloud areas associated with large-scale circulation over the tropical Pacific in the CMIP3 models

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 771-789

  Ichikawa, Hiroki ^a   Masunaga, Hirohiko ^a   Kanzawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLOUD; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 70349496258     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87.771     Document Type: Article

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