A scale interaction study on east Asian cyclogenesis using a general circulation model coupled with an interactively nested regional model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2851-2868

  Inatsu, Masaru ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CLIMATE MODEL; CYCLOGENESIS; EDDY EFFECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATES; MEAN FIELD; MESH SIZE; NORTHEAST ASIA; OFFLINE; REGIONAL MODEL; SCALE INTERACTIONS; SEA OF JAPAN; SYNOPTIC-SCALE EDDIES;

LANDFORMS; RAIN; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COUPLING; CYCLOGENESIS; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; STORM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 70350784290     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2825.1     Document Type: Article

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