Downscaling of the climatic change in the Mei-yu Rainband in East Asia by a pseudo climate simulation method

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-76

  Kawase, Hiroaki ^a   Yoshikane, Takao ^a   Hara, Masayuki ^a   Ailikun, Borjiginte ^b   Kimura, Fujio ^a,c   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a,d  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 77954184146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2008-019     Document Type: Article

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