Reproducibility of regional climate in central Japan using the 4-km resolution WRF model

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-116

  Kusaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Takata, Tomoyuki ^a   Takane, Yuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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EID: 80053184226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2010-029     Document Type: Article

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