Climate simulations using MRI-AGCM3.2 with 20-km grid

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 90, Issue A, 2012, Pages 233-258

  Mizuta, Ryo ^a   Yoshimura, Hiromasa ^a   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^b   Matsueda, Mio ^b   Endo, Hirokazu ^a   Ose, Tomoaki ^a   Kamiguchi, Kenji ^a   Hosaka, Masahiro ^a   Sugi, Masato ^b   Yukimoto, Seiji ^a   Kusunoki, Shoji ^a   Kitoh, Akio ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84864207717     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2012-A12     Document Type: Article

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