Summertime temperature extremes over Japan in the late 21st Century projected by a high-resolution regional climate model

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 90, Issue A, 2012, Pages 101-122

  Murata, Akihiko ^a   Nakano, Masuo ^b   Kanada, Sachie ^b   Kurihara, Kazuo ^a   Sasaki, Hidetaka ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; FOEHN; FROUDE NUMBER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUMMER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WESTERLY; WIND;

HIDAKA MOUNTAINS; HOKKAIDO; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; KANTO MOUNTAINS; TAMA; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84864213237     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2012-A05     Document Type: Article

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