Urban climate projection by the WRF model at 3-km horizontal grid increment: Dynamical downscaling and predicting heat stress in the 2070's August for Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya metropolises

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 90, Issue B, 2012, Pages 47-63

  Kusaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Hara, Masayuki ^b   Takane, Yuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HEAT ISLAND; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AICHI; CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; KINKI; NAGOYA; OSAKA [KINKI]; OSAKA [OSAKA (PRF)]; TOKYO [KANTO]; TOKYO [TOKYO (PRF)];

EID: 84864217514     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2012-B04     Document Type: Article

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