Climatological characteristics of daily precipitation over Japan in the Kakushin regional climate experiments using a non-hydrostatic 5-km-Mesh model: Comparison with an outer global 20-km-mesh atmospheric climate model

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 117-120

  Kanada, Sachie ^a   Nakano, Masuo ^a   Kato, Teruyuki ^b  

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

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 84864252319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2010-030     Document Type: Article

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