Future changes and uncertainties in Asian precipitation simulated by multiphysics and multi-sea surface temperature ensemble experiments with high-resolution Meteorological Research Institute atmospheric general circulation models (MRI-AGCMs)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Endo, Hirokazu ^a   Kitoh, Akio ^a   Ose, Tomoaki ^a   Mizuta, Ryo ^a   Kusunoki, Shoji ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BANGLADESH; CHANGE PATTERNS; EAST ASIA; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGH RESOLUTION; MARITIME CONTINENT; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES; MODEL FRAMEWORK; MULTI-PHYSICS; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASIA;

EID: 84865844915     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017874     Document Type: Article

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