Changes in precipitation intensity over East Asia during the 20th and 21st centuries simulated by a global atmospheric model with a 60 km grid size

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 11,007-11,016

  Kusunoki, Shoji ^a   Mizuta, Ryo ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

climate change projection; East Asia; global atmospheric model; high resolution model; precipitation intensity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; EAST ASIA; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SIMULATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84887198300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50877     Document Type: Article

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