Eastward-propagating property of large-scale precipitation systems simulated in the coarse-resolution NICAM and an explanation of its appearance

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-24

  Yoshizaki, Masanori ^a   Iga, Shi Ichi ^b   Satoh, Masaki ^a,c  

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

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 84920928995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2012-006     Document Type: Article

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