Changes in precipitation extremes projected by a 20-km mesh global atmospheric model

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 11, Issue , 2016, Pages 41-52

  Kitoh, Akio ^a   Endo, Hirokazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; GCM; Heavy precipitation; High resolution

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FUTURE PROSPECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; EUROPE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84960288762     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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