Dynamical downscaling for climate projection with high-resolution MRI AGCM-RCM

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 94A, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-16

  Kitoh, Akio ^a   Ose, Tomoaki ^b   Takayabu, Izuru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamical downscaling; GCM; RCM; Regional climate information

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; FUTURE PROSPECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 85014061288     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2015-022     Document Type: Article

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