Over 5,000 years of ensemble future climate simulations by 60-km global and 20-km regional atmospheric models

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1383-1398

  Mizuta, Ryo ^a   Murata, Akihiko ^a   Ishii, Masayoshi ^a   Shiogama, Hideo ^b   Hibino, Kenshi ^c   Mori, Nobuhito ^d   Arakawa, Osamu ^c   Imada, Yukiko ^a   Yoshida, Kohei ^a   Aoyagi, Toshinori ^a   Kawase, Hiroaki ^a   Mori, Masato ^e   Okada, Yasuko ^d   Shimura, Tomoya ^d   Nagatomo, Toshiharu ^c   Ikeda, Mikiko ^f   Endo, Hirokazu ^a   Nosaka, Masaya ^a   Arai, Miki ^e   Takahashi, Chiharu ^e   Tanaka, Kenji ^d   Takemi, Tetsuya ^d   Tachikawa, Yasuto ^d   Temur, Khujanazarov ^d   Kamae, Youichi ^c   Watanabe, Masahiro ^e   Sasaki, Hidetaka ^a   Kitoh, Akio ^c   Takayabu, Izuru ^a   Nakakita, Eiichi ^d   Kimoto, Masahide ^e   more..

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

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EID: 85021165697     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0099.1     Document Type: Article

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