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Projections in Japan
Izuru TAKAYABU
(Meteorological Research Institute)
Japan’s 1st National Workshop on Economics of Climate Change
and Low Carbon Growth Strategies in Northeast Asia
20 April 2010 (Tokyo, Japan)
What is Downscaling?
What is downscaling?
(Iizuka, 2008)
(@NIED)
Influence of horizontal resolution on
the representation of precipitation
RCM
AOGCM
(20km)
(T42, 280km)
RCM OBS.
(60km) (R/A 5km)
50km -10km
20km
The systems which bring the heavy rainfall composed of many meso-g (only
several km!) convective cells. (Kanada, 2010)
Future issues: Some problems to 3D
bestructures,
left...
mechanisms of
averaged in a 20km-grid
mesoscale
convective systems
AGCM20km NHM5km NHM2km
GCM
&
Tsukuba
Re-
analysis
data
MRI
DPRI
Comparison
Bias detection Bias Information
Two way
nesting model Observation data
(Hokkaido)
1985~2004
Seasonal. Change of
RCMs and JRA-25
The accuracy of the models
Error in surface temperature
In each
prefecture
(Monthly
mean)
Error in precip.
Impact studies in other projects
20km
Agriculture (Rice yielding)
scenario
Image
Hydrology (Image)
Dynamical downscaling for urban area
Global Circulation Model Further downscaling if
we need.
3km
15km
Global
Warming
1.1C
Urbanization
1.9C
Kimura,F and S.Adachi
Change of Urbanization to 2070’s
Urban-area/Total
rare %
1997 Estimation by
extrapolation to
2070
Global
warming
3C
Temp.