NAME =  Dr. Izuru Takayabu  
ORGANIZATION =  Meteorological Research Institute, Japan  
ADDRESS =  1-1 Nagamine Tsukuba Ibaraki, 305-0052  
COUNTRY =  Japan  
PHONE =  +81-298-53-8620  
FAX =  +81-298-55-7240  
E-MAIL =  takayabu@mri-jma.go.jp  
POSTER_ONLY =  no  
THEME =  T4  
DATE =  02-Aug-04-10:21:52  
ABSID = T4DIT02Aug04102152 
TITLE = Tibetan Plateau's snow accumulation estimated from regional climate model simulation 
AUTHOR_1 = Izuru Takayabu 
INSTITUTION_1 = Meteorological Research Institute 
PRESENTER = AUTHOR_1 
AUTHOR_2 = Hidetaka Sasaki 
INSTITUTION_2 = Meteorological Research Institute 
AUTHOR_3 = Kazuyo Murazaki 
INSTITUTION_3 = Meteorological Research Institute 
AUTHOR_4 = Kazuo Kurihara 
INSTITUTION_4 = Meteorological Research Institute 
AUTHOR_5 = Hidetaka Sasaki 
INSTITUTION_5 = Meteorological Research Institute 
AUTHOR_6 = Tomoyoshi Hirota
INSTITUTION_6 = National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region
ABSTRACT =   To investigate the hydrological cycle of Asian region, we developed a regional climate model and integrated it for 10 years continuously, nested into a global circulation model.  A simple snow model is added into the regional climate model, and we succeed to reproduce the seasonal change of the snow cover area over Asian region realistically. The accumulation mechanism around Tibetan Plateau is investigated using that regional climate model.  At the southern periphery of the plateau, the main source of snow is the summer monsoon precipitation.  However, around the western periphery (Pamir Hights), we have another precipitation maximum, caused by the western disturbances evolving on March.  These characteristics have good correspondence to the field studies.