2008 Volume 52 Pages 529-534
In order to implement policy measures on practical water management for the influences of rainfall characteristic variation arising from global warming, it is important to assess risks due to global warming from a practical point of view and develop actual water management measures including those related to floods and droughts. These risks are evaluated using the results of GCM20 high resolution general circulation model developed by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), calculated by using the super computer named the Earth Simulator. The horizontal resolution of the model is about 20km and the model output is expected to be useful for the flood and drought risk assessment of the future, in Shikoku Region Japan.
