Graphical Abstract

Ham, S., K. Yoshimura, and H. Li, 2016: Historical dynamical downscaling for East Asia with the atmosphere and ocean coupled regional model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 94A, 199-208.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2015-046 Graphical Abstract with highlights

A regional atmosphere-ocean coupled model, RSM-ROMS, was applied to dynamically downscale the global reanalysis data over the East Asian region for the first time.
Spatial distribution of net heat flux, precipitation, and surface air temperature were improved from the atmosphere-only run throughout the period, though sea surface temperature (SST) was degraded due to that observed SST was forced in the atmosphere-only run.
The inconsistency between the impacts on SST ant the other variables may indicate remaining uncertainty in the coupling and/or boundary layer processes.