Research topics
Rain is a familiar but highly variable and surprising phenomenon. Satellite observations stimulate a desire for truth about the environment and raise many simple questions about the meaning of its existence and its relevance to human life. Long-term precipitation observation from space have created an exciting history of precipitation climatology, involving researchers from all over the world. We would like to take a bird’s eye view of the world through water falling from the sky.
Basic research objectives:
+ Understanding the regional diversity of precipitation phenomena and climate
+ Developing the scientific potential of Earth observation
Major themes:
+ Uniqueness of spaceborne radar data, clarification of its deficiency and benefits of the continued spaceborne radar operations
– Precipitation system climatology based on TRMM PR and GPM DPR data accumulation
– Data evaluation and estimation of limitations of satellite products
– Radar data utilization in microwave radiometer algorithms and vice versa.
Keywords: Spaceborne precipitation radar, precipitation system database, high-resolution precipitation climatology, diurnal cycle of precipitation, vertical precipitation structure.
See links for research outputs etc. (including conference presentations, etc. in Japanese)