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Miura Lab
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A lab that uses computation and observation to understand weather and climate shaped by clouds.
AboutAbout the lab
How clouds shape weather and climate.
The Miura Lab studies weather and climate phenomena related to clouds.
The lab aims to understand large-scale organized cloud systems in the tropics, focusing on the roles of atmospheric waves and water vapor.
The lab works on numerical simulations using supercomputers and on improving numerical models.
Its research is wide-ranging, from analyzing satellite data and in-situ observational data to visualizing large-scale datasets.
Key terms
- Atmospheric waves
- Waves that propagate through the atmosphere. Changes in pressure and wind spread out in the form of waves.
- Numerical simulation
- Solving equations on a computer to reproduce how a real phenomenon evolves over time.
- Satellite data
- Data collected by artificial satellites observing the Earth from space.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies weather and climate phenomena related to clouds. Using a wide range of methods, from numerical simulation to analysis of observational data, it investigates how atmospheric motion and clouds interact.
*Illustrative imageLarge-Scale Cloud Systems in the Tropics
One of the lab's current goals is to develop a new conceptual framework for understanding large-scale organized cloud systems in the tropics (such as the MJO), focusing on the roles of atmospheric waves and water vapor.
*Illustrative imageAtmospheric Motion Across Scales
In the longer term, the lab wants to understand how clouds regulate atmospheric motion across horizontal scales ranging from several meters to several thousand kilometers, and how this determines the distribution of energy among those scales.
*Illustrative imageComputation and Analysis of Observational Data
The lab's work covers a wide range of areas: numerical simulations using supercomputers, improvement of numerical models, analysis of satellite data and in-situ observational data, and visualization of large-scale datasets.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorHiroaki MiuraPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Tropical Cyclone Robyn” NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz / Public domain (cropped)
- Large-Scale Cloud Systems in the Tropics: “Clouds, cloudscape over Lombok Strait, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Atmospheric Motion Across Scales: “Cloud Streets over the Atlantic Ocean ( )” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Computation and Analysis of Observational Data: “Earth Simulator PB111941” Kestrel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tozuka Lab): “El Niño Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly- January, 1997, through December, 1997 (SVS156 - sst 2d)” NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Greg Shirah, Antonio Busalacchi / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Miyakawa Lab): “Cumulus congestus bei Limburg” GerritR / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Masumoto Lab): “Timor Sea (MODIS )” MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Sato Lab): “ISS-47 Earth’s limb during a starry night pass above the Indian Ocean” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
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