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Satoh Lab
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The lab uses a global cloud-resolving model to simulate typhoons and climate.
AboutAbout the lab
Computing the whole Earth, down to every individual cloud.
The lab's goal is to theoretically elucidate the circulation structure of Earth's atmosphere.
It investigates how cloud and precipitation systems, such as typhoons and tropical cumulonimbus clouds, connect to the global general circulation.
The lab uses numerical models at many levels of hierarchy, from one-dimensional radiative-convective equilibrium models to three-dimensional atmospheric general circulation models.
The global cloud-resolving model the lab has developed covers the entire Earth at a horizontal resolution of a few kilometers and reproduces the multiscale structure of cumulonimbus clouds and typhoons.
Key terms
- Atmospheric general circulation
- The large-scale patterns of atmospheric flow when viewed at the scale of the entire Earth
- Hadley circulation
- A large atmospheric circulation in which air rises near the equator and descends at around 20 to 30 degrees latitude
- Global cloud-resolving model
- A numerical model that covers the entire Earth at a horizontal resolution of a few kilometers and explicitly calculates cumulonimbus clouds
NewsLab news
Prof. Satoh receives the Fujiwara Award from the Meteorological Society of Japan
A student wins the Best Student Poster Award at AOGS2025
A student wins the Matsuno Award at the Meteorological Society of Japan 2024 Autumn Meeting
A student wins the GeoSciAI2024 Student Award (Meteorology Challenge)
ResearchResearch themes
As an approach to climate and environmental problems, the lab aims to theoretically elucidate the circulation structure of Earth's atmosphere. Its current focus is the relationship between the hierarchical structure of tropical precipitation systems and the general circulation.
*Illustrative imageDynamics of the Atmospheric General Circulation
The lab investigates what controls the many components of the atmospheric general circulation, including the Hadley and Walker circulations, interactions between low and mid latitudes, tropopause height, and water vapor distribution.
*Illustrative imageCloud and Precipitation Systems
The lab studies typhoons, tropical cumulus clusters, and mesoscale circulations. It examines how the hierarchy is linked, from cumulus clouds a few kilometers across to the global scale spanning tens of thousands of kilometers.
*Illustrative imageNumerical Modeling
The lab chooses among a hierarchy of numerical models, from global nonhydrostatic models to regional models, to suit each problem. It is also developing and improving NICAM, a global nonhydrostatic model.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members include faculty, project researchers, doctoral and master's students, visiting researchers, and a secretary.As of 2026
- ProfessorMasaki SatohPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorTomoki Ono
- Project Assistant ProfessorWoosub Roh
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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: “Super Typhoon Oscar SE of Japan near peak intensity (2268-432)” NOAA
（GMS-5衛星） / Public domain (cropped) - Dynamics of the Atmospheric General Circulation: “Earth's northern hemisphere with sea ice and clouds” NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio / Public domain (cropped)
- Cloud and Precipitation Systems: “Super Typhoon Kent ENE of Luzon and threatening Taiwan (2268-433)” NOAA
（GMS-5衛星） / Public domain (cropped) - Numerical Modeling: “Still centered over the Atlantic ( )” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Watanabe Lab): “Blue Marble Western Hemisphere” NASA / Reto Stöckli / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Iga Lab (Dynamic Marine Meteorology Group, DMMG)): “Sea of Japan polar low Z” VIIRS image captured by NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Oka Lab (Division of Climate System Research)): “Deciphering the Maud Rise Polynya in normal color” NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen. / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Imada Lab): “Cumulonimbus cloud ( )” contri / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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