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Global Environmental Science Lab
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A research division that explores the atmosphere with computers, from global climate to urban climate.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading everyday weather through computation
The Global Environmental Science Division focuses on atmospheric science, conducting research aimed at a comprehensive understanding and future prediction of the global environment.
Using advanced computer systems, it runs numerical simulations that cover everything from global atmospheric phenomena to small-scale phenomena such as urban climate.
Using a regional weather model, it tackles unsolved problems in everyday weather, such as the urban heat island effect, localized torrential downpours, and the cap clouds and lenticular clouds that form over mountains.
The Global Environmental Science Division is one of the research divisions of the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
Key terms
- Numerical simulation
- A method of reproducing the behavior of a phenomenon by using a computer to solve the equations that describe it
- Regional weather model
- A model that reproduces weather through numerical calculation. WRF is a highly versatile model that was jointly developed by U.S. institutions and released to the public
- Urban meteorological model
- A numerical model that can reproduce the distribution of temperature and wind within urban blocks
ResearchResearch themes
The Global Environmental Science Division focuses on atmospheric science and aims at a comprehensive understanding and future prediction of the global environment. It investigates phenomena from the global scale to urban climate through numerical simulations on advanced computer systems.
*Illustrative imageUnsolved problems in everyday weather
Using the regional weather model WRF, the division takes on unsolved problems in everyday weather, such as the urban heat island effect, localized torrential downpours, the foehn phenomenon, and the cap clouds and lenticular clouds that form over mountains. It also studies global warming and urban climate, and future projections of heatstroke.
*Illustrative imageA model that reproduces temperature and wind in urban blocks
In collaboration with the High Performance Computing Systems Division, the division is developing an urban meteorological model (an LES model) that can reproduce the distribution of temperature and wind within urban blocks. It presents calculated surface temperatures around Tokyo Station alongside the results of helicopter observations by the Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Global Environmental Science Division consist of faculty members, researchers, and collaborating researchers from within the university.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroyuki Kusaka
- Associate ProfessorQuang-Van Doan
- Assistant ProfessorTakuto Sato
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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: “ISS-48 Towering cumulonimbus and other clouds over the Earth (2)” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Unsolved problems in everyday weather: “Lenticular cloud at Saddleback Mountain, Orange County, California on Sept 7, 2014” RainbowLady77 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- A model that reproduces temperature and wind in urban blocks: “Urban forestry seen from and on the High Line in New York (9241)” Lance Cheung/USDA / Public domain (cropped)
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