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Higuchi Lab
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The lab studies the workings of water on Earth using data from a variety of Earth observation satellites.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading Earth's water through the eyes of satellites
Higuchi Lab specializes in hydrology and satellite climatology, and studies the role of water in the Earth's environment.
It analyzes data from a variety of Earth observation satellites in combination, aiming to understand how the climate works, including the effects of human activity.
Because some phenomena cannot be captured by satellites alone, the lab sometimes makes observations in the field and works with researchers in numerical simulation.
Because long data records are essential for detecting climate change, the lab also puts effort into archiving and releasing data from geostationary meteorological satellites.
Key terms
- Hydrology
- The study of how water on Earth, such as rain, rivers, and groundwater, circulates and changes.
- Satellite Climatology
- A field that analyzes satellite data over long periods to understand how the Earth's climate works and how it changes.
- Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
- A meteorological satellite that orbits above the equator in step with the Earth's rotation and keeps observing the clouds and atmosphere over the same area. Himawari is one of them.
ResearchResearch themes
Through the analysis of data from a variety of Earth observation satellites, the lab seeks to clarify how the global environment related to water behaves. To extract climate variability from satellite data, it also works to assemble and release data covering as long a period as possible.
*Illustrative imageToward Establishing Satellite Climatology
The lab analyzes and interprets, in combination, Earth observation satellite data, some of which span more than 30 years, aiming to understand the climate system including human activity. For phenomena that satellites alone cannot capture, it takes them on through field observations and collaboration with numerical simulation researchers.
*Illustrative imageArchiving and Releasing Geostationary Meteorological Satellite Data
As a project of a four-university collaboration (the Virtual Laboratory), the lab archives, processes, and releases data from geostationary meteorological satellites around the world. It also leads the archiving and release of data from Himawari-8 and Himawari-9, which began operating in 2015, and the promotion of their use.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorAtsushi Higuchi
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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.
- Top image: “North America from low orbiting satellite Suomi NPP” NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring / Public domain (cropped)
- Toward Establishing Satellite Climatology: “Satellite Image of Earth's Interrelated Systems and Climate - GPN” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Archiving and Releasing Geostationary Meteorological Satellite Data: “Himawari Z” JMA's Himawari 9 Satellite / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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