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Earth Water Cycle Science Division, Meteorology Lab
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The lab investigates the interior of clouds that produce heavy rain and typhoons using radar observations and simulations.
AboutAbout the lab
What is happening inside clouds?
The Meteorology Lab studies meteorology and atmospheric physics related to clouds, rain, and snow.
It investigates the mechanisms of clouds and precipitation seen across East Asia and Japan, including rainfall along the Baiu front, snowfall along the coast of the Sea of Japan, cumulonimbus clouds, and typhoons.
The lab uses both observations with weather radar and balloons and computer simulations.
The lab belongs to the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, and accepts graduate students as a cooperating division of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies.
Key terms
- Doppler radar
- A weather radar that measures the distribution of raindrops from reflected radio waves and the motion of wind inside clouds from shifts in frequency.
- Cloud-resolving model
- A computer model that calculates how clouds and rain form, using a grid fine enough to represent individual clouds.
- Cumulonimbus
- A cloud a few kilometers across that brings thunderstorms on summer afternoons. Clusters of these clouds make up typhoons and the Baiu front.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's admissions guide (written around 2018) lists research themes including physical processes related to clouds and precipitation, mesoscale meteorology, heavy rain and heavy snow, typhoons, and radar meteorology. The lab combines observation projects, data analysis, and numerical computation.
*Illustrative imageObserving clouds with Doppler radar
Doppler radar is used to measure the distribution of raindrops and the motion of the wind inside clouds. The lab analyzes data observed simultaneously by multiple radars to investigate the three-dimensional airflow inside clouds.
*Illustrative imageNumerical experiments with the cloud-resolving model CReSS
How clouds form is determined by a complex interplay between atmospheric motion and physical processes inside clouds. Using the cloud-resolving model CReSS, the lab has run simulations of typhoons, the Baiu rainy season, thunderstorms, snowfall, and more.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Meteorology Lab are faculty, secretaries, researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKazuhisa Tsuboki
- Associate ProfessorTaro Shinoda
- Project Associate ProfessorSachie Kanada
- Project Assistant ProfessorYunhee Kang
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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: “Weather radar dome on Holehead - geograph.org.uk - 5668882” Alan O'Dowd / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Observing clouds with Doppler radar: “Nssl0026 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library” OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). / Public domain (cropped)
- Numerical experiments with the cloud-resolving model CReSS: “Assimilating EarthCARE into numerical weather prediction ESA523298” European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo (cropped)
- Related lab (Earth Water Cycle Science Division, Cloud and Precipitation Science Lab): “Ishigakijima meteorological radar 02” 人事院 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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