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Physical Climatology Lab
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The lab uses satellite data to study climate, from clouds and rain to the westerlies.
AboutAbout the lab
Where and how does rain fall?
The Physical Climatology Lab studies atmospheric flow from the troposphere to the stratosphere, characterized by a complex climate system made up of various elements such as the ocean, precipitation, and topography.
The lab covers large-scale phenomena such as the meandering of the westerlies, stratospheric circulation, and precipitation characteristics associated with extratropical cyclones and atmospheric rivers, as well as smaller-scale phenomena such as orographic precipitation.
The lab conducts its analyses using atmospheric reanalysis data and satellite observation data.
Key terms
- westerlies
- Strong winds that blow from west to east in the upper atmosphere at mid-latitudes
- stratosphere
- The layer of the atmosphere located roughly 10 to 50 km above the ground
- reanalysis data
- Data that reconstruct the state of the atmosphere without gaps by organizing past observations with a numerical model
NewsLab news
Paper by a graduate accepted by JTECH
Paper accepted by SOLA
Paper accepted by JMSJ
A student received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2025
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies weather phenomena at various spatial scales by analyzing reanalysis data and satellite observation data.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Physical Climatology Lab are faculty members, researchers, master's students, and fourth-year undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShoichi Shige
- Assistant ProfessorShizuka Ohhata
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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: “Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Constellation ( )” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA / Public domain (cropped)
- Atmospheric models and methods for analyzing satellite data: “NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Hurricane Isaac Drench Louisiana ( )” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA / Public domain (cropped)
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