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Storm and Extreme Weather Lab
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A lab that explores the mechanisms and threats of extreme weather such as typhoons and heavy rain.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding how extreme weather works, and how threatening it is.
The Storm and Extreme Weather Lab studies the structure of extreme weather that causes meteorological disasters, such as typhoons, heavy rain, and violent winds, and the mechanisms of their formation and development, through analysis of satellite and meteorological data and numerical modeling.
The lab also studies the regional-scale atmospheric environment and Asian monsoon variability that form the background of extreme weather, and how extreme weather will appear in future climates.
Key terms
- Extreme weather
- Severe weather that rarely occurs, such as typhoons, linear rainbands, and tornadoes
- Atmospheric boundary layer
- The layer of the atmosphere strongly affected by the ground, extending from the surface to a height of about 1 to 2 km
- Large-eddy simulation
- A numerical method that reproduces turbulence by directly calculating the motion of large eddies
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the structure and the formation and development mechanisms of extreme weather phenomena such as typhoons, heavy rain, and violent winds, using analysis of satellite and meteorological data and numerical modeling.
*Illustrative imageTyphoons, Heavy Rain, Tornadoes, and Disasters
Recent research topics include the formation, development, and extratropical transition of typhoons and the resulting disasters; heavy rain, tornadoes, and gusts associated with cumulonimbus clouds; interactions between the atmospheric boundary layer and the land surface and ocean; and the development of extreme weather prediction models that integrate atmospheric, oceanic, and urban models.
*Illustrative imageInternal Structure and Prediction of Typhoons
The lab organizes research and diagnostic methods for understanding the structure near the center of typhoons, and studies the three-dimensional Fujiwhara effect, in which two typhoons influence each other in the western North Pacific, as well as typhoon structure based on aircraft observation data.
*Illustrative imageWind, Heat, and Turbulence in Cities
Using large-eddy simulation, the lab studies the relationship between building arrangements and upward heat transport in the urban area of Osaka, the effects of building modifications on urban turbulence and heat, and the risk of strong winds in Japanese cities in future climates.
*Illustrative imageSnowdrifts
The lab develops a snowdrift model based on the lattice Boltzmann method and compares it with observations, and estimates the turbulence around snow fences and how snowdrifts form there.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTetsuya Takemi
- Associate ProfessorKosuke Ito
- Assistant ProfessorSeika Tanji
- Project ProfessorSoichiro Hirano
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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: “Sunrise on Typhoon Hinnamnor’s Eye (CIRA )” Himawari imagery: CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA / Public domain (cropped)
- Typhoons, Heavy Rain, Tornadoes, and Disasters: “F5 tornado Elie Manitoba 2007” Justin Hobson (Justin1569 at English Wikipedia) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Internal Structure and Prediction of Typhoons: “Evolution of a Tornado” JasonWeingart / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Wind, Heat, and Turbulence in Cities: “Urban heat island variation” Valéry Masson,1 Aude Lemonsu,1 Julia Hidalgo,2 and James Voogt3 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Snowdrifts: “Living snow fence minnesota” USDA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (災害気候研究分野): “Northwest Pacific cyclone Z” AHI image captured by the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Himawari-8 satellite / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (斜面モニタリング研究領域): “Shikoku mountains ( )” Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (強
震動研究分野): “2004 Chuetsu earthquake Damaged building, Nagaoka 02” Naoki Sato / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped) - Related lab (内陸地震研究領域): “Gomura Fault Ikunouchi Site C” さか
おり / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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