Precipitation
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The general aim of the IHP short course is to help participants to develop their basic knowledge of hydrological systems and their sensitivity to climate changes and to contribute to solve current global environmental problems. Water resource is one of the biggest problems for not only developing countries but also developed countries. In 2003, after this IHP short course, the Third World Water Forum will be held in Kyoto, Japan. In the Forum, the problem of heavy rainfall and flood will be also focused on as one of vital problems in the field of water resources. Under this circumstance, this IHP short course will focus on understanding mechanism and prediction of heavy rainfall and flood runoff including river basin management. The topic on draught in senses of phenomena and management will be included as a typical topic of water resources.
The problems of water resources and ways of solving them depend much on features of nature and human activity in the field where people are living. In this sense, participants can get essential and comprehensive idea of ways of planning, managing and monitoring problems on water resources of their own countries including precipitation.T. Hori (Department of Civil Engineering Systems, Kyoto University)
Y. Ichikawa (Department of Civil Engineering Systems, Kyoto University)
E. Nakakita (Department of Global Environment Engineering, Kyoto University)
K. Nakamura (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University)
T. Shinoda (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University)
Y. Tachikawa (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
I. Tamagawa (River Basin Research Center, Gifu University)
K. Tanaka (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
K. Tsuboki (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University)
H. Uyeda (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University)
L2 Basics on Mesoscale Meteorology and Radar Meteorology.............................................................................................H. UyedaBasic equations on meteorology and treatment of precipitation phenomena
Some of bases on cloud physics for the preparation of studies on radar meteorology
L3 Boundary Layer.....................................................................................................................................................................I. TamagawaBasics of mesoscale meteorology
Weather radar application for revealing mesoscale phenomena
L4 Rain Observation from Satellites.....................................................................................................................................K. NakamuraIntroduction of boundary layer
Structure of boundary layer
Turbulent transport
Parameterization of turbulence
L5 Basics on Numerical Simulation..........................................................................................................................................K. TsubokiPrinciples of satellite remote sensing
Microwave and visible/infrared radiometer observation
Active microwave rain observation techniques
Results of spaceborne rain radar observation of rain
L6 Land Surface Processes........................................................................................................................................................K. TanakaFundamental aspects on numerical simulation
Basics of cloud resolving numerical model in comparison with numerical weather forecastings
L7 Radar Hydrology.....................................................................................................................................................................E. NakakitaLand surface processes
Land surface model
Observation of land surface processes
L8 Water Resources Planning and Management.........................................................................................................................T. HoriRadar-rainfall estimation
Potential of utilizing radar into planning and real time managing of water resources
Short-time rainfall prediction using radar and its accuracy
L9 Catchment Hydrology.......................................................................................................................................................Y. TachikawaDistribution of water resources and water balance
Water resources development and planning, from the viewpoint of optimization
Management and operation in water resources systems, focusing on reservoir operation
Draught and safety measures of water resources systems
L10 Distributed Runoff Modeling............................................................................................................................................Y. IchikawaInstruction of conceptual runoff simulation models such as a tank model, storage function method, and Xinanjiang Model
Instruction of lumped river flow routing
A real time flood prediction method with Kalman filter theory
Basic concept of distributed runoff modeling
Instruction of kinematic wave theory
Lumping of distributed runoff models
Hydrological modeling system
P2 Short-term Rainfall Prediction Using Radar..............................................................................................................E. NakakitaExplanation of results of numerical simulation with a cloud resolving model
Practice to run a cloud resolving model on a rain case
P3 Flood Runoff Prediction..............................................................................................................................................................Y. TachikawaExplanation of algorithm of a short-term rainfall prediction method
Practice to run the prediction method
Processing DEMs for distributed runoff modeling
Construction of distributed rainfall-runoff model based on kinematic wave theory
Runoff simulation
T1 Meteorological Office and Observatory.................................................................................................................H. Uyeda
Visit to a meteorological office and observatory in Nagoya
T2 In-Situ Observation Sites for Land Surface Processes.........................................................K. Tanaka and I. Tamagawa
Visit to permanent in-situ observation sites in the Lake Biwa basin
T3 Offices and Facilities for River Basin Management..........................................................................................E. Nakakita
Visit to dam control offices and some historical facilities for river basin management in the Yodo River basin.
23(Sundaya) feb. 2003 |
Arrival at Nagoya Airport | Stay in Nagoya |
24 (Monday) | Guidance, Chapters 1 & 2, Reception at Hyarc Nagoya University | Stay in Nagoya |
25 (Tuesday) | Lectures 3 & 4 | Stay in Nagoya |
26 (Wednesday) | Lectures 3 & 4 | Stay in Nagoya |
27 (Thursday) | Practice 1, (cont'd) and Technical tour 1 | Stay in Nagoya |
28 (Friday) | Writing report and Lecture 6 | Stay in Nagoya |
1 (Saturday) | Technical tour 2 on the way to kyoto | Stay in Kyoto |
2 (Sunday) | Japanese culture introduction and Free time | Stay in Kyoto |
3 (Monday) | Lecture 7 & 8 | Stay in Kyoto |
4 (Tuesday) | Practice 2 | Stay in Kyoto |
5 (Wednesday) | Lecture 9 & 10 | Stay in Kyoto |
6 (Thursday) | Practice 3 | Stay in Kyoto |
7 (Friday) | Technical tour 3 and Closing ceremony | Stay in Kyoto |
22 (Saturday) | Departure from Kansai (Osaka) Air Port |
Programme Specialist in Hydrological Sciences |
Climate of February and March in Japan
Nagoya
Daily maximum temperature: 9.4~13.4
Daily minimum temperature : 0.6~3.7
Kyoto
Daily maximum temperature: 9.3~13.1
Daily minimum temperature : 1.1~3.7
Language
Japanese only. Few people speak good English, but many people understand simple English words.
You can see many English notice boards in the public traffic system (railway and subway).
Currency
Japanese Yen (\) only.
Important websites
Nagoya Airport (including detail bus timetable): http://www.nagoya-airport-bldg.co.jp/index-e.html
Nagoya University: http://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/english/index.html
Kyoto University: http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html
Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center (HyARC), Nagoya Univ.:
http://www.ihas.nagoya-u.ac.jp/hyarc/
For more details...
Please contact with the temporary office of the 12th IHP training course; nakamura@ihas.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Kenji Nakamura)
Map around Motoyama Subway Station
Anthropogenic pollutants affect atmospheric environment such as the formation of precipitation, the quality of precipitation water, the Earth's radiative balance and ecosystem. To cope with the atmospheric environmental problem, basic understanding of physical and chemical nature of gas and aerosol particles and their effect on microphysical, chemical and optical properties of clouds are required.
The course will be focused in two ways. First is to examine gas, aerosol particles and clouds with direct observations and satellite observations. Second is to study the effect of anthropogenic pollutants on atmospheric environment with numerical calculations. The lectures and practices would be conducted in Nagoya University, Toyohashi University of Technology, National Institute for Environmental Studies and others..
Planned Lectures
Practical Training
The IHP Training Course is financially supported by a Trust Fund for UNESCO
from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japanese Government.