Cloud/Precipitation Process Group
Clouds and precipitation play critical roles not only in severe
storms, but also in climate change. It is necessary to resolve cloud
systems in Regional Model (RM) and Global Circulation Model (GCM)
to predict evolution of cloud systems and precipitation accurately.
Our group has four major tasks, that is, (1) the investigation of
the variability of the water cycle in east Asia and the role of
meso-scale precipitating cloud systems, (2) the improvement of parameterization
schemes of microphysical processes, (3) the development of a new
cloud resolving meso-scale model, and (4) the development of the
parameterization scheme of meso-scale cloud systems. Of course,
these tasks should be done based on synthetic observations by artificial
satellites, aircraft, research vessels, meteorological radars, etc.
in collaboration with national and international institutions.