Data Assimilation Research Team Programs / Connections

Programs for Junior Scientists

Connections

Organization

• Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland

  • Professor Eugenia Kalnay
  • Professor James Carton
  • Professor Kayo Ide

• Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Application Laboratory

• Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

• Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) / The Third Laboratory / Department of Observation and Data Assimilation

• Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC)

• National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

• Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University / Professor Tomoo Ushio

• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) / GPM

• Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo / Professor Masaki Satoh

• Institute of Industorial Science, The University of Tokyo / Professor Kei Yoshimura

• German Weather Service (DWD), University of Reading / Professor Roland Potthast

• Kyoto University / Professor Takashi Sakajo

• University of Buenos Aires / Dr. Juan Ruiz

• Meisei Electric

• Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba / Professor Hiroshi Tanaka

• Tokyo Electric Power Company

• MTI Ltd.

• RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)

  • Director, Satoshi Matsuoka
  • Computational Climate Science Research Team: RIKEN / Team
  • Large-scale Parallel Numerical Computing Technology Research Team: RIKEN / Team
  • System Software Research Team: RIKEN / Team

• RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR)

  • Prediction Science Laboratory: RIKEN / Team

Project

• 「Fugaku」 Accelerating Resulta Creation Program: Large Ensemble Atmospheric and Environmental Prediction for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

• JST CREST

  • Advanced Application Technologies to Boost Big Data Utilization for Multiple-Field Scientific Discovery and Social Problem Solving

    Innovating "Big Data Assimilation" technology for revolutionizing very-short-range severe weather prediction

    CREST Page / Project Page

  • Advanced Core Technologies for Big Data Integration

    Extreme Big Data (EBD) Next Generation Big Data Infrastructure Technologies Towards Yottabyte/Year

    Project Page

MOU Organization

• The University of Maryland, College Park (USA) Feb. 25, 2013 - Feb. 28, 2024
• University of Reading (UK) Feb, 14, 2017 - Feb. 13, 2022
• IMT-Atlantique (France) Mar. 4, 2019 - Mar. 3, 2024
• Pennsylvania State University (USA) Jun. 1, 2019 - May 31, 2024
• National Central University (Taiwan) Dec. 9, 2019 - Dec. 8, 2024

Joint Research

Current Research

• Enhancing the local ensemble transform Kalman filter(LETKF) for mesoscale numerical weather prediction

  Jul. 1, 2013 - Mar. 31, 2022

  • CIMA/University of Buenos Aires (Argentine)
  • National Meteorological Service (Argentine)

• フェーズドアレイ気象レーダの30秒更新ナウキャストのリアルタイム実証

  Dec. 1, 2016 - Mar. 31, 2021

  • MTI Ltd.

• Advanced ICT for monitoring freshwater ecosystem resilience
  (Joint Research Activities in ICT for a Resilient Society', JAPAN-ISRAEL COOPERATIVE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, JST)

  Jun. 1, 2018 - May 31, 2021

  • Ritsumeikan University
  • Shinshu University
  • Osaka University
  • IOLR (Israel

• Advancing Ensemble-based Data Assimilation Methods

  Aug. 1, 2019 - Mar. 31, 2022

  • University of Melbourne (Australia)

• 全球大気モデル用いたデータ同化アルゴリズムと衛星観測データ同化手法の高度化

  Nov. 1, 2019 - Mar. 31, 2022

  • Chiba University

• Improving predictability and data assimilation on high-impact weather using SCALE-LETKF with a large ensemble

  Jan. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2023（being updated）

  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
  • CIMA, University of Buenos Aires – CONICET (Argentine)
  • University of Vienna (Austria)

• Soft boundary local particle filters in high-dimensional hidden Markov models

  Apr. 1, 2020 - Sep. 30, 2020

  • Nagoya University

• 海洋モデルを使った衛星データ同化に関する研究

  Apr. 1, 2020 - Mar. 31, 2022

  • JAXA

Past Research

• ビッグデータ同化による局地的豪雨予測のための数値天気予報に関する研究

  Oct. 1, 2013 - Mar. 31, 2019

  • Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteolorogical Agency

• ビッグデータ同化による局地的豪雨予測のための衛星データ利用技術に関する研究

  Jul. 22, 2016 - Mar. 31, 2019

  • Meteorological Satellite Center of JMA

• ダム運用の高度化に関する研究

  Jan. 1, 2017 - Dec. 31, 2019

  • Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated

• Investigating weight structure of the LETKF using an intermediate AGCM

  Oct. 1, 2018 - Mar. 31, 2020

  • The university of Iowa (USA)

• 局地的数値天気予報に向けた高密度地上気象観測の有効性に関する研究

  Jan. 17, 2014 - Mar. 31, 2020

  • MEISEI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.