International Collaboration
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International Collaborations
Because the research object of the climatic variation research has the
global scale, it is very important to cooperate with scientists and
research organizations in all the countries in the world.
CCSR is expected to be a focal point for interaction with the
international community, and also to organize research activities in
Japan related to climate.
WCRP(World Climate Research Programme)
Many projects are being put in practice under the research program WCRP,
for the global research for the climate variation (Figure 1).
CCSR plays an important role in these cooperative researches.
A number of our staff serve as project scientists for various national
research projects, and we also publishes WCRP-Newsletter.
Figure 1 : The organization and plans of WCRP
GAME(GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment)
For example, the Center is playing a central role in planning
GAME (GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment) which is to take place
from 1996 to 2005. In order to accelerate climate research activities,
the Center has established a special fund which is used by many
researchers in Japan.
Figure 2 : Sub-programs of GEWEX. Yellow regions is the GAME observation
field.(by the courtesy of GAME international secretariat)
Global observation from the space
And we also take part in satellite program.
TRMM(Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission),which has been launched
from the Tanegashima Space Center, NASDA in November 29, 1997, is a joint
venture between Japan and the US(Figure 3).
CCSR cooperates with NASDA, and aims to the research for this satellite
program.
TRMM will survey the earth's condition and contribute to understanding the
mechanisms of climate change which deeply affects out lives,
because TRMM is the first space mission dedicated to measuring tropical
and subtropical rainfall though microwave and visible/infrared sensors.
Figure 3 : TRMM (by the courtesy of NASDA)
the global soil water mapping
There is a GSWP project, in which global soil water is estimated by
using miscellaneous land surface process model and atmospheric data.
CCSR plays an important role in GSWP, as coordinator of the results
estimated by research organizations in the world.
We open to the public the results in our homepage
(http://www.ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/docs/gswp-icc/).
Figure 4 : Example image of global soil water map estimated by research
organizations in the world.
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