Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies
Radiation and Climate Physics Group
Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University

Mayuhi Sano received the Best Poster Award for Young Researcher at the International Radiation Symposium 2024 held in Hangzhou, China, on June 17-21, 2024. This award is given to three young researchers who gave excellent poster presentations as graduate students or within 10 years after obtaining their PhD. This was the first time for Ms. Sano to participate in an …

Associate Professor Hironobu Iwabuchi and graduate student Mayuki Sano (D1) attended the International Radiation Symposium 2024 held in Hangzhou, China on June 17-21, 2024. Researchers from all over the world who are working on atmospheric radiation and remote sensing gathered for active research presentations and information exchange. Many of the topics included theory and modeling of scattering by particles and …

SQM has been installed and started observations at the Chiba University Atmospheric Environment Observation Supersite. The Sky Quality Meter (SQM) is an inexpensive and easy-to-use optical instrument for measuring zenith brightness. The brightness of the night sky can be observed from the ground due to its nature, and although there is a campaign called “Globe at Night” to estimate the …

 From November 4 to December 3, 2023, I joined Prof. Schmidt’s research group at the LASP lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder through Tohoku University’s Collaborative Research Program (COLABS). This lab has published papers related to 2023, and I was able to gain a better understanding of the latest research methods. This short stay was a valuable opportunity …

Mayuki Sano, a second-year student in the Master Course in our laboratory, will receive the Matsuno Award for her presentation in the 2023 Autumn Meeting of the Meteorological Society of Japan.This award is given to students who have made an outstanding presentation on research that was conducted independently by the student and that has produced highly original and remarkable results. …

The 2020 autumn meeting of Meteorological Society of Japan was held online from October 25 to 31, 2020. A total of six people, including two professors and four students, participated from this laboratory. In addition, Amma (D1) and Yamashita (M2) gave a presentation. In the on-demand presentation, we discussed with the participants by zoom and by responding to the comments …

The JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020 was held online from July 12 to 16, 2020. Six people from this laboratory, including three professors and three students, participated. Also, Dr. Iwabuchi, Dr. Khatri, and Mr. Yamashita gave an online poster presentation. Due to the recent COVID-19 situation, most of the research meetings were canceled or postponed. Thus, it was hard to collect …

From Sep. 17th to 19th, a workshop on atmospheric radiation and remote sensing was held in Inawashiro, Fukushima. Members of our laboratory and Irie laboratory (Chiba university), and a researcher from Meteorological Research Institute participated in this workshop. In this workshop, each participant made a presentation on their own research theme and a discussion. In addition, we took a lecture …