We welcome new laboratory member “Xinyue Wang” from China. Greeting from her is as below. I am a graduate student of Radiation and Climate Physics Group, working with Professor Hironobu Iwabuchi. My research interest is the cloud-radiation coupling, and their impact on tropical dynamic systems. I am honored to be a member of our group and study with so many …

From Sep. 13 to 15, a workshop on atmospheric radiation was held at Inawashiro. Members of our laboratory and Irie laboratory (Chiba university) attended it. The attendees were required to introduce their researches. We went to Jododaira to have a field experiment. (M1 Masuda)

Three students (Masuda, Ooashi, Amma) from our laboratory participated in a  meteorology summer school held at Makino Seminar House in Shiga Prefecture from 8th September to 10th September 2017. Many young researchers and students engaged in meteorology from all over the prefecture gathered. We invited speeches by university professors and weather casters and discussed and exchanged information on each research …

Three professors, two researchers, and Three students are participated JpGU – AGU Joint Meeting 2017 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan. This meeting was held by not only JpGU but also AGU, so that many foreign researchers attended it. Prof. Iwabuchi, Prof. Pradeep, Dr. Saito gave oral presentation and Dr, Zhang and Mr. Takahashi (1st year of doctoral course student) gave …

At the Youth Education National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Tokyo from May 25 to 28, 2017, the Spring Meeting of the Japan Meteorological Society 2017 was held. From our laboratory, a total of six people, two faculty members, one PD, and three students Participated. Associate professor Iwabuchi made an oral presentation. PD Saito also made two oral presentations. I touched …

One PhD student, Masanori Saito participated in AGU Fall Meeting 2016 and gave a poster presentation. He attended sessions related to new remote sensing techniques and climatological effects of aerosol and cloud, and he discussed own research with many other researchers during the poster session. In a session focusing on remote sensing of aerosol and cloud, number of talks that …

From Oct. 26 – 28, the Meteorological Society of Japan Fall Meeting was held at Nagoya University. Two professors and four students of this laboratory participated this meeting. I’m interested in the session about “cloud-precipitation process”. In this session, some researchers gave presentations about cloud and precipitations by using satellite data or numerical simulation. Convener of this session suggested that …

From Sep. 20 – 21, a VL workshop on satellite observations was held at Chiba University. 3 students of this laboratory participated this workshop. The first day, we attended 1 lecture and practiced to analyze Himawari8 data. At night, we exchanged between other students and professors at the social gathering. The second day, we attended 5 lectures. I had good …