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 …

  From Sep. 14 to 16, a workshop on atmospheric radiation was held at Nasu. Members of our laboratory and Irie laboratory (Chiba university) attended it. The attendees were required to introduce their researches. We went to Mt. Nasu to have a field experiment.

Prof. Hironobu Iwabuchi have made a new compilation of ice optical constant dependent on temperature, for a spectrum from the ultraviolet to the microwave and published in the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. We compiled a new dataset of optical constants (refractive indices) of water ice for a spectrum from ultraviolet to microwave and a temperature range from …

Ship-based observations were carried out to investigate the atmosphere and sea at the East China Sea. A student, Kyouhei YAMADA joined this observation and reports about it. Kyouhei YAMADA, Radiation & Climate Physics Laboratory, Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku Univ During June 21-23, 2011 and July 21-30, 2011, ship-based observations with radiosonde and XBT …