JapaneseEnvironmental issues, from global warming and ozone depletion on earth to heat-island phenomena and air pollution in urban area, will be one of major concerns of both the domestic and foreign affairs in the 21st century. Going with these circumstances, the policies on environmental protection will be expected to be more important matter. In order to make these policies more effective and efficient, more reliable scientific information on the observation / prediction of atmospheric environment is required. For enhancement of the reliability of the information, it is important to study the mechanisms of the variation of atmospheric constituents such as greenhouse gases and the observation / prediction of the change in climate and atmospheric environment induced by the variation of these constituents on global and regional scales.
Major challenges of the Atmospheric Environment and Applied Meteorology Research Department are to understand the processes of the change in concentration of carbon dioxide, ozone and aerosol using numerical models and observational methods, to assess the change in climate in Japan area using a high-resolution Regional Climate Model, and to develop local environmental and meteorological model for the purpose of the simulation / prediction of environment and meteorology in urban areas.
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