Open Seminar
Advancements of non-hydrostatic modeling and
its future perspectives for numerical weather forecasting

Date

November 16 (Fri)

Purpose of this seminar

The workshop on nonhydrostatic modeling celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. For the past two decades, the non-hydrostatic model has created many scientific achievements and has contributed to society as an operational model of the Japan Meteorological Agency. At this open seminar, we will introduce topics on leading-edge technologies and social contributions regarding nonhydrostatic modeling to the general public.

Program of Open Seminar

13:30-13:45 Opening Kazuo Saito PhD 　(Japan Meteorological Bussiness Suport Center, University of Tokyo)
13:45-14:20 Research and development of a basic library and environment SCALE for next-generation meteorological simulations Seiya Nishizawa PhD 　(RIKEN Center for Computational Science) What will be possible in next-generation weather and climate simulation? What are the challenges for realizing that? This talk introduces the possibilities and challenges revealed thorough our research, such as high resolution simulations using the SCALE.
14:20-14:55 Global Cloud-Resolving Simulations by the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model, NICAM Masaki Satoh Prof. 　 (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo) NICAM realistically simulates clouds over the globe with a km scale mesh covering the entire earth. This talk introduces NICAM simulations of multi-scale convective systems including the Madden-Julian oscillations and tropical cyclones.
14:55-15:30 Data assimilation research using NICAM and SCALE Takemasa Miyoshi PhD　 　 (RIKEN Center for Computational Science) 　 Data assimilation connects computer model simulations and measurement data and plays a central role in prediction. This talk focuses on data assimilation research using the NICAM and SCALE models.
15:30-15:40 Break
15:40-16:15 Development of JMA operational limited-area NWP systems Tadashi Fujita Senior Scientific Officer　 　 (JMA Forecast Department) This talk presents about development of the JMA operational Meso-scale and Local NWP systems aimed at enhancement of disaster prevention and aviation forecast.
16:15-16:30 Efforts of the Japan Meteorological Agency for the numerical weather models Masaki Hasegawa Senior Coordinator for Research and Development　 　 (JMA Administration Department) The Japan Meteorological Agency are promoting any developments based on "JMA NWP Strategic Plan Toward 2030" for contributing to the prevention and reduction of weather disasters, and improvement of productivity in socioeconomic activities. This talk introduces efforts of the Japan Meteorological Agency on this strategic plan and also explains a perspective of the developments of numerical modeling, which is one of essential technologies for numerical weather system.
16:30-16:35 Closing