Department of Physical Meteorology Research
Third Laboratory

Summary Account

The atmospheric boundary layer spans from the earth's surface to the height of about 1km. Since this layer is turbulent, it undergoes efficient exchanges of the momentum, heat, mass, and so on. They eventually affect the atmospheric phenomena as a whole. However, such processes of turbulence are still uncertain. By means of numerical simulations, laboratory experiments, and field observations, we study the atmospheric boundary layer to improve the parameterization for those processes in the numerical weather prediction.

Surface Layer Meteorological Observation System
Large Wind Tunnel

Surface Layer Meteorological Observation System
This system consists of various sensors on and around the 6m-height tower. In addition to soil moisture and soil temperature, it measures wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, and solar radiation in the surface boundary layer.

Large Wind Tunnel
This tunnel is one of the largest wind tunnels for the meteorological research in Japan. By controlling the wind speed as well as the air temperature, it is used to conduct a variety of experiments for the atmospheric boundary layer.

Member

Job titleName
HeadMOURI Hideaki
Senior ResearcherMIZUNO Yoshinori
ResearcherMORINAGA Takeshi

Ordinary research

Research on Atmospheric Physical Processes