Department of Typhoon and Severe Weather Research
First Laboratory

Aim and scope

Our research purposes for FY2024-2028 are as follows:

1. Issues still remain particularly on the transition processes between tropical depressions, tropical cyclones including typhoons, subtropical cyclones, and extratropical cyclones in views of the interaction between convection and vortex and the structural changes between asymmetric and axisymmetric structures. One of our goals is to elucidate the dynamical and thermodynamic processes involved in these transition processes and to clarify their relationship to factors that causes the errors of tropical cyclone predictions.
2. The other goal is to establish the methodology to analyze and predict typhoons as an areal distribution, instead of the conventional point-based information such as maximum sustained wind speeds.

Our team will also continue to conduct early analysis for typhoons that have seriously impacted society.

Studies on tropical cyclone analysis and prediction from the genesis to the transition to extratropical cyclones.

• TC Cases: Difficult and extreme cases

Member

Job title	Name
Head	WADA Akiyoshi
Senior Researcher	YANASE Wataru
Senior Researcher	SHIMADA Udai
Researcher	KAWABATA Yasuhiro
Researcher	TSUJINO Satoki

Ordinary research

• Research on Mechanism Elucidation of Typhoons and Severe Weather Phenomena and Development of Monitoring and Forecasting Technologies (sorry, This is a Japanese page.)