HIROCKAWA Yasutaka

Job title	Senior Resercher/The 2nd lab./Department of Typhoon and Severe Weather Research
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Expertise	mesoscale meteorology, preciptation system
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Publications	Hirockawa, Y, and T. Kato, 2022: Improvements of procedures for identifying and classifying heavy rainfall areas of linear-stationary type. SOLA, 18, 167-172. Hirockawa, Y, and T. Kato, 2022: A new application method of radar/raingauge-analyzed precipitation amounts for long-term statistical analyses of localized heavy rainfall areas. SOLA, 18, 13-18. Hirockawa, Y., T. Kato, K. Araki, and W. Mashiko, 2020: Characteristics of an extreme rainfall event in Kyushu district, southwestern Japan in early July 2020. SOLA, 16, 265-270. Hirockawa, Y., T. Kato, H. Tsuguti, and N. Seino, 2020: Identification and classification of heavy rainfall areas and their characteristic features in Japan. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 98, 835-857. Hirockawa, Y., and T. Kato, 2012: Kinetic energy budget analysis on the development of a meso-β-scale vortex causing heavy rainfall, observed over Aomori prefuecture in northern Japan on 11 November 2007. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90, 905-921.
Project	Research on Mechanism Elucidation of Typhoons and Severe Weather Phenomena and Development of Monitoring and Forecasting Technologies