Asian monsoon Hydroclimate-Review of MAHASRI and Beyond(Agenda, February 24, 2015)

Dates: March 4 and 5, 2015
Venue: Nagoya University IB Building IB013, Japan
http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/upload_images/campusmap2014_en_ol.pdf(C3-1 on the above campus map, in front of the Exit No 3, West Connecting Passageof Nagoya Daigaku Station on Subway Meijo Line)
March 4, Wednesday
Opening Session
Chair: Jun Matsumoto
10:00-10:10

Opening Remarks
Jun Matsumoto (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Joji Ishizaka, Director of HyARC (Nagoya Univ.)

10:10-10:40

Invited Talk 1: Jan Polcher (GHP Co-Chair, Director of Research at
CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

Current status of GEWEX and GHP/RHP
10:40-11:00

Invited Talk 2: Tetsuzo Yasunari (Director General of RIHN)
Importance of Asian monsoon region in Future Earth

11:00-11:15

Coffee BreakSession I: Overview of MAHASRI and Its Related Projects (1)Chair: Shinjiro Kanae
11:15-11:35

Jun Matsumoto (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Overview of MAHASRI

11:35-11:55

Taikan Oki (Univ. Tokyo)
From IMPAC-T to ADAP-T

11:55-12:15

Manabu D. Yamanaka (JAMSTEC)JEPP-HARIMAU (2005-10) and SATREPS-MCCOE (2009-14)

12:15-12:35

Masashi Kiguchi (Univ. Tokyo)
MAHASRI research activities in South Asia

12:35-14:00

Lunch

Session II: Overview of MAHASRI and Its Related Projects (2)Chair: Taikan Oki
14:00-14:20

Jun Asanuma (Univ. Tsukuba)
Hydrometeorology in Mongolian Grassland

14:20-14:40

Hirotaka Kamahori (MRI)AMY Reanalysis

Session III: Precipitation Observation and Prediction (1)Chair: Taikan Oki
15:00-15:20

Yukari Takayabu (Univ. Tokyo)
Characteristics of precipitation extremes analyzed with 17 years ofTRMM observation

15:20-15:40

Shoichi Shige (Kyoto Univ.)
Shallow orographic heavy rainfall in the Asian monsoon region
observed by TRMM PR

15:40-16:00

Coffee BreakSession IV: Precipitation Observation and Prediction (2)Chair: Hiroshi G. Takahashi
16:00-16:20

Shuichi Mori (JAMSTEC)
Radar observations of coastal heavy precipitation in Indonesia

16:20-16:40

Nattapon Mahavik (Kyoto Univ.)
Orogenic propagating rain systems over the middle of Indochina
observed by gauge-calibrated ground-based radar data.

Session V: Water and Energy Cycles (1)Chair: Hiroshi G. Takahashi
16:40-17:00

Tomonori Sato (Hokkaido Univ.)
Regional precipitation variability associated with mesoscale topography
and local SST. -Case studies in North Japan and South Asia-

17:00-17:20

Tomohito Yamada (Hokkaido Univ.)
Land-atmosphere interaction in a global climate model in association
with human activities

17:20-17:40

Taro Nakai (Nagoya Univ.)
Effect of variability in precipitation and radiation on root zone soil
moisture spectra

18:00-19:30

Reception at Restaurant chez Jiroud
http://chezjiroud.jp/(C2-4 on the campus map)

March 5, Thursday
Session Vi: Water and Energy Cycles (2)Chair: Kei Yoshimura
9:30- 9:50

Kimpei Ichiyanagi (Kumamoto Univ.)
Seasonal variation of stable isotopes in precipitation across Japan

9:50-10:10

Takami Saito (Nagoya Univ.)
Variation of transpiration among trees of various sizes composing a
tropical rainforest in Borneo

10:10-10:30

Kenji Tanaka (Kyoto Univ.)
Inclusion of inundation effect to land surface model

10:30-10:50

Tomoaki Ose (MRI)
Present-day's Surface Air Temperature and Precipitation and Their
Future Changes in Asia Monsoon System in CMIP model10:50-11:10

Coffee BreakSession VII: Global Water Resource Systems
Chair: Kenji Tanaka
11:10-11:30

Masahiro Tanoue (Univ. Tokyo)
Global water resource assessment including glacier meltwater frommountainous regions

11:30-11:50

Kei Yoshimura (Univ. Tokyo)
Study on impact of the water resources management on projected
future change of drought

11:50-12:10

Hiroaki Ikeuchi (Univ. Tokyo)
Assessing the effect of complex water flow on fluvial floods in themega-delta in Bangladesh

12:10-12:30

Kaoru Kakinuma (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Restoration of degraded rangeland under highly variable precipitation inMongolia

12:30-13:45

LunchSession VIII: Extremes
Chair: Hatsuki Fujinami
13:45-14:05

Hiroshi G. Takahashi (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Role of tropical cyclones along the monsoon trough in the 2011 Thai
flood and interannual variability

14:05-14:25

Guixing Chen (Tohoku Univ.)
Diurnal cycles of summer monsoon and rainfall over East Asia:
Implications to regional climate and extremes

14:25-14:45

Koji Dairaku (NIED)
Regional downscaling and assessments of vulnerability and adaptation
to climate change in water hazard

14:45-15:05

Yukihiro Takahashi (Hokkaido Univ.)
Thunderstorm monitoring by electromagnetic measurements

15:05-15:30

Coffee BreakSession IX: Asian Monsoon Onset and Intraseasonal Variability
Chair: Atsushi Higuchi
15:30-15:50

Yoshiyuki Kajikawa (RIKEN AICS)Long term variability of the Asian monsoon onset

15:50-16:10

Hisayuki Kubota (JAMSTEC)
Philippine summer monsoon onset study -intensive observation andlong-term variability-

16:10-16:30

Atsushi Higuchi (Chiba Univ.)
Relative role of the ocean for interannual and decadal variations insummer monsoon onset over the South China Sea

16:30-16:50

Hatsuki Fujinami (Nagoya Univ.)
Dynamics of quasi-biweekly oscillation in rainfall over South Asia

Session X: GHP Crosscut and General Discussion
Chair: Jun Matsumoto
16:50-17:10

Hirohiko Masunaga (Nagoya Univ.)
GDAP Precipitation Assessment Plan

17:40-18:00

Jan Polcher
Comments from GHP Co-chair

18:00-18:20

General Discussion

Session XI: Closing Session
Chair: Jun Matsumoto
18:20-18:30

Closing Remarks
Tetsuya Hiyama (HyARC, Nagoya Univ.)