AsiaPEX Kick-off Conference Program
28-30 August 2019, SapporoVenue
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science (Graduate school of Environmental Science),Hokkaido University ( Session room: D-201, Poster room: D-101 )The conference is hosted by AsiaPEX Kick-off Conference Organizing Committee and co-hosted by Kagawa
Univ., Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Hokkaido Univ., Kyoto University, and Nagoya University

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Aim
The aim of AsiaPEX (Asian Precipitation Experiment) Kick-off Conference is to exchange
ideas associated with all aspects of hydroclimatological research regarding the AsiaPEX. The
issues range all main objectives, scientific approaches, and key questions of the AsiaPEX
project. The Science Plan of AsiaPEX is under a drafting phase. Presentations anddiscussions during the Kick-off Conference will be integrated in the updated Science Plan.
Plans for the regional projects will be also discussed.
Along with the presented topics below, relevant issues associated with disaster risk reduction
and possible researches for the sustainability of future Monsoon Asia are highly welcome.

Program
28 Aug. 2019 (Wed.)
14:00-15:05 Opening Session (Session 0): AsiaPEX as a GEWEX RHP
15:05-15:50 Session 1a: Observation and Estimation of Asian Precipitation
16:05-17:05 Session 1b (cont)17:05-18:05 Poster Session 1
17:05-17:15 Lightning Talks 1 (Short Presentations for group A posters) @D-201
17:15-18:05 Poster Core Time @D-101
18:10-19:40 Banquet @D-101
29 Aug. 2019 (Thu.)
08:45-10:15 Session 1c (cont)10:30-12:15 Session 2: Process Studies of Asian Land Precipitation
13:30-14:45 Session 3: Subseasonal to Interdecadal Variability of Asian Monsoon
15:00-16:45 Session4: Land Surface Hydrological Modeling: Human Impact to Cryosphere16:45-17:45 Poster Session 2
16:45-16:55 Lightning Talks 2 (Short Presentations for group B posters) @D-201
16:55-17:45 Poster Core Time @D-101
18:00-20:00 Dinner Party @Restaurant Elm
30 Aug. 2019 (Fri.)
08:45-09:45 Session 5: Coordinated Observation and Modeling Initiatives
09:45-10:45 Session 6a: Detection and Projection of the Climate Change
11:00-12:15 Session 6b (cont)12:15-12:30 Closing Session
Afternoon

City Tour (optional)

2Access⚫ Airport (New-Chitose) to Sapporo station (45-min by Train)
Train station is located in the domestic terminal. All trains departing at the airport (Rapid Airport)
will stop at Sapporo station (1,070JPY). DO NOT get off at the "Shin-Sapporo" station which isdifferent from the "Sapporo" station. Trains are operated in about every 15-20 minutes.
駅は国内線ターミナルにあります。新千歳空港では約 15 分間隔で出発する全ての電車が「札幌」へ行きます。途中の「新札幌」で間違えて下車しないで下さい。

⚫ JR (and subway) Sapporo Station to Campus (10-15min walk)(1) Please pass at "West Ticket Gate" and proceed to "North Exit".
西改札口を通過し、北口から外へ。

(2) At North Exit of Sapporo station, turn left (west) and walk one block. At West-5 street, turn right(North) and walk 200m. You will find the main gate of the university campus. After passing themain gate, immediately turn right and walk under the trees. You will find the building of"Graduate School of Environmental Science" beyond the parking area.
札幌駅北口から西 5 丁目通りを北へ進み、大学正門へ。正門を通過してすぐに右の小道へ入ると近道。50m ほど歩くと駐車場の先に環境科学院の建物が見えます。
If you use subway "Kita 12 jou (which means North-12 street)" station, enter the campus throughthe "Pedestrian gate". You will soon find the graduate school building.
地下鉄「北 12 条」下車の場合は、歩行者用の門からキャンパスに入ると目の前が環境科学院です。

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Guide Map to the VenueCampus Map
The Campus map is available here by clicking the link or by scanning the QR code.
https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/maps/?p=sapporo

4Notes for Presenters
Oral Presentation:
We would highly appreciate your cooperation and understanding on following matters.
Presenters should arrive at the session room (D-201) at least 10 minutes in prior to the session
starts. A presentation should be no more than 15 minutes long because of the tight session
schedule. Following each presentation, the audience will be given a few minutes to ask
clarification and technical questions. The Session chair will monitor the time and will show
time signs at 5 min and 1 min before the end of the presentation.
Windows 10 laptop, which includes MS PowerPoint 2016, is available. If you upload thepresentation to the laptop, please complete at least 5 minutes before the session starts. For
Mac uses, you can directly connect your own Laptop via RGB or HDMI cable.
It is greatly appreciated if you agree to provide your presentation file. The file might beutilized as a valuable input for drafting the science plan.

Poster Presentation:
Posters will be presented throughout the conference at the Poster session room (D-101). You
can present your poster from 13:00 on 28 Aug. Poster boards are pre-assigned and marked
with your Abstract Serial Number P1 to P16 and poster group code (A) or (B). The size ofposter board is 90 cm width and 180 cm height. Poster pins are available on site.
Lightning Talks (Short Presentations) session will be held at the session room (D-201) before
the core time of poster presentation. Please prepare the power point file for 1-minutepresentation. For quick exchange, please upload your presentation file to the laptop placed in
the session room at least 5 minutes before the Lightning Talks start. Also, please be readyvery near the laptop during the Lightning Talks session.
During the core time, the presenters are recommended to stay in front of their posters.

5Session Program Details

Day 1: 28 August 2019 (Wednesday)
14:00-15:05

Opening Session -AsiaPEX as a GEWEX RHPChair: Shinjiro Kanae
Title

Opening Addresses, Photo Session

14:00-14:35
14:35-14:50

Presenter (Affiliation)

Objectives and Overarching Key
Questions of AsiaPEX

The GEWEX Regional Hydroclimate
14:50-15:05 Projects and Related Activities in HighMountain Regions and Asia

Toru Terao(Faculty of Education, Kagawa
University, Japan)

Peter van Oevelen(International GEWEX Project Office,USA)

15:05-15:50 Session 1a -Observation and Estimation of Asian PrecipitationChair: Ailikun
Title

Presenter (Affiliation)
ATM Shakhawat Hossain

15:05-15:20

15:20-15:35

15:35-15:50

Monsoonal Precipitation and Challenges for
Sustainable development of Bangladesh
Toward assessment of precipitation climate
resource: Bias correction on daily
precipitation measurement in Mongolia
The progress on the observation andmodeling of land-atmospheric Interactions
over heterogeneous landscapes: fromTibetan Plateau to Third Pole and PanThird Pole regions(Department of GeologicalSciences, Jahangirnagar
University, Bangladesh)

Purevjav Gomboluudev(Information and ResearchInstitute of Meteorology andHydrology, Mongolia)

Yaoming Ma(Institute of Tibetan Plateau
Research, CAS, China)

Break Time: 15 minutes

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16:05-17:05 Session 1b (cont.)
Chair: Shakhawat Hossain
Title

16:05 -16:20

Long-term dataset of geostationary
meteorological satellites in Center for
Environmental Remote Sensing(CEReS), JapanPresenter (Affiliation)
Atsushi Higuchi(Center for Environmental RemoteSensing, Chiba University, Japan)

Masafumi Hirose
16:20 -16:35

16:35 -16:50

16:50-17:05

Uncertainties in gridded precipitation
products derived from spaceborne radars
JAkarta Heavy precipitation Experiment(JAHE), a new Kakenhi-based fieldstudy on the IMC coastal hydrologicalcycle climatology
Evolution of tropical coastal triple
boundary zone as biosphere andanthroposphere(Faculty of Science andTechnology, Meijo University,Japan)

Shuichi Mori
(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology(JAMSTEC), Japan)
Manabu D. Yamanaka (ResearchInstitute for Humanity and Nature,and Kobe University, andJAMSTEC, Japan)

17:05-18:05 Poster Session 1*17:05-17:15 Lightning Talks (1-min presentation per poster) @D-201*17:15-18:05 Group A Core time@D-101
Chair: Masato I. Nodzu

P1(A)

P2(A)

P3(A)

P4(A)

P5(A)
P6(A)

Title

Presenter (Affiliation)

Orographic Effects on Polar Mesocyclones
Genesis around the Western Offshore ofHokkaido Island(Graduate School of Environmental
Science, Hokkaido University,
Japan)

Influence of terrestrial precipitation to thevariability of extreme sea levels along the coastof Bangladesh(Graduate School of Environmental
Science, Hokkaido University,Japan)

The influence of uncertainty of upstream
discharge on downstream in Tokachi riverbasin
Predictability of river water level, riverbed
fluctuation and flood disaster pattern using
ensemble weather forecast for 2016 Hokkaido
heavy rainfall disaster
Influence of topography on annual maximum
heavy rainfalls over upper catchments inHokkaido
New-record theory of annual maximum

Kenta Tamura

Md. Anowarul Islam

Mai Ando(Graduate school of Engineering,
Hokkaido University, Japan)

Muhammad Izaaz Hazmii Bin
Suhaimi(Faculty of Engineering, HokkaidoUniversity, Japan)

Yui Takehara(Faculty of Engineering, HokkaidoUniversity, Japan)

Seang Chhay Ngorn(Graduate School of Engineering,7P7(A)precipitation associated with the temperature
trend among 58 stations and database forPolicy Decision making for Future climatechange (d4PDF), Japan
Sensitivity Experiments for Multiple Equilibriaof the Water Cycle Analyzed by a SoilAtmosphere Model

Hokkaido University, Japan)

Ryosuke Kato
(Graduated school of Engineering,Hokkaido University, Japan)

18:10-19:40 Banquet @D-101-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Day 2: 29 August 2019 (Thursday)
08:45-10:15 Session 1c (cont.)-Observation and Estimation of Asian PrecipitationChair: Subashisa Dutta
Title

Presenter (Affiliation)

Role of coastal precipitation in Asianmonsoon(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology(JAMSTEC), Japan)

Shin-Ya Ogino
08:45-09:00

09:00-09:15

09:15-09:30

09:30-09:45

09:45-10:00

BRAIN: Borderless Radar
Information Networking over Southand Southeast Asia
Toward improvement in estimate ofprecipitation in higher resolution withsurface gauge, radar and satellite
observations in Vietnam
Field observation of rainfall, ocean
spray and wave with X-band radar insummer season of 2018
Causes of the wettest place in thesouthern slope of the Meghalaya
Plateau, Northeast India

Hideyuki Kamimera(National Research Institute for
Earth Science and Disaster
Resilience (NIED), Japan)

Masato I. Nodzu(Department of Geography, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Japan)

Hiroki Okachi(Graduate School of Engineering,Hokkaido University, Japan)

Fumie Murata(Faculty of Science and Technology,Kochi University, Japan)

Azusa Fukushima
10:00-10:15

Regionality of interannual variation ofseasonal precipitation over India(Faculty of Humanities andSciences, Kobe Gakuin University,Japan)

Break Time: 15 minutes8

10:30-12:15 Session 2 -Process Studies of Asian Land PrecipitationChair: Hideyuki Kamimera
Title10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-11:15

11:15-11:30

11:30-11:45

11:45-12:00

12:00-12:15

Presenter (Affiliation)

Observation and Simulation of landair and lake-air interactions on theTibetan Plateau
Analysis on atmospheric heating
field by using different methods
over the Tibetan Plateau(Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research,CAS, China)

Simulated clouds and precipitation
over and around the Himalayas
using the cloud resolving model(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology (JAMSTEC),Japan)

Understanding of plant
physiological response using
turbulent flux observation andtranspiration modelEvapotranspiration from Remote
Sensing and Spatio-temporal
Analysis over the Tibetan Plateau
Simulation of Convective Hot Spotsalong the Foot-Hills of theHimalayas that Kicked-off a
Tornado in Nepal and a Severe
Storm in Bangladesh on 31st March
2019
Enhanced probability of mesoscaleconvective system initiations due toland surface heterogeneity

Yang Kun(Department of Earth System Science,
Tsinghua University, China)

Weiqiang Ma

Shiori Sugimoto

Daisuke Komori(Department of Civil Engineering,Tohoku University, Japan)

Jia Li(Institute of Remote Sensing andDigital Earth, CAS, China)

Someshwar Das(Department of Atmospheric Science,Central University of Rajasthan, India)

Tomonori Sato
(Faculty of Environmental EarthScience, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Lunch Break: (12:15 – 13:30)

13:30-14:45 Session 3-Subseasonal to Interdecadal Variability of Asian MonsoonChair: Someshwar Das
Title
13:30-13:45

13:45-14:00

The boreal summer intraseasonal
oscillation: A review
Investigation of Transport Processes
Associated with the Asian Summer
Monsoon Circulation using Balloons,
Lidars, and Aircrafts ‒ Collaboration

Presenter (Affiliation)
Kazuyoshi Kikuchi(International Pacific ResearchCenter, University of Hawaii, USA)

Masatomo Fujiwara(Faculty of Environmental EarthScience, Hokkaido University, Japan)

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14:15-14:30

14:30-14:45

with the ACCLIP
Using weather pattern recognition toclassify and predict summertime
heavy rainfall occurrence over theUpper Nan river basin, northwestern
ThailandData rescue for the long-term
tropical cyclone variabilities in thewestern north Pacific
Current status and challenges inseasonal prediction of the Asiansummer monsoon

Dzung Nguyen-Le(Faculty of Engineering, HokkaidoUniversity, Japan)

Hisayuki Kubota(Faculty of Science, HokkaidoUniversity, Japan)

Yuhei Takaya(Meteorological Research Institute,Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan)

Break Time: 15 minutes

15:00-16:45 Session 4 -Land Surface Hydrological Modeling: Human Impact toCryosphereChair: Dzung Nguyen-Le

15:00-15:15

15:15-15:30

15:30-15:45

15:45-16:00

16:00-16:15
16:15-16:30

16:30-16:45

Title

Presenter (Affiliation)

Some challenges and their current
examples in large-scale modeling ofhydrology and water resources under
AsiaPEX
Characteristics of Rainfall Extremes
over Jakarta and an Approach ofFlood Monitoring using Weather
Radar Data and River Discharge ofCiliwung River

Shinjiro Kanae

Multi-sphere hydrological modelingover the Third Pole
Near Real time Basin Scalehydrological modelling ofBrahmaputra River for Floodpredication
High resolution land surface
distributed hydrological modeling inNepal Himalaya
Analysis of Rainfall and Extreme
Rainfall Events over Himalayas
Precipitation and its variability inhigh elevation areas of the Nepal
Himalayas(Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan)

Fadli Syamsudin(Agency for the Assessment andApplication of Technology (BPPT),
Indonesia)

Lei Wang(Institute of Tibetan Plateau
Research, CAS, China)

Subashisa Dutta(Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati, India)

Maheswor Shrestha(Water and Energy Commission
Secretariat, Nepal)

Ajit Tyagi(Indian Meteorological Society,India)

Hatsuki Fujinami(Institute for Space-EarthEnvironmental Research, Nagoya
University, Japan)

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16:45-17:45 Poster Session 2*16:45-16:55 Lightning Talks (1-min presentation per poster) @D-201*16:55-17:45 Group B Core time@D-101
Chair: Azusa Fukushima
Title
P8(B)

P9(B)

P10(B)

P11(B)

P12(B)

P13(B)

P14(B)

P15(B)

P16(B)

Potential Impact of Climate Change on
Rainfall Erosivity in Kushiro Basin,Japan
Three dimensional wind field in RainShaped Rain Band around Sapporo 2014
using three radars
Interannual Characteristics of Snow
Falling and Melting Process in Jozankei,Sapporo
A promising new observation in theAsiaPEX – an unmanned aerial vehicle
observation of evolution in the lower
boundary layer in the morning
Short term Precipitation Forecast System
in Heterogeneous Urban Landscape inDelhi City using Weather Radar
Comparison of diurnal variation inprecipitation between pre-monsoon andmonsoon seasons in Assam, India
South Asia Implementation Plan for theAsian Monsoon Year-II Observation andModelling InitiativeAssessing flood hazard and crop yield
loss relationship using hydrodynamic
simulation and remote-sensing data: analternative approach for data-scarceregions
Meso-scale precipitation systems andtheir role in the rapid development of amonsoon depression over the Bay ofBengal

Presenter (Affiliation)
Shara Grace C. Astillero(Graduate School of Engineering,Hokkaido University, Japan)

Yuta Ohya(Graduate School of Engineering,
Hokkaido University, Japan)

Nobutaka Hosoi(Graduated school of Engineering,
Hokkaido University, Japan)

Masato I. Nodzu(Department of Geography, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Japan)

Subashisa Dutta(Department of Civil Engineering, IIT
Guwahati, India)

Kyoichiro Kuriyama(Graduate School of Integrated Arts andSciences, Kochi University, Japan)

Toru Terao(Faculty of Education, KagawaUniversity, Japan)

Vempi Satriya Adi Hendrawan(Department of Civil Engineering,Tohoku University, Japan)

Hatsuki Fujinami(Institute for Space-EarthEnvironmental Research, NagoyaUniversity, Japan)

18:00-20:00 Dinner Party at Faculty House Trillium "Restaurant Elm"
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Day 3: 30 August 2019 (Friday)
08:45-09:45 Session 5 -Coordinated Observation and Modeling InitiativesChair: Fadli Syamsudin

08:45-09:00

09:00-09:15

09:15-09:30

09:30-09:45

Title

Presenter (Affiliation)

YMC-BSM 2020 field campaign overwestern Pacific and surrounding Asiancountries(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology(JAMSTEC), Japan)

ULAT SATREPS -Observation study forthe lightning activity and tropical cyclone
intensity relationship in the Philippine
Sea
Modelling and observational aspects ofsoil-moisture dynamics and its linkage
with extremes over the regions of south
Asian monsoon
Long-term Asian monsoon changes
through the data rescue activities underthe ACRE-Japan

Satoru Yokoi

Yukihiro Takahashi(Faculty of Science, HokkaidoUniversity, Japan)

Milind Mujumdar(Indian Institute of TropicalMeteorology, India)

Jun Matsumoto(Tokyo Metropolitan Universityand JAMSTEC, Japan)

9:45-10:45 Session 6a -Detection and Projection of the Climate ChangeChair: Satoru Yokoi
Title
09:45-10:00

10:00-10:15

10:15-10:30

10:30-10:45

Reduction in the east-west contrast inwater budget over the Tibetan Plateau
under a future climate
Precipitation bias variability versus
various gauges under different climaticconditions over the Third PoleEnvironment (TPE) region
Flood, drought and lack of sunshine in an
East Asian monsoon region. A
comparative economic, cultural andenvironmental history of the 19th century
JapanThe analysis of future heavy rainfall
characteristics in Hokkaido, northern
Japan, using database for Policy Decision
making for Future climate change(d4PDF)

Presenter (Affiliation)
Akio Kitoh(Japan Meteorological BusinessSupport Center, Japan)

Yinsheng Zhang(Institute of Tibetan Plateau
Research, CAS, China)

Satoshi Murayama(Faculty of Education, Kagawa
University, Japan)

Tsuyoshi Hoshino(Graduate school ofEngineering, HokkaidoUniversity, Japan)

Break Time: 15 minutes
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11:00-12:15 Session 6b (Cont.)
Chair: Thanh Ngo-Duc
Title
11:00-11:15

Urban expansion in Metro Manila
and its impact on the Southwest
monsoon rainfall

Presenter (Affiliation)
Julie Dado
(Manila Observatory, Philippine)

Thanh Ngo-Duc
11:15-11:30

Rainfall in Vietnam: from pastobservation to future projection

ADAP-T for water disaster risk
management and sustainable
development
Development of future runoff
scenarios in Karnali River Basin of
11:45-12:00
western Nepal Himalaya utilizing theCORDEX South Asia climateproduct
11:30-11:45

12:00-12:15

Changing Indian monsoon rainfall
patterns under warming climate(Department of Space and Aeronautics,
University of Science and Technologyof Hanoi, Vietnam Academy of Scienceand Technology, Vietnam)

Masashi Kiguchi(Institute of Industrial Science, The
University of Tokyo, Japan)

Madan L. Shrestha(Nepal Academy of Science andTechnology, Nepal)

A. P. Dimri(School of Environmental Sciences,Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

12:15-12:30 Closing Session
Closing Address

Afternoon

City Tour (optional)
1. Mt. Okura and Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill Tour
http://teikan.chuo-bus.co.jp/en/course/1916
14:10- Departure at Sapporo Station
2. Shiroi Koibito Park and Central Wholesale Market Tour
http://teikan.chuo-bus.co.jp/en/course/2559
13:10- Departure at Sapporo Station

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