ProgramDecember 4 (Wednesday), 201309:30-10:00

Registration

10:00-11:05

Opening Session (Chair: K. Saito, MRI)

10:00-10:10
10:10-10:25(Lobby)(Auditorium)

Opening Address
Akihide Segami (Director General, MRI)
Opening Address
Tsuyoshi Nakatani (Principal Investigator of TOMACS)
Overview of the World Weather Research Program and the Working

10:25-10:45

Group on Nowcasting ResearchPaul Joe (Chair of WGNR, Environment Canada)
Severe summertime weather at the urban scale: Perspective from10:45-11:05

WWRP’s Working Group on Mesoscale Weather Forecasting Research
Stephane Belair (Member of WG-MFWR, Environment Canada)

11:05-11:45
11:05-11:25
11:25-11:45
11:45-13:15
13:15-14:55

Session ‘Results and plans in TOMACS’ (Chair: Y. Shoji, MRI)
(Auditorium)
TOMACS IOP: Overview and Results
Yoshinori Shoji (MRI)
Nowcasting and forecasting studies in TOMACS
Ryohei Misumi (NEID)
Lunch BreakSession ‘Observation 1’ (Chair: S. Suzuki, NIED)(Auditorium)
Simultaneous C-band and S-band polarimetric radar measurements of

13:15-13:35

heavy rain during urban flooding. A tale of two cities*A. Ryzhkov, P. Zhang, S. Boodoo and D. Hudak (*NOAA)
Development and observation of the phased array radar in Osaka

13:35-13:55*Tomoo Ushio, Fumihiko Mizutani, and Shinsuke Satoh(*OsakaUniversity)
Characteristics of distribution and preceding surface conditions of
13:55-14:10

cumulonimbus clouds appeared on Kofu basin on a calm day in summer*Tetsuya Sano, Tadashi Suetsugi, and Satoru Oishi (*ICRE)
Change in structure of the atmospheric boundary layer associated with

14:10-14:25

heavy rainfall revealed by a 3D-scanning coherent Doppler lidar
Yasushi. Fujiyoshi (ILTS, Hokkaido Univ.)
A case study of the merging of two misocyclones in the TOMACS field

14:25-14:40

campaign area of Tokyo on 26 August 2011.
Sadao Saito (MRI)GPS/GNSS slant delay: analysis procedure and application for
14:40-14:55

monitoringofwatervapor

variation

associatedwithseverethunderstorms
Yoshinori Shoji (MRI)

14:55-15:10

Coffee Break

15:10-16:15

Session ‘Nowcast’ (Chair: Y. Shusse, NIED)

15:10-15:30
15:30-15:45(Auditorium)

On the spatial distribution of nowcasting errors*Alan Seed, Loris Foresti (*Bureau of Meteorology)
Short term ensemble forecasting of rainfall over Kanto region, Japan*Shakti P.C., R. Misumi, T. Nakatani, M. Maki, and A. Seed (*NIED)
Relationship between precipitation core behavior in cumulonimbus
clouds and surface rainfall intensity observed on 18 August 2011 in the

15:45-16:00

Kanto region, Japan.
*Yukari Shusse, Masayuki Maki, Shingo Shimizu, Koyuru Iwanami,
Takeshi Maesaka, Shin-ichi Suzuki, Namiko Sakurai, and Ryohei
Misumi (*NIED)
Immediate rainfall nowcast for extreme weather using VIL from16:00-16:15

X-band polarimetric radar volume dataKohin Hirano (NIED)

16:15-17:15
16:15-16:30

Session ‘Data Assimilation’ (Chair: H. Seko, MRI)

(Auditorium)

Data assimilation with a cloud-resolving 4D-Var
Takuya Kawabata (MRI)High resolution ensemble prediction for local high impact weather

16:30-16:45--experiences in Beijing 2008RDP and a case study for the 26 Aug 2011
local heavy rainfall-Kazuo Saito (MRI)
Preliminary experiments of 4DVAR data assimilation using densely

16:45-17:00

networked radar data in TOMACS area
*Soichiro Sugimoto, Juanzhen Sun, Zhuming Ying (*CRIEPI)
Local heavy rainfalls and tornadoes reproduced by a nested-LETKF

17:00-17:15

systemHiromu Seko (MRI/JAMSTEC)

December 5 (Thursday), 2013
9:30-10:30

Session ‘Observation 2’ (Chair: T. Maesaka, NIED)(Auditorium)

Observation strategy and preliminary analyses of heavy rainfall in Jeju
9:30-9:45

island, Korea (2012-2013)*Dong-In Lee, Sang-Min Jang, Sung-Hwa Park, Jong-Hoon Jung andSung-A Jung etc...(*Pukyong National University)
Vertical structure of the Tsukuba F3 tornado on 6 May 2012 as revealed

9:45-10:00

by a polarimetric radar
Hiroshi Yamauchi (MRI)

10:00-10:15

Descending reflectivity core (DRC) analysis by Ku-band radar
Eiichi Sato (MRI)

10:15-10:35

Coffee Break

10:35-11:35

Session ‘Urban weather’ (Chair: N. Seino, MRI)

(Auditorium)

Environment Canada’s 2D and 3D modelling over Tokyo for TOMACS
10:35-10:55*Stephane Belair, S. Leroyer, M. Abrahamowicz, V. Souvanlasy, and J.
Milbrandt (*Environment Canada)
Dallas-Fort Worth urban demonstration network for flood mitigation

10:55-11:15*V. Chandraskar, Brenda Philips, D. J. Seo, Haonan Chen, Arezoo
Nasib, and Amy Cannon (*Colorado State University)
Synergies between TOMACS and RainGain: Uncertainties, sotchastic

11:15-11:35

modeling and high resolution rainfall data,*Daniel Schertzer, M. Maki , I.Tchiguirinskaia (*Université Paris Est)

11:35-13:10
13:20-15:00

Lunch Break and Group Photo
Session ‘Urban Weather’, continued (Chair: H. Sugawara, NDA)
(Auditorium)
Hydrometeorological studies in TOMACS

13:10-13:30*Augusto José Pereira Filho, Felipe Vemado and Ivon Wilson da Silva
Junior (*Universidade de São Paulo)
Extreme weather and hydraulic characteristics in open channel under

13:30-13:45

extreme weather
Qian Chaochao (Chuo University)
Radiosonde observations in TOMACS and case studies of heavy rainfalls

13:45-14:00

in Tokyo*Naoko Seino, Hirofumi Sugawara, and Ryoko Oda (*MRI)

14:00-14:15

Does a city produce heavy rain environment?
*Hirofumi Sugawara, Naoko Seino, and Ryoko Oda (*NDA)Development
14:15-14:30

ofproviding

rainfallinformation

onX-bandmulti-parameter radar using digital signage
Naoya Sekiya (Toyo Univ.)
Products of X-band weather radar network in Tokyo metropolitan area

14:30-14:45(X-NET)
Takeshi Maesaka (NIED)

14:45-15:00

Data archive at MRI
Eiichi Sato (MRI)

15:00-15:10

Closing (Dr. Koyuru Iwanami, NIED)

15:10-15:25

Break

15:25-16:25

Business Meeting(Auditorium)(First Shared Room 1F)

CRIEPI: Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
ICRE: International Research Center for River Basin Environment, University ofYamanashi
ILTS: Institute of Low Temperature Science
NDA: National Defense Academy of Japan
NIED: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
NICT: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
MRI: Meteorological Research InstituteContact Information:Local Organizing Committee of TOMACS/RDP International workshop
TEL: 029-853-8640, FAX: 029-853-8649, E-mail: hseko＠mri-jma.go.jp

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Express-From "Akihabara"station, takethe Tsukuba Express train
bound for "Tsukuba" (45-57 min)-Get off at the final stop
"Tsukuba", take exit A4-From the Tsukuba Center Bus
Terminal, take the Kanto
Tetsudo Bus bound for"Hitachino Ushiku"(15 min)-Get off at "Kishou Kenkyusho".

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By Bus.
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Tetsudo Bus bound for"Hitachino Ushiku" (15 min)-Get off at "Kishou Kenkyusho".

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Auditorium

Lobby

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Entrance
Buffet opens from 12:00 to 13:00.
Smoking is not allowed except the smoking room (2F).