Research Institute forApplied Mechanics

http://www.riam.kyushu-u.
ac.jp/english/index-e.html

Main buildings ofRIAM under autumn sky

Research on・ Renewable Energy and its
Peripheral Technologies
・ Nuclear Fusion Science・ Structure and Dynamics ofPlasma
・ Earth Environment
Dynamics
・ Ocean and Atmosphere in
East Asia

Leading Edge of Advanced Mechanical Studies and its Applications for Earth’s
Environmental and Energy Problems

The Research Institute for Applied
Mechanics (RIAM) was established in 1951,
with two research divisions to pursue
research in fluid mechanics and solidmechanics. Through variousreorganizations, RIAM was recognized as aninteruniversity collaboration research
institute and became a Center of Excellence(COE), nationally promoted by the Ministryof Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology (MEXT) in 1997.
RIAM was reorganized again and wasrecognized as the based research group of
Applied Mechanics by MEXT in 2010.
At present, RIAM consists of threeresearch divisions and three research
centers: the Division of Renewable Energy
Dynamics, the Division of EarthEnvironment Dynamics, the Division ofNuclear Fusion Dynamics, the Center of East
Asian Ocean-Atmosphere Research (COAR),
the Advanced Fusion Research Center(AFRC), and the Renewable Energy Center(REC). The research areas of RIAM
encompass a wide range of experimental
and theoretical fields from micro
mechanical phenomena on an atomic scale
to macro mechanical phenomena on aglobal scale. In addition to individual
research at the divisions and centers ofRIAM, three large research projects havebeen organized in interdisciplinary researchareas; the ocean atmosphere science andengineering research project, thefundamental fusion research projectutilizing a spherical tokamak QUEST , andthe project regarding efficient andintegrated utilization of natural energies.
The RIAM academic faculty plays animportant role in education by participatingin the departments of the Interdisciplinary
Graduate School of Engineering Sciences
and the Graduate School of Engineering atKyushu University.

Asian dust transported one full circuit around theglobe

Kyushu(Q-shu) university experiment with steadystate spherical tokamak (QUEST) to researchfundamentals for a steady state operation of future
fusion power plants

100kW Wind-lens turbine31II. Recent achievement of research and the significance for disaster mitigation

Daily forecast of air pollutant PM 2.5 is uploaded on RIAM websites,and has been utilized to mitigates health damage.
Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University

 Application system utilizing software SPRINTARS which is developed to study of
atmospheric environment modeling and climate changes with Asian and global scales,
was developed for daily forecast of PM 2.5 and yellow sand.
 On a web page (http://sprintars.net/forecastj.html), a prediction based on the simulated
result of transport processes and climate impact of Asian dust and air pollutants ispublished as a daily and weekly forecasts of air pollutions.
 The information on the website is reprinted on newspapers and is aired as TVs newsfor citizens.
 A system for daily forecasts of PM
2.5 and yellow sand is developed
utilizing SPRINTARS.

1.

Everyday, concentration predictionsof PM 2.5 and yellow sand on thewebsite are updated based onSPRINTARS.

2.

The information is delivered tocitizens through multi-media.

3.

Citizens can utilize this information
easily in order to protect themselvesfrom air pollutions, because theinformation is on many media.

4.

Many findings by SPRINTARS
about climate change were referredin the IPCC reports.

5.

A professor of RIAM is a leadauthor of the 5th assessment reportof IPCC.

http://sprintars.net/

Webpage of the left side has
a few thousands or more
visitors every day. Air
pollutants of PM 2.5 andyellow sand are classed in 4
level in every Japanese areas.
This information is used as apart of weather report on
many media, everyday.
Especially, citizens who aresensitive to the air pollutions
utilize as one of criterion
about use of mask and works
on outdoors.

IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[Wikipedia] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific intergovernmental body under the auspices of the United Nations, set up at
the request of member governments. It was first established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) andthe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and later endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 43/53. Membership ofthe IPCC is open to all members of the WMO and UNEP The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) was completed in 2014. AR5 followed the same generalformat as of AR4, with three Working Group reports and a Synthesis report. The Working Group I report (WG1) was published in September 2013.

②近年の重要な研究成果とその災害軽減への意義

PM2.5濃度予測を毎日公表し被害軽減に役立てていただいております
機関名：九州大学応用力学研究所

 大気中の浮遊粒子状物質（エアロゾル）の気候に対する影響を解明することを主目的として開発しているソフトウェアSPRINTARSを応用して、日々のPM2.5や黄砂の濃度を予測するシステムを開発しました。
 ホームページ（http://sprintars.net/forecastj.html）にて、研究成果として得られた、当日・翌日並びに週間の、大気汚染粒子の拡散予測結果を公開しております。
 さらに、この公開情報を、多くの報道機関が毎日転載することにより、非常に多くの人々が情報を活用しています。
 SPRINTARSを応用して、日々のPM2.5や黄砂の濃度を予測するシステムを開発しました。

1.

SPRINTARSを用いたPM2.5や黄砂の濃度予測を毎日運用しております。

2.

予測結果はホームページで公開され、多くの報道機関を通して、広く市民に情報提供されております。

3.

様々な形で公開されている情報は、多くの人々が手軽に入手できるため、日常生活における大気汚染物質被害の軽減に活用されております。

4.

SPRINTARSを利用した研究成果は、気候変動に関する政府間パネル（IPCC）評価報告書に多数引用されました。

5.

当研究所教員がIPCC第5次評価報告書にて代表執筆者（Lead Author）に選出されました。

http://sprintars.net/
SPRINTARSホームページには1日あたり数千〜数万アクセスあるほか、PM2.5
濃度予測の結果はテレビやラジオでの天気予報・地方紙・放送局ホームページなどに毎日転載されています。
特にPM2.5に敏感に影響を受ける人々の日常生活に活用されています。

用語説明：気候変動に関する政府間パネル（IPCC）
世界気象機関 (WMO) および国連環境計画 (UNEP) により1988年に設立され、気候変動に関する科学的・技術的・社会経済的な評価を行い、得られた知見を政策決定者を始め広く一般に周知する役割を担っている専門家集団です。3つの作業部会により構成されており、当研究所は第1作業部会に貢献しています。最新の第5次評価報告書は、2013〜2014年に公表されました。