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Research Activities
Frontier Research System for Global Change
Overall Event and Activities
It has been six years since Frontier Research System for Global Change (FRSGC) started its research activities on
elucidation and prediction of various global change mechanisms in October . There were two main important
events in this fiscal year: ) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) launched a new
project, "Research Project for Sustainable Coexistence of Human, Nature, and the Earth". (Shortly called "MEXT's
project" hereafter.) Three out of seven subjects are selected and decided to be carried out by FRSGC, and thus we have
started our related project accordingly. ) The "Earth Simulator" fully started its operation and FRSGC researchers have
started developing high resolution models in many subjects using the Earth Simulator. As usual, we have organized and
participated in various international workshops and events. Followings are the summary of our activities for FY .
1. Research Project for Sustainable Coexistence of
Human, Nature, and the Earth
MEXT launched a new research initiative, Research
Revolution (RR ) to promote research on five
important areas designated at the Council for Science
and Technology Policy of Cabinet Office. As the project
in "Environment" area, "Project for Sustainable
Coexistence of Human, Nature, and the Earth" was
launched with the following missions.
(a) "Japan Model" mission for global warming prediction
in order to contribute to the IPCC Forth Assessment
in . For this end, more reliable climate models shall
be developed.
(b) Water Cycle Prediction mission in order to establish
the basis of season to year prediction of the state
of water resources in the Asian monsoon region by
enhancing our understanding of land hydrological
processes and developing prediction models.
In addition to the above two missions, the project
requests construction of climate data base in order to
meet the requirements from the two missions. As seen
in the table , Subject and were selected to be car-
Subject
No.
1
Table 1
Subject Implementing Institute Principal
Implementor
Development of high resolution coupled atmosphere-ocean
global circulation model
Center for Climate System
Research, University of Tokyo
1 Same as above
Central Research Institute for
Electric Power Industry
2 Development of integrated earth system model for global JAMSTEC (FRSGC)
warming prediction
3 Better parameterization of various physical processes for Institute of Industrial Science
climate modeling
and Technology, University of
Tokyo
3 Same as above
Graduate School of Science
University of Tokyo
4 Development of high-resolution atmosphere models
AESTO collaborating with
Meteorological Research
Institute (MRI)
5 Prediction of large-area hydrological cycle and advanced Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Co.
water resources management technology
collaborating with universities
A. Sumi
Y. Maruyama
T. Matsuno
Y. Yasuoka
T. Hibiya
T. Matsuo
(MRI)
H. Ueda
(Kyoto University)
6 Development of models for water resources prediction and
management
Yamanashi University
7 Development of 4-D data assimilation system and
JAMSTEC (FRSGC)
construction of data base for climate research
K. Takeuchi
T. Awaji
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