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JAMSTEC 2002 Annual Report
Frontier Research System for Global Change
ried out at FRSGC. In addition to these, the sub-theme
of Subject "Development of high resolution coupled
atmosphere-ocean global circulation model" will be
carried out at FRSGC lead by Dr. Emori, a researcher
of the Integrated Modeling Research Program.
2. The Earth Simulator Started Its Full Operation
The Earth Simulator (ES), which proved its operational
capacity to be five times faster than the existing
record during its test run period, started operating in
March as planned. Utilization of ES will be open
to general users, and based on the applications, the following
eight subjects applied by research groups from
FRSGC were accepted (Table ).
background of the modeling effort, modeling scenario
in the Earth Simulator, and future modeling studies. In
addition, research themes suited for collaboration
between EU and Japan were discussed and researchers
identified several important themes for the collaboration:
Monsoon, El Niño and Southern Oscillation
(ENSO), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), teleconnections
of both IOD and ENSO, intra-seasonal disturbances
and interactions among different time scale phenomena,
ocean data assimilation and seasonal forecast.
Those themes would be addressed by conducting highresolution
coupled General Circulations Model (GCM)
experiments on the Earth Simulator. Specific issues
related to the successful collaboration were discussed.
3. Meetings for International Research Cooperation
(a) EU-Japan Ad-Hoc Workshop on Climate Modeling
As a preliminary workshop of the Japan-EU
Workshop held in March , the above workshop
was held at the JAMSTEC Yokohama Institute for
Earth Sciences (YES) from September to ,
in order to promote collaboration between researchers
of Climate Variations Research Program, FRSGC, and
researchers in Europe. Various presentations were
made mainly under three important issues; scientific
(b) The Second Workshop for a Regional Climate
Model and the Asian Monsoon
The Workshop was held at the JAMSTEC
Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences (YES) from
March to , . The Workshop was the second
regional climate model workshop following the workshop
held in the autumn of and organized by the
International Pacific Research Center (IPRC). This
time, it is jointly organized by FRSGC and international
science panel for GEWEX Asian Monsoon
Table 2
Research Subject Program Person in Charge
1 Development of a nonhydrostatic icosahedral high resolution
atmospheric general circulation model
Integrated Modeling Research
Program
2 Atmospheric composition change and its climate impact Atmospheric Composition
studies by global and regional chemical transport models Research Program
3 Investigation of Asian summer monsoon system using a Hydrological Cycle Research
cloud resolving regional climate model
Program
4 Eddy-resolving simulation of world ocean circulation using Climate Variations Research
the PFES – toward the sophisticated J-COPE project – Program
5 Development of highly parallel ocean general circulation Integrated Modeling Research
model using cubic grid system
Program
6 Development of integrated earth system models for
Research Project for
prediction of global environmental changes
Sustainable Coexistence of
Human, Nature, and the Earth,
Subject No. 2
7 Research development of 4-dimentional data assimilation
system using a coupled climate model and construction of
reanalysis datasets for initialization
Integrated Modeling Research
Program
8 Process studies and seasonal prediction experiment using Climate Variations Research
coupled general circulation model
Program
Masaki Sato
Hajime Akimoto
Takao Yoshikane
Takashi Kagimoto
Yukio Tanaka
Taroh Matsuno
Toshiyuki Awaji
Toshio Yamagata
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