WWW page of K. Masuda at Frontier Research Center for Global Change

studying the global energy and water cycle

• Curriculum vitae
• List of publications
• Link to Introduction of K. Masuda (in Japanese) as a member of Hydrological Cycle Research Program, FRCGC (Note: out of date)

Excuse me, but I do not update this web site so frequently. I will probably make a major clean-up of this site around September 2008.

Most of what I take care on the web have been contents of lectures for university students. In the academic years 2001-2006, I have been a visiting lecturer at Keio University, and I have built a web site mainly for teaching there at http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~masudako/ . Now I do not teach there, but the site is still kept as the university has accomodated me as a visiting researcher. In the academic year 2008, I have lectures at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (April to June; teaching materials at http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~masudako/) and Tokyo Metropolitan University (April to July; I put contents for the class at the Keio Univ. site).

MAHASRI

MAHASRI (Monsoon Asia Hydro-Atmospheric Scientific Research and Prediction Initiative) which will supersede GAME.

• Asian Monsoon Year
  • Guideline for data management in AMY (draft version 2-beta by Masuda on 1 Nov. 2007)
  • Masuda's presentation file about data management in AMY (AMY workshop, 3-4 Sept. 2007 in Bali) (HTML generated by MagicPoint)
• Presentation file for my discussion material about data management at the International MAHASRI Scientific Steering Committee meeting (Bangkok, 2006-Oct-20) [PPT file] [PDF file]
• An introduction to the word 'Mahasri' (draft, 9 Nov. 2005)

MAHASRI Data Management Team in Yokohama and Yokosuka

GEWEX/GAME Water and Energy Balance Study (WEBS)

• Templates of CSEs for WEBS
  • version 0.12 (7 November 2003, includes GCIP)
  • version 0.13 (25 November 2003, includes GAPP)
  • Some errors in the previous version 0.11 (17 October 2003) are found and corrected as version 0.12.
• _GAME's contribution to GEWEX Water and Energy Balance Study (extended abstract for GAME Science Conference, Kyoto, Japan, December 2004, written in October 2004)
• GAME WEBS Interim report (draft, June 2003; almost the same content appeared in GAME Letter No. 5, August 2003)
• Progress Report on WEBS in GAME
  (Presentation at GAME International Science Panel meeting, Khon Kaen, Thailand, November 2003)
• Progress Report on WEBS in GAME
  (Presentation at WEBS Working Group session of GEWEX Hydrometeorological Panel meeting, Lüneburg, Germany, September 2003)

Global Soil Wetness Project

• Forcing data "J1 beta" (to appear in 2008)
• Forcing data "B1 beta" (internal communication for the GSWP project, draft 2005-Aug-23).
• Forcing data "B0x" (internal communication for the GSWP project, draft 2005-Nov-02).

Masuda's activities related to GEWEX/GAME WEBS

• Surface radiation budget: comparison between global satellite-derived products and in situ observations (Draft, April 2004, revised May 2004, June 2004)
• Evaluation of precipitation of GAME Reanalysis on continents (draft, Feb. 2003)
• Water balance of Lena river basin, eastern Siberia (Presentation at IUGG Assembly JWM01, Sapporo, Japan, June 2003)
• Precipitation climatology of continental southeast Asia [Japanese] [English] (Presented at GAME Session, 2004 autumn meeting, Meteorological Society of Japan, Fukuoka, Japan, October 2004) (Presentation file converted to HTML, each page as a PNG image with a smaller index PNG image).
• Seasonal cycle of water balance components in continental southeast Asia ... see Precipitation climatology of continental southeast Asia. More details of water balance will be added later.
• Water balance of the Mekong river basin during GAME IOP
  (Presentation at GAME-T Workshop, Chiang Rai, Thailand, Oct. 2002)

Aspects of global energy and water cycle

Monsoons

• On Monsoons (in Japanese)
  (Presentation at a seminar, Yokosuka, Japan, 31 Aug. 2004)

Snow cover

• The Annual Cycle of Snow Cover Extent over the Northern Hemisphere as Revealed by NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Data
  Masuda, K., Morinaga, Y., Numaguti, A. and Abe-Ouchi, A. Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University, 28, 113 - 132 (1993).
  HTML version (2001), data updated to 25 years (1973-1997).

Global energy and water cycle ... general description

• Global energy and water cycle, and its budgets
  (Presentation at a seminar, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 2002. Partly obsolete.)

Climate change

• Science
  • Global warming and associated changes in the hydrological cycle:
    Materials related to Masuda's presentation at a symposium of Japan Association for Quaternary Research on 2006-Aug-06.
    • a review article in English
    • materials in Japanese
• Trans-science
  • Tikyuu ondanka o kahusoku naku rikai suru (To apprehend global warming, not too lightly, not too gravely): a Japanese article appeared in a magazine "Sekai" in 2007.
    • The original Japanese text in Japanese/Chinese characters
    • Japanese text in Roman letters
    • English translation by the author

List of acronyms

• MAHASRI = Monsoon Asia Hydro-Atmospheric Science Research and Prediction Initiative
• GAME = GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment
• GEWEX = Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
• IOP = Intensive Observation Period
• WEBS = Water and Energy Balance Study
• GSWP = Global Soil Wetness Project
• ISLSCP = International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
• ISCCP = International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
• SRB = Surface Radiationa Budget

Links

• GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment)
• CEOP (Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observation Project
• MAHASRI (Monsoon Asia Hydro-Atmospheric Science and Prediction Research Initiative)
• GAME (GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment)
• GAIN (GAME Archive and Information Network)
• GSWP (Global Soil Wetness Project)

Opinions

• I oppose the proposed reformation of Japanese copyright law to extend the period of protection for 20 years. I believe that this opinion is consistent with my duty at FRCGC which is funded by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), even though it is said that officers of MEXT have a position in favor of extension. I primarily work for public knowledge. I respect intellectual properties as well, but I think that we must have richness in the public domain. (2006-Jul-24)