Institute of Observational Research for Global Change
Ocean, Land and Atmosphere Interactions Integrated Reserch Project
Western Pacific Area Cloud and Precipitation System Observation
The project name of "PALAU" is an acronym of Pacific Area Long-term Atmospheric observation for Understanding of climate change. The main purpose of this project is to describe multi-scale structure and interaction of cloud clusters, super cloud clusters and intra-seasonal variations. To elucidate the structure of westerly wind burst, which will become a trigger of El Nino, is also a major interest.
The map of western tropical Pacific and magnified main islands of the
Republic of Palau. Peleliu island is on the left and downward corner in
the magnified figure. A red point show the observation point.