The 5th conference of "Ultra-high Precision Meso-Scale Weather Prediction" organized by SPIRE Field3 "Advanced Prediction Researches for Natural Disaster Prevention and Reduction" was held on March 9, 2015.

  Outline

    Day: March 9, 2015(Mon)
    Time: 09:00-17:30
    Venue: Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, E&S Hall (E&S Building)
                  Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
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  Registration

    Registration fee: No fee
    Those who are interested in participation are required to send an e-mail to the
       following address by March 2.
       Participants in the banquet also need to be registered in advance.
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  Program

These literatures are achievements of SPIRE Field3 "Advanced Prediction Researches for Natural Disaster Prevention and Reduction".
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	Opening Address	Masashi Nagata MRI
09:00-09:20	Introduction - HPCI strategic program Field-3	Tatsushi Tokioka JAMSTEC
	Introduction - Ultrahigh precision meso-scale weather prediction	Kazuo Saito MRI/JAMSTEC
09:20-10:40	Development of cloud-resolving data assimilation system		Chair: Tadashi Tsuyuki MRI
	Challenges in cloud-resolving data assimilation		Tadashi Tsuyuki (MRI)
	Neighboring ensemble variational assimilation scheme		Kazumasa Aonashi (MRI)
	Predictability of tornadoes in the Kanto region on 6 May 2012 based on assimilation of dense observations using the nested-LETKF system		Sho Yokota (MRI)
	Data assimilation of ice-water mixing ratios estimated from XRAIN		Kosei Yamaguchi (DPRI)
	A meso hybrid data assimilation system		Kousuke Ito (Univ. of the Ryukyus, MRI)
	A hybirid-4DVAR system for the JMA nonhydrostatic model		Le Duc (JAMSTEC)
	Coffee Break
11:00-12:40	Development of a regional cloud-resolving ensemble analysis and forecast systems		Chair:Hiromu Seko, MRI, JAMSTEC
	Further development of a regional cloud-resolving ensemble analysis and forecast systems		Hiromu Seko (MRI, JAMSTEC)
	Multiple eyewalls and wind features in the 2012 Typhoon BOLAVEN		Seiji Origuchi (MRI)
	Implementation of a high-resolution atmosphere-ocean coupled model with an ensemble Kalman filter		Masaru Kunii (MRI)
	Urban weather forecast at super high resolutions using a full scale nested local prediction		Guixing Chen (Tohoku. Univ.)
	Super high resolution experiment of heavy rain in large area using the K computer		Tsutao Oizumi (JAMSTEC, MRI)
	Development of Hydro-Debris 2DH / 3D for HPCI and it Izu-Oshima and Hiroshima disaster.		Yousuke Yamashiki (DPRI)
	Ensemble flood prediction		Ken-ichiro Kobayashi (Kobe Univ.)
	Application of Flood Early Warning using High-Resolution Ensemble Rainfall from NWP model		Yu Wansik (DPRI)
	Group Photo and Lunch
13:50-14:30	Keynote Speech: Convective-scale Warn-on-Forecast: The Future of Severe Weather Warnings in the USA		David J. Stensrud Pennsylvania State Univ
14:30-17:20	Development and basic research for the ultrahigh precision regional models		Chair: Fujio Kimura JAMSTEC
	Future development for the ultrahigh precision regional models		Fujio. Kimura (JAMSTEC)
	Super high-resolution simulation of the Tsukuba Supercell Tornado (2012): Structure and dynamics		Wataru Mashiko (MRI)
	Explicit prediction experiment of tornadoes associated with a typhoon using a cloud-resolving model		Kazuhisa Tsuboki (Nagoya Univ.)
	ynamic energy efficiency of tropical cyclones with long-lived concentric eyewall in numerical simulation		Satoki Tsujino (Nagoya Univ.)
	Coffee Break
	Large eddy simulation on whole tropical cyclone using K-computer		Junshi Ito (AORI)
	Cumulus convection scheme for gray zone		Masato Sugi (MRI)
	The effects of moisture conditions on the organization and intensity of mesoscale convective systems in near moist-neutral stability		Tetsuya Takemi (DPRI)
	Resolution dependency of mountainous snow cover simulated by Non-hydrostatic Regional Climate Model (NHRCM)		Hiroaki Kawase (MRI)
	The effects of the topography on the reproducibility of the Non-Hydrostatic Regional Climate Model		Shinya Nosaka (MRI)
	Cloud simulation with multi-dimensional bin-microphysics model		Akihiro Hashimoto (MRI)
	A comparative experiment of warm rain bin schemes using kinetic driver		Kozo Nakamura (JAMSTEC)
17:20-17:40	General discussion

Conference hall
Masashi Nagata (MRI)	Tatsushi Tokioka (JAMSTEC)
Kazuo Saito(MRI, JAMSTEC)	Tadashi Tsuyuki (MRI)
Hiromu Seko (MRI, JAMSTEC)	David J. Stensrud (Pennsylvania State Univ)
Fujio. Kimura (JAMSTEC)	Hiromu Seko (question and answer session)
David J. Stensrud (question and answer session)	Social gathering
Group Photo

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