[Supported Organizations] * MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) * WCRP (World Climate Research Programme) * JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) * HyARC (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University) [JST/CREST (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology)] * LAPS (The Lower Atmosphere and Precipitation Study) [PI (Principal Investigator): Kenji Nakamura] * RAISE (The Rangelands Atmosphere-Hydrosphere-Biosphere Interaction Study Experiment in Northeastern Asia) [PI: Michiaki Sugita] * Development of a Physical Down Scaling Method for Water Cycle [PI: Toshio Koike] * Modeling Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources Coupled with Human Activities [PI: Taikan Oki] [MEXT/21st COE (A 21st Century Center of Exellence Program)] * KAGI21 (Kyoto University Active Geosphere Investigations for the 21st Century COE Programj[Leader: Shigeo Yoden] * SELIS (Dynamics of the Sun-Earth-Life Interactive System)/Nagoya University [Leader: Tetsuzo Yasunari] [JSPSiJapan Society for the Promotion Science)/MEXT Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Researches] * JSPS/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 14204044 'Changes on Land Surface, Climate/Water Cycle in Monsoon Asia -An Integrated International Cooperative Research Project-' [Tetsuzo Yasunari] * JSPS/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 16634009 'Research Promotion in Asia and Planing on International Cooperative Research Project under the Phase-II of WCRP/GEWEX Program' [Tetsuzo Yasunari] * JSPS/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 16634010 'Research for international joint study on monsoon precipitation variability in Nepal Himalayas' [Takehiko Satomura] [Research Funds (Other Categories)] * MEXT/Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology/Leadership for international scientific cooperation, Leadership on the Hydrological Science for Mitigating, World Water Issues [Leader: Taikan Oki] * RIHN (Resarch Institute for Humanity and Nature) project 5-1 'Global Water Cycle Variation and the Current World Water Resources Issues and Their Perspectives' [Leader: Shinjiro Kanae] * MEXT/Research Revolution 2002 (RR2002) Project for Sustainable Coexistence of Human, Nature, and the Earth (Category 2 of an integrated earth system model for prediction of global environmental changes) [CCSR (Center for Climate System Research, the University of Tokyo)]