Precipitation
and
Water Resources

　　As a part of the Japanese contribution to the International Hydrological Programme (IHP), a short course for participants from the Asia-Pacific region is going to be conducted on precipitation and water resources, from 23 February to 8 March, 2003, at Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, and Graduate School of Engineering (Department of Global Environment Engineering and Department of Civil Engineering Systems) and Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. The course includes a series of lectures in English, practice sessions and technical tours to in-situ observation sites, national offices and facilities concerned with precipitation and water resources.

　　

The general aim of the IHP short course is to help participants to develop their basic knowledge of hydrological systems and their sensitivity to climate changes and to contribute to solve current global environmental problems. Water resource is one of the biggest problems for not only developing countries but also developed countries. In 2003, after this IHP short course, the Third World Water Forum will be held in Kyoto, Japan. In the Forum, the problem of heavy rainfall and flood will be also focused on as one of vital problems in the field of water resources. Under this circumstance, this IHP short course will focus on understanding mechanism and prediction of heavy rainfall and flood runoff including river basin management. The topic on draught in senses of phenomena and management will be included as a typical topic of water resources.

The problems of water resources and ways of solving them depend much on features of nature and human activity in the field where people are living. In this sense, participants can get essential and comprehensive idea of ways of planning, managing and monitoring problems on water resources of their own countries including precipitation.

(convenors: E.Nakakita and H.Uyeda)

Lecturers

T. Hori (Department of Civil Engineering Systems, Kyoto University)
Y. Ichikawa (Department of Civil Engineering Systems, Kyoto University)
E. Nakakita (Department of Global Environment Engineering, Kyoto University)
K. Nakamura (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University)
T. Shinoda (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University)
Y. Tachikawa (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
I. Tamagawa (River Basin Research Center, Gifu University)
K. Tanaka (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
K. Tsuboki (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University)
H. Uyeda (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University)

L1 Basics of Meteorology on Precipitation................................................................................................................................H. Uyeda

Basic equations on meteorology and treatment of precipitation phenomena
Some of bases on cloud physics for the preparation of studies on radar meteorology

L2 Basics on Mesoscale Meteorology and Radar Meteorology.............................................................................................H. Uyeda

Basics of mesoscale meteorology
Weather radar application for revealing mesoscale phenomena

L3 Boundary Layer.....................................................................................................................................................................I. Tamagawa

Introduction of boundary layer
Structure of boundary layer
Turbulent transport
Parameterization of turbulence

L4 Rain Observation from Satellites.....................................................................................................................................K. Nakamura

Principles of satellite remote sensing
Microwave and visible/infrared radiometer observation
Active microwave rain observation techniques
Results of spaceborne rain radar observation of rain

L5 Basics on Numerical Simulation..........................................................................................................................................K. Tsuboki

Fundamental aspects on numerical simulation
Basics of cloud resolving numerical model in comparison with numerical weather forecastings

L6 Land Surface Processes........................................................................................................................................................K. Tanaka

Land surface processes
Land surface model
Observation of land surface processes

L7 Radar Hydrology.....................................................................................................................................................................E. Nakakita

Radar-rainfall estimation
Potential of utilizing radar into planning and real time managing of water resources
Short-time rainfall prediction using radar and its accuracy

L8 Water Resources Planning and Management.........................................................................................................................T. Hori

Distribution of water resources and water balance
Water resources development and planning, from the viewpoint of optimization
Management and operation in water resources systems, focusing on reservoir operation
Draught and safety measures of water resources systems

L9 Catchment Hydrology.......................................................................................................................................................Y. Tachikawa

Instruction of conceptual runoff simulation models such as a tank model, storage function method, and Xinanjiang Model
Instruction of lumped river flow routing
A real time flood prediction method with Kalman filter theory

L10 Distributed Runoff Modeling............................................................................................................................................Y. Ichikawa

Basic concept of distributed runoff modeling
Instruction of kinematic wave theory
Lumping of distributed runoff models
Hydrological modeling system

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P1 Cloud Resolving Model......................................................................................................................................................T. Shinoda

Explanation of results of numerical simulation with a cloud resolving model
Practice to run a cloud resolving model on a rain case

P2 Short-term Rainfall Prediction Using Radar..............................................................................................................E. Nakakita

Explanation of algorithm of a short-term rainfall prediction method
Practice to run the prediction method

P3 Flood Runoff Prediction..............................................................................................................................................................Y. Tachikawa

Processing DEMs for distributed runoff modeling
Construction of distributed rainfall-runoff model based on kinematic wave theory
Runoff simulation

Technical Tours

T1 Meteorological Office and Observatory.................................................................................................................H. Uyeda

Visit to a meteorological office and observatory in Nagoya

T2 In-Situ Observation Sites for Land Surface Processes.........................................................K. Tanaka and I. Tamagawa

Visit to permanent in-situ observation sites in the Lake Biwa basin

T3 Offices and Facilities for River Basin Management..........................................................................................E. Nakakita

Visit to dam control offices and some historical facilities for river basin management in the Yodo River basin.

　　The trainees from the Asia-Pacific region are selected and recommended by the Regional Office for Science and Technology, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The UNESCO Jakarta Office would be in charge for the selection and the recommendation of the participants. Successful candidates would be supported financially by UNESCO for his/her travel as well as per diem in Japan. Those who wish to participate are requested to contact the UNESCO Jakarta Office at the following address..

Programme Specialist in Hydrological Sciences UNESCO Jakarta Office Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific Jl. M.H. Thamlin 14, P.O. Box 1273/JKT Jakarta 10002, Indonesia E-mail: jakarta@unesco.org Tel: +62-21-3141308 / 3140066 Fax: +62-21-3150382

　Additional trainees may be allowed to participate at their own expense. They should contact the Secretary of the IHP Training Course, whose contact address is given as the last of this brochure.

Important information for participants

Climate of February and March in Japan

Nagoya

    Daily maximum temperature: 9.4〜13.4

    Daily minimum temperature : 0.6〜3.7      

  Kyoto

    Daily maximum temperature: 9.3〜13.1

    Daily minimum temperature : 1.1〜3.7

 Language

    Japanese only. Few people speak good English, but many people understand simple English words.

    You can see many English notice boards in the public traffic system (railway and subway).

Currency

    Japanese Yen (\) only.

Important websites

    Nagoya Airport (including detail bus timetable): http://www.nagoya-airport-bldg.co.jp/index-e.html

    Nagoya University: http://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/english/index.html

    Kyoto University: http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html

    Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center (HyARC), Nagoya Univ.:

                                   http://www.ihas.nagoya-u.ac.jp/hyarc/

For more details...

    Please contact with the temporary office of the 12th IHP training course; nakamura@ihas.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Kenji Nakamura)

Map around Motoyama Subway Station

2003 Course: Effects of Pollutants on Atmospheric Environment (to be conducted in Summer, 2003)

　　

Anthropogenic pollutants affect atmospheric environment such as the formation of precipitation, the quality of precipitation water, the Earth's radiative balance and ecosystem. To cope with the atmospheric environmental problem, basic understanding of physical and chemical nature of gas and aerosol particles and their effect on microphysical, chemical and optical properties of clouds are required.
The course will be focused in two ways. First is to examine gas, aerosol particles and clouds with direct observations and satellite observations. Second is to study the effect of anthropogenic pollutants on atmospheric environment with numerical calculations. The lectures and practices would be conducted in Nagoya University, Toyohashi University of Technology, National Institute for Environmental Studies and others..


Planned Lectures

• Emission, transport and distributions of air pollutants in the East Asia
• Physical and chemical nature of gas and aerosol particles, and their transformation in the atmosphere
• Effect of aerosol particles on microphysical and chemical properties of clouds and rain formation
• Direct and indirect effect of aerosol particles on the Earth's radiative balance
• Effect of air pollutants on air quality, water quality and ecology

Practical Training
　　

• Measurement of gas and aerosol particles with direct observations

• Observation of cloud condensation nuclei

• Distribution of aerosol particles and microstructure of clouds with satellites

• Simple models for transport and distribution of anthropogenic pollutants

The IHP Training Course is financially supported by a Trust Fund for UNESCO from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japanese Government.

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