{"title":"Rainfall Characteristics and their Environmental Conditions during the Heavy Rainfall Events over Japan in July of 2017 and 2018","authors":"Takashi Unuma, T. Takemi","doi":"10.2151/jmsj.2021-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2021-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68295663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hirose, S. Shige, T. Kubota, Fumie A. Furuzawa, H. Minda, H. Masunaga
{"title":"Refinement of Surface Precipitation Estimates for the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar on the GPM Core Observatory Using Near-Nadir Measurements","authors":"M. Hirose, S. Shige, T. Kubota, Fumie A. Furuzawa, H. Minda, H. Masunaga","doi":"10.2151/JMSJ.2021-060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/JMSJ.2021-060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68296124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hitchman, S. Yoden, P. Haynes, Vinay Kumar, S. Tegtmeier
{"title":"An Observational History of the Direct Influence of the Stratospheric Quasi-biennial Oscillation on the Tropical and Subtropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere","authors":"M. Hitchman, S. Yoden, P. Haynes, Vinay Kumar, S. Tegtmeier","doi":"10.2151/jmsj.2021-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2021-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68295247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Near-Global Three-Dimensional Hail Signals Detected by Using GPM-DPR Observations","authors":"T. Seiki","doi":"10.2151/jmsj.2021-018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2021-018","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes a method of detecting three-dimensional hail distribution by using the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) products in combination with the atmospheric temperature from a reanalysis product. In this study, the hail class contains hailstones, high-density graupel, and small frozen droplets. The radar reflectivity at the Ku-band (ZKu) and dual-frequency ratio (DFR) values are examined for hydrometeor classification at the five atmospheric temperature ranges in comparison to the ground radar product in a test hailstorm case. A simple model assuming binary collision for the riming process, which represents a significant reduction in the number concentration with the conservation of the mass concentration, explains well the hail signals on the scatterplot of ZKu and the DFR. This study determines the thresholds of the ZKu and DFR values at each temperature range based on the simple model. Furthermore, this study evaluates the thresholds in 74 hailstorm cases and proposes two filters to remove melting snow and rain contamination below the freezing level. The 5-year dataset of the GPM-DPR observations shows that hail is widely distributed over oceanic convergence zones as well as over continental convective regions. Most oceanic hail layers are found to be thin (i.e., less than 1500 m) and confined near the freezing level. Therefore, such hail signals have been potentially missed by ground observations. An additional filter removes such thin hail layers and effectively works to detect only deep hailstorms, specifically over continental regions.","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68295508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2020 JMSJ Award","authors":"M. Satoh","doi":"10.2151/JMSJ.2021-B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/JMSJ.2021-B","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68295854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction of a Mixed Lognormal Probability Distribution Function and a New Displacement Correction Method for Precipitation to the Ensemble-Based Variational Assimilation of the All-Sky Microwave Imager Brightness Temperatures","authors":"K. Aonashi, Tomoko Tashima, T. Kubota, K. Okamoto","doi":"10.2151/JMSJ.2021-059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/JMSJ.2021-059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68296061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kyeong-Seok Min, K. Tsuboki, M. Yoshioka, Yukie Moroda, S. Kanada
{"title":"Formation Mechanism of a Stationary Line-Shaped Precipitation System in the Kinki District, Japan —Case Study on 1 September 2015 Event—","authors":"Kyeong-Seok Min, K. Tsuboki, M. Yoshioka, Yukie Moroda, S. Kanada","doi":"10.2151/jmsj.2021-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2021-017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68295458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Awaka, M. Le, S. Brodzik, T. Kubota, T. Masaki, V. Chandrasekar, T. Iguchi
{"title":"Development of Precipitation Type Classification Algorithms for a Full Scan Mode of GPM Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar","authors":"J. Awaka, M. Le, S. Brodzik, T. Kubota, T. Masaki, V. Chandrasekar, T. Iguchi","doi":"10.2151/JMSJ.2021-061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/JMSJ.2021-061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68295746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kensuke Komatsu, Y. Iijima, Y. Kaneko, D. Oyunbaatar
{"title":"Validation of GSMaP Products for a Heavy Rainfall Event over Complex Terrain in Mongolia Captured by the GPM Core Observatory","authors":"Kensuke Komatsu, Y. Iijima, Y. Kaneko, D. Oyunbaatar","doi":"10.2151/JMSJ.2021-048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/JMSJ.2021-048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68295764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predictability of Enhanced Monsoon Trough Related to the Meandered Asian Jet and Consequent Rossby Wave Breaking in Late August 2016","authors":"Kazuto Takemura, Takeshi Enomoto, H. Mukougawa","doi":"10.2151/jmsj.2021-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2021-016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68295364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}