Cloud-Resolving Simulation of Tropical Cyclones

Toshiki Iwasaki () and Masahiro Sawada
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Toshiki Iwasaki: Tohoku University, Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science
Masahiro Sawada: Tohoku University, Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science

A chapter in High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2007, 2008, pp 15-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Many casualties have been recorded due to typhoons (tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific region) for a long time in Japan. In 1959, T15, VERA, which is known as the “Isewan Typhoon” in Japan, landfalled the Kii Peninsula, bringing heavy precipitation, generated the storm surge of 3.5 m on the coast of Ise Bay, flooding over Nobi Plain very widely and killing more than 5000 people. Since this event, many efforts have been made to improve social infrastructures against typhoon, such as seawall and riverbank, and to establish its observation and prediction system. These efforts succeeded in significantly reducing casualties. Even now, however, typhoons are among the most hazardous meteorological phenomena in Japan. In the North America, the coastal regions suffer from tropical cyclones, hurricanes as well. Accurate forecasts of tropical cyclones are of great concern in societies all over the world.

Keywords: Tropical Cyclone; Japan Meteorological Agency; Diabatic Heating; Cloud Microphysics; Typhoon Track (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74384-2_2

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