The University of Aizu University-Business Collaboration Forum
The Earth Simulator Forum
On Thursday, July 5, 2007, the "Earth Simulator Forum" was held at the Auditorium of
The University of Aizu.
The Forum was held as a part of a series of collaborative events scheduled based on a fundamental agreement for promotion of
"comprehensive cooperation for potential contribution to local communities through research
using the Earth Simulator" signed between the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
and the University. Approximately 80 people in total from the Fukushima Prefectural Government,
neighboring municipal governments and those concerned with local businesses and agriculture, participated
in the Forum.
Following the opening speech given by President Tsunoyama of the University, 4 experts gave lectures to
introduce meteorological simulation technology, its uses and application, and predictability of meteorological phenomena in the
Aizu region as samples and their characteristic climates and agriculture. Lecture titles and lecturers were as follows.
Participants were able to deepen their understanding of the Earth Simulator and expectations for the utilization of
this advanced technology in local indutries are high.
- *Titles and Lecturers
- (1)"Climate Variability and a Predictability Program and its Application for Society"
- Mr. Hirofumi Sakuma, Group Leader of the Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC
- (2)"Numeric Ocean Current Forecast (Ocean Weather Forecast) and its Availability"
- Mr. Yasumasa Miyazawa, Chief Researcher of the Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC
- (3)"Predictability of meteorological phenomena in the Aizu Region"
- Ms. Keiko Takahashi, Group Leader of the Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC
- (4)"Characteristic Climate and Agriculture in the Aizu Region -Use of meteorological resources and their task"
- Mr. Ichiro Arakawa, Director of Laboratory for the Aizu Region, Fukushima Agricultural Technology Center
- ŠThe Earth Simulator
- The ultra high-speed supercomputer sysytem, which forecasts global environmental changes on the "Virtual Earth" reproducing various atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon by using data from earth observation satelites and oceanographic observation buoys.
Scene from the lecture
Participants