Japan Wants a Bigger Role In Science of Extreme Weather Attribution

Japan researchers use new method to analyze extreme weather and global warming

Researchers in Japan are placing great hope in the country's first organization to analyze the impact of global warming on extreme weather exclusively through a method called "event attribution."

On the 20th, researchers from the University of Tokyo's Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute and Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute announced the launch of a new organization called the Extreme Weather Attribution Center (WAC), which will analyze and publish the extent of the impact of climate change within a few days of the occurrence of abnormal weather. This will significantly shorten the time required for analysis f…

Japan Wants a Bigger Role In Science of Extreme Weather Attribution

Nation’s new research center aims to pinpoint the role of climate change in heat waves to typhoons

Japan Offers More Scholarships to Meteorologists

Meteorological officers in the Pacific, including Fiji, are urged to take advantage of the new long-term scholarship programme in Japan. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Fiji Office deputy resident representative, Kentaro Suekane, confirmed the programme during the TCT –Training on Himawari Data Analysis with SATAID and Rainfall Monitoring with GSMaP at the Nalagi Hotel, in Nadi yesterday. In terms of long-term training, the JICA sc…