1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Designe and Evaluation of the Afforestation of Desort by Water Controll
Project/Area Number |
06303007
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
化学工学一般
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Research Institution | The Univ.of Tokyo |
Principal Investigator |
KOMIYAMA Hiroshi The Univ.of Tokyo, School of Eng., Prof, 大学院・工学系研究科, 教授 (80011188)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKATA Reika Obayashi Corp., Engineering Division, Manager, 技術第二部, 研究員
YAMADA Kouichi The Univ.of Tokyo, School of Eng., Prof, 大学院工学系研究科, 教授 (10260499)
KAKUBARI Yoshitaka Shizuoka Univ., Fac.of Agric., Prof, 農学部, 教授 (60126026)
MATSUDA Satoshi Shizuoka Univ., fac.of Eng., Associate Prof, 工学部, 助教授 (80165828)
KOJIMA Toshinori Seikei Univ., Fac.of Eng., Prof, 工学部, 教授 (10150286)
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Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1995
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Keywords | Greening of Desert / Simulation of Arid Land weather / Artificial Mountain / Global Warming / Fixation of CO_2 / Precipitation Enhancement |
Research Abstract |
In 1994, the simulator for the estimation of the large scale rainfall distribution was developed. Using this simulator under the boundary and initial conditions provided by the global model, we investigated the effect of the earth's surface conditions to rainfall. We examined the underground water transfer, especially the salt water transfer to the upper ground and the accumulation of salt using imitate earth. As a result, it was proed that the water transfer was promoted and the salt accumulation at surface might be suppressed under the conditions of IR irradiation assuming sunbeam. The humid air and the ascendeing current was necessary to rainfall on desert, so we showed two ways, the installation of artificial mountain and the formation of the ascending current by the thermal convection. As for the occurrence of the humid air, we supposed the promotion of evaporation by artificial shallows. Based on the thermal balance in shallow water surface, the evaporation rate of humid air for equilibrium water temperature was estimated. The water balance relationship between evaporation rate, soil humidity and evaporation on soil surface were examined from model experiment. In 1995, development of the climate simulation program in desert and evaluation of plant trees scenario in desert was performed. For the coastal region of 600km * 600km in West Australian Desert, the calculation according to mass balance and energy balance was executed, and the modification amount was calculated about vapor in the atmosphere and rainfall. Changing albedo, rise and fall on surface and water containing rate, vapor in the atmosphere and rainfall was increased. Furthermore, the cost calculation of plant trees to fix carbon and comparison with other measures was necessary to the realization of plant trees in desert. Therefore we investigated the way of evaluation.
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Research Products
(16 results)