1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
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07680488
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Natural disaster science
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
ISHIKAWA Hirohiko Kyoto Univ., DPRI,Associate Prof., 防災研究所, 助教授 (60263159)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HORIGUCHI Mitsuaki Kyoto Univ., DPRI,Research Asistant, 防災研究所, 助手 (60190253)
HAYASHI Taiichi Kyoto Univ., DPRI,Associate Prof., 防災研究所, 助教授 (10111981)
MITSUTA Yasushi Kyoto Univ., DPRI,Prof., 防災研究所, 教授 (90027219)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1996
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| Keywords | Extratropical Cyclone / High wind Disaster / Wind Estimation / Mass-comsistent Wind Model / Meso-scale Numerical Model |
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| Research Abstract |
Extratropical cyclones sometimes cause severe high wind disaster especially in winter season. One of such disasters was the high wind disaster in northern Japan on February 22, 1994. During the passage of the extratropical cyclone, there were three accidents in traffics, two for the railway and the other for bus transportation. The meteorological conditions and the associated high wind were intensively examined in this study.
The winter season tracks of extratropical cyclone around Japan were examined using surface weather charts. It is found that the northern Japan Sea and the Pacific Ocean along the Japan Islands were two major paths of extratropical cyclones. It is also found that the later region is the place where the extratropical cyclones sometimes develop explosively.
The methodology to evaluate the high wind associated with extratropical cyclone wasinvestigated. The surface wind is first estimated from the surface pressure pattern with consideration. The effect of topography is considered by using a mass-consistent wind model. A more sophisticated methodology which use dynamical meso-scale numerical model can introduce the effect of turbulence.
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