Welcome to the Applied Meteorology Laboratory (AML)
Field of applied meteorology includes not only the conventional areas of synoptic, mesoscale, and microscale meteorology, but also several interdisciplinary areas like aviation (or transportation) meteorology, space meteorology, and so on. Research areas in our laboratory include as follows.
- Understanding the generation mechanisms of aviation (transportation) weather hazards like turbulence, icing, convection, low-level wind shear, gust, fog, freezing rain, downslope windstorm, wild fire, and so on.
- Statistical classifications (characteristics) of weather hazards.
- Investigating the downstream impact of NWP model updates on aviation (transportation) operations.
- Development of post-processing algorithms tailored to aviation (transportation) user demands.
- Statistical evaluation of the post-processing algorithms against available observation data from satellite, radar, lightning, in situ aircraft, and so on.
- Two way interaction between the climate change and aviation (transportation) operations.
- Optimization of safe and efficient flight (transportation) trajectory modelings.