Professional history:
I received the B.S. degree in physics, M.S. and Dr. Sci. degree in geophysics
from Hokkaido University, Japan in 1988, 1990 and 1994, respectively. I received
JSPS Fellowships from 1993 to 1995, and worked in
the Institute of Low Temperature Science (ILTS),
Hokkaido University.
I joined
the microwave remote sensing section,
Communications Research Laboratory (CRL),
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Tokyo, Japan in 1995,
and I am presently a senior research official. In September 1998, I moved in
School of Meteorology,
University of Oklahoma
as a visiting research scientist, and I will stay in Oklahoma until August 2000.
Since 1990, I have been engaged in the study of radar meteorology. My recent
main research fields include the studies related to bistatic Doppler radar networks,
CRL airborne multiparameter precipitation radar (CAMPR) and Tropical Rainfall
Measuring Mission (TRMM). My interests also include thermodynamic and
microphysical retrieval from dual-Doppler radar data, and radar data assimilation
for cloud resolving numerical models.
Personal history:
I was born on May 3, 1964 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and raised in Kashiwa, Chiba and Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. I spend my school days for 12-years in Ikeda, Osaka. When I was in elementary school, I drew a first weather chart and wrote a composition that I wished to be a meteorologist in the future. I played basketball in junior high school days, and climbed mountains in senior high school days. In the high school's mountaineering club, I was a weather forecaster drawing weather charts. My forecasts were accurate in mountains, but were inaccurate out of mountains. In 1984, I was matriculated at Hokkaido University. While I studied, I started on playing cello in the university orchestra. I took an interest in classical music, because I had played piano in elementary school days, and had been in a chorus in the high school. After I quitted the orchestra, I have continued to play cello in some groups. However, I am not a skillful cellist. In 1990 when I was a graduate student, I got married to Tomomi. She is a pharmacist, and played violin with me in the university orchestra and a string quartet group. On June 24, 1997, my first daughter, Kaede, was born. She seems to like music and cloud.