APHRODITE's Water Resources

Project Members

APHRODITE Project is finished in March 2011

Aphrodite's Water Resources Project Members FY2010

Sub-theme I (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)

Improvement of precipitation and temperature datasets based on user's feedback

Principal Investigator: Akiyo YATAGAI
: Tsugihiro WATANABE
Collaborators: Jumpei KUBOTA
: Makoto TANIGUCHI
Research Associates: Atsushi HAMADA
: Natsuko YASUTOMI
Project Research Associates: Machiko KINJO
: Aiko TANAKA

Sub-theme II (Meteorological Research Institute)

Validation of the precipitation simulated by climate models, and improvement of data interpolation method of observed daily rain-gauge precipitation

Co-Investigator: Akio KITOH
Collaborators: Kenji KAMIGUCHI
Research Associates: Osamu ARAKAWA

Sub-theme III (RIHN, Visiting Researcher)

Development of high-resolution gridded precipitation dataset over South Asia by combining satellites and rain-gauges

Eco-Frontier-Fellowship: Anoop Kumar MISHRA

Funded from (FY2015-FY2017) :

Effect of observation data input of highland region on gridded daily mean and climatological mean temperature dataset.

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant number (15K05291)

Principal Investigator: Natsuko YASUTOMI

Funded from (FY2006-FY2010) :

Environment Research & Technology Development Fund by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan