Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

Convener:*Maki Masayuki(ERCDP, Kagoshima University), Jun Matsumoto(Deaprtment of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Yoshinori Shoji Yoshinori(The Second Laboratory of Meteorological Satellite and Observation System Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute), Tsuyoshi Nakatani(National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention)

It is recognized that large cities with a population of several million people are inherently vulnerable to extreme weathers such as torrential rain, lightning, strong wind, giant typhoon, and heat wave. It is argued that the occurrence of extreme weather phenomena tends to increase due to the climatic change. Cooperating with domestic and international academic scientists, the session will focus on the mechanism of extreme weather, its monitoring and prediction methods, effects of urbanization on hazards, and social experiments on resilient cities.