Speaker 1 - 日本

Dr. Toshihisa Matsui is a NASA scientist. Dr. Matsui studies cloud-precipitation processes associated with aerosols, land-surface, and the large-scale environment through mesoscale meteorological models, remote sensing, and instrumental simulators. He is the key developer of the Unified Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model, the NASA-Unified Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, and the Goddard Satellite Data Simulator Unit (G-SDSU). He developed a GPM satellite simulator to support pre-launch algorithm development for the GPM algorithm developer teams, and recently he also developed a polarimetric radar simulator to fully utilize ground-based scanning Dopper polarimetric radars. Dr. Matsui has recently focused on creating NASA’s super sites over NASA Wallops Flight Facility for studying cloud-convection and precipitation processes. He organizes a seminar series of NASACloud-Precipitation Center (CPC), and GCE/NU-WRF development teams. He published 60+ journal publications and book chapters.