Memorial Symposium for the Establishment of Hirodai Shirakami Radar System Held

06.10.2014

The Shirakami Institute for Environmental Science and the Cold Regions Meteorology Laboratory, Graduate School of Science and Technology held a symposium at Hakkoda Hall of the 60th Anniversary Auditorium, Collabo HiroDai, on Sep. 27 and Sep. 28 to commemorate the installation of an X-band Doppler weather radar system. While there are some similar defense-related systems, this new addition, called “Hirodai Shirakami,” is the first system in Aomori devoted solely to weather.

For more information on The Shirakami Institute for Environmental Science and the Cold Regions Meteorology Laboratory, visit the site below.

[The Shirakami Institute for Environmental Science]
HP:/shirakami/english/?(English)

[The Cold Regions Meteorology Laboratory]
HP:http://www.st.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/~earth_metlab/index.html? (Japanese)
Contact:
KODAMA Yasumasa
Email: kodama@hirosaki-u.ac.jp
HP:http://www.st.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/~kodama/index-e.html(English, Indonesia, and Portuguese)