<特別寄稿>思い返せばいろいろと手を出したものだ --研究生活を総括する--

Abstract

This manuscript summarizes my research history. My carrier started in 1981 as a research scientist at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, where I was engaged in the research on the atmospheric dispersion of radioactive effluents. I moved to the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University in 1994. My major mission was the research of meteorological hazards such as typhoon, heavy rain and severe storms. In addition to the mission, I was involved in various researches in the related fields. Among them much of my times were devoted to the field observation of energy exchange between atmosphere and land surface. This field research inevitably guided me to the research on the satellite data analysis. It was also exciting to study environmental public health issues with a professor at the department of medicine in Kyoto University.