Media coverage: 6/21 NHK Sakidori and 6/22 NHK Ohayo Nippon

Our research on super-rapid severe weather prediction was covered by NHK TV program "Sakidori" (サキどり↑) on June 21, 2015, and by NHK TV morning news program "Ohayo Nippon" (おはよう日本) on June 22, 2015.

The NHK "Sakidori" TV crew came to the monthly research meeting with teleconference.

The crew also went to see the K computer.

The "Ohayo Nippon" reporter Mr. Akamatsu came to my office.

The covered contents are posted by the program webpages:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/sakidori/backnumber/150621.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/ohayou/marugoto/2015/06/0622.html

RIKEN Science Seminar VII in Kobe

On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, the RIKEN Science Seminar VII, an outreach event organized by RIKEN, took place at the Kobe International House. Hana-san, our featured guest, Kawai-san of RIKEN HQ, and I (Takemasa Miyoshi) enjoyed talking in front of more than 100 audiences about our cutting-edge research on future weather forecasting. Hana-san was keen to learn how the current weather forecasting works, and whether or not we can have 100% accurate forecasts in the future. I showed weather charts of the day and demonstrated how to read them to understand the tomorrow's weather forecast. Also, I talked about how we obtain these weather charts in real time, and what we could do in the future with more powerful computers and more advanced weather observing instruments. I hope that we could convey our scientific excitement to the enthusiastic audiences. Thank you very much for those who joined the enjoyable event, and the staff who kindly helped organize.

http://www.riken.jp/pr/blog/2014/140218_1/