A Word from the Director
Welcome to the Center for Climate System Research. Our Center was established in 1991 at the University of Tokyo as a University Cooperative Center. During this period we have made a great effort in climate system research through modeling and data analysis. This research has brought, I believe, a substantial contribution to understanding of climate and global warming, graduate school education, and the development of young scientists.
Our research activities have reinforced my recognition that nature and the climate system are extremely complex, yet at the same time beautifully harmonized. Model simulations, on the other hand, remain poor copies of real systems, and we have much to learn from observations. Persistent and significant efforts, however, have been made through international projects, such as IPCC, WCRP, IGBP, and several national projects, such as those that employ the Earth Simulator. I expect that such great efforts make the next ten years be a decade of phase change in studies of the climate system. We have been steadily moving forward toward more realistic simulations of nature by implementing improved modeling components for simulation of regional climate, the greenhouse effect, the parasol effect and many other processes.
The fostering of mutual interaction between the university and society at large is one important element of the recent restructuring of the university system. I believe that the results from climate system studies will become manifested in your everyday life in many practical and beneficial ways as this decade of new research unfolds.
Professor Teruyuki Nakajima, Director
Center for Climate System Research
University of Tokyo
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