09:00 - 09:30 Registration
Keynote Presentations (for Japanese public, with translation)
09:30 - 09:40 Opening Kunio Sakurai / JMA
Chairperson Hitoshi Takada / NHK Weather Caster
09:40 - 10:20 Present status and future challenges of tropical cyclone forecasting Kiichi Sasaki / JMA
10:20 - 11:00 Global tropical cyclone forecasting for days, weeks and a season ahead Martin Miller / ECMWF
11:00 - 11:40 Impact of Special Observations for TC Track Forecasts in T-PARC 2008 Tetsuo Nakazawa / MRI
11:40 - 12:20 THORPEX and related natural disaster mitigation activities in WMO David Parsons / WMO
12:20 - 12:30 Closing Nobuo Sato / MRI
12:30 - 12:45 Group Photo
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
Expert Meeting
13:45 - 13:50 Opening Tetsuo Nakazawa / MRI
Session1 Current Status of Typhoon Track Forecast Technique
Chairperson Kiichi Sasaki / JMA
13:50 - 14:20 Recent progress on tropical cyclone prediction at ECMWF Martin Miller/ ECMWF
14:20 - 14:50 Aircraft observations of tropical cyclones : Lessons learned and the future Sim Aberson / NOAA
14:50 - 15:20 Flow dependent satellite thinning during the typhoon season Carla Cardinali / ECMWF
15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break
Chairperson Takeshi Enomoto /JAMSTEC
15:40 - 16:10 On the ability of global ensemble prediction systems to predict tropical cyclone track probabilities Sharan Majumdar/ University of Miami
16:10 - 16:40 Decision support system for prevention and mitigation of meteorological disasters based on ensemble NWP data : an experimental use for the forecasts of Nargis Shigeo Yoden / Kyoto University
16:40 - 17:10 Discussion and Summary
18:30 - 20:30 Welcome Reception
Session2 T-PARC 2008 Related Studies
Chairperson Takuya Komori / JMA
10:00 - 10:30 Typhoon Sinlaku during T-PARC : Sensitivity of re-intensification and downstream development to the track following recurvature Patrick A. Harr / NPS
10:30 - 11:00 Lessons learned from Falcon observations in T-PARC 2008 Martin Weissmann / DLR
11:00 - 11:30 NRL research from T-PARC/TCS-08 Carolyn Reynolds / NRL
11:30 - 12:00 Impact of targeted dropsonde observations on the typhoon forecasts during T-PARC Hyun Mee Kim / Yonsei University
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson Kiyotomi Sato / JMA
13:30 - 14:00 JMA sensitivity analysis in T-PARC Takuya Komori / JMA
14:00 - 14:30 Observing system experiments using the operational NWP system of JMA with T-PARC 2008 special observations targeted for Typhoon Sinlaku Koji Yamashita / JMA
14:30 - 15:00 Observing system experiments using the operational NWP system of JMA with T-PARC 2008 special observations targeted for Typhoon Jangmi Koichiro Ohta / JMA
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
Chairperson Patrick A. Harr / NPS
15:20 - 15:50 Targeted observation and data assimilation for tropical cyclones Chun-Chieh Wu / PSA
15:50 - 16:20 Variability in forecasts of the track of Typhoon Jangmi and its interaction with the midlatitude flow during T-PARC Sarah Jones / University of Karlsruhe
16:20 - 16:50 Observation and simulation of the genesis of Typhoon Fengshen during the PALAU-2008 field experiment Hiroyuki Yamada / JAMSTEC
16:50 - 17:20 Discussion and Summary
Session3 Future Research Directions on Typhoon Forecast
Chairperson Martin Miller / ECMWF
10:00 - 10:30 Impact of typhoon on ocean in Pacific (ITOP) 2010 : high-resolution coupled modeling Shuyi S. Chen / University of Miami
10:30 - 11:00 Tropical cyclone simulations with the global cloud-resolving model NICAM Masaki Sato / CCSR
11:00 - 11:30 High-resolution simulation of typhoon using a cloud-resolving model Kazuhisa Tsuboki / Nagoya University
11:30 - 12:00 Reanalysis of Typhoon Vera project in JMA/MRI : ReVera Kotaro Bessho / MRI
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson David Parsons / WMO
13:30 - 14:00 Introduction of "the Northwestern Pacific Tropical Cyclone Ensemble Track Forecast Research Project" Tetsuo Nakazawa / MRI
14:00 - 14:30 Improvement of the JMA typhoon track forecast Kenji Kishimoto / JMA
14:30 - 15:00 The impact of Kelvin waves on the field around typhoons -Observing system experiment of MISMO - Qoousaku Moteki / JAMSTEC
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
Chairperson Tetsuo Nakazaw / MRI
15:20 - 15:50 Atmospheric uncertainty associated with typhoon genesis estimated in ensemble reanalysis ALERA Takeshi Enomoto / JAMSTEC
15:50 - 16:20 Tropical cyclogenesis frequency simulated by CMIP3 climate models and multi-model based future projection Satoru Yokoi / CCSR
16:20 - 16:50 Discussion and Summary
16:50 Closing Remarks