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Hirose Masafumi

ヒロセ マサフミ | Hirose Masafumi
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate professor
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (15):
  • 2023 - 2028 Unravelling precipitation systems in the Himalayas using in-situ observations, remote sensing and cloud-resolving models
  • 2025 - Evaluation of spatial information on precipitation near the center of tropical cyclones
  • 2025 - Examination of the features and challenges of precipitation climate information updated by long-term spaceborne radar data
  • 2022 - 2025 Temporal variability and spatial uncertainty in precipitation climatology refined from the long-term spaceborne radar data
  • 2019 - 2022 Assessing and enhancing climate precipitation products derived from spaceborne radars
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Papers (17):
  • Masafumi Hirose, Keita Okada, Kohei Kawaguchi, Nobuhiro Takahashi. Removing interfering signals in spaceborne radar data for precipitation detection at very high altitudes. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 2023
  • Toru Terao, Shinjiro Kanae, Hatsuki Fujinami, Someshwar Das, A. P. Dimri, Subashisa Dutta, Koji Fujita, Azusa Fukushima, Kyung-Ja Ha, Masafumi Hirose, et al. AsiaPEX: Challenges and Prospects in Asian Precipitation Research. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2023. 104. 4. E884-E908
  • Masafumi HIROSE, Shoichi SHIGE, Takuji KUBOTA, Fumie A. FURUZAWA, Haruya MINDA, Hirohiko MASUNAGA. Refinement of Surface Precipitation Estimates for the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar on the GPM Core Observatory Using Near-Nadir Measurements. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II. 2021. 99. 5. 1231-1252
  • Masafumi Hirose, Keita Okada. A 0.01° Resolving TRMM PR Precipitation Climatology. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 2018. 57. 8. 1645-1661
  • Masafumi Hirose, Yukari N. Takayabu, Atsushi Hamada, Shoichi Shige, Munehisa K. Yamamoto. Spatial Contrast of Geographically Induced Rainfall Observed by TRMM PR. Journal of Climate. 2017. 30. 11. 4165-4184
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MISC (5):
Books (1):
  • Multi-scale manifestation of tropical precipitation as evidenced from recent satellite observations. In book: Multi-Scale Precipitation Variability Over the Tropics
    Elsevier 2025
Lectures and oral presentations  (83):
  • Improved Precipitation Rate Profile Estimation Method for the Main-lobe Clutter Region in GPM/DPR
    (EGU General Assembly 2025 2025)
  • Detecting seasonal differences in the variations in diurnal precipitation using spaceborne Ku-band radars
    (EGU General Assembly 2025 2025)
  • 目視観測によるGPM DPRの雨雪判別の検証
    (令和6年度GPMおよび衛星シミュレータ合同研究集会 2025)
  • Spatiotemporal variability of gridded precipitation information updated by diverse sampling
    (CGMS International Precipitation Working Group IPWG-11 2024)
  • Estimating undetected precipitation using statistics from spaceborne precipitation radar observations
    (9th Global and Energy and Water Exchanges Open Science Conference, Observational and Modeling Initiatives for the Asian Monsoon Field Campaign session 2024)
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Works (1):
  • 降水DB, www.rain-clim.com
Education (4):
  • 2000 - 2004 名古屋大学大学院 理学研究科 地球惑星理学専攻博士後期課程
  • 2004 - 博士(理学)名古屋大学
  • 1998 - 2000 名古屋大学大学院 理学研究科 地球惑星理学専攻博士前期課程
  • 1994 - 1998 東京都立科学技術大学 工学部 航空宇宙システム工学科
Professional career (1):
  • 博士(理学)名古屋大学
Work history (7):
  • 2025/04 - 現在 University of Coimbra Earth Observation Laboratory Visiting researcher, Resident researcher
  • 2020/04 - 現在 Meijo University Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology Associate Professor
  • 2012/04 - 2020/03 名城大学 理工学部環境創造学科 准教授
  • 2008/04 - 2012/03 名城大学 理工学部環境創造学科 助教
  • 2007/05 - 2008/03 名古屋大学 地球水循環研究センター 機関研究員
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Awards (2):
  • 2015/06 - NASA NASA Group achievement award
  • 2015/04 - NASA NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Robert H. Goddard Award (Team), Exceptional achievement in science
Association Membership(s) (4):
EGU ,  Japan GeoscienceUnion ,  American Meteorological Society ,  Meteorological Society of Japan
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