Tackling major problems of the climate change mechanism with the world's most advanced technology

Job description

I'm working as the JAXA EarthCARE Mission Scientist who manages research related to the EarthCARE mission in the JAXA Earth Observation Research Center (EORC).
Data observed by the EarthCARE instruments are the basis for research, and we have been working with universities and research institutes, such as Kyushu University, to develop and validate EarthCARE data products.
JAXA is collaborating through joint research with the University of Tokyo and several universities and research institutes, which are developing Japan's Global Climate Model, participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate model experiment.
In addition, we are studying numerical weather prediction systems through joint research with the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Thoughts on EarthCARE/CPR

The EarthCARE is a mission to challenge the major problems of the climate change mechanism with the world's most advanced technology.
The aerosol-cloud interaction has always been the biggest uncertainty in previous IPCC reports and remains the biggest factor in the latest report, AR6 released in 2021. So, there is a significant need for global observational data to understand the climate change mechanism related to clouds/aerosols that affect the Earth's radiation budget.
I am really looking forward to being able to get in touch with a new picture of cloud and aerosol observed by the EarthCARE mission and thereby advance research towards understanding the mechanisms of climate change.