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KOBAYASHI Tomonao
Title Professor
Department Department of Civil Engineering
Course Environmental Studies Course

Research fields

The ocean waves are analyzed and their height and period are predicted with a numerical model in our laboratory. This topic is the one of the applications of the weather forecasting to the engineering.

The ocean waves are mainly generated with the wind. For the ocean wave prediction, the wind over the ocean is simulated with a weather forecasting model first, and the height and period of the waves are evaluated with the wind and an ocean wave model. Not only the wind over the large ocean, but also the complicate wind in near shore can be evaluated with high accuracy by applying the weather forecasting model. The ocean wave height and period, and also the swell can be computed with the evaluated wind and the ocean wave model.

The ocean wave forecasting is applied not only for the prediction of high wave disasters, but also for the beach recreations, and more for the ocean wave generations.

As the applications of the weather forecasting to the engineering, we also develop the techniques for the prediction of the photovoltaic generations.

Computed wind over the ocean and wave heights and directions around Japan Island Predicted wave heights

Research Keywords

mesoscale weather forecasting model, ocean wave model, weather forecast, ocean wave prediction

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