Abstract: The winter of 2006/07 in Japan was the warmest in more than 100 years. To evaluate the effects of such an anomalous warmer winter on measured winter precipitation data, gauge-measured precipitation amounts from an area ...

Abstract: AbstractThe Hokuriku region along the west coast of the Japanese island of Honshu receives exceptionally heavy snowfall accumulations, exceeding 500 cm from December to February near sea level and 1300 cm at high elevation ...

Abstract: he liquid water fraction of individual snowflakes f is an important parameter when calculating the radar reflectivity of a melting layer. A ground-based observation of f at Nagaoka, Japan, was conducted by using dye-treated ...