News

• 25 January, 2025: ”Dynamics of rainstorms over Southern Himalayan slopes and foothills and their simulation by numerical models” (Fujinami et al. 2025) was published in ”Severe Storm”  edited by Drs. Someshwar Das and Wei-Kuo Tao 

• 26 December, 2024: 7th HiPRECS domestic meeting was held at Nagoya University and online.

• 11 October—9 November 2024: Dr. Sunako maintained the rain gauge and surveyed the damages from the September 2024 flood in Rolwaling. 

• 26-28 September, 2024: Torrential rains in Nepal caused extensive damage, including flooding and landslides. The rain gauge installed at Dongang in Rolwaling was washed away by the floods.

• 8 August, 2024: 6th HiPRECS domestic meeting was held online.

• 7-12 July, 2024: Some members joined GEWEX Open Science Conference.

• 21 December 2023: The kickoff meeting (Fifth HiPRECS domestic meeting) of HiPRECS Phase II was held in Nagoya University and online.

• October 2023: HiPRECS Phase II was launched. In Phase II, we are focusing on precipitation processes and precipitation systems in the high-elevation glacierized catchment in the Nepal Himalayas. 

• 1 May, 2023: A paper (Terao et al. 2023) was accepted in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

• 24 January, 2023: A Paper (Hirata et al. 2023) was accepted in Journal of Hydrometeorology.

• 13 September, 2022: A paper (Fujinami et al. 2022) was published online  in Geophysical Research Letters (open access).

• April-May, 2022: Spring field survey was postponed due to COVID-19. 

• 16 December, 2021: 4th HiPRECS domestic workshop was held online.

• November, 2021: Mr. Tika Ram Gurung of the ICIMOD visited our sites and retrieved data from all rain gauges. The data loggers kept rainfall data for almost two summers (2020 and 2021)! 

• 24 November, 2021: A paper (Sugimoto et al. 2021) was  issued in  Journal of Hydrometeorology (open access).

• May - October, 2021: In-situ precipitation observation in Rolwaling Valley was suspended due to COVID-19.  

• 16 July, 2021: A paper (Fujinami et al. 2021) was issued in Journal of Geophysical Research -Atmospheres (open access).

• 4 June, 2021: A paper (Sato et al. 2021) was issued in Frontiers in Earth Sciences (open access).

• May, 2021:  Field survey was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. 

• 10 December, 2020: 3rd HiPRECS domestic workshop was held online.

• May and November, 2020: Planned field surveys were cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

• January, 2020: A paper (Fujinami et al. 2020) was issued in Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society (link). 

• November 2019: A weighing rain gauge (Pluvio) were newly installed by Trambau glacier at  5,442 m asl. (Prof. K. Fujita and Mr. Y. Sato). (shown as AWS2 in the map)

• October, 2019: We successfully collected precipitation data in 2019 summer monsoon in all the six stations (Prof. K. Fujita and Mr. Y. Sato).

• 28 - 30 August, 2019: AsiaPEX kick-off international workshop was held at Hokkaido University.

• 23 July, 2019: 2nd HiPRECS domestic workshop was held at Nagoya University.

• A paper (Sunako et al.) was issued in Journal of Glaciology. (open access)

• 7 - 23 May, 2019: We installed rain gauges at Singati, Gongar, Simigaun, Dongang, Beding and Na along the Rolwaling valley. (Dr. H. Kanamori, Mr. Y. Sato and Mr. D. Sherpa)

• 5 - 18 March, 2019: H. Fujinami, Mr. Y. Sato and Mr. R. Kayastha stayed in the Rolwaling valley to survey the observation sites (Singati, Gogar, SimiGaun, Dongang and Beding) (see the observation sites).

• 3 - 4 December, 2018: HiPRECS kick-off workshop (domestic) was held in Nagoya University.

• December 2018: An international collaborative research on precipitation over the Himalayas (HiPRECS) was launched.