紀要論文

Review on Practical Use of Weather Forecasting for Health in Japan and Germany

eng

00753467

https://doi.org/10.15002/00011654

Japan Climatology Seminar

2012

43

47

2012-12

Version of Record

This paper reviews recent status of health-weather forecasting developed in Japan as well as in Germany. First, brief history of biometeorology in Japan was described with special reference to health-weather forecasting, based mainly on the previous studies by M. Yoshino and R. Miyashita in 2007 and 2008. In Japan, health-weather forecasting in TVs, Radios, Newspapers etc. has become popular since several years ago, but it has longer than 30 years' history in Germany. Secondly, recent activities by the Bioclima-Research-Committee (BCRC) on health-weather forecasting services were introduced, showing the flow chart. Importance of the size in space scale and the regional division or climatic division for the forecasting areas was discussed, according to the scale division by M. Yoshino. Thirdly, delivery methods and frequencies of health-weather forecasting were dealt with. Fourthly, examples were given for (1) short-term UV conditions and adjusting for skin constitution and (2) heat disorder and its forecasting system at Kumagaya City. In the last part, examples appeared in the Newspapers and TVs in Germany were introduced. German methods have been used at 74 cities in the world in 2008, according to a report by J. N. Petit. It provides health-weather forecasting for the coming five days, updated every twelve hours at approximately 1200Z and 2300Z. Forecasts are categorized into one of the eight weather phases.

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