Characteristics of the Blitzortung.org Lightning Location Catalog in Japan
09. November 2023
We evaluated the detection efficiency and location accuracy of lightning discharges in Japan using Blitzortung.org, a volunteer-based network for locating lightning discharges from sferics measured by very low frequency (VLF) electromagnetic receivers that have been deployed worldwide in recent years. A comparison of the flash rate (the detected lightning rate per area and period) from Blitzortung.org with that from the satellite-based OTD/LIS and the ground-based World Wide Lightning Location N

22. February 2023
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Nonaka Chiyoko, who died on 22 February 1923. Nonaka Itaru and his wife Chiyoko took weather observations on the summit of Mt Fuji for almost three months in the winter of 1895, thus paving the way for a permanent Mt Fuji Weather Station. To commemorate their feat, the Fuyo Nikki Society (named for Chiyoko’s journal of this adventure) has set up an online museum to display relevant resources. The aim is to accurately inform the public about...

23. July 2017
Live Camera Image is open from July 19,2017 http://npo.fuji3776.net/info/livecamera.html

10. July 2017
change over of the sun and the moon at the east and west sky (from top to down)

06. July 2017
Mr. Hiroshi Iwazaki, the chief of mountain crews of NPO Mount Fuji Research Station has sent us the beautiful morning views of today (July 6, 2017 6:00am). The temperature was -0.2 degree Centigrade.

01. July 2017
photo taken on June 20, 2017

19. June 2017
We are happy to receive a mail from Dr. Shohei Nomura informing that the 'Daily Observational Data of Atmospheric CO2 Mixing Ratios at the Summit of Mt. Fuji’ is now open in the following URL http://www.nies.go.jp/doi/10.17595/20170616.001-e.html

06. April 2017
The third international symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics at Mountain Sites (ACPM2017) will be held by us, NPO Mount Fuji Research Station, in the following schedule. World researchers of various fields of atmospheric chemistry and physics who utilize mountain sites will get together at Gotemba, Japan where we can look at magnificent Mount Fuji close. Presentation and discussion will be had on the 10 sessions to investigate the solution to the global and/or local environmental...

24. March 2017
The 10th Annual Meeting of NPO Mount Fuji Research Station (former Valid Utilization of Mt. Fuji Weather Station) was successfully held on March 5, 2017, as a collaboration with Mountain Atmosphere Research Division (MARD) Tokyo University of Science, at Tokyo University of Science. The number of audience attended was as many as 99. 15 aural and 18 poster presentations were had.

08. September 2016
On September 1, 2016, the summer campaign 2016 at MFRS is successfully closed with 456 participants in 63 days for 20 research projects. Quick reports on the results of researches are now arriving. http://npofuji3776.jimdo.com/研究速報2016/

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