1. MAHASRI GEWEX WATER & ENERGY SIMULATION & PREDICTION (WESP) Water and Energy Budget Studies Global Land Data Assimilation Systems Regional Climate Models Semi-arid Region Study Cold Region Study Stable Water Isotope Intercomparison CEOP INTER-MONSOON STUDY (CIMS) Coordinated Model Integration Process Monsoon System Inter Comparison Aerosol - Monsoon Water Cycle Interaction Diurnal Intra-seasonal Seasonal CEOP Analyses Intercomparison Project Extreme Events Impact Analysis Project Watershed Hydrology Study Down Scaling Water Resources Study MODEL OUTPUTREFERENCE SITES REFERENCE BASINS SATELLITES DATA INTEGRATION & DISSEMINATION Global Regional Local DMWG WEBS HAP WISE TWG ICTS SWING WISE SWING H A P WEBS DMWG TWG ICTS COORDINATED ENERGY & WATER CYCLE OBSERVATION & PREDICTION (CEOP)

2. Water & Energy Simulation & Prediction Inter-Monsoon Study Data Infrastructure cross-cutting Analysis Intercomparison Extremes Hydrology Application Evolutional Transition to ‘CEOP’ Going Forward scientific benefits societal benefits

3. JEPP: Tibet JEPP: Maritime continent MAHASRI and related Japanese Projects (JEPP) JEPP: Indochina MAHASRI JEPP: Indian Ocean JAMSTEC/IORGC : Palau JEPP: Thailand

4. Matsumoto JEPP Japan EOS Promotion Program (JEPP) Theme 2-2 by Prof. Matsumoto, U-Tokyo Development of rainfall observation system in Southeast Asia （ 1 ） Research on rainfall distribution （ 2 ） Research on flood prediction Rainfall observation by automatic rain Rainfall estimation using radar and gauges and development of real-time satellite observation and its data transmission system application to flood prediction Objective: Develop rainfall observation system in order to understand water cycle and its variability by climatic changes in tropical Asian monsoon region over Indochina IP Automatic rain gauge Networks India, Bangladesh 36 Thailand 18 Vietnam 33 Rainfall estimation by satellite observation Flood prediction Radar data + Raingauge data → Composite rainfall data Similar to Radar-AMeDAS system in Japan

5. Automatic rain gauges in Indochina High Density Rain Gauges １ High Density Rain Gauges ２ 18 N

6. Topographic Setting of Danang area Just the South of Hai Van Pass ( 雲海峠 ), “climatic divide” of Viet Nam Source : Google Earth Ho Chi Minh Hanoi Bangkok Vientiane Phnom Penh Yangon Da Nang Winter Monsoon “Climatic Divide”

10. Diurnal and seasonal rainfall variations by automatic rain gauge at Hiep Duc, central Vietnam in 2004 Hiep Duc, 2004 : Month-Hour Diagram