CGER(Center for Global Environmental Research)carries out long-term and continuous monitorings relevant to global environmental issues over wide areas, integrates studies of the global environment, and supports global environmental research. Currently, more than ten monitoring projects are being conducted with international cooperation. The projects cover the stratosphere, the troposphere, the ocean, inland water, and biosphere, particularly in the East Asia and West Pacific regions.

Mission

The mission of the Center for Global Environmental Research [CGER] is to promote scientific understanding of the consequences of human activities on the earth system and to propose countermeasures to these consequences.

Activities:

Synthesis of Global Environment Studies
Greenhouse Gas Inventory Office [GIO]
Supercomputer
Global Environmental Monitoring
Ozone Monitoring
Ozone layer with lazer radar
Ozone layer with millimeter-wave radiometer
Stratosphere monitoring in Rikubetsu
UV-B monitoring
Global Warming
Atmospheric monitoring stations in Japan
Monitoring of GHGs along a North-south transect by ship of opportunity
Monitoring of the atmosphere-ocean CO2 exchange by ship of opportunity
Monitoring of GHGs in Siberia by chartered airplane
The development of a database containing estimates of CO2 sequestration by forests obtained by using remote sensing technology
GHGs monitoring in a northern forest
Ocean Environment
Marine environmental monitoring in the eastern Asian seas [Seto Inland Sea, Japan]
Deforestation
Mapping of the vegetation index with satellite data
International Cooperation
GEMS/Water Programme
Establishment of a Global Environmental Database System
Greenhouse gas emissions scenarios database
Emission inventory of air pollutants in Asia
Terrestrial ecosystem database for the tropics