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The University of Oklahoma College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, and two Kyoto University institutes — the Disaster Prevention Research Institute and the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere — recently signed an agreement to strengthen research cooperation and foster student exchange between the two universities.

An original agreement between DPRI and OU was established in 1991, but the new memorandum of understanding expands the participants by adding the RISH in order to improve international cooperation in research and academia.

Research areas that will be of particular interest are meteorological and radar observations, including severe and hazardous weather, numerical modeling, hydrology and radar profiler technology.

Professor Hirohiko Ishikawa of DPRI, Vice Director Toshitaka Tsuda of RISH and Robert Palmer, director of OU’s Atmospheric Radar Research Center, will lead the academic collaborative research in these fields.