OceanExpert ID : 11623
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama
JAMSTEC
Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences
3173-25 Showamachi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama City
Yokohama, Kanagawa
236-0001
Japan
Type
Research
Telephone
+81-45-778-5700
Fax
+81-45-778-5497
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/bases/yokohama.html
Activities
Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences (YES) has been conducting the process (modeling) research on global changes and research on the dynamics of the Earth's interior by best utilizing the supercomputer, “The Earth Simulator”, one of the top-performance computers in the world. YES acts as the central database on the global observatory data. It constructs a system to accumulate data of the observatory research of JAMSTEC, and to administer them electronically and to furnish the latest research achievement to the public.
