Journal of Natural Disaster Science
Journal of Natural Disaster Science Vol.22, No.1, 2000
Sino-Japanese Joint Research Project HEIFE: General View and Results*
(Received in revised form June 21, 2000)
Abstract
HEIFE (HEIhe River Field Experiment) was planned as one of the Sino-Japan joint projects of WCRP (World Climate Research Program). The HEIFE project investigated energy exchange between the atmosphere and surface of a dry desert region. Several important results were obtained, and some peculiar effects observed in the Hexi Corridor area of Northwestern China. This project is the first integrated study on experiment of physical processes between the atmosphere and land surface.
Key words
HEIFE, Gobi, desert, evaporation, turbulentflux, rainfall
*This article originally was published as the commemorative paper for the 1996 Fujiwara Prize of the Japan Meteorological Society in Tenki (Mitsuta, 1998), the Japanese journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ms. Junko Kumanogoh, Mr. Yuji Hayashi, Mr. Ken Ruggles and Dr. Toshihisa Itano translated this article into English. Dr. Taiichi Hayashi bears complete responsibility for this version of the article.