**Author details**

Takuya Kawabata1 \* and Yoshinori Shoji2

\*Address all correspondence to: tkawabat@mri-jma.go.jp

1 Forecast Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan

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2 Meteorological Satellite and Observation System Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
