Dr Fujinami is a Lecturer at ISEE, Nagoya University. He is a member of the working group of the Asian Australian Monsoon Working Group (AAM-WG) of the monsoon panel and the Working Group of Tropical Meteorological Research (WG-TMR) of WWRP. His research interests include understanding the processes responsible for precipitation variations in monsoon Asia over a broad range of time scales from diurnal cycle to climate change. He has worked extensively in diurnal precipitation cycle, low pressure systems, and intraseasonal oscillations and the interplay among them around South Asia, helping to improve understanding of these processes that provide water resources and to contribute to S2S prediction. He uses in-situ observational data, atmospheric reanalysis and satellite remote sensing data to uncover essential processes. He has recently studied the mechanism of nocturnal precipitation in the Himalayas including glacierized areas.