Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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[O-02] Poster presentations by senior high school students

Sun. May 22, 2016 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL6)

Convener:*Tatsuhiko Hara(International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institute), Miwa Kuri(International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University), Keiko Konya(Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Hajime Naruse(Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University), Kou Yamada(Waseda University)

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

[O02-P01] Analyzing the “Sekiguchi diary

*Runa Higashi1, *Mai Nara1 (1.Ikeda Senior High School)

Keywords:Sekiguchi diary

Based on an old diary called the Sekiguchi diary which was written in the Edo period, we did a restoration and analysis of the weather of that period.
We digitalized the descriptions in the Sekiguchi diary and these descriptions were found to agree with historical facts so that the high-level of reliability of the diary could be proved.

The fine weather percentage in the latter period of the Edo period, which has been called a small glacial age, is not so different to the patterns found today but the percentage of rain was low at 17.8 to 18.6, compared with 27.2 % today.
The percentage of the appearance of snow, too, at 1.2% to 1.6%, was lower than today’s rate of 2.6 %.