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Our research focuses on cumulus convection in the tropics. Examples include cloud organization associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and equatorial waves, and diurnal precipitation cycle over the maritime-continent region.
The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO; Madden and Julian 1994) is one of the most prominent phenomena in the tropics, and significantly influences the weather and climate around the world as well as those in the tropics, through various phenomena, such as monsoon (e.g., Yasunari 1979; Hendon and Liebmann 1990), El Niño (e.g., McPhaden 1999), tropical cyclones,(e.g., Maloney and Hartmann 2001), and others. Despite the great importance of the MJO to global weather and climate, which are directly connected to our daily life, several fundamental issues still remain unexplained, including the initiation process over the Indian Ocean, slow propagation speed, and scale selection of the cloud envelope. Therefore, better understanding of the MJO is highly required by the society.
Our research area also covers severe weather and climate change along the Sea of Japan coast. Please see our publication list for more details.
Information
- 2023.12.27
- Our new article ("Numerical Study on the Precipitation Concentration over the Western Coast of Sumatra Island") was accepted.
- 2020.05.10
- Our new article ("Diurnal Cycle of Clouds in Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific Basin") was accepted.
- 2019.10.31
- Our new article ("An increasing trend in the early-winter precipitation around Japan and its relationship with enhanced heating over the tropical eastern Indian Ocean") was accepted.
- 2019.09.21
- Our new article ("Relationships between snow depth change and characteristics of falling snow particles in Toyama") was accepted.
- 2019.03.21
- Our new article ("Spatial Patterns of Winter Precipitation in the North-Central Region (Hokuriku District) of Japan") was accepted.
- 2018.10.23
- Our new article ("Space-Time Spectral Analysis of Moist Static Energy Budget Equation") was accepted.
- 2018.04.16－20
- 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
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