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Kazuyoshi Kikuchi

Associate Researcher
[Past Staff]

International Pacific Research Center
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Phone: (808) 956-6477
Fax: (808) 956-9425
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Webpage: http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/users/kazuyosh/

Refereed Publications

Hsu, W.-C., K. Kikuchi, H. Annamalai, and K.J. Richards, in press: Assessing the representation of ISO-related ocean forcing in the tropics in atmospheric reanalyses. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, IPRC-1552.
Guo, X., N. Zhao, K. Kikuchi, T. Nasuno, M. Nakano, and H. Annamalai, 2021: Atmospheric Rivers over the Indo-Pacific and its Associations with Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation. J. Climate, , 1-46, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0290.1. IPRC-1533.
Kikuchi, K., 2021: The boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO): A review. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, , doi:10.2151/jmsj.2021-045. IPRC-1509.
Nakano, M., F. Vitard, and K. Kikuchi, 2021: Impact of the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation on Typhoon Tracks in the Western North Pacific and the Prediction Skill of the ECMWF model. Geophys. Res. Lett., , doi:10.1029/2020GL091505. IPRC-1514.
Kawatani, Y., K. Hamilton, K. Sato, T.J. Dunkerton, S. Watanabe, and K. Kikuchi, 2019: ENSO Modulation of the QBO: Results from MIROC models with and without non-orographic gravity wave parameterization. J. Atmos. Sci., 76 (12), 3893-3917, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-19-0163.1. IPRC-1403.
Kikuchi, K., 2019: Extension of the Bimodal Intraseasonal Oscillation Index using JRA-55 reanalysis. Clim. Dyn., 54 (43832), 919-933, doi:10.1007/s00382-019-05037-z. IPRC-1411.
Nakano, M., and K. Kikuchi, 2019: Seasonality of Intraseasonal Variability in Global Climate Models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46 (8), 4441-4449, doi:10.1029/2019GL082443. IPRC-1375.
Qian, Y., P.-C. Hsu, and K. Kikuchi, 2019: New real-time indices for the Quasi-Biweekly Oscillation over the Asian summer monsoon region. Clim. Dyn., 53 (5-6), 2603-2624, doi:10.1007/s00382-019-04644-0. IPRC-1359.
Kikuchi, K., G.N. Kiladis, J. Dias, and T. Nasuno, 2018: Convectively coupled equatorial waves within the MJO during CINDY/DYNAMO: Slow Kelvin waves as building blocks. Clim. Dyn., 50 (11-12), 4211-4230, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3869-5. IPRC-1288.
Miyakawa, T., and K. Kikuchi, 2018: CINDY2011/DYNAMO Madden-Julian oscillation successfully reproduced in global cloud/cloud-system resolving simulations despite weak tropical wavelet power. Scientific Reports, 8 (11664), doi:10.1038/s41598-018-29931-4. IPRC-1329.
Dias, J., N. Sakaeda, G.N. Kiladis, and K. Kikuchi, 2017: Influences of the MJO on space-time tropical convection organization. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 122 (15), 8012-8032, doi:10.1002/2017JD026526. IPRC-1286.
Kikuchi, K., C. Kodama, T. Nasuno, M. Nakano, H. Miura, M. Satoh, A.T. Noda, and Y. Yamada, 2017: Tropical intraseasonal oscillation simulated in an AMIP-type experiment by NICAM. Clim. Dyn., 48 (7), 2507-2528, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3219-z. IPRC-1201.
Nasuno, T., K. Kikuchi, M. Nakano, Y. Yamada, M. Ikeda, and H. Taniguchi, 2017: Evaluation of the near real-time forecasts using a global nonhydrostatic model during the CINDY2011/DYNAMO. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 95 (6), 345-368, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2017-022. IPRC-1287.
Fu, X., W. Wang, J.-Y. Lee, B. Wang, K. Kikuchi, J. Xu, J. Li, and S. Weaver, 2015: Distinctive Roles of Air-Sea Coupling on Different MJO Events: A New Perspective Revealed from the DYNAMO/CINDY Field Campaign. Mon. Wea. Rev., 143 (3), 794-812, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-14-00221.1. IPRC-1092.
Kodama, C., Y. Yamada, A.T. Noda, K. Kikuchi, et al., 2015: A 20-year climatology of a NICAM AMIP-type simulation. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 93 (4), 393-424, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2015-024. IPRC-1118.
Nasuno, T., T. Li, and K. Kikuchi, 2015: Moistening processes before the convective initiation of Madden-Julian Oscillation events during the CINDY2011/DYNAMO period. Mon. Wea. Rev., 143 (2), 622-643, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-14-00132.1. IPRC-1090.
Kikuchi, K., 2014: An Introduction to Combined Fourier-Wavelet Transform and Its Application to Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves. Clim. Dyn., 43 (5‐6), 1339-1356, doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1949-8. IPRC-1014.
Kiladis, G.N., J. Dias, K.H. Straub, M.C. Wheeler, S.N. Tulich, K. Kikuchi, K.M. Weickmann, and M.J. Ventrice, 2014: A comparison of OLR and circulation based indices for tracking the MJO. Mon. Wea. Rev., 142 (5), 1697-1715, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-13-00301.1. IPRC-1037.
Wang, B., H.-J. Kim, K. Kikuchi, and A. Kitoh, 2011: Diagnostic metrics for evaluation of annual and diurnal cycles. Clim. Dyn., Volume 37, Numbers 5-6, 941-955, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0877-0.
Kikuchi, K., and B. Wang, 2010: Formation of tropical cyclones in the northern Indian Ocean associated with two types of tropical intraseasonal oscillation modes. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 88 (3), 475-496.
Kikuchi, K., and B. Wang, 2010: Spatio-temporal wavelet transform and the multiscale behavior of the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Climate, 23 (14), 3814-3834.
Kikuchi, K., and B. Wang, 2009: Global Perspective of the Quasi-Biweekly Oscillation journal. J. Climate, 22 (6), 1340-1359.
Kikuchi, K., B. Wang, and Y. Fudeyasu, 2009: Genesis of Tropical Cyclone Nargis revealed by multiple satellite observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L06811, doi:10.1029/2009GL037296.
Liu, P., Y. Kajikawa, B. Wang, A. Kitoh, T. Yasunari, T. Li, H. Annamalai, X. Fu, K. Kikuchi, R. Mizuta, K. Rajendran, D. E. Waliser, and D. Kim, 2009: Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in the MRI-20km60L AGCM. J. Climate, 22 (8), 2006-2022, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2406.1.
Wang, B., F. Huang, Z. Wu, J. Yang, X. Fu, and K. Kikuchi, 2009: Multi-scale climate variability of the South China Sea monsoon: A Review. Dyn. of Atmos. and Oceans, 47 (1-3), 15-37.
Kikuchi, K., and B. Wang, 2008: Diurnal precipitation regimes in the global tropics. J. Climate, 21 (11), 2680-2696.
Wang, B., P. Webster, K. Kikuchi, T. Yasunari and Y. Qi, 2006: Boreal summer quasi-monthly oscillation in the global tropics. Climate Dynamics, 27, 661-675; DOI 10.1007/s00382-006-0163-3.
Kikuchi, K., and Y.N. Takayabu, 2004: The development of organized convection associated with the MJO during TOGA COARE IOP: Trimodal characteristics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L10101, doi:10.1029/2004GL019601.
Kikuchi, K., and Y.N. Takayabu, 2003: Equatorial circumnavigation of moisture signal associated with the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) during boreal winter. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 81, 851-869.