1995 - Sc.D. (Meteorology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Climate dynamics
Selected Publications
Nakamura, M., M. Kadota, and S. Yamane, 2010: Quasi-geostrophic transient wave activity flux: Updated climatology and its role in polar vortex anomalies. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3164 – 3189.
Nakamura, M., and T. Kagimoto, 2006: Potential vorticity and
eddy potential enstrophy in the North Atlantic Ocean simulated by a
global eddy-resolving model. Dyn. Atmos. Oceans, 41, 28 –59.
Nakamura, M., and T. Kagimoto, 2006: Transient wave activity and
its fluxes in the North Atlantic Ocean simulated by a global
eddy-resolving model. Dyn. Atmos. Oceans, 41, 60 – 84.
Nakamura, M., and Y. Chao, 2002: Diagnoses of an eddy-resolving Atlantic Ocean model simulation in the vicinity of
the Gulf Stream. Part II: Eddy potential enstrophy and eddy potential vorticity fluxes.
J.Phys. Oceanogr., 32,
1599 – 1620.
Nakamura, M., and Y. Chao, 2001: Diagnoses of an eddy-resolving Atlantic Ocean model simulation in the vicinity of
the Gulf Stream. Part I: Potential vorticity. J.Phys. Oceanogr.,
31, 353 – 378.
Nakamura, M., and Y. Chao, 2000: Characteristics of three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic transient eddy
propagation in the vicinity of a simulated Gulf Stream. J. Geophys. Res.,
105, 11,385 – 11,406.
Nakamura, M., and Y. Chao, 2000: On the eddy isopycnal thickness diffusivity of the Gent-McWilliams subgrid mixing
parameterization. J. Climate, 13, 502 – 510.
Nakamura, M., 1998: On modified rotational and divergent eddy fluxes and their application to blocking diagnoses.
Quar. J. Royal Meteor. Soc., 124, 341 – 352.
Nakamura, H., M. Nakamura, and J.L. Anderson, 1997: The role of high- and low-frequency dynamics in the blocking
formation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 2074 – 2093.
Nakamura, M., 1996: Effects of ice-albedo and runoff feedbacks on the thermohaline circulation.
J. Climate,
9, 1783 – 1794.
Nakamura, M., and R.A. Plumb, 1994: The effects of flow assymetry on the direction of Rossby wave breaking.
J.
Atmos. Sci., 51, 2031 – 2045.
Nakamura, M., P.H. Stone, and J. Maroztke, 1994: Destabilization of the thermohaline circultion by atmospheric
eddy transports. J. Climate, 7, 1870 – 1882.