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Mototaka Nakamura Visiting Associate Researcher(FRCGC Research Scientist) [Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 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.