Research
Our research results are reported in many ways. Our Annual Reports and our semiannual newsletter IPRC Climate include research highlights. A full listing of our refereed scientific publications are found at Scientific Publications. Projects in which IPRC participates through the APDRC are described at APDRC Projects.
Every quarter, the IPRC features scientific highlights particularly relevant to its principal funding agencies - the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), NASA, and NOAA. These are reported as PowerPoint slides.
IPRC Quarterly Reports
Fall 2009
| NASA | Capturing the Year-to-Year
Variations in Marine Clouds
over the Eastern North Pacific A. Lauer, K. Hamilton, Y. Wang, V. Phillips (U. Hawaii), R. Bennartz (U. Wisconsin) |
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| JAMSTEC | New Tool Throws Light
on Major Tropical
Weather Disturbance Kazuyoshi Kikuchi and Bin Wang Mon. Wea. Rev., in press |
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| NOAA | Will Tropical Cyclones
Grow Stronger
with Global Warming? Jinhua Yu, Yuqing Wang, and Kevin Hamilton |
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Summer 2009
| NASA | The Jet Stream and the Origin of the Meiyu-Baiu Rainband Takeaki Sampe and Shang-Ping Xie |
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| JAMSTEC |
NICAM Simulates
Development and Motion of Dominant
Intraseasonal Tropical Weather Disturbance P. Liu, M. Satoh, B. Wang, H. Fudeyasu, T. Nasuno, T. Li, H. Miura, H. Taniguchi, H. Masunaga, X. Fu, and H. Annamalai, Mon. Wea. Rev., in press |
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| NOAA |
Taking Stratospheric
Effects Into Account Improves
Extended-Range Weather Forecasts Minoru Kadota and Kevin Hamilton |
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Spring 2009
| NASA |
Kuroshio Extension
Front
Has Strong Seasonal Impacts on Clouds Hiroki Tokinaga1, Youichi Tanimoto2,3, Shang-Ping Xie1, Takeaki Sampe1, Hiroyuki Tomita4, Hiroshi Ichikawa4 1IPRC, 2Hokkaido Univ., 3FRCGC/JAMSTEC, 4IORGC/JAMSTEC |
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| JAMSTEC |
Global Climate
Response to an Abrupt Meltdown of the
West Antarctic Ice Sheet A. Timmermann and L. Menviel |
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| NOAA |
Satellite Images
Reveal Two Types of Ocean Eddies West
of the Hawaiian Islands S. Yoshida (IPRC), B. Qiu (UH), P. Hacker (IPRC) |
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Winter 2008
| NASA |
Ocean
Striations Revealed by Drifters and Satellite
Altimetry Confirmed with Historical XBT Profiles N. Maximenko (IPRC), O. Melnichenko (IPRC), P. Niiler (SIO), and H. Sasaki (ESC) |
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| NOAA |
Atmospheric Tides
Interact With Topography
Kevin Hamilton (IPRC), Steve Ryan (NOAA MLO), Wataru Ohfuchi (JAMSTEC ESC), JGR-Atmos., 2008 |
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Fall 2008
| NASA |
Subtropical Front
Anchors Deep Cloud Band
F. Kobashi1, S.-P. Xie2, N. Iwasaka1, and T. Sakamoto3 1Tokyo U. of Marine Sci. and Tech.; 2IPRC; 3JAMSTEC-FRCGC |
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| JAMSTEC |
Characteristic Daily
Rainfall Patterns
Detected in the Tropics K. Kikuchi and B. Wang (IPRC) |
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| NOAA |
Ocean Warming and Coral
Bleaching
in Biodiversity Hotspots Axel Timmermann (IPRC), Laurie Menviel (U. of Hawaii), Lizzie McLeod (Nature Conservancy), Zhengyu Liu (U. of Wisconsin) |
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Summer 2008
| NASA |
Improving
Cloud Microphysics in the IPRC Regional
Climate Model A. Lauer (IPRC), V. Phillips (UH), and Y. Wang (IPRC) |
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| JAMSTEC |
NICAM
Successfully Simulates Real Tropical Cyclones
H. Fudeyasu, Y. Wang (IPRC), M. Satoh, T. Nasuno, W. Yanase, H. Miura (FRCGC) |
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| NOAA |
Climate
Change and Heavy Rainfall Events
in Hawai'i Kevin Hamilton (IPRC) |
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Spring 2008
| NASA |
The Gulf
Stream’s Deep Impact on the Atmosphere
S. Minobe (Hokkaido U), A. Kuwano-Yoshida, N. Komori (JAMSTEC), S.-P. Xie, and R.J. Small (IPRC/UH), Nature 2008 |
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| JAMSTEC |
Convection Scheme
More Important Than Model
Resolution in Simulating the Madden-Julian Oscillation Ping Liu, Yoshiyuki Kajikawa, Bin Wang (IPRC), Akio Kitoh (MRI), Tetsuzo Yasunari (FRCGC), Tim Li (IPRC), et al. |
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| NOAA |
Adaptation of the
Weather Research and Forecasting
Model to Create Fine-resolution Forcing Fields for the Hawaii Domain Xin Zhang, Tim Li (IPRC), et al. |
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