Research

An overview of research activity at IPRC is provided by our Science Plan.

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 is found at Scientific Publications. Projects in which IPRC participates through the APDRC are described at APDRC Projects.

Animations of interviews and research findings on such topics as global warming, ocean acidification, past climate are found on the IPRC YouTube Channel.

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

Winter 2013 - 2014

NASA
JAMSTEC
Atmospheric Precursors of Madden-Julian Oscillation During CINDY 2011
Tim Li, C. Zhao, P. Hsu (IPRC), and T. Nasuno (JAMSTEC)

NOAA
Multimodel Mean Forcing for Regional Climate Projections
A. Lauer, C. Zhang, O. Elison-Timm, Y. Wang &
K. Hamilton

Fall 2013

NASA
Interannual Variations in Stratospheric Water Vapor
J.N. Lee, Y. Kawatani, and K. Hamilton
JAMSTEC
NOAA
Simulating Hawaiian Microclimates
C. Zhang, Y. Wang, A. Lauer, and K. Hamilton

Summer 2013

NASA
SCUD Model Tracks Tsunami Driftage
N. A. Maximenko and J. Hafner
JAMSTEC
Weakened QBO Due to Stronger Mean Tropical Upwelling
Yoshio Kawatani and Kevin Hamilton

NOAA
Dynamical Seasonal Rainfall Prediction for Hawaii
H. Annamalai, J. Hafner, A. Kumar, and H. Wang

Spring 2013

NASA
JAMSTEC
NOAA

Winter 2012 - 2013

NASA
Impacts of Regional Mixing on Circulations in the Subtropical and Tropical Pacific Ocean
R. Furue, Y. Jia, J.P. McCreary, K.J. Richards, N. Schneider, P. Müller, B.D. Cornuelle, N. Martinez Avellaneda, and D. Stammer
JAMSTEC
Towards a Transient, Coupled 3D Ice Sheet – Climate Simulation of the Last Glacial Cycle
M. Heinemann, A. Timmermann, O. Elison Timm, F. Saito, and A. Abe-Ouchi

NOAA

Fall 2012

NASA
'Aquarius' Maps Ocean Salinity Fine-scale Structure
O. Melnichenko, P. Hacker, N. Maximenko,
and J. Potemra
JAMSTEC
NOAA
Extreme Temperatures over East Asia
H. Ito, N.C. Johnson, and S.-P. Xie

Summer 2012

NASA
Satellite Climatology of Trade Wind Clouds
around Hawaii

C. Zhang, Y. Wang, A. Lauer, K. Hamilton, and F. Xie
JAMSTEC
Fine-scale Air-sea Interactions Due to
Oceanic Deep Jets

B. Taguchi, R. Furue, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, M. Nonaka, H. Sasaki, and W. Ohfuchi
Geophys. Res. Lett. 39, 2012
NOAA
Real-Time Indices of the Asian Summer Monsoon Wet and Dry Spells
J.-Y. Lee, B. Wang, M. C. Wheeler, X. Fu, D. E. Waliser, and I.-S. Kang

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Spring 2012

NASA
SCUD Tracks the Tsunami Debris Field
Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner
JAMSTEC
Walker Circulation Slowdown and Indo-Pacific Climate Over the Past Six Decades
H. Tokinaga, S.-P. Xie, A. Timmermann, et al.,
(J. Climate, 2012)


NOAA
Unprecedented, Man-made Trends in Ocean Acidity
Tobias Friedrich and Axel Timmermann et al., Nature Climate Change, March 2012

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Winter 2011 - 2012

NASA
JAMSTEC
Probing the Baiu Dynamics
A. Kuwano-Yoshida and B. Taguchi (JAMSTEC); and S.P. Xie (IPRC)

NOAA
Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Genesis in the IPRC Regional Model
Y. Wang (IPRC); R. Zhan (Shanghai Typhoon Institute);
C.-C. Wu and Yi Lu (National Taiwan University)

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Fall 2011

NASA
Wind-Forced Baroclinic Beta-Plumes and the Hawaiian Lee Counter-Current
A. Belmadani, N. Maximenko, O. Melnichenko, N. Schneider, and E. Di Lorenzo (Georgia Tech)
JAMSTEC
How Wind and Stratification Control Upper-Ocean Mixing
A. Natarov, K. Richards, and Y. Kashino (JAMSTEC)

NOAA
MJO and the Record-Breaking East Coast Snowstorms in 2009/2010
Ja-Yeon Moon, Bin Wang, and Kyung-Ja Ha
(Pusan University)

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Summer 2011

NASA
Projecting the Path of Japan's Tsunami Debris
Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner
JAMSTEC
Tree Rings Tell a 1,100-Year History of El Niño
J. Li, S.-P. Xie, E.R. Cook et al.
Interdecadal Modulation of El Niño Amplitude During the Past Millennium (Nat. Clim. Change, 2011)

NOAA
IPRC Convection Scheme in the WRF Model
C. Zhang, Y. Wang, and K. Hamilton
(Monthly Weather Review, 2011)

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Spring 2011

NASA
Satellite Data Used to Constrain Cloud Physics Parameterization in Climate Models
R. Bennartz (U Wisconsin), A. Lauer (IPRC),
and J.-L. Brenguier (Meteo-France)
JAMSTEC
Stratospheric QBO Under Global Warming
Y. Kawatani (JAMSTEC), K. Hamilton (IPRC),
and S. Watanabe (JAMSTEC)
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, in press

NOAA

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Winter 2010 - 2011

NASA
Will the Sea Surface Temperature Threshold for Convection Change with Global Warming?
Nat Johnson and Shang-Ping Xie
(Nature Geoscience, Nov. 2010)

JAMSTEC
Topography-enhanced Diapycnal Mixing Impacts Oceanic and Atmospheric Circulation
T. Friedrich, A. Timmermann (IPRC); T. Decloet, D.S. Luther (U. Hawaii); and A. Mouchet (U. Liege)
NOAA
The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific
A. Lauer, K. Hamilton, Y. Wang (IPRC); V. Phillips (U. Hawaii), and R. Bennartz (U. Wisconsin)

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Fall 2010

NASA
JAMSTEC
NOAA
A Rainfall Prediction System for the Pacific Islands
H. Annamalai, K. P. Sooraj, A. Kumar, and M. Lander

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Summer 2010

NASA
Kuroshio's Large Meander Impacts Climate
H. Xu, S.-P. Xie, and H. Tokinaga ( J. Climate, 2010)
JAMSTEC
NOAA
Argo Observations: A Powerful Tool for Tracking Ocean Climate Signals
Y. N. Sasaki, N. Schneider, N. Maximenko,
and K. Lebedev (GRL, 2010)

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Spring 2010

NASA
Better Initial Conditions
Boost Intraseasonal Forecast Skill

X. Fu and B. Wang et al., GRL 2009, Vol.36
JAMSTEC
Ocean Fronts Impact Atmospheric Ekman Layer
N. Schneider, B. Qiu, Y. N. Sasaki,
A. Lauer, D.Stammer

NOAA

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Winter 2009 - 2010

NASA
JAMSTEC
Winds Modulate Patterns of Past and Future
Sea-Level Change

A. Timmermann and S. McGregor (IPRC)
and F.-F. Jin (UH)

NOAA
Birth of Typhoon Prapiroon Detectable 60 Hours Before Operational Warning Issued
X. Ge. T. Li (IPRC) and M. Peng (NRL),
Mon. Wea. Rev., in press

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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)
JAMSTEC
New Tool Throws Light on Major Tropical
Weather Disturbance

Kazuyoshi Kikuchi and Bin Wang
Mon. Wea. Rev., in press
NOAA
Will Tropical Cyclones Grow Stronger
with Global Warming?

Jinhua Yu, Yuqing Wang, and Kevin Hamilton

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Summer 2009

NASA
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
NOAA

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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
JAMSTEC
NOAA

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Winter 2008 - 2009

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)
JAMSTEC
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
JAMSTEC
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)
JAMSTEC
NICAM Successfully Simulates Real Tropical Cyclones
H. Fudeyasu, Y. Wang (IPRC), M. Satoh, T. Nasuno,
W. Yanase, H. Miura (FRCGC)
NOAA

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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
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.
NOAA

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