University of Hawaii Department of Meteorology

Current Ph.D. Students

  • Chueh-Hsin "Shing" Chang (South China Sea climate)

  • Jian "Tony" Ma (Air-sea interaction and climate)

    • Former Students

  • Benmei Taguchi (Ph.D. 2006): A modeling study of the Kuroshio Extension: Decadal variability and influence on the atmosphere

    • -> Earth Simulator Center, Japan

  • Hideki Okajima (Ph.D. 2006): Orographic effects on tropical climate in a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model

    • -> IPRC

  • Yuko Okumura (Ph.D. 2005): Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the seasonal to decadal variations of tropical Atlantic climate

    • -> IPRC -> NOAA Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow in residence at NCAR

    Hokkaido Universiy Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science

  • Masaru Inatsu (Ph.D. 2003, co-advisor: Hitoshi Mukougawa): GCM response of the extratropical atmosphere to tropical and extratropical SST forcings.

    • -> University of Reading, UK -> Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Japan
    -> Hokkaido University

  • Hiroshi Hashizume (Ph.D. 2001, co-advisor: Kensuke Takeuchi): Influence of tropical instability wave-induced SST variability on the atmospheric boundary layer: Satellite and in-situ data analysis.

    • -> Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, LA, USA -> Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

  • Kaori Saito (M.Sc., 1999): Continental forcing involved in the formation of north-south asymmetry of the tropical climate.

    • -> Kyodo News Agency, Osaka, Japan

  • Tatsuga Kunitani (M.Sc., 1999): An ocean GCM study of North Pacific decadal and interdecadal variability.

  • Shinji Matsumura (M.Sc., 1998): Interannual variability of winter climate in Japan and Japan Sea and the influeneces of monsoon.

    • -> Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan
  • for Matsumura-san

  • Naomi Saiki (M.Sc., 1998): Simulation of Asian summer monsoon under idealized conditions.

    • -> Fukuoka Prefecture Department of Civil Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan

  • Hideyuki Noguchi (M.Sc., 1998): Coupled ocean-atmosphere waves due to the wind-evaporation-SST feedback.

  • Mieko Seki (M.Sc., 1997): Mechanisms of maintaining the north-south asymmetries in Eastern Equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature.

    • -> Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan