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Yoshimitsu Chikamoto Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: Webpage: http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/users/chika44/index.html |
Education
- 2005 - Ph.D., Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- 2002 - M.S., Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- 2000 - B.S., Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Research Interests
- Climate dynamics for atmosphere and ocean system
- Predictability of atmosphere and ocean system
- Prediction and assimilation procedures for climate
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii, March 2012 - 2017
- Research associate, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, April 2010 - March 2012
- Research associate, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, April 2007 - March 2010
- Research associate, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, December 2005 - March 2007
- Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, April 2002 - March 2005
Journal Reviews
Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, Weather and Forecasting, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, Journal of Oceanography, and Science Online Letters on the Atmosphere
Refereed Publications
- Chikamoto, Y., A. Timmermann, J.-J. Luo, T. Mochizuki, M. Kimoto, M. Watanabe, M. Ishii, S.-P. Xie, and F.-F. Jin, 2015: Skillful multi-year predictions of tropical trans-basin climate variability. Nat. Commun., 6, 6869, doi:10.1038/ncomms7869. IPRC-1102.
- Stevenson, S., A. Timmermann, Y. Chikamoto, S. Langford, and P.N. DiNezio, 2015: Stochastically Generated North American Megadroughts J. Climate, 28 (5), 1865-1880, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00689.1. IPRC-1093.
- McGregor, S., A. Timmermann, M.F. Stuecker, M.H. England, M. Merrifield, F.-F. Jin, and Y. Chikamoto, 2014: Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming. Nature Climate Change, 4, 888-892, doi:10.1038/nclimate2330. IPRC-1103.
- Chikamoto, Y., M. Kimoto, M. Watanabe, M. Ishii, and T. Mochizuki, 2012: Relationship between the Pacific and Atlantic stepwise climate change during the 1990s. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L21710, doi:10.1029/2012GL053901. IPRC-927.
- Toyoda, T., T. Awaji, N. Sugiura, S. Masuda, H. Igarashi, Y. Sasaki, Y. Hiyoshi, Y. Ishikawa, T. Mochizuki, T.T. Sakamoto, H. Tatebe, Y. Komuro, T. Suzuki, T. Nishimura, M. Mori, Y. Chikamoto, S. Yasunaka, Y. Imada, M. Arai, M. Watanabe, H. Shiogama, T. Nozawa, A. Hasegawa, M. Ishii, and M. Kimoto, 2011: Impact of the assimilation of sea ice concentration data on an atmosphere-ocean-sea ice coupled simulation of the arctic ocean climate. SOLA, 7, 37-40, doi:10.2151/sola.2011-010.
- Chikamoto, Y., Y. Tanimoto, H. Mukougawa, and M. Kimoto, 2010: Subtropical Pacific SST variability related to the local Hadley circulation during the premature stage of ENSO. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 88 (2), 183-202.
- Mochizuki, T., M. Ishii, M. Kimoto, Y. Chikamoto, M. Watanabe, T. Nozawa, T.T. Sakamoto, H. Shiogama, T. Awaji, N. Sugiura, T. Toyoda, S. Yasunaka, H. Tatebe, and M. Mori, 2010: Pacific Decadal Oscillation hindcasts relevant to near-term climate prediction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0906531107.
- Chikamoto, Y., H. Mukougawa, T. Kubota, H. Sato, A. Ito, and S. Maeda, 2007: Evidence of growing bred vector associated with the tropical intraseasonal oscillation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04806, doi:10.1029/2006GL028450.
- Chikamoto, Y., and Y. Tanimoto, 2006: Air-sea humidity effects on the generation of tropical Atlantic SST anomalies during the ENSO events. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L19702, doi:10.1029/2006GL027238.
- Chikamoto, Y., and Y. Tanimoto, 2005: Role of specific humidity anomalies in Caribbean SST response to ENSO. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 83 (6), 959-975.