2005 - Ph.D., Department of Hydrospheric-Atmospheric
Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
1999 - M.S., Department of Geoscience, University of
Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
1997 - B.S., Department of Natural Sciences, University
of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Research Interests
Intraseasonal oscillation
Diagnostic and process studies of the Asian summer
monsoon
Land-air-sea interaction over the maritime continent
Long-term climate change
Scientific Work Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research
Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii,
August 2005 – present
Research Assistant, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research
Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, April 2003 – July
2005
Teaching Assistant, Department of Geoscience, University
of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, April 2000 – March 2003
Refereed Publications
Kajikawa, Y., B. Wang, and J. Yang: A multi-time scale
Australian monsoon index. Int. J. Climatol., in
press.
Liu, P., Y. Kajikawa, B. Wang, A. Kitoh,
T. Yasunari, T. Li, H. Annamalai, X. Fu, K. Kikuchi, R.
Mizuta, K. Rajendran, D. E. Waliser, D. Kim, 2009: Tropical
Intraseasonal Variability in the MRI-20km60L AGCM. J.
Climate, 22 (8), 2006 – 2022, doi:
10.1175/2008JCLI2406.1.
Kajikawa, Y., T. Yasunari, and B. Wang, 2009: Decadal
change in intraseasonal variability over the South China
Sea. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L06810;
doi:10.1029/2009GL037174.
Fujita, K., L.G. Thompson, Y. Ageta, T. Yasunari, Y. Kajikawa, A. Sakai, and N. Takeuchi, 2006:
Thirty-year history of glacier melting in the Nepal
Himalayas. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D03109,
doi:10.1029/2005JD005894.
Kajikawa, Y., and T. Yasunari, 2005: Interannual
variability of the 10-25- and 30-60-day variation over the
South China Sea during boreal summer. Geophys. Res. Lett.,
32, L04710, doi:10.1029/2004GL021836.
Kajikawa, Y., T. Yasunari, and R. Kawamura, 2003: The
role of the local Hadley circulation over the Western
Pacific on the zonally asymmetric anomalies over the Indian
Ocean. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 81,
259 – 276.
Yamazaki, K., H. Kamahori, K. Takahashi, H. Ueda, K.
Aonashi, A. Yatagai, K. Kuma, Y. Takeuchi, H. Tada, Y.
Fukutomi, H. Igarashi, H. Fujinami and, Y. Kajikawa, 2000:
Release of GAME Reanalysis. Data Tenki, 47,
659 – 663 (in Japanese).