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Fumiaki Kobashi Assistant Researcher[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2002 - Ph.D., Oceanography, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- 1999 - M.S., Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- 1997 - B.S., Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Research Interests
- Generation mechanism of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent
- Role of mesoscale eddies in variability of the Kuroshio
- Dynamics of the Kuroshio
Scientific Work Experience
- Assistant Researcher, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii: August 2002 to present
- Researcher, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Institute
for Global Change Research, Yokahama, Japan: April 2002 to August 2002
Publications
- Kobashi, F., and H. Kawamura: Seasonal variation and instability nature of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent and the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent. J. Geophys. Res., in press.
- Kobashi, F., and K. Hanawa: Hydrographic features off the southeast coast of Kyushu during the Kuroshio small meanders: A case study for small meanders that occurred in 1994 and 1995 spring. J. Oceanogr., in press.
- Kobashi, F., and H. Kawamura, 2001: Variation of sea surface height at periods of 65-220 days in the subtropical gyre of the North Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 26817-26831.
- Hu, J., H. Kawamura, H. Hong, F. Kobashi, and D. Wang, 2001: 3-6 months variation of sea surface height in the South China Sea and its adjacent ocean. J. Oceanogr., 57, 69-78.
- Hanawa, K., and F. Kobashi, 1999: Detection of afterslip of the 1978 Off-Miyagi-Prefecture Earthquake using coastal sea level data (in Japanese). Umi no Kenkyu, 8, 339-347.
