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Yuko Okumura Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2005 - Ph.D. (Meteorology), University of Hawaii
Dissertation: Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the seasonal to decadal variations of tropical Atlantic climate - 2000 - M.S. (Atmosphere-Ocean Science), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- 1998 - B.A. (Geophysics), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Research Interests
- Climate dynamics
- Large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction
- Climate change and variability
- Tropical meteorology
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2006 – July 2006
- Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2000 – December 2005
Journal Reviews
- Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, AGU Monograph (vol. 147)
Selected Publications
- Okumura, Y., S.-P. Xie, and A. Timmermann: Improving prediction of northeast Brazil rainfall anomalies. Geophys. Res. Lett., in preparation.
- Okumura, Y., and S.-P. Xie: Some overlooked features of tropical Atlantic climate leading to a new Nino-like phenomenon. J. Climate, in press.
- Okumura, Y., and S.-P. Xie, 2004: Interaction of the Atlantic equatorial cold tongue and the African monsoon. J. Climate, 17, 3589 – 3602.
- Okumura, Y., S.-P. Xie, A. Numaguti, and Y. Tanimoto, 2001: Tropical Atlantic air-sea interaction and its influence on the NAO. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1507 – 1510.