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Takeaki Sampe Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2006 - Ph.D., Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Dissertation title: Importance of Midlatitude Oceanic Frontal Zones for the General Circulation of the Extratropical Troposphere - 2002 - M.S., Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2000 - B.S., Department of Earth and Planetary Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Research Interests
- Climate dynamics
- Large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction:
- Formation and variability of storm tracks and jet streams
- Influence of oceanic frontal zones on the atmospheric circulation system
- Formation of (Meiyu-) Baiu front in the Northwestern Pacific
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2006 – present
- Research Assistant, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 – February 2006
- Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
Refereed Publications
- Sampe, T., and S.-P. Xie: Large-scale dynamics of the Meiyu-Baiu rain band: Environmental forcing by the westerly jet. J. Climate, in press.
- Tokinaga, H., Y. Tanimoto, S.-P. Xie, T. Sampe, H. Tomita, and H. Ichikawa, 2009: Ocean frontal effects on the vertical development of clouds over the western North Pacific: In situ and satellite observations. J. Climate, 22 (16), 4241 – 4260.
- Xie, S.-P., K. Hu, J. Hafner, H. Tokinaga, Y. Du, G. Huang, and T. Sampe, 2009: Indian Ocean capacitor effect on Indo-western Pacific climate during the summer following El Nino. J. Climate, 22 (3), 730 – 747, DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2544.1.
- Nakamura, H., T. Sampe, A. Goto, W. Ohfuchi, and S-P Xie, 2008: On the importance of midlatitude oceanic frontal zones for the mean state and dominant variability in the tropospheric circulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L15709, doi:10.1029/2008GL034010.
- Sampe, T., and S.-P. Xie, 2008: Mapping high sea winds from space: A global climatology. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88 (12), 1965 – 1978.
- Nakamura, H., T. Sampe, Y. Tanimoto, and A. Shimpo, 2004: Observed associations among storm tracks, jet streams and midlatitude oceanic fronts. In Earth's Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction. C. Wang, S.-P. Xie and J.A. Carton (eds.), AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, 147, 329 – 345.
- Nakamura, H., T. Izumi, and T. Sampe 2002: Interannual and decadal modulations recently observed in the Pacific storm track activity and East Asian winter monsoon. J. Climate, 15, 1855 – 1874.
- Nakamura, H., and T. Sampe, 2002: Trapping of synoptic-scale disturbances into the North-Pacific subtropical jet core in midwinter. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (16), doi: 10.1029/2002GL015535.