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Yoshinori Sasaki Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2008 - Ph.D., Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- 2005 - M.S., Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- 2003 - B.S., Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Research Interests
- Interannual to decadal climate variability
- Mesoscale oceanic eddies
Professional Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2008 – November 2010
- Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan, April 2006 – March 2008
- Research Assistant, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, May 2005 – February 2006
Awards and Honors
- 2008 - Outstanding Student Poster Awards, Ocean Sciences Meeting
Refereed Publications
- Sasaki, Y.N., S. Minobe, N. Schneider, T. Kagimoto, M. Nonaka, and H. Sasaki, 2008: Decadal sea level variability in the South Pacific in a global eddy-resolving ocean model hindcast. J. Phys. Oceanogr., in press.
- Sasaki, Y., and N. Schneider, 2011: Decadal shifts of the Kuroshio Extension jet: Application of thin-jet theory. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 41, 979 – 993.
- Sasaki, Y. and N. Schneider, 2011: Interannual to decadal Gulf Stream variability in an eddy-resolving ocean model. Ocean Modelling, 39, 209 – 219.
- Chen, J., T. Qu, Y.N. Sasaki, and N. Schneider, 2010: Anti-correlated variability in subduction rate of the western and eastern North Pacific Oceans identified by an eddy-resolving ocean GCM. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L23608, doi:10.1029/2010GL045239.
- Sasaki,Y., N. Schneider, N. Maximenko, and K. Lebedev, 2010: Observational evidence for propagation of decadal spiciness anomalies in the North Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37 L07708, doi:10.1029/2010GL042716.
- Sasaki, Y.N., Y. Katagiri, S. Minobe, and I.G. Rigor, 2007: Autumn atmospheric preconditioning for interannual variability of wintertime sea-ice in the Okhotsk Sea. J. Oceanogr., 63 (2), 255 – 265.
- Sasaki, Y.N., and S. Minobe, 2005: Seasonally dependent interannual variability of sea ice in the Bering Sea and its relation to atmospheric fluctuations. J. Geophys. Res. (Ocean), 110, C05011, doi:10.1029/2004JC002486.