Research

An overview of research activity at IPRC is provided by our digital brochure.

Animations of interviews and research findings on such topics as global warming, ocean acidification, past climate are found on the IPRC YouTube Channel.

Archived IPRC Quarterly Reports

Winter 2013 - 2014

NASA	Aquarius Data Are Valuable for El Niño Forecasts T. Qu , Y. T. Song, and C. Maes
JAMSTEC	Atmospheric Precursors of Madden-Julian Oscillation During CINDY 2011 Tim Li, C. Zhao, P. Hsu (IPRC), and T. Nasuno (JAMSTEC)
NOAA	Multimodel Mean Forcing for Regional Climate Projections A. Lauer, C. Zhang, O. Elison-Timm, Y. Wang & K. Hamilton

Fall 2013

NASA	Interannual Variations in Stratospheric Water Vapor J.N. Lee, Y. Kawatani, and K. Hamilton
JAMSTEC	OFES reveals imprint of PDO on South China Sea Throughflow Kai Yu and Tangdong Qu
NOAA	Simulating Hawaiian Microclimates C. Zhang, Y. Wang, A. Lauer, and K. Hamilton

Summer 2013

NASA	SCUD Model Tracks Tsunami Driftage N. A. Maximenko and J. Hafner
JAMSTEC	Weakened QBO Due to Stronger Mean Tropical Upwelling Yoshio Kawatani and Kevin Hamilton
NOAA	Dynamical Seasonal Rainfall Prediction for Hawaii H. Annamalai, J. Hafner, A. Kumar, and H. Wang

Spring 2013

NASA	Transient Quasi-Zonal Jets Impact Transport and Mixing Processes in the Ocean O. Melnichenko, N. A. Maximenko, and H. Sasaki
JAMSTEC	Variability of Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves Kazuyoshi Kikuchi
NOAA	Late 21st Century Monsoon Precipitation Projected in CMIP5 June-Yi Lee and Bin Wang

Winter 2012 - 2013

NASA	Impacts of Regional Mixing on Circulations in the Subtropical and Tropical Pacific Ocean R. Furue, Y. Jia, J.P. McCreary, K.J. Richards, N. Schneider, P. Müller, B.D. Cornuelle, N. Martinez Avellaneda, and D. Stammer
JAMSTEC	Towards a Transient, Coupled 3D Ice Sheet Climate Simulation of the Last Glacial Cycle M. Heinemann, A. Timmermann, O. Elison Timm, F. Saito, and A. Abe-Ouchi
NOAA	Global Model Simulation of Clouds in CMIP5 and CMIP3 A. Lauer and K. Hamilton

Fall 2012

NASA	'Aquarius' Maps Ocean Salinity Fine-scale Structure O. Melnichenko, P. Hacker, N. Maximenko, and J. Potemra
JAMSTEC	How Will Tropical Cyclones Respond to Global Warming? H. Murakami and Y. Wang
NOAA	Extreme Temperatures over East Asia H. Ito, N.C. Johnson, and S.-P. Xie

Summer 2012

NASA	Satellite Climatology of Trade Wind Clouds around Hawaii C. Zhang, Y. Wang, A. Lauer, K. Hamilton, and F. Xie
JAMSTEC	Fine-scale Air-sea Interactions Due to Oceanic Deep Jets B. Taguchi, R. Furue, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, M. Nonaka, H. Sasaki, and W. Ohfuchi Geophys. Res. Lett. 39, 2012
NOAA	Real-Time Indices of the Asian Summer Monsoon Wet and Dry Spells J.-Y. Lee, B. Wang, M. C. Wheeler, X. Fu, D. E. Waliser, and I.-S. Kang

Spring 2012

NASA	SCUD Tracks the Tsunami Debris Field Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner
JAMSTEC	Walker Circulation Slowdown and Indo-Pacific Climate Over the Past Six Decades H. Tokinaga, S.-P. Xie, A. Timmermann, et al., (J. Climate, 2012)
NOAA	Unprecedented, Man-made Trends in Ocean Acidity *Tobias Friedrich and Axel Timmermann et al., Nature Climate Change, March 2012*

Winter 2011 - 2012

NASA	OFES Helps Solve Mystery of Mindanao Undercurrent T. Qu and T.-L. Chiang
JAMSTEC	Probing the Baiu Dynamics A. Kuwano-Yoshida and B. Taguchi (JAMSTEC); and S.P. Xie (IPRC)
NOAA	Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Genesis in the IPRC Regional Model Y. Wang (IPRC); R. Zhan (Shanghai Typhoon Institute); C.-C. Wu and Yi Lu (National Taiwan University)

Fall 2011

NASA	Wind-Forced Baroclinic Beta-Plumes and the Hawaiian Lee Counter-Current A. Belmadani, N. Maximenko, O. Melnichenko, N. Schneider, and E. Di Lorenzo (Georgia Tech)
JAMSTEC	How Wind and Stratification Control Upper-Ocean Mixing A. Natarov, K. Richards, and Y. Kashino (JAMSTEC)
NOAA	MJO and the Record-Breaking East Coast Snowstorms in 2009/2010 Ja-Yeon Moon, Bin Wang, and Kyung-Ja Ha (Pusan University)

Summer 2011

NASA	Projecting the Path of Japan's Tsunami Debris Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner
JAMSTEC	Tree Rings Tell a 1,100-Year History of El Niño J. Li, S.-P. Xie, E.R. Cook et al. Interdecadal Modulation of El Niño Amplitude During the Past Millennium (Nat. Clim. Change, 2011)
NOAA	IPRC Convection Scheme in the WRF Model C. Zhang, Y. Wang, and K. Hamilton (Monthly Weather Review, 2011)

Spring 2011

NASA	Satellite Data Used to Constrain Cloud PhysicsParameterization in Climate Models R. Bennartz (U Wisconsin), A. Lauer (IPRC), and J.-L. Brenguier (Meteo-France)
JAMSTEC	Stratospheric QBO Under Global Warming Y. Kawatani (JAMSTEC), K. Hamilton (IPRC), and S. Watanabe (JAMSTEC) Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, in press
NOAA	Global Monsoon Rainfall Intensity Shows Downward Trend Pang-chi Hsu, Tim Li, and Bin Wang

Winter 2010 - 2011

NASA	Will the Sea Surface Temperature Threshold for Convection Change with Global Warming? Nat Johnson and Shang-Ping Xie (Nature Geoscience, Nov. 2010)
JAMSTEC	Topography-enhanced Diapycnal Mixing Impacts Oceanic and Atmospheric Circulation T. Friedrich, A. Timmermann (IPRC); T. Decloet, D.S. Luther (U. Hawaii); and A. Mouchet (U. Liege)
NOAA	The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific A. Lauer, K. Hamilton, Y. Wang (IPRC); V. Phillips (U. Hawaii), and R. Bennartz (U. Wisconsin)

Fall 2010

NASA	Wave and Anemometer-based Sea-surface Wind Dataset for Climate-Change Analysis *H. Tokinaga and S.-P. Xie ( J. Climate, 2010)*
JAMSTEC	Interactions between Summer Intraseasonal Oscillations and Synoptic-scale Disturbances over the Western North Pacific Pang-chi Hsu and Tim Li
NOAA	A Rainfall Prediction System for the Pacific Islands H. Annamalai, K. P. Sooraj, A. Kumar, and M. Lander

Summer 2010

NASA	Kuroshio's Large Meander Impacts Climate *H. Xu, S.-P. Xie, and H. Tokinaga ( J. Climate, 2010)*
JAMSTEC	Peculiar Countercurrents in the Subtropical Oceans Ryo Furue and Jay McCreary
NOAA	Argo Observations: A Powerful Tool for Tracking Ocean Climate Signals Y. N. Sasaki, N. Schneider, N. Maximenko, and K. Lebedev (GRL, 2010)

Spring 2010

NASA	Better Initial Conditions Boost Intraseasonal Forecast Skill *X. Fu and B. Wang et al., GRL* 2009, Vol.36**
JAMSTEC	Ocean Fronts Impact Atmospheric Ekman Layer N. Schneider, B. Qiu, Y. N. Sasaki, A. Lauer, D.Stammer
NOAA	Surface Currents from Diagnostic Model Will Help Track Marine Debris Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner

Winter 2009 - 2010

NASA	Satelllite Measures Provide Missing Data on Transports through Ocean Straits T.Qu (IPRC) and Y.T. Song (JPL), GRL 2009, Vol.36.
JAMSTEC	Winds Modulate Patterns of Past and Future Sea-Level Change A. Timmermann and S. McGregor (IPRC) and F.-F. Jin (UH)
NOAA	Birth of Typhoon Prapiroon Detectable 60 Hours Before Operational Warning Issued X. Ge. T. Li (IPRC) and M. Peng (NRL), Mon. Wea. Rev., in press

Fall 2009

NASA	Capturing the Year-to-Year Variations in Marine Clouds over the Eastern North Pacific A. Lauer, K. Hamilton, Y. Wang, V. Phillips (U. Hawaii), R. Bennartz (U. Wisconsin)
JAMSTEC	New Tool Throws Light on Major Tropical Weather Disturbance Kazuyoshi Kikuchi and Bin Wang Mon. Wea. Rev., in press
NOAA	Will Tropical Cyclones Grow Stronger with Global Warming? Jinhua Yu, Yuqing Wang, and Kevin Hamilton

Summer 2009

NASA	The Jet Stream and the Origin of the Meiyu-Baiu Rainband Takeaki Sampe and Shang-Ping Xie
JAMSTEC	NICAM Simulates Development and Motion of Dominant Intraseasonal Tropical Weather Disturbance P. Liu, M. Satoh, B. Wang, H. Fudeyasu, T. Nasuno, T. Li, H. Miura, H. Taniguchi, H. Masunaga, X. Fu, and H. Annamalai, Mon. Wea. Rev., in press
NOAA	Taking Stratospheric Effects Into Account Improves Extended-Range Weather Forecasts Minoru Kadota and Kevin Hamilton

Spring 2009

NASA	Kuroshio Extension Front Has Strong Seasonal Impacts on Clouds Hiroki Tokinaga¹, Youichi Tanimoto^2,3, Shang-Ping Xie¹, Takeaki Sampe¹, Hiroyuki Tomita⁴, Hiroshi Ichikawa⁴ ¹IPRC, ²Hokkaido Univ., ³FRCGC/JAMSTEC, ⁴IORGC/JAMSTEC
JAMSTEC	Global Climate Response to an Abrupt Meltdown of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet A. Timmermann and L. Menviel
NOAA	Satellite Images Reveal Two Types of Ocean Eddies West of the Hawaiian Islands S. Yoshida (IPRC), B. Qiu (UH), P. Hacker (IPRC)

Winter 2008 - 2009

NASA	Ocean Striations Revealed by Drifters and Satellite Altimetry Confirmed with Historical XBT Profiles N. Maximenko (IPRC), O. Melnichenko (IPRC), P. Niiler (SIO), and H. Sasaki (ESC)
JAMSTEC	What Controls Tropical Cyclone Size and Intensity? Yuqing Wang
NOAA	Atmospheric Tides Interact With Topography Kevin Hamilton (IPRC), Steve Ryan (NOAA MLO), Wataru Ohfuchi (JAMSTEC ESC), JGR-Atmos., 2008

Fall 2008

NASA	Subtropical Front Anchors Deep Cloud Band F. Kobashi¹, S.-P. Xie², N. Iwasaka¹, and T. Sakamoto³ ¹Tokyo U. of Marine Sci. and Tech.; ²IPRC; ³JAMSTEC-FRCGC
JAMSTEC	Characteristic Daily Rainfall Patterns Detected in the Tropics K. Kikuchi and B. Wang (IPRC)
NOAA	Ocean Warming and Coral Bleaching in Biodiversity Hotspots Axel Timmermann (IPRC), Laurie Menviel (U. of Hawaii), Lizzie McLeod (Nature Conservancy), Zhengyu Liu (U. of Wisconsin)

Summer 2008

NASA	Improving Cloud Microphysics in the IPRC Regional Climate Model A. Lauer (IPRC), V. Phillips (UH), and Y. Wang (IPRC)
JAMSTEC	NICAM Successfully Simulates Real Tropical Cyclones H. Fudeyasu, Y. Wang (IPRC), M. Satoh, T. Nasuno, W. Yanase, H. Miura (FRCGC)
NOAA	Climate Change and Heavy Rainfall Events in Hawai'i Kevin Hamilton (IPRC)

Spring 2008

NASA	The Gulf Stream's Deep Impact on the Atmosphere S. Minobe (Hokkaido U), A. Kuwano-Yoshida, N. Komori (JAMSTEC), S.-P. Xie, and R.J. Small (IPRC/UH), Nature 2008
JAMSTEC	Convection Scheme More Important Than Model Resolution in Simulating the Madden-Julian Oscillation Ping Liu, Yoshiyuki Kajikawa, Bin Wang (IPRC), Akio Kitoh (MRI), Tetsuzo Yasunari (FRCGC), Tim Li (IPRC), et al.
NOAA	Adaptation of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model to Create Fine-resolution Forcing Fields for the Hawaii Domain Xin Zhang, Tim Li (IPRC), et al.

Questions, Comments? Contact Us

The IPRC welcomes private donations to support its activities

SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA

GET INVOLVED!