Hot Spot in Climate System:Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Variability over Monsoonal Asia due to Contiguousness between the Tropical Warmness and Arctic Coolness - Grant-in-Aid for Science Research in Innovative Areas (MEXT) 2010-2014

Main Programs

Map of Main Programs

Advisory board

Official Advisors

Shiro IMAWAKI Director, Data Research Center for Marine-Earth Sciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology: Professor emeritus, Kyushu University
Hiroshi, NIINO Professor, Director of the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
Tetsuzo, YASUNARI Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Advisors (former official advisors)

Kimio, HANAWA Executive Officer/Professor (Graduate School of Science), Tohoku University
Masaaki, WAKATSUCHI Professor emeritus, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University

Main Programs

Program # Title PI Affiliation
Steering Team Promotion and supervision of project research activity on extratropical atmosphere-ocean coupled system Hisashi NAKAMURA Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and technology, The University of Tokyo
Research Theme A01
Research Program (1)
Air-sea interactions with complex oceanpgraphic structure over the marginal seas and their influence on marine ecosystem Atsuhiko ISOBE Professor, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University
Research Theme A01
Research Program (2)
Impact of the marginal seas onto atmosphere disturbance, cloud formation and large-scale circulation Yoshihiro TACHIBANA Professor, Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University
Research Theme A02
Research Program (3)
Air-sea interaction over Monsoon Asia through clouds and radiative energy transfer Tadahiro HAYASAKA Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
Research Theme A02
Research Program (4)
Mechamisms of two-way interactions between the East Asian Monsoon variability and the Kuroshio and its extension Ryuichi KAWAMURA Profesor, School of Sciences, Kyushu University
Research Theme A02
Research Program (5)
Mechanisms for the formation and variability of the Kuroshio Extension system and its influences on the atmosphere and the marine ecosystem Masami NONAKA Team Leader, Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Research Theme A02
Research Program (6)
In-situ observations of air-sea interactions in the Kuroshio and Oyashio extentions Yoshimi KAWAI Team Leader, Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Research Theme A03
Research Program (7)
Basin-scale air-sea interactions Shoshiro MINOBE Professor, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
Research Theme A03
Research Program (8)
Vertically coupled variability in the the atmosphere-ocean-ice system around Monsoon Asia Hisashi NAKAMURA Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Research Theme A03
Research Program (9)
Air-sea interactions in the Sea of Okhotsk/Arctic regions Humio MITSUDERA Professor, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University

Supplementary programs

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