Dr. Masato Mori

Research Associate

What's New

• 26 Nov 2019: My new paper was published on Nature Climate Change
  
• 14 Jan 2019: My paper was published on Nature Climate Change
  Selected Nature Research Highlight

Fields of Interest

• Dynamics of the atmospheric low-frequency variability
• Arctic sea-ice loss impacts on the atmosphere
• Climate change
• Extreme event
• Tropical cyclone

Participation Project

in progress

• 2017--present: "Integrated Research Program for Advancing Climate Model" Theme A: Prediction and Projection of Large-Scale Climate Changes Based on Advanced Model Development
• 2016--present: "Belmont Forum CRA" Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages (InterDec)
• 2015--present: "ArCS: Arctic Challenge for Sustainability" Theme A: Prediction and Projection of Large-Scale Climate Changes Based on Advanced Model Development

done

• 2012--2016: "Program for Risk Information on Climate Change" Theme A: Prediction and diagnosis of imminent global climate change
• 2007--2012: "Innovative Program of Climate Change Projection for the 21st Century (Kakushin Program)" Near-term prediction

Awards

• JMSJ Award 2013

Publications

1. Mori, M., Y. Kosaka, M. Watanabe, B. Taguchi, H. Nakamura, and M. Kimoto, 2019: Reply to 'Is sea-ice-driven Eurasian cooling too weak in models?' Nature Climate Change, 9, 937-939. doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0636-0 JournalSite
2. Mori, M., Y. Kosaka, M. Watanabe, H. Nakamura, and M. Kimoto, 2019: A reconciled estimate of the influence of Arctic sea-ice loss on recent Eurasian cooling. Nature Climate Change, 9, 123-129. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0379-3 JournalSite
3. Tatebe, H., T. Ogura, T. Nitta, Y. Komuro, K. Ogochi, T. Takemura, K. Sudo, M. Sekiguchi, M. Abe, F. Saito, M. Chikira, S. Watanabe, M. Mori, N. Hirota, Y. Kawatani, T. Mochizuki, K. Yoshimura, K. Takata, R. O'ishi, D. Yamazaki, T. Suzuki, M. Kurogi, T. Kataoka, M. Watanabe, and M. Kimoto, 2019: Description and basic evaluation of simulated mean state, internal variability, and climate sensitivity in MIROC6. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., doi:10.5194/gmd-2018-155 JournalSite
4. Takahashi, C., H. Shiogama, Y. Imada, Y. Kosaka, M. Mori, M. Arai1, Y. Kamae, and M. Watanabe, 2018: The effects of natural variability and climate change to the record low sunshine over Japan during August 2017. In "Explaining Extreme Events of 2017 from a Climate Perspective".Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0107.1 JournalSite
5. Hirota, N., H. Shiogama, H. Akiyoshi, T. Ogura, M. Takahashi, Y. Kawatani, M. Kimoto, and M. Mori, 2018: The influences of El Nino and Arctic sea-ice on the unexpected disruption of the QBO in February 2016. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 1, Article number:10, doi:10.1038/s41612-018-0020-1 JournalSite
6. Okajima, S., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, A. K. Yoshida, B. Taguchi. M. Mori, Y. Kosaka, 2018: Mechanisms for the maintenance of wintertime basin-scale atmospheric response to decadal SST variability in the North Pacific subarctic frontal zone. J. Climate, 31, 297-315. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0200.1 JournalSite
7. Uchida, J., M. Mori, M. Hara, M. Satoh, D. Goto, T. Kataoka, K. Suzuki, T. Nakajima, 2017: Impact of lateral boundary errors on the simulation of clouds with a non-hydrostatic regional climate model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 5059-5082. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-17-0158.1 JournalSite
8. Takahashi, C., M. Watanabe, M. Mori, 2017: Significant aerosol influence on the recent decadal decrease in tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 9496-9504. doi:10.1002/2017GL075369 JournalSite
9. Imada, Y. H. Shiogama, C. Takahashi, M. Watanabe, M. Mori, Y. Kamae, and S. Maeda, 2017: Climate change increased the likelihood of the 2016 heat extremes in Asia. In "Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 from a Climate Perspective". Bull.Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98, S97-S101. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0109.1 JournalSite
10. Mizuta, R., A. Murata, M. Ishii, H. Shiogama, K. Hibino, N. Mori, O. Arakawa, Y. Imada, K. Yoshida, T. Aoyagi, H. Kawase, M. Mori, Y. Okada, T. Shimura, T. Nagatomo, M. Ikeda, H. Endo, M. Nosaka, M. Arai, C. Takahashi, K. Tanaka, T. Takemi, Y. Tachikawa, K. Temur, Y. Kamae, M. Watanabe, H. Sasaki, A. Kitoh, I. Takayabu, E. Nakakita, and M. Kimoto, 2017: Over 5000 years of ensemble future climate simulations by 60 km global and 20 km regional atmospheric models. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 1383-1398. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0099.1 JournalSite
11. Kamae, Y., H. Shiogama, Y. Imada, M. Mori, O. Arakawa, R. Mizuta, K. Yoshida, C. Takahashi, M. Arai, M. Ishii, M. Watanabe, M. Kimoto, S.-P. Xie, and H. Ueda, 2017: Forced response and internal variability of summer climate over western North America. Clim. Dyn., 49, 403-417. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3350-x JournalSite
12. Takahashi, C., M. Watanabe, H. Shiogama, Y. Imada, and M. Mori, 2016: A persistent Japanese heat wave in early August 2015: Roles of natural variability and human induced warming. In "Explaining Extreme Events of 2015 from a Climate Perspective". Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 97, 107-112. JournalSite
13. Shiogama, H., Y. Imada, M. Mori, R. Mizuta, D. Stone, K. Yoshida, O. Arakawa, M. Ikeda, C. Takahashi, M. arai, M. Ishii, M. Watanabe, and M. Kimoto, 2016: Attributing historical changes in probabilities of record-1 breaking daily temperature and precipitation extreme events. SOLA, 12, 225-231. doi:10.2151/sola.2016-045 JournalSite
14. Uchida, J., M. Mori, H. Nakamura, M. Sato, K. Suzuki, and T. Nakajima, 2015: Error and energy budget analysis of a non-hydrostatic stretched-grid global atmospheric model. Mon. Wea. Rev. 144, 1423-1447. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-15-0271.1 JournalSite
15. Imada, Y., H. Tatebe, M. Ishii, Y. Chikamoto, M. Mori, M. Arai, M. Watanabe, and M. Kimoto, 2015: Predictability of two types of El Nino assessed using an extended seasonal prediction system by MIROC. Mon. Wea. Rev., 143, 4597-4617. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-15-0007.1 JournalSite
16. Mori, M., M. Watanabe, H. Shiogama, J. Inoue, and M. Kimoto, 2015: Addendum: Robust Arctic sea-ice influence on the frequent Eurasian cold winters in past decades, Nature Geoscience, 8, 159, doi:10.1038/ngeo2348 JournalSite
17. Mori, M., M. Watanabe, H. Shiogama, J. Inoue, and M. Kimoto, 2014: Robust Arctic sea-ice influence on the frequent Eurasian cold winters in past decades, Nature Geoscience, 7, 869-873. doi:10.1038/ngeo2277 JournalSite
18. Imada, Y., H. Shiogama, M. Watanabe, M. Mori, M. Ishii, and M. Kimoto, 2014: The contribution of anthropogenic forcing to the Japanese heat waves of 2013. In "Explaining extreme events of 2013 from a climate perspective", Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, S52-S54. JournalSite
19. Shiogama, H., M. Watanabe, Y. Imada, M. Mori, Y. Kamae, M. Ishii, and M. Kimoto, 2014: Attribution of the June-July 2013 heat wave in the southwestern United States. SOLA, 10, 122-126. doi:10.2151/sola.2014-025 JournalSite
20. Mochizuki, T., M. Kimoto, Y. Chikamoto, M. Mori, M. Watanabe, and M. Ishii, 2014: Error sensitivity to initial climate states in Pacific decadal hindcasts. SOLA, 10, 39-44. doi:10.2151/sola.2014-009 JournalSite
21. Imada, Y., M. Watanabe, M. Mori, M. Kimoto, H. Shiogama, and M. Ishii, 2013: Contribution of atmospheric circulation change to the 2012 heavy rainfall in southern Japan. In "Explaining extreme events of 2012 from a climate perspective", Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, S52-S54. JournalSite
22. Shiogama, H., M. Watanabe, Y. Imada, M. Mori, M. Ishii, and M. Kimoto, 2013: An event attribution of the 2010 drought in the South Amazon region using the MIROC5 model. Atmos. Sci. Lett., 14, 170-175, doi:10.1002/asl2.435 JournalSite
23. Watanabe, M., H. Shiogama, Y. Imada, M. Mori, M. Ishii, and M. Kimoto, 2013: Event attribution of the August 2010 Russian heat wave. SOLA, 9, 64-67. doi:10.2151/sola.2013-015 JournalSite
24. Hayasaki, M., R. Kawamura, M. Mori, and M. Watanabe, 2013: Response of extratropical cyclone activity to the Kuroshio large meander in northern winter. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 1-5. doi:10.1002/grl.50546 JournalSite
25. Satake, Y., M. Inatsu, M. Mori, and A. Hasegawa, 2013: Tropical cyclone tracking using a neighbor enclosed area tracking algorithm. Mon. Wea. Rev. 141, 3539-3555. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-12-00092.1 JournalSite
26. Tatebe, H., Y. Imada, M. Mori, M. Kimoto, and H. Hasumi, 2013: Control of decadal and bidecadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific by the off-equatorial South Pacific Ocean. J. Climate, 26, 6524-6534. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00137.1 JournalSite
27. Mori, M., M. Watanabe, and M. Kimoto, 2013: Superrotation and nonlinear Hadley circulation response to zonally asymmetric sea surface temperature in an aqua-planet GCM. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 91A, 269-291. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A10 JournalSite
28. Mori, M., M. Kimoto, M. Ishii, S. Yokoi, T. Mochizuki, Y. Chikamoto, M. Watanabe, T. Nozawa, H. Tatebe, T. T. Sakamoto, Y. Komuro, Y. Imada and H. Koyama, 2013: Hindcast prediction and near-future projection of tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific using CMIP5 near-term experiments with MIROC. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 91, 431-452. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-402 awarded "JMSJ Award 2013" JournalSite
29. Chikamoto, Y., M. Kimoto, M. Ishii, T. Mochizuki, T. T. Sakamoto, H. Tatebe, Y. Komuro, M. Watanabe, T. Nozawa, H. Shiogama, M. Mori, S. Yasunaka, Y. Imada, 2013: An overview of decadal climate predictability in a multi-model ensemble by climate model MIROC. Clim. Dyn., 40, 1201-1222. doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1351-y JournalSite
30. Sakamoto, T. T., Y. Komuro, T. Nishimura, M. Ishii, H. Tatebe, H. Shiogama, A. Hasegawa, T. Toyoda, M. Mori, T. Suzuki, Y. Imada, T. Nozawa, K. Takata, T. Mochizuki, K. Ogochi, S. Emori, H. Hasumi, and M. Kimoto, 2012: MIROC4h - a new high-resolution atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90, 325-359. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2012-301 JournalSite
31. Mochizuki, T., Y. Chikamoto, M. Kimoto, M. Ishii, H. Tatebe, Y. Komuro, T. T. Sakamoto, M. Watanabe, and M. Mori, 2012: Decadal prediction using a recent series of MIROC global climate models. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90A, 373-383. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2012-A22 JournalSite
32. Tatebe, H., M. Ishii, T. Mochizuki, Y. Chikamoto, T. T. Sakamoto, Y. Komuro, M. Mori, S. Yasunaka, M. Watanabe, K. Ogochi, T. Suzuki, T. Nishimura, and M. Kimoto, 2012: The Initialization of the MIROC climate model with hydrographic data assimilation for decadal prediction. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90A, 275-294. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2012-A14 JournalSite
33. Chikamoto, Y., M. Kimoto, M. Ishii, M. Watanabe, T. Nozawa, T. Mochizuki, H. Tatebe, T. T. Sakamoto, Y. Komuro, H. Shiogama, M. Mori, S. Yasunaka, Y. Imada, H. Koyama, M. Nozu, and Fei-fei Jin, 2012: Predictability of a stepwise shift in Pacific climate during the late 1990s in hindcast experiments using MIROC. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90A, 1-21. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2012-A01 JournalSite
34. Toyoda, T., T. Awaji, N. Sugiura, S. Masuda, H. Igarashi, Y. Sasaki, Y. Hiyoshi, Y. Ishikawa, T. Mochizuki, T. Sakamoto, H. Tatebe, Y. Komuro, T. Suzuki, T. Nishimura, M. Mori, Y. Chikamoto, S. Yasunaka, Y. Imada, M. Arai, M. Watanabe, H. Shiogama, T. Nozawa, A. Hasegawa, M. Ishii, and M. Kimoto, 2011: Impact of the Assimilation of Sea Ice Concentration Data on an Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea Ice Coupled Simulation of the Arctic Ocean Climate. SOLA, 7, 037-040. doi:10.2151/sola.2011-010 JournalSite
35. Mochizuki, T., M. Ishii, M. Kimoto, Y. Chikamoto, M. Watanabe, T. Nozawa, T. Sakamoto, H. Shiogama, T. Awaji, N. Sugiura, T. Toyoda, S. Yasunaka, H. Tatebe, and M. Mori, 2010: Pacific decadal oscillation hindcasts relevant to near-term climate prediction. PNAS, 107, 1833-1837. doi:10.1073/pnas.0906531107 JournalSite
36. Mori, M. and M. Watanabe, 2008: The growth and triggering mechanisms of the PNA: A MJO-PNA coherence. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86, 213-236. doi:10.2151/jmsj.86.213 JournalSite