K. Nishii †

Original and Review Papers (Refereed) †

• Tanaka, S., Nishii, K., H. Nakamura, 2016: Vertical Structure and Energetics of the Western Pacific Teleconnection Pattern, accepted by J. Climate, PDF

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, B. Qiu, 2015: Interannual modulations of oceanic imprints on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer under the changing dynamical regimes of the Kuroshio Extension, J. Climate, accepted.

• K. Nishii, H. Nakamura, Y. J. Orsolini, 2015: Projected changes in Arctic summer storm-track activity by CMIP3/5 climate models, Clim. Dyn., 44, 1311-1327 link

• Masunaga,R. H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, Y. Tanimoto, 2015: Separation of climatological imprints of the Kuroshio Extension and Oyashio fronts on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer: Their sensitivity to SST resolution prescribed for atmospheric reanalysis, J. Climate, 28(5), 1764-1787.

• Dörnbrack, A., Pitts, M. C., Poole, L. R., Orsolini, Y. J., Nishii, K., Nakamura, H.: The 2009/2010 arctic stratospheric winter - general evolution, mountain waves and predictability of an operational weather forecast model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12 (2012), 3659-3675, doi:10.5194/acp-12-3659-2012. Journal site

• A. Manda, H. Nakamura, N. Asano, S. Iizuka, T. Miyama, Q. Moteki, M. Yoshioka, K. Nishii, T. Miyasaka: Impacts of a warming marginal sea on torrential rainfall organized under the Asian summer monsoon, Scientific Reports 4 (2014) ,5741, doi:10.1038/srep05741

• Okajima, H. Nakamura, K. Nishii, T. Miyasaka, A. Kuwano-Yoshida: Assessing the importance of prominent warm SST anomalies over the midlatitude North Pacific in forcing large-scale atmospheric anomalies during 2011 summer and autumn, J. Climate, 27 (2014), in press.

• A. Laine, H. Nakamura, K. Nishii, T. Miyasaka: A diagnostic study of future evaporation changes simulated in CMIP5 climate models, Clim. Dyn., 42 (2014), DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2087-7

• F. Ogawa, H. Nakamura, K. Nishii, T. Miyasaka, A. Kuwano-Yoshida: Dependence of the climatological axial latitudes of the tropospheric westerlies storm tracks on the latitude of an extratropical oceanic front, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39 (5) (2012), L05804, doi:10.1029/2011GL049922.

• Nishii, K., T. Miyasaka, H. Nakamira, Y. Kosaka, S. Yokoi, Y. Takayabu, H. Endo, H. Ichikawa, T. Inoue, K. Oshima, N. Sato, Y. Tsuhima, "Relationship of the Reproducibility of Multiple Variables among Global Climate Models", J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 90A, 87-100 (2012). PDF

• K. Nishii, H. Nakamura, Y. J. Orsolini: Geographical dependence observed in blocking high influence on the stratospheric variability through enhancement or suppression of upward planetary-wave propagation, J. Climate, 24 (24) (2011), 24, 6408-6423. PDF

• S. Yokoi, Y. N. Takayabu, K. Nishii, H. Nakamura, H. Endo, H. Ichikawa, T. Inoue, M. kimoto, Y. Kosaka, T. Miyasaka, K. Oshima, N. Sato, Y. Tsushima, M. Watanabe: Application of cluster analysis to climate model performance metrics, J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., 50 (8) (2011), 1666-1675.

• K. Nishii, H. Nakamura, Y.J. Orsolini: "Cooling of the wintertime Arctic stratosphere induced by the western Pacific teleconnection pattern", Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L13805, doi:10.1029/2010GL043551, 2010. PDF

• K. Nishii, H. Nakamura: "Three-dimensional evolution of ensemble forecast spread during the onset of a stratospheric sudden warming event in January 2006" , Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 136, 894-905, 2010. PDF

• K. Nishii, T. Miyasaka, Y. Kosaka, H. Nakamura: "Reproducibility and future projection of the midwinter storm-track activity over the Far East in the CMIP3 climate models in relation to the occurrence of the first spring storm (Haru-Ichiban) over Japan", J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 87, 581-588 2009. PDF

• K. Nishii, H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka: "Modulations in the planetary wave field induced by upward-propagating Rossby wave packets prior to stratospheric sudden warming events: A case study", Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 135, 39-52, 2009. PDF

• K. Nishii and H. Nakamura: "Lower-stratospheric Rossby wave trains in the Southern Hemisphere: A case stucy for late winter of 1997", Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 130 (2004), 325-346.

• K. Nishii and H. Nakamura: "Upward and downward injection of Rossby wave activity across the tropopause: A new aspect of the troposphere-stratosphere dynamical linkage", Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 131, (2005), 545-564.

• K. Nishii and H. Nakamura: "Tropospheric influence on the diminished Antarctic ozone hole in sepetember 2002", Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, (2004).