R. Masunaga †

Original and Review Papers (Refereed) †

• Masunaga,R., H. Nakamura, H. Kamahori, K. Onogi, S. Okajima, 2017: JRA-55CHS: An atmospheric reanalysis produced with high-resolution SST. SOLA, 14, 6-13. doi:https://doi.org/10.2151/sola.2018-002

• Masunaga,R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, B. Qiu, 2016: Interannual modulations of oceanic imprints on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer under the changing dynamical regimes of the Kuroshio Extension. J. Climate, 29(9), 3273-3296. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0545.1

• 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. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00314.1

Proceeding †

• Masunaga, R, H, Nakamura, B, Taguchi, T, Miyasaka: Processes contributiong to the time-mean surface wind convergence pattern around the wintertime Kuroshio Extension and subarctic fronts as revealed in the JRA-55 family, 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2018, Portland, USA. (Poster)(Invited)
• Masunaga, R., H. Kamahori, C. Kobayashi, H. Nakamura, S. Okajima: Influence of the Kuroshio Extension and Oyashio fronts on the atmosphere as revealed in the JRA-55 family ,Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, 20th May 2017, Chiba, Japan (Oral)
• Masunaga, R., H. Kamahori, C. Kobayashi, H. Nakamura, S. Okajima: Climatological influence of midlatitude oceanic fronts on the atmosphere as revealed in the JRA-55 family, Workshop on global precipitation systems, November 2016, Yokohama, Japan. (Oral)
• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, Y. Tanimoto, B. Qiu: Extratropical Frontal- and Meso-scale Air-Sea Interaction: Mesoscale imprints of the Kuroshio Extension and Oyashio fronts on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer, CLIVAR meeting, September 2016, Qingdao, China. (Poster)
• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, B. Qiu:Interannual modulations of mesoscale imprints of the Kuroshio Extension and Oyashio fronts on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer, Joint AMS 21st Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology Conference and 20th AMS Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, August 2016, Madison, USA. (Oral)
• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, Y. Tanimoto, B. Qiu: Wintertime imprints of the Kuroshio Extension and Oyshio fronts on atmospheric boundary layer, Partnership between Norway and Japan for excellent Education and Research in Weather and Climate Dynamics Kick-off meeting, June 2016, Norwegian Embassy, Japan. (Oral)
• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, B. Qiu: Interannual modulations of mesoscale oceanic imprints on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer under the changing dynamical regimes of the Kuroshio Extension, 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2016, New Orleans, USA. (Poster)

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, B. Qiu: Interannual modulations of mesoscale oceanic imprints on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer under the changing dynamical regimes of the Kuroshio Extension, CLIVAR/JAMSTEC Workshop on the Kuroshio Current and Extension System, January 2016, Yokohama, Japan. (Oral)

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, Y. Tanimoto, B. Qiu: Separation of climatological imprints of the Kuroshio Extension and Oyashio fronts on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer, 95th AMS annual meeting, January 2015, Phoenix, USA. (Oral)

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. NIshii, Y. Tanimoto, B. Qiu: Imprints of multiple SST fronts on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer within the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension region, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2014, July 2014, Sapporo, Japan. (Oral)

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. NIshii, Y. Tanimoto: Dependency of atmospheric boundary layer reproduced in reanalysis to the resolution of prescribed sea surface temperature, 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2014, Honolulu, USA. (Poster)

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. NIshii, Y. Tanimoto: Interannual variations of a local pressure minimum and barocliniczone around the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension under the winter monsoon, Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013, July 2013, Davos, Switzerland. (Oral)

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. NIshii: Interannual variations of a local pressure minimum and baroclinicity around the Kuroshio Extension in the cold season, ICDM Workshop on"Mechanisms and their influence on the polar stratosphere. Dynamics and Predictability of High-impact Weather and Climate Events", August 2012, Kunming, China. (Oral)

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. NIshii: Interannual variations of a local pressure minimum and baroclinicity around the Kuroshio Extension in the cold season, 2012 JpGU Meeting, Chiba, May 2012. (Poster)

Reports †

• Masunaga, R., H. Nakamura, T. Miyasaka, K. Nishii, Y. Tanimoto, B. Qiu, 2016: Mesoscale imprints of the Kuroshio Extension and Oyashio fronts on the wintertime atmospheric boundary layer. CLIVAR Exchanges, 69(Val 20, No.1), 27-30.Link