Nishii's publication list (including submitted papers)

• As the first author or corresponding author


1. Tanaka, S., K. Nishii, and H. Nakamura, 2016: Vertical Structure and Energetics of the Western Pacific Teleconnection Pattern. J. Climate, accepted PDF and link to journal page


2. Nishii, K., H. Nakamura, Y.J. Orsolini (2015): "Arctic summer storm track in CMIP3/5 climate models", Climate Dynamics, 44(5), 1311-1327, doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2229-y (link)


3. Nishii, K., T. Miyasaka, H. Nakamira, Y. Kosaka, S. Yokoi, Y. Takayabu, H. Endo, H. Ichikawa, T. Inoue, K. Oshima, N. Sato, Y. Tsuhima (2012): "Relationship of the Reproducibility of Multiple Variables among Global Climate Models", J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 90A, 87-100. (pdf, 1.7 MB) (Japanese abstract)


4. Nishii, K., H. Nakamura, Y.J. Orsolini (2011): "Geographical dependence observed in blocking high influence on the stratospheric variability through enhancement and suppression of upward planetary-wave propagation", Journal of Climate, 24, 6408-6423. (pdf,2.4MB)


5. Nishii, K., H. Nakamura, Y.J. Orsolini (2010): "Cooling of the wintertime Arctic stratosphere induced by the Western Pacific teleconnection pattern", Geophys. Res. Lett, 37, L13805, doi:10.1029/2010GL043551. (pdf,0.6MB)


6. Nishii, K.and H. Nakamura (2010): "Three-dimensional evolution of ensemble forecast spread during the onset of a stratospheric sudden warming event in January 2006", Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 136 , 894-905. (pdf,4.3MB)


7. Nishii, K., T. Miyasaka, Y. Kosaka and H. Nakamura (2009): "Reproducibility and future projection of the midwinter storm-track activity over the Far East in the CMIP3 climate models in relation to "Haru-ichiban" over Japan", J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 87, 581-588, (pdf, 176KB)


8. Nishii, K., H. Nakamura and T. Miyasaka (2009): "Modulations in the planetary wave field induced by upward-propagating Rossby wave packets prior to stratospheric sudden warming events: A case study", Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 135, 39-52 (pdf,2.9MB)


9. Nishii, K. and H. Nakamura (2005): "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, 545-564 (pdf,4.9MB)


10. Nishii, K. and H. Nakamura (2004): "Tropospheric Influence on the diminished Antarctic Ozone Hole in September 2002", Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, (pdf,0.7MB)


11. Nishii, K. and H. Nakamura (2004): "Lower-stratospheric Rossby wave trains in the Southern Hemisphere: A case study for late winter of 1997", Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 130, 325-346. (pdf,3.9MB)


• As a coauthor


1. Ogawa, F., N.-E. Omrani, K. Nishii, H. Nakamura, and N. Keenlyside, 2015: Ozone-induced climate change propped up by the Southern Hemisphere oceanic front. GRL, accepted. PDF, supplement


2. 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, submitted to J. Climate.


3. 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.


4. 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


5. 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.


6. 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, in press.


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.


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


9. 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.

Nishii's doctorial dissertation

• Upward and Downward Wave-Activity Propagation across the Tropopause Associated with Submonthly Fluctuations (pdf,14MB) (December 2005)