Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology,
the University of Tokyo







Prof. Hisashi Nakamura retired at the end of March 2025.
We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who has supported the Nakamura Lab.
Since April 2025, Prof. Nakamura continues his research activities at the RCAST as a Senior Research Fellow.
For more details on the ClimCORE project led by Prof. Nakamura,
please refer to here.
In the RCAST, Prof. Yu Kosaka (Global Climate Dynamics Division) is recruiting graduate students who are interested in climate science research.
Please also check the Kosaka Lab’s website for more information.
2024/12/18 Prof. Tianjiao Ma (Yunnan University) will stay in RCAST by Dec 2025.
2024/07/01 Dr. Y. Shoji joins our group as a project researcher.
2024/04/01 Dr. F. Ogawa, Dr. K. Tsuchida, and Ms. T. Nakayama joined our group as a project research associate, a postdoctoral researcher, and a secretary, respectively.
2023/12/16 Mr. T. Kawamura received the Matsuno award in the Meteorological Society of Japan Fall meeting 2023.
2023/09/27 "Japan-Israel Joint Symposium on Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate" was held on 25–27 Sep.
2023/09/08 Dr. María Santolaria-Otín (Univ. of Barcelona) will stay in RCAST by the end of Nov 2023.
2023/07/11 Mr. R. Satoh and Mr. M. Nakayama received the outstanding student presentation award in JpGU2023 Meeting.
2023/04/07 Prof. H. Nakamura received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Awards for Science and Technology.
2023/04/01 Mr. H. Ikeuchi joined our group as a Ph.D. student, and Ms. S. Sakai and Mr. T. Kawamura joined our group as master students.
2022/11/22 Mr. R. Satoh received the Matsuno award in the Meteorological Society of Japan Fall meetin 2022.
2022/11/01 Mr. Z. Xu joined our group as a Ph.D. student.
2022/10/25 Dr. S. Okajima received Yamamoto Award 2022 from the Meteorological Society of Japan.
2022/06/09 Prof. H. Nakamura reveived 2022 JpGU Fellowship.
2022/04/01 Dr. M. Toda joins our group as a Postdoctroal researcher.
2021/07/28 Dr. A. Miyamoto and Mr. M. Nakayama received Early Career and Student Presentation Awards in International workshop for mid-latitude air-sea interaction.
2020/05/22 Prof. H. Nakamura received the Fujiwara Award from the Meteorological Society of Japan.

- Collaborative Research
- University of Kiel (Germany)
- University of Bergen (Norway)
- Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Norway)
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA)
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (USA)
- Participation project [in progress]
- Belmont Forum CRA
- Ministry of the Environment
Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (2-1503) - Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS)
- Participation project [done]
- GRENE Arctic Climate Change Research Project
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Hot Spot in Climate System - Ministry of the Environment
Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S-5) - Ministry of the Environment
Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (A-1201)