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KOSAKA, Yu Associate Professor Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology Office: RCAST Bldg. #3-409 TEL: +81-3-5452-5144 FAX: -- E-mail: HP: http://www.atmos.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nakamura_lab/en/
Research Field Climate variability and change, Extreme weather, Climate dynamics, Air-sea interaction Current Research We study large-scale climate variability in light of its regional and global impacts, mechanisms and predictability, through analyses and dynamical diagnoses of observational data, idealized numerical models, more sophisticated atmospheric general circulation models and climate models. We have mainly worked on worldwide impacts and mechanisms of teleconnections associated with tropical climate variability. Specifically we are studying several teleconnection patterns that induce extreme hot and cool summers to East Asia, in terms of their mechanisms, predictability, and slow modulations due to natural multidecadal variability and human-caused climate changes. Tropical ocean-atmosphere coupled variability such as El Niño/La Niña drives one of these teleconnection patterns, bringing predictability of summer climate in Japan a few months ahead. We have also shown that global influence of slow natural variability in the tropical Pacific can offset the human-caused global surface temperature rise for a decade or two, explaining the recent global-warming “hiatus” quantitatively. Our interests further expand to pattern formation mechanisms of global warming, and sea-ice variability in polar region with application to associated teleconnections. Representative Publications 1. Kosaka, Y. and S.-P. Xie: The tropical Pacific as a key pacemaker of the variable rates of global warming. Nature Geosci, 9, 669-673, 2016. 2. Kosaka, Y., S.-P. Xie, N.-C. Lau and G. A. Vecchi: Origin of seasonal predictability for summer climate over the Northwestern Pacific. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 110, 7574-7579, 2013. 3. Kosaka, Y., H. Nakamura, M. Watanabe, M. Kimoto: Analysis on the Dynamics of a Wave-like Teleconnection Pattern along the Summertime Asian Jet Based on a Reanalysis Dataset and Climate Model Simulations. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 87, 561-580, 2009.

KOSAKA, Yu

Associate Professor
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

Office: RCAST Bldg. #3-409
TEL: +81-3-5452-5144
FAX: --
E-mail:
HP: http://www.atmos.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nakamura_lab/en/

Research Field

Climate variability and change, Extreme weather, Climate dynamics, Air-sea interaction

Current Research

We study large-scale climate variability in light of its regional and global impacts, mechanisms and predictability, through analyses and dynamical diagnoses of observational data, idealized numerical models, more sophisticated atmospheric general circulation models and climate models. We have mainly worked on worldwide impacts and mechanisms of teleconnections associated with tropical climate variability. Specifically we are studying several teleconnection patterns that induce extreme hot and cool summers to East Asia, in terms of their mechanisms, predictability, and slow modulations due to natural multidecadal variability and human-caused climate changes. Tropical ocean-atmosphere coupled variability such as El Niño/La Niña drives one of these teleconnection patterns, bringing predictability of summer climate in Japan a few months ahead. We have also shown that global influence of slow natural variability in the tropical Pacific can offset the human-caused global surface temperature rise for a decade or two, explaining the recent global-warming “hiatus” quantitatively. Our interests further expand to pattern formation mechanisms of global warming, and sea-ice variability in polar region with application to associated teleconnections.

Representative Publications

1. Kosaka, Y. and S.-P. Xie: The tropical Pacific as a key pacemaker of the variable rates of global warming. Nature Geosci, 9, 669-673, 2016.
2. Kosaka, Y., S.-P. Xie, N.-C. Lau and G. A. Vecchi: Origin of seasonal predictability for summer climate over the Northwestern Pacific. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 110, 7574-7579, 2013.
3. Kosaka, Y., H. Nakamura, M. Watanabe, M. Kimoto: Analysis on the Dynamics of a Wave-like Teleconnection Pattern along the Summertime Asian Jet Based on a Reanalysis Dataset and Climate Model Simulations. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 87, 561-580, 2009.