Member

MIYAKAWA, Tomoki

Associate Professor
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute

Office: Kashiwa Research Complex-309
TEL: +81-4-7136-4399
FAX: +81-4-7136-4375
E-mail:
HP: http://ccsr.aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~miyakawa/index_eng.html

Research Field

Multiscale interaction, cloud-resolving, climate model, air-sea coupling, tropical meteorology

Current Research

I work on "reproducing", "understanding", and "predicting" phenomena related with organized convection and/or equatorial waves, with specific interest in multiscale interaction, Air-sea interaction, meridional interaction, and General Circulation. I have put particular emphasis on numerical simulation studies of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), an eastward atmospheric pulse visualized as a gigantic package of clouds, using a global cloud resolving model NICAM and its ocean-coupled version NICOCO.

Representative Publications

1. Miyakawa, T., H. Yashiro, T. Suzuki, H. Tatebe, M. Satoh, 2017: A Madden-Julian Oscillation event remotely accelerates ocean upwelling to abruptly terminate the 1997/1998 super El Nino. Geophys. Res. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074683.
2. Miyakawa, T., M. Satoh, H. Miura, H. Tomita, H. Yashiro, A. T. Noda, Y. Yamada, C. Kodama, M. Kimoto, and K. Yoneyama, 2014, Madden–Julian Oscillation prediction skill of a new-generation global model demonstrated using a supercomputer. Nature Comm. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4769.
3. Miyakawa, T., S. Yokoi, N. Hirota, S. Hirahara, T. Inoue, Y. N. Takayabu, 2013, An iterative selection method: A summer eastern Asian metric for CMIP3 climate models as an example. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 91, 305-321. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2013-305.