Miyazawa, Yasumasa

Last updated, 2024.04.06

Activities in Japanese

Principal Researcher JAMSTEC

Deputy Directer Application Laboratory

Group Leader (Environmental Variability Prediction and Application Research Group)

ResearcherID: J-3196-2014   KAKENHI(E-RAD) Number: 90399577

Research Interest:

Papers:

Miyazawa, Y., S. M. Varlamov, T. Miyama, Y. Kurihara, H. Murakami, and M. Kachi, 2021: A nowcast/forecast system for Japan's coasts using daily assimilation of remote sensing and in situ data Remote Sensing, 13, 2431. html

Miyazawa, Y., M. Yaremchuk, S. M. Varlamov, T. Miyama, and K. Aoki, 2020: Applying the adjoint-free 4dVar assimilation to modeling the Kuroshio south of Japan, Ocean Dynamics, 70, 1129-1149. html

Miyazawa, Y., A. Kuwano-Yoshida, T. Doi, H. Nishikawa, T. Narazaki, T. Fukuoka, and K. Sato, 2019: Temperature profiling measurements by sea turtles improve ocean state estimation in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Confluence region, Ocean Dynamics, 69, 267-282. html

Miyazawa, Y., S. M. Varlamov, T. Miyama, X. Guo, T. Hihara, K. Kiyomatsu, M. Kachi, Y. Kurihara, and H. Murakami, 2017: Assimilation of high-resolution sea surface temperature data into an operational nowcast/forecast system around Japan using a multi-scale three dimensional variational scheme, Ocean Dynamics, 67, 713-728. html

Miyazawa, Y., X. Guo, S. M. Varlamov, T. Miyama, K. Yoda, K. Sato, T. Kano, and K. Sato, 2015: Assimilation of the seabird and ship drift data in the north-eastern sea of Japan into an operational ocean nowcast/forecast system, Scientific Reports, 5, Article number: 17672. html

Miyazawa, Y., N. Yamashita, S. Taniyasu, E. Yamazaki, X. Guo, S. M. Varlamov, and T. Miyama, 2014: Oceanic dispersion simulation of perfluoroalkyl substances in the Western North Pacific associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, J. Oceanogr., 70, 535-547. html

Miyazawa, Y., H. Murakami, T. Miyama, S. M. Varlamov, X. Guo, T. Waseda, and S. Sil, 2013: Data assimilation of the high-resolution sea surface temperature obtained from the Aqua-Terra satellites (MODIS-SST) using an ensemble Kalman filter, Remote Sensing, 5, 3123-3139. html

Miyazawa, Y., Y. Masumoto, S. M. Varlamov, T. Miyama, M. Takigawa, M. Honda, and T. Saino, 2013: Inverse estimation of source parameters of oceanic radioactivity dispersion models associated with the Fukushima accident, Biogeosciences, 10, 2349-2363. html

Miyazawa, Y., Y. Masumoto, S. M. Varlamov, and T. Miyama, 2012: Transport simulation of the radionuclide from the shelf to open ocean around Fukushima, Continental Shelf Res., 50-51, 16-29. html

Miyazawa, Y., T. Miyama, S. M. Varlamov, X. Guo, and T. Waseda, 2012: Open and coastal seas interactions south of Japan represented by an ensemble Kalman Filter, Ocean Dynamics, 62, 645-659. html

Miyazawa, Y., R. Zhang, X. Guo, H. Tamura, D. Ambe, J.-S. Lee, A. Okuno, H. Yoshinari, T. Setou, and K. Komatsu, 2009: Water mass variability in the western North Pacific detected in a 15-year eddy resolving ocean reanalysis, J. Oceanogr., 65, 737-756. html

Miyazawa, Y., T. Kagimoto, X. Guo, and H. Sakuma, 2008: The Kuroshio large meander formation in 2004 analyzed by an eddy-resolving ocean forecast system, J. Geophys. Res.,113, C10015, doi:10.1029/2007JC004226. html

Miyazawa, Y., S. Yamane, X. Guo, and T. Yamagata, 2005: Ensemble forecast of the Kuroshio meandering, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C10026, doi:10.1029/2004JC002426. html

Miyazawa, Y., X. Guo, and T. Yamagata, 2004: Roles of meso-scale eddies in the Kuroshio paths , J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 2203-2222. html

Miyazawa, Y., and S. Minato, 2000: POM and two-way nesting POM study of Kuroshio damping phenomenon caused by a strong wind, J. Oceanogr., 56, 275-294. html

Papers (collaboration):

Chang, Y.-L. K., I. M. McIntosh, T. Miyama, and Y. Miyazawa, 2023: Projection of August 2021 pumice dispersion from the Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption in the western North Pacific, Scientific Reports, 13, Article number: 3945. html

Zheng,J., X. Guo, H. Yang, K. Duo, X. Mao, W. Jiang, T. Sagawa, Y. Miyazawa, S. M. Varlamov, A. Abe-Ouchi, and W.-L. Chan 2023: Low sea surface salinity event of the Japan Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology html

Ohishi, S., T. Hihara, H. Aiki, J. Ishizaka, Y. Miyazawa, M. Kachi, and T. Miyoshi, 2022:An ensemble Kalman filter system with the Stony Brook Parallel Ocean Model v1.0, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 8395-8410. html

Kaneko, H., T. Tanaka, H. Abe, M. Wakita, K. Sasaki, Y. Miyazawa, T. Okunishi, S. Watanabe, S. Tatamisachi, and Y. Sato, 2022: Subinertial frequency variations in the axis of the Tsugaru Warm Current east of the Tsugaru Strait, Progoress in Earth and Planerary Science, 9, 53. html

Kido, S., M. Nonaka, and Y. Miyazawa, 2022: JCOPE-FGO: an eddy-resolving quasi-global ocean reanalysis product, Ocean Dynamics, 72, 599-619. html

Yang, M., X. Guo, M. Ishizu, and Y. Miyazawa, 2022: The Kuroshio regulates the air-sea exchange of PCBs in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, Env. Sci. & Tech. html

Chang, Y.-L., E. Feunteun, and Y. Miyazawa, 2022: Reply to: No new evidence for an Atlantic eels spawning area outside the Sargasso Sea, Sci. Reports, 12, 11794. html

Yang, H., X. Guo, Y. Miyazawa, S. M. Varlamov, A. Abe-Ouchi, and W.-L. Chan, 2022: Changes in the Kuroshio Path, Surface Velocity and Transport During the Last 35,000 Years, Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2021GL097250. html

Ishizu, M., Y. Miyazawa, and X. Guo, 2021: Long-term variations in ocean acidification indices in the Northwest Pacific from 1993 to 2018, Climatic Change, 168, 29. html

Ariyoshi, K., T. Kimura, Y. Miyazawa, S. M. Varlamov, T. Iinuma, A. Nagano, J. Gomberg, E. Araki, T. Miyama, K. Sueki, S. Yada, T. Hori, N. Takahashi, and S. Kodaira, 2021: Precise monitoring of pore pressure at boreholes around Nankai Trough toward early detecting crustal deformation, Frontier in Earth Sci., 9, 717696. html

Aoki, K., Y. Miyazawa, T. Hihara, and T. Miyama, 2020: An objective method for probabilistic forecasting of multimodal Kuroshio states using ensemble simulation and machine learning, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 50, 3189-3204. html

Chang, Y.-L. K., E. Feunteun, Y. Miyazawa, and K. Tsukamoto, 2020: New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hypothesis, Scientific Reports, 10, Article Number: 15981. html

Ishizu, M., Y. Miyazawa, T. Tsunoda, and X. Guo, 2020: Seasonal variability in the inorganic ocean carbon cycle in the Northwest Pacific evaluated using a biogeochemical and carbon model coupled with an operational ocean model, Climatic Change, html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, and S. Behera, 2019: Role of climate variability in the potential predictability of tropical cyclone formation in tropical and subtropical western North Pacific Ocean, Scientific Reports, 9, Article Number: 19827. html

Morioka, Y., S. M. Varlamov, and Y. Miyazawa, 2019: Role of Kuroshio Current in fish resource variability off southwest Japan, Scientific reports, 9, Article number: 17942. html

Ishizu, M., Y. Miyazawa, T. Tsunoda, and T. Ono, 2019: Long-term trends in pH in Japanese coastal waters, Biogeosciences 16. 4747-4763. html

Kaifu, Y., C.-h. Lin, A. Goto, N. Ikeya, M. Yamada, W.-C. Chiang, M. Fujita, K. Hara, T. Hawira, K.-e. Huang, C.-h. Huang, Y. Kubota, C.-H. Liu, K. Miura, Y. Miyazawa, O. Monden, M. Muramatsu, Y. Sung, K. Suzuki, N. Tanaka, C.-h. Tsangm and P.-l, Wen, 2019: Palaeolithic seafaring in East Asia: testing the bamboo raft hypothesis, Antiquity, 93, 1424-1441. html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, M.J. Miller, and K. Tsukamoto, 2019: Influence of ocean circulation and the Kuroshio large meander on the 2018 Japanese eel recruitment season, PLOS ONE, 14: e0223262. html

Fukao, Y., T. Miyama, Y. Tono, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, H. Shiobara, M. Yamashita, S. M. Varlamov, R. Furue, and Y. Miyazawa, 2019: Detection of ocean internal tide source oscillations on the slope of Aogashima Island, Japan, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 124, 4918-4933. html

Ishizu, M., Y. Miyazawa, T. Tsunoda, and X. Guo, 2019: Development of a Biogeochemical and Carbon Model Related to Ocean Acidification Indices with an Operational Ocean Model Product in the North Western Pacific, Sustainability, 11: 2677. html

Chang, Y.-L., M.J. Miller, K. Tsukamoto, and Y. Miyazawa, 2018: Effect of larval swimming in the western North Pacific subtropical gyre on the recruitment success of the Japanese eel, PLOS ONE, 13: e0208704. html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, T. Kodaira, and S. Behera, 2018: Philippines-Taiwan Oscillations and its connection to tropical cyclone frequency in the western North Pacific Ocean, Scientific Reports, 8, Article Number: 17454. html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, M.J. Miller, and K. Tsukamoto, 2018: Potential impact of ocean circulation on the declining Japanese eel catches, Scientific Reports, 8, Article Number: 5496. html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, M. Beguer-Pon, Y.-S. Han, K. Ohashi, and J. Sheng, 2018: Physical and biological roles of mesoscale eddies in Japanese eel larvae dispersal in the western North Pacific Ocean, Scientific Reports, 8, Article Number: 5013. html

Uchiyama, Y., X. Zhang, Y. Suzue, T. Kosako, Y. Miyazawa, and A. Nakayama, 2018: Residual effects of treated effluent diversion on a seaweed farm in a tidal strait using a multi-nested high-resolution 3D circulation-dispersal model, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 130, 40-54. html

Kanada S., S. Tsujino, H. Aiki, M. K. Yoshioka, Y. Miyazawa, K. Tsuboki, and, I. Takayabu, 2017: Impacts of SST Patterns on Rapid Intensification of Typhoon Megi (2010), J. Geophys. Res. Atmosphere, doi:10.1002/2017JD027252 html

Uchiyama, Y., R. Kanki, A. Takano, H. Yamazaki, and, Y. Miyazawa, 2017: Mesoscale reproducibility in regional ocean modelling with a three-dimensional stratification estimate based on Aviso-Argo data, Atmosphere-Ocean, doi:10.1080/07055900.2017.1399858 html

Josko, T., T. Sayama, S. M. Varlamov, T. Sasaki, M.-F. Racault, K. Takara, Y. Miyazawa, R. Kuroski, T. Yamagata, and Y. Yamashiki, 2017: Modeling of extreme freshwater outflow from the north-eastern Japanese river basins to western Pacific ocean, J. Hydrology, 555, 956-970. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.10.042. html

Kawamura, H., A. Furuno, T. Kobayashi, T. In, T. Nakayama, Y. Ishikawa, Y. Miyazawa, and N. Usui, 2017: Oceanic dispersion of Fukushima-derived Cs-137 simulated by multiple oceanic general circulation models, J. Environ. Rad., 180, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.09.020 html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, L.-Y. Oey, T. Kodaira, and S. Huang, 2017: The formation processes of phytoplankton growth and decline in mesoscale eddies in the western North Pacific Ocean, J. Geophy. Res. Oceans, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JC012722 html

Zhang, J., X. Guo, L. Zhao, Y. Miyazawa, and Q. Sun, 2017: Water exchange across isobaths over the continental shelf of the East China Sea, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 47, 1043-1060. html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, and M. Beguer-Pon, 2017: The dynamical impact of mesoscale eddies on migration of Japanese eel larvae , PLoS ONE, 12, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172501 html

Hu, Z.-F., D.-P. Wang, D.-L. Pan, X.-Q. He, Y. Miyazawa, Y. Bai. Di-F.- Wang, F. Gong, 2016: Mapping surface tidal currents and Changjiang plume in the East China Sea from Geostationary Ocean Color Imager, J. Geophis. Res. Oceans, 121, 1563-1572. html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, and M. Beguer-Pon, 2016: Simulating the oceanic migration of silver Japanese eels, PLoS ONE, 11, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150187 html

Qu, T., T. Tozuka, S. Kida, X. Guo, Y. Miyazawa, and Q. Liu, 2016: Western Pacific and marginal sea processes. World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate: Climate Variations , Edited by Yamagata, T., and Behera, S. html

Chang, Y.-L., J. Sheng, K. Ohashi, M. Beguer-Pon, and Y. Miyazawa, 2015: Impacts of interannual ocean circulation variability on Japanese eel larval migration in the western north Pacific ocean, PLoS ONE, 10(12): e0144423. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144423 html

Han, S., N. Hirose, N. Usui, and Y. Miyazawa, 2015: Ensemble estimation of volume transport through the straits of the East/Japan Sea, Ocean Dynamics., doi:10.1007/s10236-015-0896-9. html

Kiyomatsu, K., Y. Kadomoto, T. Kodaira, T. Waseda, K. Takagi, S. Varlamov, and Y. Miyazawa, 2015: ADCP measurements of ocean currents near Miyake Island for a Kuroshio energy converter development project, Renewable Energies Offshore, 123.html

Yamazaki, E., N. Yamashita, S. Taniyasu, Y. Miyazawa, T. Gamo, H. Ge, and K.Kannan, 2015: Emission, dynamics and transport of Perfluoroalkyl substances from land to ocean by the Great East Japan Eartquake in 2011, doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b01687. html

Varlamov, M. Sergey, X. Guo, T. Miyama, K. Ichikawa, T. Waseda, and Y. Miyazawa, 2015: M2 baroclinic tide variability modulated by the ocean circulation south of Japan, J. Geophys. Res. doi:10.1002/2015JC010739. html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, and X. Guo, 2015b: Effects of the STCC eddies on the Kuroshio based on the 20-year JCOPE2 reanalysis results, Progress in Oceanogr., 135, 64-76. html

Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, and X. Guo, 2015a: Effect of mesoscale eddies on the Taiwan Strait Current, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45, 1651-1666. html

Kodaira, T., T. Waseda, and Y. Miyazawa, 2014: Nonlinear internal waves generated and trapped upstream of islands in the Kuroshio, Geophys. Res. Let. doi:10.1002/2014GL060113 html

Waseda, T., M. Sinchi, K. Kiyomatsu, T. Nishida, S. Takahashi, S. Asaumi, Y, Kawai, H. Tamura, and Y. Miyazawa, 2014: Deep water observations of extreme waves with moored and free GPS buoys, Ocean Dyn., 64, 1269-1280. html

Soeyanto, E., X. Guo, J. Ono, and Y. Miyazawa, 2014: Interannual variations of Kuroshio transport in the East China Sea and its relation to Pacific Decadal Oscillation and mesoscale eddy, J. Geophys. Res. doi:10.1002/2013JC009529 html

Waseda, T., K. In, K. Kiyomatsu, H. Tamura, Y. Miyazawa, K. Iyama, 2014: Predicting freakish sea state with an operational third generation wave model, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 14, 945-957. html

Kantha, L., H. Tamura, and Y. Miyazawa, 2014: Comment on 'Wave-turbulence interaction and its induced mixing in the upper ocean' by Huang and Qiao, J. Geophys. Res., 10.1002/2013JC009318 (accepted)

Miyama, T., and Y. Miyazawa, 2014: Short-term fluctuations south of Japan and their relationship with the Kuroshio path: 8- to 36-day fluctuations, Ocean Dyn.,64, 537-555. html

Oey, L.-Y, Y.-L. Chang, Y.-C. Lin, M.-C. Chang, S.M. Varlamov, and Y. Miyazawa, 2014: Cross flows in the Taiwan Strait in winter, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 44, 801-817. html

Xu, F.-H., L.-Y. Oey, Y. Miyazawa, and P. Hamilton, 2013: Hindcasts and Forecasts of Loop Current and Eddies in the Gulf of Mexico using Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter and Optimum-Interpolation Assimilation Schemes, Ocean Modelling, 69, 22-38. html

Miyama, T., and Y. Miyazawa, 2013: Structure and dynamics of the sudden acceleration of Kuroshio off Cape Shionomisaki, Ocean Dyn.,63, 265-281.html

Tamura, H., Y. Miyazawa, and Lie-Yauw Oey, 2012: The Stokes drift and wave induced-mass flux in the North Pacific, J. Geophys. doi:10.1029/2012JC008113 html

Masumoto, Y., Y. Miyazawa, D. Tsumune, T. Tsubono, T. Kobayashi, H. Kawamura, C. Estournel, P. Marsaleix, L. Lanerolle, A. Mehra, and Z. D. Garraffo, 2012: Oceanic dispersion simulations of 137Cs released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Elements, 8, 207-212. html

Honda, M. C., T. Aono, M. Aoyama, Y. Hamajima, H. Kawakami, M. Kitamura, Y. Masumoto,Y. Miyazawa, M. Takigawa, and T. Saino, 2012: Dispersion of artificial caesium-134 and -137 in the western North Pacific one month after the Fukushima accident, Geochemical Journal, 46, e1-e9. html

Kartadikaria, A. R., Y. Miyazawa, K. Nadaoka, and A. Watanabe, 2011: Existence of Eddies at Crossroad of the Indonesian seas, Ocean Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s10236-011-0489-1. html

Kartadikaria, A. R., Y. Miyazawa, S. M. Varlamov, and K. Nadaoka, 2011: Ocean circulation for the Indonesian seas driven by tides and atmospheric forcings: Comparison to observational data, J. Geophys. Res. 116, C09009, doi:10.1029/2011JC007196. html

Sasai, Y., A. R,Kartadikaria, Y.Miyazawa, and K.Nadaoka, 2011: Marine ecosystem simulation in the Indonesian Seas, Interdisciplinary Studies on Environmental Chemistry - Marine Environmental Modeling & Analysis, Eds., K. Omori, X. Guo, N. Yoshie, N. Fujii, I. C. Handoh, A. Isobe, and S. Tanabe, pp. 11-17, TERRAPUB. PDF(0.3MB)

Tamura, H., T. Waseda, and Y. Miyazawa, 2010: Impact of nonlinear energy transfer on the wave field in Pacific hindcast experiments, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C12036, doi:10.1029/2009JC006014. html

Lu L.-F., Y. Miyazawa, W. Cui, and K. Nadaoka, 2010: Numerical study of surface water circulation around Sekisei Lagoon, southwest of Japan, Ocean Dynamics, 60, 359-375. html

Tamura, H., T. Waseda, and Y. Miyazawa, 2009: Freakish sea state and swell-windsea coupling: Numerical study of the Suwa-Maru incident, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L01607, doi:10.1029/2008GL036280. html

Tamura, H., T. Waseda, Y. Miyazawa, and K. Komatsu, 2008: Current-induced moduration of the ocean wave spectrum and the role of nonlinear energy transfer, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 2662-2684. html

Kagimoto, T., Y. Miyazawa, X. Guo, and H. Kawajiri, 2008: High resolution Kuroshio forecast system -Description and its applications-, in High Resolution Numerical Modeling of the Atmosphere and Ocean, W. Ohfuchi and K. Hamilton (eds), Springer, New York, 209-234. html PDF(1.5MB)

Uchimoto, K., H. Mitsudera, N. Ebuchi, and Y. Miyazawa, 2007: Anticyclonic eddy caused by the Soya Warm Current in an Okhotsk OGCM, J. Oceanogr., 63, 379-391. html

Guo, X., Y. Miyazawa, and T. Yamagata, 2006: The Kuroshio onshore intrusion along the shelf break of the East China Sea: the origin of the Tsushima Warm Current, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36, 2205-2231. html

Guo, X., H. Hukuda, Y. Miyazawa, and T. Yamagata, 2003: A triply nested ocean model for simulating the Kuroshio -Roles of horizontal resolution on JEBAR-. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 33, 146-169. html

Presentations:

Toward skillful prediction f open-coastal seas interactions, OceanPrediction kick-off meeting, 12 January 2023, Online (Invited).

Four-dimensional Ensemble Variational Data Assimilation of the Northwest Pacific Ocean Currents, AOGS2022 VIRTUAL 19th annual meeting, 4 August 2022, Online poster.

Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment toward 4D virtual ocean, 4-Dimensional Virtual Ocean for Sustainable Development and Smart Applications - A satellite event to DITTO Summit at London, 28 April 2022, Online.

Ocean state forecast in Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment (JCOPE) , UN Decade Predicted Ocean Laboratory - Satellite activity: Co-designing integrated ocean observing and prediction capabilities: CoastPredict, Ocean Observing Co-Design and ForeSea in the Ocean Decade, 17 September 2021, Online.

Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment: Ocean forecasting and its comprehensive applications, The 3rd International Conference on Maritime Sciences and Advanced Technology, Indonesia, 5 August 2021, Online.

Dialogues towards integrated boundary current observing and forecasting systems, Ocean Observations Physics and Climate Panel, Webinar Series #3, The Kuroshio system, The modeling component, Dialogues towards integrated boundary current observing and forecasting systems, Ocean Observations Physics and Climate Panel, Webinar Series, 6 July 2021, Online.

Utilization of various kinds of observation data for ocean state estimation, Feasibility Study Workshop on the CSK-2, 23 January 2019, Yokohama, Japan.

Utilization of satellite observation data for ocean state estimation, Plenary Session, The Joint PI Meeting of JAXA Earth Observation Mission FY2018, 21 January 2019, Tokyo, Japan. (Invited)

Utilizing biologging data for ocean state estimation, 2nd SIMSEA regional symposium, 20 November 2018, Manila, Philippines.

Development of data assimilation techniques toward resolving smaller scale oceanic phenomena, 10th International Workshop Modeling the Ocean(iwmo), 27 June 2018, Santos, Brazil.

Inter-comparison of data assimilation methods including ensemble-based techniques and implications for real applications, JpGU Annual Meeting 2018, MGII22-07, 20 May 2018, Makuhari, Japan. html (Invited)

Ocean forecasting studies and their applications in Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment, MoES-JAMSTEC Joint Workshop, 1 March 2018, Pune, India.

Development of data assimilation techniques toward resolving smaller scale oceanic phenomena in Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment (JCOPE), A guest seminar at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, 27 February 2018, Hyderabad, India.

Ocean forecasting in Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment, A guest seminar at Naval Research Laboratory, 18 December 2017, Steniss, MS.

Reanalysis/forecast of the North Western Pacific ocean utilizing the AVHRR/ MODIS/ Himawari-8 sea surface temperature data, the 14th annual meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 9 August 2017, Singapore.

Updating ocean model/data assimilation components of the JCOPE2 operational ocean forecast system for biogeochemical applications, 9th International Workshop Modeling the Ocean(iwmo), 6 July 2017, Seoul, Korea.

Utilization of fisherman-logging data for enhancement of the coastal ocean monitoring network in Japan , JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017, MGI28-05, 22 May 2017, Makuhari, Japan. html

Extension of the ocean forecasting including investigation of marine ecosystem behavior and coupling with the seasonal climate forecast, Symposium: Past, Present, Future of Predicting Ocean and Climate Variability, 26 January 2017, Tokyo, Japan.

Modeling of acidification in marginal seas, GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium WG4: Ocean and society in AP region, 12 January 2017, Tokyo, Japan.

Sustainable ocean environment monitoring scheme enhanced by ocean forecasting, 7th ISAJ Symposium 2016 - India Japan Symposium on Science and Technology for Sustainability, 15 December 2016, Tokyo, Japan.

Bio-logging and ocean forecasting around Philippines, SIMSEA Regional Symposium, 26 September 2016, Quezon City, Philippines.

An Expectation for SIMSEA -Toward Philippine seas prediction-, Workshop to Support SIMSEA Japan, 5 February 2016, Tokyo, Japan.

A long-term tide-resolving OGCM simulation around the japan coastal ocean , The 7th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO2015), 5 June 2015, Canberra, Australia.

Validation of a long-term tide-resolving oceanic simulation around the coastal areas, Japan, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015, 27 May 2015, Chiba, Japan.

Toward interactive observation-forecast feedback systems in coastal oceans, Eighteenth Session of the Ocean Observations panel for Physics and Climate,Future Prospects of Coastal Ocean Observations and Modeling in Japan, 17 April 2015, Sendai, Japan.

Oceanic dispersion of anomalous perfluoroalkyl substances in the Western North Pacific from the Japanese Coast associated with the Great Earthquake 0311 in Japan, 6th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, 26 June 2014, Halifax, Canada.

A spike-like input of perfluoroalkyl substances into the Western North Pacific from the Japanese Coast associated with the Great Earthquake 0311 in Japan, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014, 30 April 2014, Yokohama, Japan.

Dispersion of materials in ocean: observation and modeling, Conference on Diffusion in Heterogeneous Media and Related Topics, 07 March 2014, Tokyo, Japan. (Invited)

M2 internal tide variability modulated by ocean circulation processes south of Japan, 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 25 February 2014, Honolulu, USA.

Data assimilation of the high-resolution sea surface temperature obtained from the Aqua-Terra satellites (MODIS-SST) using an ensemble Kalman filter, Second International Symposium on Watercourse Sensing and Operational Monitoring, 27 November 2013, Kyoto, Japan. (Invited)

Internal tide variability south of Japan:modeling and observation , International Workshop on Ocean Waves and Related Processes, 26 July 2013, Yokohama, Japan.

Internal tide variability south of Japan:modeling and observation , 5th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, 19 June 2013, Bergen, Norway.

Internal tide variability around Japan revealed by modeling and observation , Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2013, 19 May 2013, Chiba, Japan.

Downscaled ocean modeling based on coupling among ocean circulation, tides, and surface waves, IPRC Discussion, 20 March 2013, Honolulu, USA.

Applications of an ensemble Kalman Filter to regional ocean modeling associated with the western boundary currents variations, AICS International Workshop on Data Assimilation, 26-27 February 2013, Kobe, Japan.

Data assimilation of the high-resolution sea surface temperature obtained from the Aqua-Terra satellites (MODIS-SST) using an ensemble Kalman Filter, 2nd GODAE OceanView Coastal Oceans and Shelf Seas Task Team (COSS-TT) International Coordination Workshop (COSS-ICW2), 4-7 February 2013, Lecce, Italy.

Ocean data assimilation and operational ocean forecasting systems in Japan, International Symposium on Watercourse Sensing and Operational Monitoring, 9-10 July 2012, Otsu, Japan. (Invited)

Transport simulations of Cs137 from the shelf to open ocean around Fukushima, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2012, 25 May 2012, Makuhari, Japan.

Transport simulation of the radionuclides from the shelf to open ocean around Fukushima -Inverse estimation of source parameters- , 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 20-24 February 2012, Salt Lake City.

Transport simulation of the radionuclides from the shelf to open ocean around Fukushima, Fukushima Radionuclide Workshop, 16-17 February 2012, Salt Lake City, USA. (Invited)

Inverse estimation of source and diffusion parameters of oceanic radioactivity dispersion models associated with the Fukushima accident, GODAE OceanView International Workshop of the Coastal and Shelf Seas Task Team, 10-12 January 2012, Miami, USA.

Transport simulation of the radionuclides from the shelf to open ocean around Fukushima, Benchmarking models for the ocean dispersion and transfer of radionuclide release from TEPCO Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, 3-5 October 2011, Monaco. (Invited)

The Kuroshio variation south of Japan detected by the Ensemble Kalman Filter, 3rd International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, 8 June 2011, Qingdao, China.

Application of the ensemble Kalman Filter to the Kuroshio variation south of Japan, 16th Pacific Asian Marginal Seas (PAMS) Meeting, 21 April 2011, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited) Extendend abstract PDF(0.5MB)

Development of the Ensemble Kalman Filter for the analysis and prediction of the Kuroshio variations south of Japan, 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, 18 December 2010, San Francisco, USA. (Invited)

Application of the Ensemble Kalman Filter to the Kuroshio variations around the Kii Peninsula, PICES 19th annual meeting, 28 October 2010, Portland, USA.

Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment (JCOPE) -Comprehensive applications of numerical ocean forecasting-, A seminar at Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI), 29 July 2010, Ansan, Korea. (Invited)

The Kuroshio frontal waves detected in the FRA-JCOPE2 reanalysis data, Workshop on Ocean Modeling in the Regional Marine Systems, 15 July 2010, Kashiwa, Japan. (Invited)

Roles of the in-situ observations in the detection of the Kuroshio frontal variability south of Japan, 2nd International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, 25 May 2010, Norfolk, USA.

Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment: the Development of Parallel Ensemble Kalman Filter using the parallelized Princeton Ocean Model, GFDL Lunch-Time Seminar, 21 May 2010, Princeton, USA. (Invited)

Roles of the in-situ observations in the detection of the Kuroshio frontal variability south of Japan, Climate Change Effects on Fish and Fisheries: Forecasting impacts, Assessing Ecosystem Responses, and Evaluating Management Strategies, 28 April 2010, Sendai, Japan.

Water mass variability detected in a 17-year eddy resolving ocean reanalysis : roles of the in-situ data, 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting, 24 February 2010, Portland, USA.

Roles of in-situ profile data obtained by Japanese fishery research agencies in quality of the eddy-resolving ocean reanalysis data: FRA-JCOPE2, PICES 18th annual meeting, 29 October 2009, Jeju, Korea.

Interannual variation of the Changjiang Diluted Water found in the JCOPE2 15-year ocean reanalysis, Seminar at College of Ocean Science, Cheju National University , 27 October 2009, Jeju, Korea. (Invited)

Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment -Comprehensive Operational applications of POM- , 2009 Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, 23-26 February 2009, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited)

Water mass variabirities in the western North Pacific detected in a 15-year eddy-resolving ocean reanalysis, Final GODAE symposium, 11-15 November 2008, Nice, France.

Toward the data-assimilation system of marginal seas in the SEA-WP region, PICES 17th annual meeting, 30 October 2008, Dalian, China.

Operational Kuroshio forecast and ocean floor observation systems around the Nankai trough,International Workshop: What can be done with seafloor observation networks?, 10 March 2008, Tokyo, Japan. (Invited)

Meso-scale variations reproduced by the JCOPE2 reanalysis,2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 3 March 2008, Orlando, USA.

POM applications in JCOPE, POM meeting in 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 3 March 2008, Orlando, USA. (Invited)

Water mass structure in the Kuroshio-Oyashio mixed water region reproduced by JCOPE2,PICES 16th Annual Meeting, 2 November 2007, Victoria, Canada.

Intensive evaluations of the JCOPE ocean forecast systems using a regional metrics, 2007 GODAE Coastal Workshop 'Assessing the value of GODAE products in coastal and shelf seas', 11 October 2007, Liverpool, UK.

Prediction of the Kuroshio meandering using JCOPE, Joint Meeting of CVRP/FRCGC/JAMSTEC, MIRI and Italian National Group for Operational Oceanography (GNOO), 11 December 2006, Bologna, Italy.

Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment: Comprehensive Application of Ocean Forecasting, GODAE Symposium on ocean data assimilation and prediction in Asia-Oceania, 16-18 October 2006, Beijing, China. PDF(0.5MB)

Kuroshio large meander formation in 2004 analyzed by an eddy-resolving ocean forecast system, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, OS04, 24-27 July, 2006, Beijing, China.

Eddy-Kuroshio interactions associated with the Large Meander formation in 2004, Ocean Science Meeting, OS26N-11, February 21, 2006, Honolulu, USA.

Eddy-Kuroshio interactions associated with the Large-Meander formation in 2004, Second forum on Marine Science - New development and challenge, June 14-16, 2005, Qingdao, China.

Eddy-Kuroshio interactions associated with the Large-Meander formation in 2004, International Workshop on the Indian Ocean Variability and the Asia Monsoon Climate, June 13, 2005, Nanjing, China. (Invited)

Modeling of the Northwest Pacific subarctic gyre system and the Sea of Okhotsk by using the JCOPE OGCM, Workshop on modeling of sea-ice and ocean circulation, with an emphasis on the Sea of Okhotsk, February 18, 2005, Sapporo, Japan. (Invited)

The JCOPE ocean forecast system: First ARGO Science Workshop, November 12-14, 2003, Tokyo, Japan. PDF(0.5MB)

An experimental ocean nowcast/forecast system using multi-data: Symposium on space platforms for water and climate observation, March 14, 2003, Awajishima, Japan.

Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment -Real time forecast system- abstract, a special session "ocean forecasting" in International Symposium "TECHNO-OCEAN 2002", November 21, 2002, Kobe, Japan.

Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment (JCOPE) -Hindcast/Forecast System- abstract, The 26th SCOR International Symposium, Session 'Ocean State Estimation and Forecasting', October 3, 2002, Sapporo, Japan

Nesting Ocean Model for Parallel Vector Processors, 2001 Terrain-Following Coordinates Ocean Models Users' Workshop, August 20-22, 2001, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Prediction of the Kuroshio path variability by assimilating surface data into POM: practical approach and further development, International Workshop on GODAE with Focus on the Pacific, July 23-25, 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Eddy resolving Kuroshio simulation: eddy behavior in the Kuroshio region, the 11th PAMS/JECSS Workshop, April 11-13, 2001, Cheju, Korea.

Kuroshio damping phenomenon caused by a strong wind simulated using a two-way nesting POM, International Conference, Coastal and Ocean Modelling, November, 1998, Valletta, Malta.

Documents:

Miyazawa, Y., Varlamov, S. M., and M. Yaremchuk, 2022: High-performance Computing of Ocean Models for Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment: Ensemble generation for data assimilation and estimation of prediction uncertainty using JCOPE-T Annual Report of the Earth Simulator April 2021 - March 2022 PDF(0.5MB)

Varlamov, S. M., and Y. Miyazawa, 2021: High-performance Computing of Ocean Models for Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment: A Parallelized Sigma-coordinate Ocean Circulation Model JCOPE-T Annual Report of the Earth Simulator 2020 PDF(1.3MB)

Oey, L.-Y., T. Ezer, J. Sheng, F. Chai, J. Gan, K. Lamb, and Y. Miyazawa, 2016: Editorial - The 6th International workshop on modeling the ocean (IWMO 2014), Ocean Dynamics, 10.1007/s10236-016-1028-xhtml

Berntsen, J., L.-Y. Oey, T. Ezer, R. Greatbatch, H. Xue, and Y. Miyazawa, 2014: Editorial - The 5th International workshop on modeling the ocean (IWMO 2013), Ocean Dynamics, 10.1007/s10236-014-0764-z html

Oey, L.-Y., Y. Miyazawa, H. Aiki, Y. Masumoto, T. Ezer, and T. Waseda, 2013: Editorial - The 4th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO 2012), Ocean Dynamics, 10.1007/s10236-013-0658-5 html

Miyazawa, Y., Y. Masumoto, S. M. Varlamov, T. Miyama, M. Takigawa, M. Honda, and T. Saino, 2012: Inverse estimation of source parameters of oceanic radioactivity dispersion models associated with the Fukushima accident, Biogeosciences Discuss., 9, 13783-13816. html

Kartadikaria A. R., K. Nadaoka, and Y. Miyazawa 2011: A numerical study on larval dispersal around the Southeast Asia and West Pacific (SEA-WP) regions using an Indo-Pacific ocean circulation model , Proc. of International Session in Conference on Coastal Engineering, JSCE, 2, PDF(0.4MB)

Miyazawa, Y., T. Miyama, S. M. Varlamov, X. Guo, and, T. Waseda, 2011: Development of an ocean current forecast system suitable for the assimilation of ship observation data, Conference Proceedings, the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers, 11, 67-70, 2011S-OS3-3.PDF(0.5MB)

Oey, L.-Y., T. Ezer, Y. Miyazawa, and C.-R. Wu, 2010b: Editorial - International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO) special issue (Part II) in Ocean Dynamics , Ocean Dynamics, 10.1007/s10236-010-0338-7. html

Oey, L.-Y., T. Ezer, Y. Miyazawa, and C.-R. Wu, 2010a: Editorial - International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO) special issue (Part I) in Ocean Dynamics , Ocean Dynamics, 10.1007/s10236-010-0281-7. html

Miyazawa, Y., 2004: Kuroshio path variations due to meso-scale eddies and their predictability , Doctor Thesis in University of Tokyo, pp.110. PDF(6.7MB)

Miyazawa, Y., and S. Minato, 2000: Development of a two-way nesting code for the Princeton Ocean Model, JAMSTEC R, 40, 11-22. PDF(0.97MB)

Press Release:

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge as the spawning area of Atlantic eels - Sea area X identified through Japanese eel characteristics and larval migration simulations

Le Monde 2020/10/06

Ocean Acidification in the Coastal Regions of Japan Revealed using Open Access pH Data

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Professional Activities:

Topic Editor for Advances in Ocean Data AssimilationF Methodologies, Forecasting and Reanalysis Frontiers in Marine Science, 1 August 2022 - 31 December 2022.

Editor for Ocean Dynamics Spinger, 1 August 2021 -.

Academic Committe member for 2021 Academia Sinica Institutional Review, July-August 2021.

Co-Chair, International Scientific committe for International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO) 2018 - 2022.

Associate editor for Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 1 January 2015 - 31 July 2021.

Co-editor for Topical Collection 6th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO2014) of Ocean Dynamics

Co-editor for Topical Collection 5th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO2013) of Ocean Dynamics

Co-editor for Topical Collection 4th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO2012) of Ocean Dynamics

Local Steering Committee for 4th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO2012) , Yokohama, Japan, 21-24 May 2012.

A lecturer of Training course on ocean models, UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate , Qingdao, China, 10-16 Jun. 2011. html

Committe of Ph.D. defense for Dr. Yu-Lin Chang, Natinal Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 Jun. 2011.

Co-editor for special issues of Ocean Dynamics: Part I html, Part II html, First International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, Taipei, Feb. 2009.

Associate Professor (Cooperative graduate school program), Department of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oct. 2007 - Mar. 2009.

Reviewer for AOSL letters, Atmosphere-Ocean, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, Deep Sea Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Science & Technology, Frontiers in Marine Science, Hydrological Research Letters, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceeanic Technology, Journal of Climate, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Journal of Oceanography, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, Ocean Dynamics, Ocean Modelling, Ocean Science Journal, Remote Sensing, and Scientific Reports.

Reviewer for research funding proposals: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Dynamics of Complex Systems

Award:

CCCC Program Best Poster Presentation Award in the 17th PICES HTML 2008.11.02

Education:

2005 The Univeristy of Tokyo, Dr. Sci., Phyisical Oceanography

1992 Kyoto University, M. Tech., Applid Mathmatics and engineering

1990 Kyoto University, B. Tech., Applid Mathmatics and engineering

Contact Address:

Miyazawa, Yasumasa
Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
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