The Earth Simulator Center

Updated: May 21, 2012

Geophysical Fluid Simulation Research Group (GFSG)

The Geophysical Fluid Simulation Research Group conducts high-resolution and large-scale simulations of the ocean and atmosphere to understand the oceanic roles in global climate and its variability. [Read More...]

• After One Hundred Years from V. Bjerknes: The Virtual Atmosphere and Ocean in the Earth Simulator

News

• 4th OFES International Workshop and 2nd ESC–IPRC Joint Workshop on Computationally-Intensive Modeling of the Climate System was held on December 1–2, 2011.

Press Releases

• Reduced Arctic sea ice hinders accurate climate monitoring—Impact of depleted Arctic drifting buoy network— (April 2, 2009)
• Gulf Stream's influence to the troposphere has been revealed (March 13, 2008)
• Successful simulation of the pathways of Antarctic Bottom Water using the Earth Simulator (July 27, 2004)

Recently Published Articles

• Nonaka, M., H. Sasaki, B. Taguchi, and H. Nakamura, 2012: Potential predictability of interannual variability in the Kuroshio Extension jet speed in an eddy-resolving OGCM. J. Climate, 25 (10), 3645–3652. New!
• Danioux, E., J. Vanneste, P. Klein, and H. Sasaki, 2012: Spontaneous inertia-gravity-wave generation by surface-intensified turbulence. J. Fluid Mech., 699, 153–173. New!
• Taguchi, B., R. Furue, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, M. Nonaka, H. Sasaki, and W. Ohfuchi, 2012: Deep oceanic zonal jets constrained by fine-scale wind stress curls in the South Pacific Ocean: A high-resolution coupled GCM study. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L08602, doi:10.1029/2012GL051248. New!
• Sasai, Y., K. J. Richards, A. Ishida, and H. Sasaki, 2012: Spatial and temporal variability of the chlorophyll distribution in the Northeastern Tropical Pacific: The impact of physical processes on seasonal and interannual time scales. J. Mar. Syst., 96–97, 24–31. New!
• Ogawa, F., H. Nakamura, K. Nishii, T. Miyasaka, and A. Kuwano-Yoshida, 2012: Dependence of the climatological axial latitudes of the tropospheric westerlies and storm tracks on the latitude of an extratropical oceanic front. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L05804, doi:10.1029/2011GL049922.
• Nonaka, M., S.-P. Xie, and H. Sasaki, 2012: Interannual variations in low potential vorticity water and the subtropical countercurrent in an eddy-resolving OGCM. J. Oceanogr., 68 (1), 139–150.
• Sasaki, H., S.-P. Xie, B. Taguchi, M. Nonaka, S. Hosoda, and Y. Masumoto, 2012: Interannual variations of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent induced by low potential vorticity water ventilation in the subsurface. J. Oceanogr., 68 (1), 93–111.
• Taguchi, B., H. Nakamura, M. Nonaka, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, K. Takaya, and A. Goto, 2012: Seasonal evolutions of atmospheric response to decadal SST anomalies in the North Pacific subarctic frontal zone: Observations and a coupled model simulation. J. Climate, 25 (1), 111–139.
• Zenimoto, K., Y. Sasai, H. Sasaki, and S. Kimura, 2011: Estimation of larval duration in Anguilla spp., based on cohort analysis, otolith microstructure, and Lagrangian simulations. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 438, 219–228.
• Klein, P., G. Lapeyre, G. Roullet, S. Le Gentil, and H. Sasaki, 2011: Ocean turbulence at meso and submesoscales: connection between surface and interior dynamics. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 105 (4–5), 421–437.

Meetings

• 4th OFES International Workshop and 2nd ESC–IPRC Joint Workshop on Computationally-Intensive Modeling of the Climate System (December 1–2, 2011)
• 3rd OFES International Workshop (November 4–5, 2010)
• 2nd OFES International Workshop and ESC–IPRC Joint Workshop on Computationally-Intensive Modeling of the Climate System (December 9–10, 2009)
• OFES International Workshop (August 25–26, 2008)
• JSPS International Meeting Series: Workshop on High Resolution Atmospheric Simulations and Cooperative Output Data Analysis (September 21–22, 2005)

Earth Simulator Collaboration Projects

• Understanding roles of oceanic fine structures in climate and its variability (FY2009–)
  • FY2010: Annual Report [pdf]
  • FY2009: Annual Report [pdf]
• Understanding and forecasting high-impact phenomena in the atmosphere and ocean (FY2005–2008)
  • FY2008: Annual Report [pdf]
  • FY2007: Annual Report [pdf]
  • FY2006: Annual Report [pdf]
  • FY2005: Annual Report [pdf]
• Mechanism and predictability of atmospheric and oceanic variations induced by interactions between large-scale field and meso-scale phenomena (FY2003–2004)
  • FY2004: Annual Report [pdf]
  • FY2003: Annual Report [pdf]

International Collaborative Project

• The LACES Project: Large Atmospheric Computation on the Earth Simulator
  • Recherche en Prévision Numérique, Meteorological Service of Canada

Contact Address

Geophysical Fluid Simulation Research Group
Simulation Application Research and Development Program
Earth Simulator Center

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