The Earth Simulator Center

Updated: May 21, 2012

Bunmei TAGUCHI

Scientist of JAMSTEC

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

Research Interests

• Climate dynamics
• Dynamics of oceanic fronts and their effects on climate variability
• Extra-tropical air–sea interaction
• Coupled atmosphere–ocean simulation

Education

• 2006: Ph.D. (Meteorology), University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.A.
  Dissertation: A modeling study of the Kuroshio Extension: Decadal variability and influence on the atmosphere
• 1993: M.S. (Geophysiscs), Tohoku University, Japan
• 1991: B.S. (Applied Physics), Waseda University, Japan

Positions Held

• 03/2006–present: Research Scientist, Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC, Japan
• 08/2000–03/2006: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, U.S.A.

Professional Societies

• Oceanographic Society of Japan
• Meteorological Society of Japan
• American Geophysical Union
• North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
  • 06/2011–present: Working Group on North Pacific Climate Variability and Change

Projects

• 2007–2012: Study for the Prediction and Control of the Population Outbreak of the Marine Life in Relation to Environmental Change (POMAL)

Publications

• 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!
• 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!
• 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.
• Richter, I., S. K. Behera, Y. Masumoto, B. Taguchi, N. Komori, and T. Yamagata, 2010: On the triggering of Benguela Niños: Remote equatorial versus local influences. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L20604, doi:10.1029/2010GL044461.
• Hasegawa, T., K. Ando, K. Mizuno, R. Lukas, B. Taguchi, and H. Sasaki, 2010: Coastal upwelling along the north coast of Papua New Guinea and El Niño events during 1981–2005. Ocean Dyn., 60 (5), 1255–1269.
• Sasaki, H., S.-P. Xie, B. Taguchi, M. Nonaka, and Y. Masumoto, 2010: Seasonal variations of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent induced by the meridional migration of the trade winds. Ocean Dyn., 60 (3), 705–715.
• Taguchi, B., B. Qiu, M. Nonaka, H. Sasaki, S.-P. Xie, and N. Schneider, 2010: Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension: mesoscale eddies and recirculations. Ocean Dyn., 60 (3), 673–691.
• Zhuang, W., S.-P. Xie, D. Wang, B. Taguchi, H. Aiki, and H. Sasaki, 2010: Intraseasonal variability in sea surface height over the South China Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 115, C04010, doi:10.1029/2009JC005647.
• Taguchi, B., H. Nakamura, M. Nonaka, and S.-P. Xie, 2009: Influences of the Kuroshio/Oyashio Extensions on air–sea heat exchanges and storm-track activity as revealed in regional atmospheric model simulations for the 2003/4 cold season. J. Climate, 22 (24), 6536–6560.
• Nonaka, M., H. Nakamura, B. Taguchi, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, and K. Takaya, 2009: Air–sea heat exchanges characteristic of a prominent midlatitude oceanic front in the South Indian Ocean as simulated in a high-resolution coupled GCM. J. Climate, 22 (24) 6515–6535.
• Ceballos, L. I., E. Di Lorenzo, C. D. Hoyos, N. Schneider, and B. Taguchi, 2009: North Pacific Gyre Oscillation synchronizes climate fluctuations in the eastern and western boundary systems. J. Climate, 22 (19), 5163–5174.
• Komori, N., W. Ohfuchi, B. Taguchi, H. Sasaki, and P. Klein, 2008: Deep ocean inertia-gravity waves simulated in a high-resolution global coupled atmosphere–ocean GCM. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L04610, doi:10.1029/2007GL032807.
• Taguchi, B., S.-P. Xie, N. Schneider, M. Nonaka, H. Sasaki, and Y. Sasai, 2007: Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension: Observations and an eddy-resolving model hindcast. J. Climate, 20 (11), 2357–2377.
• Mitsudera, H., B. Taguchi, T. Waseda, and Y. Yoshikawa, 2006: Blocking of the Kuroshio large meander by baroclinic interaction with the Izu Ridge. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36 (11), 2042–2059.
• Tokinaga, H., Y. Tanimoto, M. Nonaka, B. Taguchi, T. Fukamachi, S.-P. Xie, H. Nakamura, T. Watanabe, and I. Yasuda, 2006: Atmospheric sounding over the winter Kuroshio Extension: Effect of surface stability on atmospheric boundary layer structure. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L04703, doi:10.1029/2005GL025102.
• Taguchi, B., S.-P. Xie, H. Mitsudera, and A. Kubokawa, 2005: Response of the Kuroshio Extension to Rossby waves associated with the 1970s climate regime shift in a high-resolution ocean model. J. Climate, 18 (15), 2979–2995.
• Waseda, T., H. Mitsudera, B. Taguchi, and K. Kutsuwada, 2005: Significance of high-frequency wind forcing in modelling the Kuroshio. J. Oceanogr., 61 (3), 539–548.
• Mitsudera, H., B. Taguchi, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Nakamura, T. Waseda, and T. Qu, 2004: Numerical study on the Oyashio water pathways in the Kuroshio–Oyashio confluence. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34 (5), 1174–1196.
• Waseda, T., H. Mitsudera, B. Taguchi, and Y. Yoshikawa, 2003: On the eddy-Kuroshio interaction: Meander formation process. J. Geophys. Res., 108 (C7), 3220, doi:10.1029/2002JC001583.
• Waseda, T., H. Mitsudera, B. Taguchi, and Y. Yoshikawa, 2002: On the eddy-Kuroshio interaction: Evolution of the mesoscale eddy. J. Geophys. Res., 107 (C8), 3088, doi:10.1029/2000JC000756.
• Mitsudera, H., T. Waseda, Y. Yoshikawa, B. Taguchi, 2001: Anticyclonic eddies and Kuroshio meander formation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (10), 2025–2028, doi:10.1029/2000GL012668.