The Earth Simulator Center

Updated: July 2, 2012

Nobumasa KOMORI

Senior Scientist of JAMSTEC

• Leader
  Observing System Research and Ensemble Data Assimilation Development Research Team
  Simulation Application Research and Development Program
  Earth Simulator Center
• Member
  Geophysical Fluid Simulation Research Group
  Simulation Application Research and Development Program
  Earth Simulator Center
• Member
  Data Synthesis Group
  Data Management and Engineering Department
  Data Research Center for Marine-Earth Sciences

Research Interests

• Coupled atmosphere–ocean simulation
• Mesoscale dynamics of the Kuroshio
• Data assimilation

Education

• 2002: Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
• 1999: M.S., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
• 1997: B.S., Geophysics, Kyoto University, Japan

Positions Held

• 06/2011–present: Team Leader, Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC, Japan
• 04/2011–present: Senior Scientist, Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC, Japan
• 04/2002–03/2011: Research Scientist, Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC, Japan
• 04/1999–03/2002: Research Fellow (DC), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan

Professional Societies

• Oceanographic Society of Japan
• Meteorological Society of Japan
• American Geophysical Union

Publications

• 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.
• Danioux, E., P. Klein, M. W. Hecht, N. Komori, G. Roullet, and S. Le Gentil, 2011: Emergence of wind-driven near-inertial waves in the deep ocean triggered by small-scale eddy vorticity structures. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 41 (7), 1297–1307.
• 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.
• 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.
• Minobe, S., A. Kuwano-Yoshida, N. Komori, S.-P. Xie, and R. J. Small, 2008: Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere. Nature, 452 (7184), 206–209.
• 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.
• Komori, N., A. Kuwano-Yoshida, T. Enomoto, H. Sasaki, and W. Ohfuchi, 2008: High-resolution simulation of global coupled atmosphere–ocean system: Description and preliminary outcomes of CFES (CGCM for the Earth Simulator). In High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean, K. Hamilton and W. Ohfuchi (eds.), chapter 14, pp. 241–260, Springer, New York.
• Enomoto, T., A. Kuwano-Yoshida, N. Komori, and W. Ohfuchi, 2008: Description of AFES 2: Improvements for high-resolution and coupled simulations. In High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean, K. Hamilton and W. Ohfuchi (eds.), chapter 5, pp. 77–97, Springer, New York.
• Komori, N., K. Takahashi, K. Komine, T. Motoi, X. Zhang, and G. Sagawa, 2005: Description of sea-ice component of Coupled Ocean–Sea-Ice Model for the Earth Simulator (OIFES). J. Earth Simulator, 4, 31–45.
• Masumoto, Y., H. Sasaki, T. Kagimoto, N. Komori, A. Ishida, Y. Sasai, T. Miyama, T. Motoi, H. Mitsudera, K. Takahashi, H. Sakuma, and T. Yamagata, 2004: A fifty-year eddy-resolving simulation of the world ocean: Preliminary outcomes of OFES (OGCM for the Earth Simulator). J. Earth Simulator, 1, 35–56.
• Ishikawa, Y., T. Awaji, N. Komori, and T. Toyoda, 2004: Application of sensitivity analysis using an adjoint model for short-range forecasts of the Kuroshio path south of Japan. J. Oceanogr., 60 (2), 293–301.
• Masuda, S., T. Awaji, N. Sugiura, Y. Ishikawa, K. Baba, K. Horiuchi, and N. Komori, 2003: Improved estimates of the dynamical state of the North Pacific Ocean from a 4 dimensional variational data assimilation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (16), 1868, doi:10.1029/2003GL017604.
• Komori, N., T. Awaji, Y. Ishikawa, and T. Kuragano, 2003: Short-range forecast experiments of the Kuroshio path variabilities south of Japan using TOPEX/Poseidon altimetric data. J. Geophys. Res., 108 (C1), 3010, doi:10.1029/2001JC001282.
• Ishikawa, Y., T. Awaji, and N. Komori, 2001: Dynamical initialization for the numerical forecasting of ocean surface circulations using a variational assimilation system. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31 (1), 75–93.