The Earth Simulator Center

Updated: April 28, 2011

Wataru OHFUCHI

Senior Scientist of JAMSTEC

• Leader
  Geophysical Fluid Simulation Research Group
  Simulation Application Research and Development Program
  Earth Simulator Center
• Member
  Space and Earth System Modeling Lab. Unit
  Laboratory for Earth Systems Science

Research Interests

• High-resolution atmospheric general circulation simulation
• Predictability of weather and climate variability
• Structure of atmospheric and oceanic general circulation

Education

• 1994: Ph.D., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, U.S.A.
• 1991: M.A., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, U.S.A.
• 1989: M.S., Hydrospheric and Atmospheric Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
• 1987: B.S., Geophysics, University of Tokyo, Japan

Positions Held

• 04/2007–present: Senior Scientist, Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC, Japan
• 04/2004–present: Group Leader, Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC, Japan
• 04/2002–03/2004: Research Scientist, Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC, Japan
• 02/1999–03/2002: Research Scientist, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan
• 08/1996–01/1999: Visiting Scholar from UCAR, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, U.S.A.
• 08/1994–08/1996: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.

Awards

• 2002: Gordon Bell Award for Peak Performance (Shingu et al., 2002)

Professional Societies

• Meteorological Society of Japan New!
• Japan Geoscience Union New!
• American Geophysical Union

Publications

• Kuwano-Yoshida, A., T. Enomoto, and W. Ohfuchi, 2010: An improved PDF cloud scheme for climate simulations. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 136 (651), 1583–1597.
• Sampe, T., H. Nakamura, A. Goto, and W. Ohfuchi, 2010: Significance of a midlatitude SST frontal zone in the formation of a storm track and an eddy-driven westerly jet. J. Climate, 23 (7), 1793–1814.
• Enomoto, T., H. Endo, Y. Harada, and W. Ohfuchi, 2009: Relationship between high-impact weather events in Japan and propagation of Rossby waves along the Asian jet in July 2004. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 87 (1), 139–156.
• Hamilton, K., Y. O. Takahashi, and W. Ohfuchi, 2008: The mesoscale spectrum of atmospheric motions investigated in a very fine resolution global general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D18110, doi:10.1029/2008JD009785.
• Hamilton, K., S. C. Ryan, and W. Ohfuchi, 2008: Topographic effects on the solar semidiurnal surface tide simulated in a very fine resolution general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D17114, doi:10.1029/2008JD010115.
• Nakamura, H., T. Sampe, A. Goto, W. Ohfuchi, and S.-P. Xie, 2008: On the importance of midlatitude oceanic frontal zones for the mean state and dominant variability in the tropospheric circulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L15709, doi:10.1029/2008GL034010.
• 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.
• Ohfuchi, W., H. Sasaki, Y. Masumoto, and H. Nakamura, 2007: “Virtual” atmospheric and oceanic circulation in the Earth Simulator. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88 (6), 861–866.
• Enomoto, T., W. Ohfuchi, H. Nakamura, and M. A. Shapiro, 2007: Remote effects of tropical storm Cristobal upon a cut-off cyclone over Europe in August 2002. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 96 (1–2), 29–42.
• Desgagné, M., R. McTaggart-Cowan, W. Ohfuchi, G. Brunet, P. Yau, J. Gyakum, Y. Furukawa, and M. Valin, 2006: Large atmospheric computation on the earth simulator: The LACES project. Scientific Programming, 14 (1), 13–25.
• Takahashi, Y. O., K. Hamilton, and W. Ohfuchi, 2006: Explicit global simulation of the mesoscale spectrum of atmospheric motions. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12812, doi:10.1029/2006GL026429.
• Yamada, Y., T. Sampe, Y. O. Takahashi, M. K. Yoshioka, W. Ohfuchi, M. Ishiwatari, K. Nakajima, and Y.-Y. Hayashi, 2005: A resolution dependence of equatorial precipitation activities represented in a general circulation model. Theor. Appl. Mech. Japan, 54, 289–297.
• Yoshioka, M. K., Y. Kurihara, and W. Ohfuchi, 2005: Effect of the thermal tidal oscillation of the atmosphere on tropical cyclones. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L16802, doi:10.1029/2005GL022716.
• Peng, X., F. Xiao, W. Ohfuchi, and H. Fuchigami, 2005: Conservative semi-Lagrangian transport on a sphere and the impact on vapor advection in an atmospheric general circulation model. Mon. Wea. Rev. 133 (3), 504–520.
• Ohfuchi, W., H. Nakamura, M. K. Yoshioka, T. Enomoto, K. Takaya, X. Peng, S. Yamane, T. Nishimura, Y. Kurihara, and K. Ninomiya, 2004: 10-km mesh meso-scale resolving simulations of the global atmosphere on the Earth Simulator: Preliminary outcomes of AFES (AGCM for the Earth Simulator). J. Earth Simulator, 1, 8–34.
• Ninomiya, K., T. Nishimura, T. Suzuki, S. Matsumura and W. Ohfuchi, 2003: Polar low genesis over the east coast of the Asian Continent simulated in an AGCM. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 81 (4), 697–712.
• Shingu, S., H. Takahara, H. Fuchigami, M. Yamada, Y. Tsuda, W. Ohfuchi, Y. Sasaki, K. Kobayashi, T. Hagiwara, S. Habata, M. Yokokawa, H. Itoh, and K. Otsuka, 2002: A 26.58 Tflops global atmospheric simulation with the spectral transform method on the Earth Simulator. Proc. IEEE/ACM SC2002 Conference, 52.
• Ninomiya, K., T. Nishimura, W. Ohfuchi, T. Suzuki, and S. Matsumura, 2002: Features of the Baiu front simulated in an AGCM (T42L52). J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 80 (4), 697–716.