Biography of Dr. Tatsushi Tokioka

Expertise
Climate modeling and atmospheric general circulation
Previous Post
President of the Meteorological College
Awards
May 1988:
Society Award, Meteorological Society of Japan (for development of an atmospheric general circulation model and related research)
May 1991:
Okada Award (for his commitment to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), etc.)
June 1993:
Recognition from the Minister of Transport (for distinctive work in developing an atmospheric general circulation model)
June 2001:
Recognition from the Minister of Transport (for 30 years of continuous service).

Professional Memberships

Meteorological Society of Japan, and American Meteorological Society

Main Publications
- Tokioka,T., A. Kitoh, I.Yagai and K.Yamazaki, 1985: A simulation of the tropospheric circulation with the MRI general circulation model. Part 1: The January performance. J.Meteorol.Soc.Japan, 63, 749-778.
- Tokioka,T. and A.Noda, 1986: Effects of large-scale orography on January atmospheric circulation: a numerical experiment. J.Meteorol.Soc.Japan, 64, 819-940.
- Tokioka,T. and I.Yagai, 1987: Atmospheric tides appearing in a global atmospheric general circulation model. J.Meteorol.Soc.Japan, 65, 423-438.
- Kitoh,A., K.Yamazaki and T.Tokioka, 1988: Influence of soil moisture and surface albedo changes over the African tropical rain forest on summer climate investigated with the MRIGCM-1. J.Meteorol.Soc.Japan, 66, 65-86.
- Tokioka,T, K.Yamazaki, A.Kitoh and T.Ose, 1988: The equatorial 30-60 day oscillation and the Arakawa-Schubert penetrative cumulus parameterization. J.Meteorol.Soc.Japan, 66, 883-901.
- Noda,A. and T.Tokioka, 1989: The effect of doubling the CO2 concentration on convective and non-convective precipitation in a general circulation model coupled with a simple mixed layer ocean model. J.Meteorol.Soc.Japan, 67, 1057-1069.
- Nagai, T., T.Tokioka, M.Endoh and Y.Kitamura, 1992: El Nino-Southern Oscillation simulated in an MRI atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model. J.Climate, 5, 1202-1233.
- Tokioka, T., A.Noda, A.Kitoh, Y.Nikaidou, S.Nakagawa, T.Motoi and S.Yukimoto, 1995: A transient CO2 experiment with the MRI CGCM -Quick Report-. J.Meteorol.Soc.Japan, 73, 817-826.
- Tokioka, T., 2000: Climate services at the Japan Meteorological Agency using a general circulation model: Dynamical one-month prediction. Chapter 12 of "Past,Present and Future of a General Circulation Model",Academic Press.


Main Books
- Lecture on Atmospheric Science 4 "General Circulation of the Atmosphere", 1982, University of Tokyo Publishing Society, co-author (Published in Japanese)
- Global Environment Simulation 1991, Hakua Shobo, co-author (Published in Japanese)
- Study of Climate 5 "Numerical Simulation of Climate", 1993, University of Tokyo Publishing Society, co-author (Published in Japanese)
- Science of Planet Earth 3 (Theory of the Global Environment) 1996, Iwanami Books, co-author (Published in Japanese)
- Environmental Study for Citizens, Vol 2 of 2 volumes, Chuouhouki (Published in Japanese)
- Encyclopedia of Meteorological Science, 1999, Tokyo Shobo, Editorial Committee, contributed some parts (Published in Japanese)

 

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