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| Toshio Yamagata, Director of the Climate
Variations Research Program Receives the Sverdrup Gold Medal from
the American Meteorological Society |
Toshio Yamagata, Director of the Climate Variations
Research Program has been honored by the American Meteorological Society
(AMS) "for his outstanding accomplishments in the study of ocean
and climate dynamics, especially with respect to El Niño and
air-sea interaction over the Indian Ocean." Yamagata will receive
the AMS's 2004 Sverdrup Gold Medal at the Annual Awards Banquet to
be held as a major event of the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society
on Wednesday evening, January 14, 2004 in Seattle, Washington. This
medal named for H. U. Sverdrup, a pioneer in the field of oceanography,
is one of the AMS's highest honors, which is given to researchers
who made outstanding contributions to the scientific knowledge of
interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere. Yamagata's research
has focused on large-scale dynamical processes of the oceans and the
atmosphere using both simple and sophisticated models. He has received
numerous awards and recognitions including the Burr Steinbach Visiting
Scholar of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Society Award
of the Meteorological Society of Japan and the Society Award of the
Oceanographic Society of Japan. Dr. Yamagata was also elected as a
new fellow of the AMS for his outstanding contributions to the atmospheric
and related oceanic sciences. |
| Takeshi Enomoto of the Integrated Modeling Research Program received the Yamamoto-Syono Award for Outstanding Papers from the Meteorological Society of Japan |
 Takeshi
Enomoto of the Integrated Modeling Research Programreceived the Yamamoto-Syono
Award for Outstanding Papers from the Meteorological Society of Japan.
It is awarded every year to one or two recently published papers by
young scientists below thirty-five years old. The title of the winning
paper is "The formation mechanism on the Bonin high in August"
appeared in the January 2003 issue of Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological
Society.
Enomoto wrote the manuscript at FRSGC based on his doctoral dissertation.
He attempted to explain the formation mechanism of the ridge that
covers Japan in the late summer. In August, stationary Rossby waves
propagate along the Asian jet from Middle to Far East. Enomoto named
after this wavetrain "the Silk Road pattern" and hypothesized
that accumulation of wave energy may create the ridge over Japan.
His numerical experiments clearly showed that radiative cooling over
the east Mediterranean and Aral seas that act as wave forcing is responsible
for the ridge near Japan rather than the heating in the Western Pacific
that has traditionally been suspected to influence the late summer
climate near Japan.
"This paper alone does not provide the whole picture of such
a complex system as the Asian summer monsoon. With global high-resolution
simulations on the Earth Simulator as a powerful tool, I would like
to explore the Monsoon system in depth." says Enomoto. |
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