Toshio
Yamagata has been honored as one of the Leading
Japanese Scientists in Emerging Research Fronts by Thomson
Dr. Yamagata was honored as one of the 16 leading
Japanese Scientists in Emerging Research Fronts by Thompson,
the U.S.
based provider of integrated information solutions. This honor
is due to "The discovery and elucidation of the ocean-atmosphere
coupled mode in the Indian Ocean."
Using its own method, Thomson identified the most highly-cited
papers and determined Japanese authors who were making
important contributions to their specific areas of research.
At the award ceremony
Last year, Dr. Yamagata
received the Sverdrup Gold Medal from the American Meteorological
Society (AMS) "for his outstanding accomplishments
in the study of ocean and climate dynamics, especially
with respect to El Nino and air-sea interaction over
the Indian Ocean." Yamagata was also elected as
a new fellow of the AMS for his outstanding contributions
to the atmospheric and related oceanic sciences.
Kengo
Sudo received the Yamamoto-Syono Award for Outstanding
Papers in 2004 from the Meteorological Society of Japan
Dr. Sudo of the Atmospheric
Composition Research Program received 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 following
two titles are the winning papers;
"CHASER: A global chemical model of the troposphere
1. Model description"
"CHASER: A global chemical model of the troposphere
2. Model results and evaluation"
Dr. Sudo describes and evaluates in detail the chemistry
coupled climate model CHASER,
which he newly developed during his doctoral studies
in Center for Climate System Research
(CCSR), University of Tokyo, in order to assess future
changes in global climate and atmospheric environment.
The CHASER model, developed in the framework of the
CCSR/NIES/FRCGC climate model, is aimed to investigate
global tropospheric ozone
distribution and related chemistry, and their impacts
on climate. The CHASER model is also expected to play
an important role in the development of FRCGC integrated
Earth system model with the Earth Simulator, which is
part of the MEXT project.
Sudo Receiving the Award at the
fall meeting of the Meteorological
Society's meeting
Ken
Motoya received the "incentive prize" for a research
paper
from the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
Dr. Motoya of the Hydrological
Cycle Research Program has received the "incentive
prize" for a
research paper from the Japan Society of Hydrology and
Water Resources. This prize is awarded
annually to two or three recently published papers authored
by young scientists up to 35 years of age.
The winning paper, which appeared in the Journal of
the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water
Resources, was titled "Spectral characteristic-based
vegetation and snow indices on various surfaces
in the Airborne Multi-Spectral Scanner (AMSS) two-altitude
observation in 2001."
In this paper, Dr. Motoya applied new snow and vegetation
indices (after Saito and Yamazaki, 1999) for snow-covered
forests using airplane observation data, and confirmed
their validity via remote sensing. The study was highly
valued because the validity of the new snow/vegetation
indices was demonstrated by airplane observations of
the spectral reflectance of the land surface, and it
represents an interface between remote sensing of land
surface conditions and ground-based observation.
Motoya received award at
the meeting of the Japan
Society of Hydrological
and Water Resources
