P08

Dr. Yamagata, Program Director, got an award for the contribution to development of climate dynamics and geophysical fluid dynamics through his achievements including the discovery of the "Dipole Mode Phenomenon," which is a coupled atmosphere and ocean phenomenon specific to the tropical Indian Ocean region. Dr. Ninomiya, Senior Scientist, received an award for the his research activities over 40 years on multiscale features of atmospheric disturbances over Japan and the East Asia Monsoon region, and enlightenment learners on meteorology through writing a number of basic textbooks.
Dr. Aiki, researcher, elucidated the formation mechanism of Mediterranean water eddies (Meddies)

based on a series of numerical simulations, and confirmed the existence of cyclonic eddies coupled with anticyclonic Meddies underneath. Dr. Itoh, researcher, received an award for his thesis on the estimation and verification of the net primary production, which is an indicator of the capacity of carbon fixation by vegetation in Japan and the East Asia, with an unprecedented high resolution using the Simulation model of Carbon cYCle in Land Ecosystem (Sim-CYCLE). The Award of the Society of Agricultural Meteorology of Japan was newly founded this year, and Dr. Itoh became the first recipient.

List of Award for the Fiscal Year 2005 - from April to September
Dr. Toshio Yamagata Program Director, Climate Variations Research Program	Apl. 29, 2005	Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Emperor of Japan "Contribution to climate dynamics and geophysical fluid dynamics"
Dr. Kozo Ninomiya Senior Scientist, Global Warming Research Program	May 17, 2005	Fujiwara Award of Meteorological Society of Japan "Study of multi-scale features of atmospheric disturbances and contribution to educational spread of basic meteorology"
Dr. Hidenori Aiki Post Doctral Researcher, Climate Variations Research Program	Sep. 6, 2005	Dragon-gate medal of Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics "A numerical study on the successive formation of Meddy-like lenses"
Dr. Akihiko Ito Researcher, Ecosystem Change Research Program	Sep. 14, 2005	Outstanding Paper Award of Society of Agricultural Meteorology of Japan "High-Resolution Mapping of the Net Primary Productivity of Terrestrial Ecosystems in East Asia Using a Process-based Model"