Toshio Yamagata, Director of the Climate Variations Research Program has been honored as one of the 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".

Dr. Yamagata, after graduating from the Geophysics Department of the University of Tokyo in 1971, received his Doctor of Science in 1977 from the same university. His research has focused on large-scale dynamical processes of the oceans and the atmosphere using both simple and sophisticated models. He has served since 1995 as Professor at Department of Earth and Planetary Science of the University of Tokyo. He is affiliated with the Frontier Research Center for Global Change as charter program director of Climate Variations Research Program. Last year, he has received the Sverdrup Gold Medal from the American Meteorological Society "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.

Thomson will be sponsoring a celebratory event in Tokyo on November 2, 2004.

Thomson scientific solution, a Research Front is a set of seminal papers in a specialized or highly focused area of research. A total of 16 Japanese scientists, representing 13 research fields, were identified.

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