< Institute of Observational Research for Global Change >

Climate Variations Observational Research Program
Kanako Sato and Toshio Suga,
"Structure and Modification of the South Pacific Eastern Subtropical Mode Water"

Ken Ando and Yukio Masumoto
"Preliminary Results from the Intensive Ocean Observation during MISMO"

Hydrological Cycle Observational Research Program
Kimpei Ichiyanagi, Kei Yoshimura, and Manabu D. Yamanaka
"Isotopic Composition of Rainfall in Sumatra Island Related to the MJO"

Global Warming Observational Research Program
Katsunori Kimoto
"The "unusual" reproduction of planktic foraminifera: an asexual reproductive phase of neogloboquadrina pachyderma (ehrenberg) "

Ocean General Circulation Observational Research Program
Yuichiro Kumamoto
"13C-Suess effect and anthropogenic CO2 in the subtropical South Pacific between 1992 and 2003"

Ocean, Land and Atmosphere Interactions Integrated Research Project
Mikiko Fujita, F. Kimura, P. Wu, and M. Yoshizaki
"Early morning rainfall over the Strait of Malacca"

< Frontier Research Center for Global Change >

Climate Variations Research Program
Honda Meiji, Masami Nonaka
"Numerical experiments of mid- and high- latitude ocean and atmospheric variations and their predictability"

Hydrological Cycle Research Program
Hironobu Iwabuchi
"Development of the three-dimensional radiative transfer model"

Atmospheric Composition Research Program
Masayuki Takigawa
"Development of the urban-scale chemical weather forecasting system"

Ecosystem Change Research Program
Chisato Yoshikawa 1,2, Yasuhiro Yamanaka 1,2 and Takeshi Nakatsuka 3
1 Frontier Research Center for Global Change
2 Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
3 Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
"Nitrogen cycle in the Western and Central Equatorial Pacific as evidenced by stable nitrogen isotope ratios"

S. Lan Smith and Yasuhiro Yamanaka
"New Model for Uptake Kinetics of Multiple Nutrients by Phytoplankton: SPONGE (Simple Phytoplankton Optimal Nutrient Gathering Equations)"

Global Warming Research Program
Tatsuo Suzuki
"Redistribution of ocean heat content under global warming in a climate model"

Global Environment Modeling Research Program
Motohiko Tsugawa
"Development of next generation atmospheric and ocean circulation models"

Project for Sustainable Coexistence of Human, Nature, and the Earth: Subject 2
Michio Kawamiya
"Geographycal distribution of the feedback between future climate change and the carbon cycle"

Project for Sustainable Coexistence of Human, Nature, and the Earth: Subject 7
Nozomi Sugiura
"Four-dimensional variational coupled data assimilation experiments"