Understanding the dynamics of ocean currents around Japan and their effects

Update: 10. 18, 2022

Jul. 28, 2022(Aug. 25-26, 2022)

Research Meeting in Otsuchi Coastal Research Center

Date：August 25, 2022 (Thursday) 14:30～17:00
August 26, 2022 (Friday) 9:30～15:00
Venue：Otsuchi Coastal Research Center
1-19-8 Akahama, Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture 028-1102, JAPAN
Tel: +81-193-42-5611
Invited Speakers：Masami Nonaka, Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0001 JAPAN.

Agenda

(*: invited）

August 25

14:30 – 15:00  Welcome and introduction

Session 1 (Chair: Kodai Yamada)

15:00 – 15:45  *Masami Nonaka (JAMSTEC)
Predictability of international variability of the Kuroshio Extension jet speed

15:45 – 16:00  (Break)

16:00 – 16:30  Eitarou Oka (AORI)
Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension and Subtropical Mode Water and its influences

16:30 – 17:00  Yuma Kawakami (MRI)
SST decrease in the Kuroshio region during typhoon passages

August 26

Session 2 (Chair: Yuma Kawakami)

9:30 – 10:00  Itsuka Yabe (AORI)
Mixing processes between the Oyashio and the QSJ inducing the nutrient supply

10:00 – 10:30  Kodai Yamada (JMA)
Decadal variability of sea surface temperature in the Sea of Japan

10:30 – 11:00  Shoichiro Kido (JAMSTEC)
Understanding predictability of Kuroshio and Gulf Stream using JCOPE-FGO

11:00 – 11:15  (Break)

Session 3 (Chair: Shoichiro Kido)

11:15 – 11:45  Takahiro Toyoda (MRI)
Improvements of sea ice thermodynamic processes in the MRI OGCM

11:45 – 12:15  Hatsumi Nishikawa (AORI)
Introduction of Atmospheric and Oceanic Observations around Japan in 2022

12:15 – 13:45  (Lunch break)

Session 4 (Chair: Hatsumi Nishikawa)

13:15 – 13:45  Norihiko Sugimoto (Keio University)
Spontaneous gravity wave radiation: From atmosphere to ocean, Earth to Venus

13:45 – 14:15  Satoru Kasuga (Mie University)
An atmospheric front within the Baiu front observed over the Kuroshio at East China Sea

14:15 – 14:25  Akira Yamazaki (JAMSTEC)
A case study of Japan-sea Polar Airmass Convergence Zone using an ensemble regional reanalysis system

14:25 – 15:00  Discussion