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OFES Collaborative Research
InvestigatorAffiliationemailResearch interest
Hidenori Aiki JAMSTEC aiki@jamstec.go.jp Overflows from Marginal Seas, Vortex Dynamics
Pierre Dutrieux IPRC dutrieux@hawaii.edu Low-latitude Western boundary, instability processes, Tropical instability waves
Xiouhua Fu IPRC xfu@hawaii.edu Tropical Pacific
Ryo Furue IPRC furue@hawaii.edu  
Peter Hacker IPRC phacker@hawaii.edu Tropical Indian Ocean, Indonesian Throughflow region, and western Pacific Ocean
Saji Hameed IPRC saji@hawaii.edu Indian Ocean
Kevin Hamilton IPRC kph@hawaii.edu Annual period Rossby waves
Akio Ishida JAMSTEC ishidaa@jamstec.go.jp Tracer experiments (Freon distribution), deep circulations, biogeochemical cycle, and equatorial oceans
Tommy Jensen IPRC tjensen@hawaii.edu tropical Indian Ocean, equatorial western Pacific, Indonesian Throughflow, and Algulhas retroflection region
Takashi Kagimoto JAMSTEC kagimoto@jamstec.go.jp (1) eddy flux in the western boundary current region (2) dynamics of the Kuroshio (3) vertical eddy mixing (currently being done with PFES)
Fumiaki Kobashi IPRC fkobashi@hawaii.edu Water mass, North Pacific
Nobumasa Komori JAMSTEC komori@es.jamstec.go.jp Kuroshio current system
Konstantin Lebedev IPRC KLebedev@soest.hawaii.edu General ocean circulation, North Pacific, Indonesian Throughflow
Yukio Masumoto JAMSTEC masumoto@jamstec.go.jp Upper-layer circulations in the Indo-Pacific region
Nikolai Maximenko IPRC nikolai@soest.hawaii.edu Sea level, eddy distribution, zonal jets, Ekman drift, and deep circulation on the global scale
Jay McCreary IPRC jay@hawaii.edu Tsuchiya Jets
Humio Mitsudera Hokkaido humiom@lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp (1) Long-term variation of Kuroshio Extension and Kuroshio- Oyashio Transiton Area (2) Dynamics of Oyashio (3) Sub-Arctic gyre, marginal sea(Okhotsk, Bering) (4) Southern Ocean, ACC (5) Antarctic Ocean
Toru Miyama JAMSTEC tmiyama@jamstec.go.jp (1) Waves at the equatorial Indian Ocean (2) Low latitude western boundary currents
Mototaka Nakamura JAMSTEC moto@jamstec.go.jp (1) Dynamics of frontal currents, e.g., Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, ACC (2) Transports and mixing (3) Eddy-mean relationships, including low-frequency variations in the large-scale flows (4) Stability of the thermohaline overturning
Masami Nonaka JAMSTEC nona@jamstec.go.jp Subduction process, subsurface large-scale circulation in the Pacific Ocean, and variations in the frontial and subarctic region
Jim Potemra IPRC jimp@hawaii.edu Indian Ocean/Indonesian throughflow
Tangdong Qu IPRC tangdong@hawaii.edu Eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans
Kelvin Richards IPRC rkelvin@hawaii.edu Circulation, ventilation, equatorial dynamics
Hirofumi Sakuma JAMSTEC sakuma@es.jamstec.go.jp Eddy dynamics
Yoshikazu Sasai JAMSTEC ysasai@jamstec.go.jp Tracer experiments (Freon distribution), deep circulations, biogeochemical cycle, and marine ecosystem
Hideharu Sasaki JAMSTEC sasaki@jamstec.go.jp Eddies and fronts (in particular, East Australian Current, ACC)
Yoshi Nori Sasaki Hokkaido sasa@ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp Decadal variability in the North and South Pacific
Niklas Schneider IPRC nschneid@hawaii.edu Pacific, western boundary currents, thermocline circulation
Justin Small IPRC small@hawaii.edu Tropical Instability Waves, Agulhas current
Bunmei Taguchi JAMSTEC not yet determined Low-frequency variability of the Kuroshio Extension and its influence on the the atmosphere
Youichi Tanimoto JAMSTEC tanimoto@ees.hokudai.ac.jp SST formatin process in the sub-arctic frotanl zone
Bin Wang IPRC wangbin@hawaii.edu Heat transport, internal low-frequency waves, heat content
Yuqing Wang IPRC yuqing@hawaii.edu Regional climate modeling, air-sea interaction, and cloud-climate interaction
Takuji Waseda U Tokyo waseda@naoe.p.u-tokyo.ac.jp Kuroshio/Extension, air-sea flux, eddies
Shang-Ping Xie IPRC xie@hawaii.edu Ocean circulation and its interaction with the atmosphere
Yasuhiro Yamanaka JAMSTEC galapen@ees.hokudai.ac.jp Tracer experiments (Freon distribution), deep circulations
Zuojun Yu IPRC zuojun@hawaii.edu General ocean circulation, tropical ocean modeling, eddy-mean flow interaction