Dr. Toshio Koike

Dr. Toshio Koike

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering The University of Tokyo

Research expertise: Cold region hydrology; Multi-scale hydrologic modeling; hydrologic response to climate changes

Publications:

Seto, R., T. Koike, and M. Rasmy (2013), Analysis of the vertical structure of the atmospheric heating process and its seasonal variation over the Tibetan Plateau using a land data assimilation system, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 12,403–12,421, doi:10.1002/2013JD020072.

Tsutsui H. and Koike T. (2012), Development of Snow Retrieval Algorithm Using AMSR-E for the BJ Ground-Based Station on Seasonally Frozen Ground at Low Altitude on the Tibetan Plateau, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Vol. 90C, pp. 99--112, 2012 99. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2012-C07

Rasmy, M., T. Koike, S. Bousetta, H. Lu, and X. Li (2011), Development of a satellite land data assimilation system coupled with a mesoscale model in the Tibetan Plateau, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 49, 2847–2862, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2011.2112667.

Tamura, T., and T. Koike (2010), Role of convective heating in the seasonal evolution of the Asian summer monsoon, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D14103, doi:10.1029/2009JD013418.

Tamura, T., K. Taniguchi, and T. Koike (2010), Mechanism of upper tropospheric warming around the Tibetan Plateau at the onset phase of the Asian summer monsoon, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D02106, doi:10.1029/2008JD011678.

Dr. Kenichi Ueno

Dr. Kenichi Ueno

Assoc. Prof., Inst. Life and environmental sciences, Univ. Tsukuba

Research expertise:land-atmosphere interaction and precipitation system over mountainous areas

Publications:

Ueno, K., S. Sugimoto, H. Tsutsui, K. Taniguchi, Z. Hu, and S. Wu,. 2012: Role of patchy snow cover on the planetary boundary layer structure during late winter observed in the central Tibetan Plateau. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 90C, 145-155, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2012-C10.

Sugimoto, S., and K. Ueno, 2012: Rule of Mesoscale Convective Systems Developed around the Eastern Tibetan Plateau in the Eastward Expansion of an Tibetan High during the Monsoon Season. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan., 90, 297-310. DOI:10.2151/jmsj.2012-209.

Ueno, K., S. Sugimoto, T. Koike, H. Tsutsui, and X. Xu (2011), Generation processes of mesoscale convective systems following midlatitude troughs around the Sichuan Basin, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D02104, doi:10.1029/2009JD013780.

Dr. Tomonori Sato

Dr. Tomonori Sato

Associate Professor, Regional Climate System Research Group, Graduate School of Environmental Science Hokkaido University

Research Expertise: regional climate and atmosphere-land interaction

Dr. Shiori Sugimoto

Dr. Shiori Sugimoto

Project assistant professor, Graduate school of urban environmental sciences Tokyo Metropolitan University