RESEARCHERS
Toshio YAMAGATA
Ocean Policy Research Institute of The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Prof./Dr. Toshio Yamagata is known as a researcher of various ocean-rooted climate modes influencing the world climate. He received several honors for his academic achievements. Those include fellows of American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society (AMS), and Japan Geoscience Union. Major awards he received are the Sverdrup Gold Medal from the AMS in 2004, the Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Emperor of Japan in 2005, the Prince Albert I Gold Medal from the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans in 2015. He is an honorary member of the Oceanographic Society of Japan, a foreign associate member of l’Academie de Marine of France, and a foreign academician of Nanjing University for Information Science and Technology of China.
details: http://www.jamstec.go.jp/res/ress/yamagata/awards_etc-e.html
KEYWORDS
Climate Dynamics, Physical Oceanography, Marine Policy Research
PUBLICATIONS
Summary: https://publons.com/researcher/2877764/toshio-yamagata
Major Publications:
1. A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean
Published : Sep 1999 in Nature, DOI: 10.1038/43854
2. El Niño Modoki and its possible teleconnection
Published: Nov 2007 in Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003798
3. ENSO theory
Published :Jun 1998 in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, DOI: 10.1029/97JC03424
4. Impact of the Indian Ocean dipole on the relationship between the Indian monsoon rainfall and ENSO
Published: Dec 2001 in Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013294
5. Possible impacts of Indian Ocean Dipole mode events on global climate
Published: 2003 in Climate Research, DOI: 10.3354/CR025151
ACADEMIC
SOCIETY etc.
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU)
The Oceanography Society
The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
The Oceanographic Society of Japan (JOS)
The Japan Society of Ocean Policy
The Science Council of Japan
BRIEF CAREER
(Current Research Position)
Project Principal Scientist, Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Special Researcher, Ocean Policy Research Institute, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo
Honorary Professor, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
(Past Research Position)
Professor and Dean, School of Science, the University of Tokyo
Director, Application Lab, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
EDUCATION
D. S. (Geophysics), the University of Tokyo, 1977
M. S. (Geophysics), the University of Tokyo, 1973
B. S. (Science), the University of Tokyo, 1971