Norihisa Usui

Researcher
Oceanographic Research Department
Meteorological Research Institute

1-1 Nagamine Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0052 Japan

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Degrees

2008:	Ph.D.	(Physical Oceanography), Kyoto University, Japan
1998:	M.S.	(Physics), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
1996:	B.E.	(Applied Physics), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests

Data assimilation

Dynamics of the Kuroshio

Ocean forecast

Refereed Publications

1. Hurlburt, H. E., G. B. Brassington, Y. Drillet, M. Kamachi, M. Benkiran, R. Bourdalle-Badie, E. P. Chassignet, G. A. Jacobs, O. Le Galloudec, J. M. Lellouche, E. J. Metzger, O. M. Smedstad, B. Tranchant, H. Tsujino, N. Usui, and A. J. Wallcraft (2009) :
   High-Resolution Global and Basin-Scale Ocean Analyses and Forecasts.
   Oceanography, 22, 110-127.

2. Wada, A., K. Sato, N. Usui and Y. Kawai (2009):
   Comment on “Importance of pre-existing oceanic conditions to upper ocean response induced by Super Typhoon Hai-Tang” by Z.-W. Zheng, C.-R. Ho, and N.-J. Kuo. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L09603, doi:10.1029/2008GL036890.

3. Usui, N., H. Tsujino, H. Nakano, and Y. Fujii (2008):
   Formation process of the Kuroshio large meander in 2004.
   J. Geophys. Res., 113, C08047, doi:10.1029/2007JC004675.

4. Usui, N., H. Tsujino, Y. Fujii, and M. Kamachi (2008):
   Generation of a trigger meander for the 2004 Kuroshio large meander.
   J. Geophys. Res., 113, C01012, doi:10.1029/2007JC004266.

5. Fujii, Y., H. Tsujino, N. Usui, H. Nakano, and M. Kamachi (2008):
   Application of singular vector analysis to the Kuroshio large meander.
   J. Geophys. Res., 113, C07026, doi:10.1029/2007JC004476.

6. Wada, A, and N. Usui (2007):
   Importance of Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential for Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Intensification in the Western North Pacific. J. Oceanogr., 63, 427-447.

7. Usui, N., H. Tsujino, Y. Fujii, and M. Kamachi (2006):
   Short-range prediction experiments of the Kuroshio path variabilities south of Japan.
   Ocean Dynamics, 56, 607-623.

8. Tsujino, H., N. Nusui, and H. Nakano (2006):
   Dynamics of Kuroshio path variations in a high-resolution GCM.
   J. Geophys. Res., 111 , C11001, doi:10.1029/2005JC003118

9. Usui, N., S. Ishizaki, Y. Fujii, H. Tsujino, T. Yasuda, and M. Kamachi (2006):
   Meteorological Research Institute multivariate ocean variational estimation (MOVE) system: Some early results.
   Adv. Space Res., 37, 806-822, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.022

10. Kamachi, M., T. Kuragano, S. Sugimoto, K. Yoshita, T. Sakurai, T. Nakano, N. Usui, and F. Uboldi (2004):
    Short-range prediction experiments with operational data assimilation system for the Kuroshio south of Japan.
    J. Oceanogr., 60, 269-282

11. Usui, N. (2002):
    A Numerical Experiment on the Occurence of Sea Fog in the Western North Pacific
    Journal of Meteorological Research, 53, 51-63 (in Japanese).