Last update 1st Jun. 2011

Akiyoshi Wada Typhoon Research Department Meteorological Research Institute Japan Meteorological Agency

Work Experience

• Senior researcher: Typhoon Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 2007.04-present.

• Visiting researcher: Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2006.04-2009.03. 2010.04-present.

• Researcher: Typhoon Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 1998.04-2007.03.

Education

• B.S., Meteorological College, Japan, 1993.03.

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Research Theme

• Tropical cyclone-ocean interaction
  • The ocean response, CO2 flux
  • The impact of oceanic variations on tropical-cyclone prediction
  • Ocean-wave interaction
  
  
• Numerical modeling
  
• Ocean data assimilation
  

Research Result

• Wada, A. (2010):Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interaction: Numerical Studies, Advances in Energy Research. Volume 1, NOVA Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-61668-994-0

• Wada, A. (2010):Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interaction: Climatology, Advances in Energy Research. Volume 1, NOVA Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-61668-994-0

• Wada, A, T. Midorikawa, M. Ishii and T. Motoi (2011): Carbon System Changes in the East China Sea Induced by Typhoons Tina and Winnie in 1997, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, In press.

• Wada, A and N. Usui (2010): Impacts of oceanic preexisting conditions on predictions of Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005, Advances in Meteorology, 2010, 756071, 15pages.

• Wada, A, N. Kohno and Y. Kawai (2010): Impact of wave-ocean interaction on Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005, SOLA, 6A, 13-16.

• Wada, A. (2009): Idealized numerical experiments associated with the intensity and rapid intensification of stationary tropical cyclone-like vortex and its relation to initial sea-surface temperature and vortex-induced sea-surface cooling, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 114, D18111.

• Wada, A., H. Niino and H. Nakano (2009): Roles of Vertical Turbulent Mixing in the Ocean Response to Typhoon Rex (1998), Journal of Oceanography, 65, 373-396.

• Wada, A., K. Sato, N. Usui and Y. Kawai (2009): Comment on "The importance of pre-existing oceanic conditions to upper ocean response induced by Super Typhoon Hai-Tang" by Zheng Z.-W.C.-R. Ho and N.-J. Kuo.

• Wada, A. and J. C. L. Chan (2008): Relationship between typhoon activity and upper ocean heat content. 35, L17603.

• Wada, A. (2007):Numerical Problems Associated with Tropical Cyclone Intensity Prediction Using a Sophisticated Coupled Typhoon-Ocean Model, Pap. Met. Geophys., 58, 103-126.

• Wada, A. and N. Usui (2007):Importance of tropical cyclone heat potential for tropical cyclone intensity and intensification in the western North Pacific. Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 427-447.

• Kawai, Y. and A. Wada (2010)：Detection of cyclone-induced rapid increases in chlorophyll-a with sea surface cooling in the northwestern Pacific Ocean from a MODIS/SeaWiFS merged satellite chlorophyll product. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Accepted.

• Nemoto, K., T. Midorikawa, A. Wada, K. Ogawa, S. Takatani, H. Kimoto, M. Ishii and H. Y. Inoue (2009)：Continuous observations of atmospheric and oceanic CO2 using the moored buoy in the East China Sea: Variations during the passage of typhoons. Deep-Sea Research II,

• Kawai, Y. and A. Wada (2007)：Diurnal Sea Surface Temperature Variation and Its Impact on the Atmosphere and Ocean: A Review.　~Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 721-744.

• Wada, A., N. Kohno, N. Usui and Y. Kawai (2009): Preliminary numerical experiments for Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005 by Typhoon-wave-ocean coupled model, Fourth Japan-China-Korea Joint Conference on Meteorology.

• Wada, A., N. Usui, N. Kohno, Y. Kawai and K. Sato (2009): The ocean response to Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005 and its influence. International Workshop on Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interaction in the Northwest pacific.