KAWASE Hiroaki

Job title	Head/The 1st lab./Department of Applied Meteorology Research
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Expertise	Regional climate change, Local circulation, Climatology, Glaciology
Degree	Ph. D.
Publications	Kawase H., Ito, T., Takane, Y., and Sakamoto, Y., 2024, Impacts of Local Topography on Snowfall Distribution in the Kanto Plain: A Case Study, SOLA, 20, 323-330, https://doi.org/10.2151/sola.2024-043. Kawase H., Watanabe, S. I., Nakaegawa, T., and Imada, Y, 2024, Heavy snowfall has already been enhanced by anthropogenic global warming in Japan, SOLA, 20, 167-176. Kawase H., et al., 2023, Identifying robust changes of extreme precipitation in Japan from large ensemble 5 km-grid regional experiments for 4K warming scenario, JGR-Atmosphere, 128, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038513. Kawase H., S. Fukui, M. Nosaka, S. I. Watanabe, K. Otomo, A. Murata, K. Murazaki, T. Nakaegawa, 2023, Historical regional climate changes in Japan in winter as assessed by a 5-km regional climate model with a land surface process, PEPS, 10, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-023-00536-4. Kawase H., S. Watanabe, and Y. Imada, 2022, Impacts of historical atmospheric and ocean warming on heavy snowfall in December 2020 in Japan, JGR-Atmosphere, 127. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036996 Kawase, H., Y. Imada, and S. Watanabe, 2022, Timely Event Attribution of Extreme Precipitation in Japan, BAMS, 103, S118-S123 Kawase, H., A. Murata, K. Yamada, T. Nakaegawa, R. Ito, R. Mizuta, M. Nosaka, S. Watanabe, H. Sasaki, 2021, Regional characteristics of future changes in snowfall in Japan under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 scenarios, SOLA, 17, 1-7. Kawase,H., M. Yamaguchi, Y. Imada,S. Hayashi, A. Murata, T. Nakaegawa, T. Miyasaka, I. Takayabu, 2021, Enhancement of extremely heavy precipitation induced by Typhoon Hagibis (2019) due to historical warming, SOLA, 17A, 7-13. Kawase, H., T. Yamazaki, S. Sugimoto, T. Sasai, R. Ito, T. Hamada M. Kuribayashi, M. Fujita, A. Murata, M. Nosaka, and H. Sasaki, 2020: Changes in extremely heavy and light snow-cover winters due to global warming over high mountainous areas in central Japan. PEPS, 7, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-020-0322-x. Kawase, H., Y. Imada, H. Tsuguti, T. Nakaegawa, S. Naoko, A. Murata, and I. Takayabu, 2020: The Heavy Rain Event of July 2018 in Japan enhanced by historical warming. BAMS, 101, S109-S114. Kawase, H., Y. Imada, H. Sasaki, T. Nakaegawa, A. Murata, M. Nosaka, and I. Takayabu, 2019: Contribution of historical global warming to local-scale heavy precipitation in western Japan estimated by large ensemble high-resolution simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 12, 6093-6103. Kawase, H., A. Yamazaki, H. Iida, K. Aoki, H. Sasaki, A. Murata, and M. Nosaka, 2018: Simulation of extremely small amounts of snow observed at high elevations over the Japanese Northern Alps in the 2015/16 winter. SOLA, 14, 39-45. Kawase, H., T. Sasai, T. Yamazaki, R. Ito, K. Dairaku, S. Sugimoto, H. Sasaki, A. Murata, and M. Nosaka, 2018: Characteristics of synoptic conditions for heavy snowfall in western to northeastern Japan analyzed by the 5-km regional climate ensemble experiments. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 96 Kawase, H., A. Murata, R. Mizuta, H. Sasaki, M. Nosaka, and I. Takayabu, 2016: Enhancement of heavy daily snowfall in central Japan due to global warming as projected by large ensemble of regional climate simulations. Climatic Change, 139, 265-278. Kawase, H., C. Suzuki, N. N. Ishizaki, F. Uno, H. Iida, and K. Aoki, 2015: Simulations of Monthly Variation in Snowfall over Complicated Mountainous Areas around Japan’s Northern Alps. SOLA, 11, 138−143, doi:10.2151/sola.2015-032. Kawase, H., H. Sasaki, A. Murata, M. Nosaka, and N. N. Ishizaki, 2015: Future changes in winter precipitation around Japan projected by ensemble experiments using NHRCM. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2015-034. Kawase, H., M. Hara, T. Yoshikane, N. N. Ishizaki, F. Uno, H. Hatsushika, and F. Kimura, 2013: Altitude dependence of future snow cover changes over the Central Japan evaluated by a regional climate model. J. Geophys. Res., 118 Kawase, H., T. Takemura, and T. Nozawa, 2011: Impact of carbonaceous aerosol on precipitation in tropical Africa during austral summer in 20th Century. J. Geophys. Res., 116. Kawase, H., T. Yoshikane, M. Hara, B. Ailikun, F. Kimura, T. Yasunari, T. Inoue, and H. Ueda, 2009: Intermodel variability of future changes in the Baiu rainband estimated by the pseudo global warming downscaling method, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D24110, doi:10.1029/2009JD011803.
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