OBATA Atsushi

Job title	Senior Researcher/The 2nd lab./Department of Climate and Geochemistry Research
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Expertise	Climate Dynamics, Meteorology, Oceanography In particular, Climate-Carbon Cycle Interaction
Degree	Ph. D. (Science)
Publications	First-author Obata, A., and H. Tsujino, 2024: Earth system model’s capability of predicting drought-induced crop failure. Environmental Earth Sciences, 83, 417, 1-14. Obata, A., and Y. Adachi, 2019: Earth system model response to large midlatitude and high-latitude volcanic eruptions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124, 1865-1886. Obata, A., and K. Shibata, 2012: Damage of land biosphere due to intense warming by 1000-fold rapid increase in atmospheric methane: Estimation with a climate-carbon cycle model. Journal of Climate, 25, 8524-8541. Obata, A., 2007: Climate-carbon cycle model response to freshwater discharge into the North Atlantic. Journal of Climate, 20, 5962-5976. Obata, A., and Y. Kitamura, 2003: Interannual variability of the sea-air exchange of CO2 from 1961 to 1998 simulated with a global ocean circulation-biogeochemistry model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 3337, 1-15. Obata, A., J. Ishizaka, and M. Endoh, 1996: Global verification of critical depth theory for phytoplankton bloom with climatological in situ temperature and satellite ocean color data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 20657-20667. Obata, A., R. Furue, S. Aoki, and N. Suginohara, 1996: Modeling layered structure in deep Pacific circulation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 3663-3674. Co-author Yukimoto, S., H. Kawai, ..., A. Obata, et al., 2019: The Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model version 2.0, MRI-ESM2.0: Description and basic evaluation of the physical component. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 97, 931-965.
Projects	Research on understanding, assessment and projection of the climate system, and carbon and related biogeochemical cycles (C2)