Hideaki Kawai

Job title	Senior Researcher/The 2nd lab./Department of Physical Meteorology Research
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Personal	http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Dep/phy/h-kawai/index.html
Expertise	Meteorology clouds, marine fog, cloud parameterization, cloud feedback
Degree	Ph. D. (Science)
Publications	Kawai, H., K. Yoshida, T. Koshiro, and S. Yukimoto, 2022: Importance of Minor-Looking Treatments in Global Climate Models. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 14, e2022MS003128. Kawai, H., and S. Shige, 2020: Invited Review: Marine low clouds and their parameterization in climate models. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 98, 1097-1127. Kawai, H., S. Yukimoto, T. Koshiro, N. Oshima, T. Tanaka, H. Yoshimura, and R. Nagasawa, 2019: Significant Improvement of Cloud Representation in Global Climate Model MRI-ESM2. Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 2875-2897. Kawai, H., T. Koshiro, and M. J. Webb, 2017: Interpretation of Factors Controlling Low Cloud Cover and Low Cloud Feedback Using a Unified Predictive Index. J. Climate, 30, 9119-9131. Kawai, H., and J. Teixeira, 2012: Probability Density Functions of Liquid Water Path and Total Water Content of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds: Implications for Cloud Parameterization. J. Climate, 25, 2162-2177. Kawai, H., and J. Teixeira, 2010: Probability Density Functions of Liquid Water Path and Cloud Amount of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds: Geographical and Seasonal Variations and Controlling Meteorological Factors. J. Climate, 23, 2079-2092. Please visit the personal page if you are interested in other publications.
Project	Research on Atmospheric Physical Processes Research on Atmosphere, Ocean, and Earth System Modeling Research on Attribution and Projection of Climate/Global Environmental Changes