University of Hawaii Department of Meteorology

Current Ph.D. Students

  • Jian "Tony" Ma (Ph.D. 2012):Dynamics and uncertainties of global warming patterns: Sea surface temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric circulation, thesis, 111pp.

    Former Students

  • Hiro Ito (M.Sc.): Extreme Temperature Occurrence over East Asia -> SOMPO Japan Insurance Inc.

  • Chueh-Hsin "Shing" Chang (Ph.D. 2009): Subseasonal variability induced by orographic wind jets in the east Pacific warm pool and South China Sea
    -> Academia Sinica, Taiwan

  • Benmei Taguchi (Ph.D. 2006): A modeling study of the Kuroshio Extension: Decadal variability and influence on the atmosphere
    -> Earth Simulator Center, Japan

  • Hideki Okajima (Ph.D. 2006): Orographic effects on tropical climate in a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model
    -> Research Institute for Global Change, Japan

  • Yuko Okumura (Ph.D. 2005): Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the seasonal to decadal variations of tropical Atlantic climate
    -> NOAA Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow in residence at NCAR -> University of Texas at Austin

    Ocean University of China (co-advisor)

    Current Graduate Students

  • Jing-Wu Liu: Satellite observations of ocean-atmosphere interactions (CA: SuPing Zhang)
  • Li-Xiao Xu: Mode water adjustments to global warming (CA: QinYu Liu)
  • Shang-Min Long: Fast and slow climate response to global warming
  • Ruo-Si Zhang: Ocean response to global warming
  • Zeng-Qiang Zhou: Global warming and climate modes

    Former Students

  • Xiao-Tong Zheng (Ph.D. 2010): Response of modes of Indian Ocean variability to global warming (CA: QinYu Liu) -> OUC
  • Wei Zhuang (Ph.D. 2008, CAS): Eddies in the South China Sea (CA: DongXiao Wang, SCSIO/CAS) -> SCSIO

    Hokkaido Universiy Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science

  • Masaru Inatsu (Ph.D. 2003, co-advisor: Hitoshi Mukougawa): GCM response of the extratropical atmosphere to tropical and extratropical SST forcings.
    -> University of Reading, UK -> Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Japan
    -> Hokkaido University

  • Hiroshi Hashizume (Ph.D. 2001, co-advisor: Kensuke Takeuchi): Influence of tropical instability wave-induced SST variability on the atmospheric boundary layer: Satellite and in-situ data analysis.
    -> Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, LA, USA -> Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

  • Kaori Saito (M.Sc., 1999): Continental forcing involved in the formation of north-south asymmetry of the tropical climate.
    -> Kyodo News Agency, Osaka, Japan

  • Tatsuga Kunitani (M.Sc., 1999): An ocean GCM study of North Pacific decadal and interdecadal variability.

  • Shinji Matsumura (M.Sc., 1998): Interannual variability of winter climate in Japan and Japan Sea and the influeneces of monsoon.
    -> Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan
  • for Matsumura-san

  • Naomi Saiki (M.Sc., 1998): Simulation of Asian summer monsoon under idealized conditions.
    -> Fukuoka Prefecture Department of Civil Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan

  • Hideyuki Noguchi (M.Sc., 1998): Coupled ocean-atmosphere waves due to the wind-evaporation-SST feedback.

  • Mieko Seki (M.Sc., 1997): Mechanisms of maintaining the north-south asymmetries in Eastern Equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature.
    -> Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan