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Appointment of Dr. Tatsushi Tokioka as Director of the Global Warming Research Program, Frontier Research System for Global Change

April 2, 2003 (JST)

Japan Marine Science and Technology Center
National Space Development Agency of Japan

On 2 April 2003, Dr. Tatsushi Tokioka was appointed Director of the Global Warming Research Program, of the Frontier Research System for Global Change (a joint project of NASDA and JAMSTEC).

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Dr. Tokioka joined the Japan Meteorological Agency, where his research focused on weather forecasting and climate variation. He then served in various important positions, including Head of the Office of Climate-Related Matters and Director of the Sendai District Meteorological Observatory. Until 1 April 2003, he was President of the Meteorological College. One example of his many notable research achievements is the development of an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM). He served in an international role on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The appointment of Dr. Tokioka should stimulate research activity, not only in the Global Warming Research Program, but also in the Frontier Research System for Global Change as a whole.

Background

Dr. Taroh Matsuno, Director-General of FRSGC and Director of the Integrated Modeling Research Program, has also served as Director of the Global Warming Research Program since November 2001, following the return of Dr. Shukuro Manabe to the United States in November 2001 after serving as director of the program since its establishment in 1997. The program consists of three projects: the Global Warming Project, the Carbon Cycle Project, and the Paleoclimate Project. The program is dedicated to research into understanding and predicting global warming by elucidating the physical and chemical processes that lead to climate change, and to the development of various climate models.




Biography of Dr. Tatsushi Tokioka

Expertise
Climate modeling and atmospheric general circulation
Previous Post
President of the Meteorological College
Awards
May 1988: Society Award, Meteorological Society of Japan (for development of an atmospheric general circulation model and related research)
May 1991: Okada Award (for his commitment to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), etc.)
June 1993: Recognition from the Minister of Transport (for distinctive work in developing an atmospheric general circulation model)
June 2001: Recognition from the Minister of Transport (for 30 years of continuous service).
Professional Memberships
Meteorological Society of Japan, and American Meteorological Society
Main Publications
Tokioka, T., A. Kitoh, I. Yagai, and K. Yamazaki, 1985: A simulation of the tropospheric circulation with the MRI general circulation model. Part 1: The January performance. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 63, 749-778.
Tokioka, T. and A. Noda, 1986: Effects of large-scale orography on the January atmospheric circulation: a numerical experiment. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 64, 819-940.
Tokioka, T. and I. Yagai, 1987: Atmospheric tides appearing in a global atmospheric general circulation model. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 65, 423-438.
Kitoh, A., K. Yamazaki and T. Tokioka, 1988: Influence of soil moisture and surface albedo changes over the African tropical rain forest on summer climate investigated with the MRIGCM-1. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 66, 65-86.
Tokioka, T, K. Yamazaki, A. Kitoh, and T. Ose, 1988: The equatorial 30-60 day oscillation and the Arakawa-Schubert penetrative cumulus parameterization. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 66, 883-901.
Noda, A., and T. Tokioka, 1989: The effect of doubling the CO2 concentration on convective and non-convective precipitation in a general circulation model coupled with a simple mixed layer ocean model. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 67, 1057-1069.
Nagai, T., T. Tokioka, M. Endoh, and Y. Kitamura, 1992: El Nino-Southern Oscillation simulated in an MRI atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model. J. Climate, 5, 1202-1233.
Tokioka, T., A. Noda, A. Kitoh, Y. Nikaidou, S. Nakagawa, T. Motoi, and S. Yukimoto, 1995: A transient CO2 experiment with the MRI CGCM - Quick Report. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan, 73, 817-826.
Tokioka, T., 2000: Climate services at the Japan Meteorological Agency using a general circulation model: Dynamical one-month prediction. Chapter 12 of "Past, Present and Future of a General Circulation Model", Academic Press.
Main Books
Lecture on Atmospheric Science 4 "General Circulation of the Atmosphere", 1982, University of Tokyo Publishing Society, co-author (Published in Japanese)
Global Environment Simulation 1991, Hakua Shobo, co-author (Published in Japanese)
Study of Climate 5 "Numerical Simulation of Climate", 1993, University of Tokyo Publishing Society, co-author (Published in Japanese)
Science of Planet Earth 3 (Theory of the Global Environment) 1996, Iwanami Books, co-author (Published in Japanese)
Environmental Study for Citizens, Vol 2 of 2 volumes, Chuouhouki (Published in Japanese)
Encyclopedia of Meteorological Science, 1999, Tokyo Shobo, Editorial Committee, contributed some parts (Published in Japanese)