Nishida Prize

Shingo Watanabe

・Commendation

Studies on general circulation of the atmosphere based on high resolution GCM and earth system model

・A list of five major papers

Watanabe, S., K. Sato, and M. Takahashi, A general circulation model study of the orographic gravity waves over Antarctica excited by katabatic winds, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D18104), 2006.

Watanabe, S., Y. Kawatani, Y. Tomikawa, K. Miyazaki, M. Takahashi, and K. Sato, General aspects of a T213L256 middle atmosphere general circulation model, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D12110, 2008.

Watanabe, S., and S. Miyahara, Quantification of the gravity wave forcing of the migrating diurnal tide in a gravity wave–resolving general circulation model, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D07110, 2009.

Watanabe, S., T. Hajima, K. Sudo, T. Nagashima, T. Takemura, H. Okajima, T. Nozawa, H. Kawase, M. Abe, T. Yokohata, T. Ise, H. Sato, E. Kato, K. Takata, S. Emori, and M. Kawamiya, MIROC-ESM 2010: model description and basic results of CMIP5-20c3m experiments, Geosci. Model Dev., 4, 845-872, 2011.

Watanabe, S., K. Sudo, T. Nagashima, T. Takemura, H. Kawase, and T. Nozawa, Future projections of surface UV-B in a changing climate, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D16118, 2011.

・Nominator

Masaaki Takahashi