Susumu Kato
Commendation
For outstanding contributions to theoretical and observational studies of tides and gravity waves in the middle and upper atmosphere
A list of five major papers
Susumu Kato, Diurnal Atmospheric Oscillation, 1. Eigenvalues and Hough Functions, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 71, 3201-3209 (1966).
Susumu Kato, Diurnal Atmospheric Oscillation, 2. Thermal Excitation in the Upper Atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 71, 3211-3214 (1966).
Susumu Kato, Toru Ogawa, Toshitaka Tsuda, Toru Sato, Iwane Kimura and Shoichiro Fukao, The Middle and Upper Atmosphere Radar: First Results Using a Partial System, Radio Science, Vol. 19, No. 6, 1475-1484 (1984).
Susumu Kato, Non-migrating tides, J. Atmosph. Terr. Phys., Vol. 51, No. 7/8, 673-682 (1989).
Nominator
Mamoru Yamamoto