Toshio Yamagata
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Commendation
for outstanding contributions to geophysical fluid dynamics and climate dynamics, in particular to the understanding of atmospheric and ocean phenomena and the effect of their interaction on climate chance.
A list of five major papers
- Yamagata, T., 1976 : On Trajectories of Rossby Wave-packets Released in a Lateral Shear Flow. J. Oceanogr. Soc. Jpn., 32 (4), 162-168.
- Yamagata, T., 1982 : On Nonlinear Planetary Waves : A Class of Solutions Missed by the Traditional Quasi-Geostrophic Approximation. J. Oceanogr. Soc. Jpn., 38 (4), 236-244.
- Yamagata, T., 1985 : Stability of a Simple Air-Sea Coupled Model in the Tropics. Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models, Elsevier Oceanogr. Series, J. C. J. Nihoul ed., 637-657.
- Saji, N. H., B. N. Goswami, P. N. Vinayachandran, and T. Yamagata, 1999 : A Dipole Mode in the Tropical Indian Ocean. Nature, 401, 360-363.
- Ashok, K., S. K. Behera, S. A. Rao, H. Weng, and T. Yamagata, 2007 : El Niño Modoki and its possible teleconnection. J. Geophys. Res., 112, C11007, doi:10.1029/2006JC003798.
Nominator
Yukio Masumoto