Research Interests:
Analysis and diagnosis of observed climate variability in the coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice system.
Air-sea interaction, decadal climate variability, upper ocean dynamics, ENSO.
Theoretical and numerical studies for the physical oceanography.
Education:
1994 Ph.D. Department of Geophysics, Graduate
School of Science, Hokkaido University.
Dissertation title: Annual variabilities
caused by equatorial waves in the Pacific
Ocean and accompanying responses of the atmosphere.
Professional Experience:
2005 -- Professor, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University.
1997 -- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University.
1989 -- 1997 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University. 2004 Adjunct lecturer for Toyama Univ., Japan.
1998--2003 Adjunct researcher for Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan/International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, USA.
2000--2001 Adjunct lecturer for Toyama Univ., Japan.
List of Refereed Publication
Red fonts denote students of our laboratory.
Minobe S., Kuwano-Yoshida A., Komori N., Xie S.-P., and R. J. Small, 2008:
Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere, Nature, 452, 206-209, doi:10.1038/nature06690. (adopted for the cover figure)
Sasaki Y. N., Y. Katagiri, S. Minobe, I. G. Rigor, 2007: Autumn atmospheric preconditioning for interannual variability of wintertime sea-ice in the Okhotsk Sea. J. Oceanogr, 63, 255-265.
Baba K., S. Minobe, N. Kimura, M. Wakatsuchi: Intraseasonal variability of sea-ice concentration in the Antarctic with particular emphasis on wind effect. J. Geophys. Res. (Ocean), J. Geophys. Res., 111, C12023, doi:10.1029/2005JC003052.
Nakanowatari, T. and S. Minobe, 2005: Moisture balance for bidecadal variability of wintertime precipitation in the North Pacific Using NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. J. Meterol. Soc. Japan, 83 (4), 453-469.
Motoi T., W.-L. Chan, S. Minobe, H. Sumata 2005: North Pacific halocline and cold climate induced by Panamanian Gateway closure in a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L10618, doi:10.1029/2005GL022844.
Sasaki Y. N., S. Minobe, 2005: Seasonally dependent interannual variability of sea ice in the Bering Sea and its relation to atmospheric fluctuations, J. Geophys. Res. (Ocean), 110, C05011, doi:10.1029/2004JC002486. PDF
Minobe, S., and A. Maeda, 2005: A 1o SST dataset compiled from ICOADS from 1850 to 2002 and Northern Hemisphere frontal variability. International Journal of Climatology. 25, 881-894. black & white PDF, non-typesetted but color PDF
Minobe S., and M. Nakamura 2004: Interannual to decadal variability in the southern Okhotsk Sea based on a new gridded upper water temperature dataset. J. Geophys. Res. (Ocean), 109, C09S05, doi:10.1029/2003JC001916. PDF
Minobe S., and F.-F. Jin, 2004: Generation of interannual and interdecadal
climate oscillations through nonlinear subharmonic resonance in delayed
oscillators, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L16206, 10.1029/2004GL019776. PDF
Minobe S., Sako, A. and M. Nakamura 2004: Interannual to interdecadal variability in the Japan Sea based on a new gridded upper water temperature dataset. in press J. Phys. Oceanogr.,34 (11), 2382-2397. PDF
Minobe S., 2002: Interannual to interdecadal changes of water temperature, sea-level displacement, and sea-ice distribution in the Bering Sea and associated atmospheric circulation changes Prog. Oceanogr. 55, 45-64. PDF (adopted in CLIVAR Pacific Panel poster)
Minobe S. and Nakanowatari T. 2002: Global structure of bidecadal precipitation variability in boreal winter. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29 (10), 10.1029/2001GL014447, (22 May 2002) PDF
Minobe, S., T. Manabe and A. Shouji, 2002: Maximal Wavelet filter and its application to bidecadal oscillation over the Northern Hemisphere through the 20th Century. J. Climate.15 (9) 1064-1075. Abstract, PDF Also key animation is available from here.
Minobe, S., Y. Kanamoto, N. Okada, H. Ozawa and M. Ikeda, 2000: Plume structures in deep convection of rotating fluid. (whole paper including animations is available via internet) Nagare Multimedia 2000.
Minobe, S. 2000: Spatio-Temporal Structure of the Pentadecadal Variability over the North Pacific. Progress in Oceanography., 47, 381-408.@(adopted for the cover figure of special issue for North Pacific Climate Regime Shifts) PDF
Hare, S. R. S. Minobe, W. S. Wooster, and S. McKinnell, 2000: An introduction to the PICES symposium on the nature and impacts of North Pacific climate regime shifts. Progress in Oceanography., 47, 99-102.
Nishino, S., and S. Minobe, 2000: Thermohaline- and wind-driven circulation in an extended model of potential vorticity homogenization, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 30, 2391-2403. Abstract, Full paper [HTML PDF] (AMS online account is required for full paper),
Minobe, S., and N. Mantua, 1999: Interdecadal modulation of interannual atmospheric and oceanic variability over the North Pacific, Progress in Oceanography, 43, 163-192. PDF
Minobe, S., 1999: Resonance in bidecadal and pentadecadal climate oscillations over the North Pacific: Role in climatic regime shifts, Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 855-858. PDF
Yasuda, I., H. Sugusaki, Y. Watanabe, S. Minobe, and Y. Oozeki, 1999: Interdecadal variations in Japanese sardine and ocean/climate. Fisheries Oceanography, 8, 18-24.
Minobe, S., 1997: A 50-70 year climatic oscillation over the North Pacific and North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 683-686. PDF
Minobe, S., 1996: Detection of an annual westward propagating signal in the meridional wind component along 8N in the Pacific, Journal of Climate,9, 1661-1668. PDF
Minobe, S., and K. Takeuchi, 1995: Annual
period equatorial waves in the Pacific
Ocean.
Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 18,379-18,392.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Science Plan Writing Team Member, PICES program, FUTURE (2007-2008)
Associate Editor, Journal of Climate (2006-present)
Editor, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (2002-2006)
Guest Editor, Journal of Oceanography (2001)
Guest editor, Progress in Oceanography (1999-2000)
Associate Editor, Journal of Oceanography (1996--1999)
Working group member for data analysis of historical marine observations (1999-2003)
Committee member, Indo-Pacific Climate Variability, (1997-1998).
Americal Meteorological Society (since 1999)
Americal Geophysical Union (since 1998)
Meteorological Society of Japan
Japan Oceanographic Society
Awards
"Marquis Who's Who in the Word, 2007 edition"
"Studies for decadal climate variability over the North Pacific":
Horiuchi award, the Meteorological Society of Japan, Oct. 2006.
''A 50-70 year climatic oscillation over the North Pacific and North America.":
Best paper award, North Pacific Marine Science Organization, Oct., 1996,
Canada. .
Convenors
Clara Deser (USA), Paul Kushner (Canada), Klaus Dethloff (Germany), Shoshiro Minobe, Interannual and Interdecadal Climate Variability and Predictability, Inter-association symposium, IAMAS-IAPSO Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 2009.
E. A. Logerwell (U.S.A.), D. L. Mackas (Canada), S. Minobe (Japan) and W. J. Sydeman (U.S.A.): Phenology and climate change in the North Pacific: Implications of variability in the timing of zooplankton production to fish, seabirds, marine mammals and fisheries (humans), 2 Nov. 2007.
Watanuki, Y., S. Minobe, R. Ream (USA) and W. J. Sydeman (U.S.A.): Responses of Marine Mammals and Seabirds to Large-scale and Long-term Climate Change: Mechanisms of Environmental Forcing, 12 Oct. 2006
Minobe, S., Richard Wood, David, S. Battisti, "The decadal to centennial variability of the ocean and atmosphere. (JSP01)" , 2003, 30 June-2 July, Sapporo, Japan.