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Atmospheric Dynamics Lab
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The lab uses numerical models to study weather around Japan and planetary atmospheres.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring atmospheric motion, from weather to planets.
The Atmospheric Dynamics Lab uses numerical models and analysis of meteorological data to study the effects of the seas around Japan on weather and climate, as well as the motion of planetary atmospheres.
Its research includes studies of the development of low-pressure systems and fronts around Japan, and studies of winds and waves on planets such as Venus using atmospheric general circulation models.
The lab's website is shared with the Atmospheric Physics Lab in the same Global Environmental Dynamics Division.
Graduate students are enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, where they receive supervision on atmospheric dynamics topics ranging from weather around Japan to the general circulation of planetary atmospheres.
Key terms
- Atmospheric general circulation model
- A model that reproduces, through calculations based on physical laws, the winds and temperature movements of the entire atmosphere of Earth or another planet
- Oceanic mesoscale disturbance
- An eddy several hundred kilometers across, seen in the seas around Japan
- Air-sea interaction
- A relationship in which the state of the ocean, such as sea surface temperature, currents, and eddies, and the motion of the atmosphere affect each other
ResearchResearch themes
Using numerical models and analysis of meteorological data, the lab studies the effects of the seas around Japan on weather and climate, and the motion of planetary atmospheres. Its main themes are the meteorology of the marginal seas of East Asia and the dynamics of planetary middle atmospheres; for planetary research, it uses atmospheric general circulation models.
*Illustrative imageFluid Dynamics of Air-Sea Interaction
In collaboration with the ocean group, the lab investigates how diurnal variations in sea surface temperature and changes in ocean currents and oceanic mesoscale disturbances (eddies) affect weather and climate. By introducing satellite observations and ocean model data into weather models, it aims to clarify the development processes of low-pressure systems, fronts, clouds, and precipitation around Japan.
*Illustrative imageFluid Dynamics of Cloud-Covered Planets
Each planet has atmospheric phenomena that differ from Earth's, such as the four-day circulation in Venus's cloud layer and the banded structure and Great Red Spot of Jupiter. Using an atmospheric general circulation model in which a planet's mass, rotation period, and stratification can be changed, the lab examines, from a fluid dynamics perspective, the role that physical constants play in forming wind systems and waves.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Atmospheric Dynamics Lab are introduced on a page shared with the Atmospheric Physics Lab, and consist of faculty, academic researchers, administrative assistants, and master's students.
- Associate ProfessorMasaru Yamamoto
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Venus Cloud Tops ( )” Credit: L. Esposito (University of Colorado, Boulder), and NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Fluid Dynamics of Air-Sea Interaction: “Clouds over the southern Indian Ocean ( )” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA / Public domain (cropped)
- Fluid Dynamics of Cloud-Covered Planets: “Venus-real color” NASA or Ricardo Nunes / Public domain (cropped)
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