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Yoshimori Lab
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The lab uses climate models to explore the mechanisms behind global warming, polar climate, and past climates.
AboutAbout the lab
Unifying climate mechanisms, from past to future
The Yoshimori Lab studies the mechanisms of global warming, polar climate, and past climate variability.
The lab places importance on understanding climate as a whole by clarifying how the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land surface influence one another.
Its main tool is the climate model, a virtual Earth built inside a computer.
In addition to numerical experiments, the lab uses observational data and reconstructed data of past climates to verify the reliability of its models.
Key terms
- Climate model
- A program that calculates the flow of the atmosphere and ocean based on physical laws and reproduces Earth's climate on a computer
- Climate feedback
- A loop in which a change in temperature alters snow, clouds, water vapor, and so on, which in turn changes temperature further
- Arctic amplification
- A phenomenon in which the temperature rise near the Arctic surface becomes extremely large compared with other regions
ResearchResearch themes
Projections of future climate still carry uncertainty from various factors. To reduce that uncertainty, the lab mainly uses climate models to investigate the mechanisms by which climate changes.
*Illustrative imageClimate Sensitivity and Climate Feedbacks
How much will temperature rise when greenhouse gases increase? The lab seeks to understand, one by one, the climate feedbacks in which snow, sea ice, clouds, and water vapor alter the radiation budget through temperature, and also aims to clarify how these feedbacks interact with one another.
*Illustrative imageMechanisms of Polar Climate Change
The lab aims to understand Arctic amplification, in which the temperature rise in the Arctic becomes especially large, through the lens of weather. It also focuses on the interaction between the Antarctic ice sheet and climate.
*Illustrative imagePast Climates and Future Projections
The lab studies the climate of cold periods such as glacial periods, as well as past warm periods. Using the physical mechanisms of climate change that they have in common as a clue, it connects past and future climates to understand them together.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yoshimori Lab consist of faculty members, project researchers, master's students, and administrative staff.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorMasakazu YoshimoriPublications ↗
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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: “Mosaic of the Arctic” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Climate Sensitivity and Climate Feedbacks: “2003 European Heatwave as seen by the CERES instrument (amf-01e31c23-a7b3-45b3-9730-7b323331d3fa)” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Mechanisms of Polar Climate Change: “Iceberg in the Arctic with its underside exposed” AWeith / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Past Climates and Future Projections: “Icecore 4” Photo by Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University. / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Imada Lab): “Cumulonimbus cloud ( )” contri / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Oka Lab (Division of Climate System Research)): “Deciphering the Maud Rise Polynya in normal color” NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen. / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Watanabe Lab): “Blue Marble Western Hemisphere” NASA / Reto Stöckli / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Kosaka Lab (Global Climate Dynamics)): “Himawari 8 Full Disk Aug Z” Himawari 8 satellite operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency / Public domain (cropped)
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