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Terrestrial and Marine Biosphere Ecology Lab (Yoshiki Fukutomi)
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A lab exploring the circulation of water and materials across land and ocean.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding Earth's climate through land and ocean circulation
The lab studies how energy, water, and materials move through terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
Alongside field observations at multiple sites, it also uses global atmospheric reanalysis data, satellite data, and numerical simulations.
The lab's page lists the Hydroclimatology Lab and the Oceanography Lab.
In the faculty list, the research fields of Project Associate Professor Yoshiki Fukutomi are given as meteorology, climatology, atmospheric general circulation, and monsoons.
Key terms
- Coupled atmosphere–land surface model
- A model that combines the atmosphere and the land surface for numerical analysis
- Asian monsoon
- The monsoon (seasonal wind) system seen in Asia. Its variability also strongly affects weather and climate in Japan
- Moored instrument
- An instrument fixed in place in the ocean to make time-series observations
ResearchResearch themes
The terrestrial and marine realms of Earth's surface help form and sustain the climate system through the circulation of energy, water, and other materials. This lab studies the transport of energy and water and the cycling of materials in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, from the regional to the global scale.
*Illustrative imageWater and energy cycles on land
The lab observes the transport of energy, water, and materials in tropical and boreal forests, and analyzes it numerically with coupled atmosphere–land surface models. Using atmospheric reanalysis data, it examines the atmospheric water cycle and the terrestrial water cycle together, and analyzes Asian monsoon variability from the diurnal cycle up to climate change timescales.
*Illustrative imageSurface ocean ecosystems and material transport
In marginal seas and coastal areas such as the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, the lab focuses on the effects of river water inflow influenced by human activity and of typhoons, and studies lower trophic level ecosystems in the surface ocean through satellite observation, oceanographic observation, and numerical modeling. It also studies the transport of biogenic materials from the surface to the mid-depth and deep ocean, using time-series observation with moored instruments and isotope analysis.
MembersFaculty
- Project Associate ProfessorYoshiki Fukutomi
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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: “Earth Observation (iss069e054648)” NASA Johnson Space Center / Sultan Alneyadi / Public domain (cropped)
- Water and energy cycles on land: “CSIRO ScienceImage 3830 Tropical rainforest canopy near Cairns QLD” Willem van Aken, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Surface ocean ecosystems and material transport: “Hooking of buoy for mooring recovery (OOI 738)” Kim Kenny, OSU. / Public domain (cropped)
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