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Humio Mitsudera

Researcher

International Pacific Research Center
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

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Education

1982, B.S., Tohoku University.
1984, M.S., Tohoku University.
1987, Ph.D., Tohoku University.

Research Experience

Research Associate of University of New South Wales, Australia (1987)
Research Scientist of CSIRO, Department of Atmospheric Research, Australia (1990)
Research Scientist of JAMSTEC (1993)
Group Leader, Frontier Research System for Global Change.
Visiting Researcher, SOEST, University of Hawaii.

Prizes

Okada Prize of the Oceanographic Society of Japan. "Studies on Effects of Friction and Nonlinear Evolution of Coastally Trapped Waves"

Refereed Publications

Donohue, K., E. Firing, D. Rowe, A. Ishida and H. Mitsudera: Equatorial Pacific Subsurface countercurrents: A model/data comparison in stream coordinates. J. Phys. Oceanogr., in press.
Jameson, L., T. Waseda, and H. Mitsudera: Scale utilization and optimization from wavelet analysis for data assimilation: SUgOiWADAi. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., in press.
Qu, T., H. Mitsudera, and T. Yamagata: Water exchange between the subtropical and equatorial oceans near the Philippine coast. Journal of Physical Oceanography, accepted.
Shinke, T., Y. Yoshikawa, T. Kamoshida, and H. Mitsudera: Analysis method for ocean acoustic tomography data using Kalman filter: Evaluation by identical twin experiment. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, in press.
Waseda, T., H. Mitsudera, B. Taguchi, and Y. Yoshikawa: On the eddy-Kuroshio interaction: Evolution of the meso-scale eddies. J. Geophys. Res., in press.
Waseda, T., and H. Mitsudera: Chaotic advection of the shallow Kuroshio coastal waters. J. Oceanogr., in press.
Qu, T., S.-P. Xie, H. Mitsudera, and A. Ishida, 2002: Subduction of the North Pacific mode waters in a global high-resolution GCM. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32 (3), 746-763.
Qu, T., H. Mitsudera, and B. Qiu, 2001: A climatological view of the Kuroshio/Oyashio system east of Japan. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 2575-2589.
Mitsudera, H., T. Waseda, Y. Yoshikawa, and B. Taguchi, 2001: Anticyclonic eddies and Kuroshio meander formation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2025-2028.
Qu, T., H. Mitsudera, and T. Yamagata, 2000: Intrusion of the North Pacific waters into the South China Sea. J. Geophy. Res., 105, 6415-6424.
Feng, M., H. Mitsudera, and Y. Yoshikawa, 2000: Structure and variability of Kuroshio current at the Tokara Strait. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 2257-2276.
Qu, T., H. Mitsudera, and T. Yamagata, 1999: A climatology of the circulation and water mass distribution near the Philippine coast. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 1488-1505.
Qu, T., H. Mitsudera, and T. Yamagata, 1998: On the western boundary currents in the Philippine Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 7537-7548.
Mitsudera, H., 1996: Studies on effects of friction and nonlinear evolution of coastally trapped waves. Journal of Oceanography, 5, 13-23.
Baines, P.G., S. Majumdar, and H. Mitsudera, 1996: The mechanism of the Tollmien-Schlichting wave. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 312, 107-124.
Kuroda, Y., and H. Mitsudera, 1995: Observation of internal tides in the East China Sea with an underwater sliding vehicle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 10,801-10,816.
Baines, P.G., and H. Mitsudera, 1994: On the mechanism of shear flow instabilities. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 276, 327-342.
Grimshaw, R., and H. Mitsudera, 1994: Slowly varying solitary wave solution of the perturbed Kortweg-de Vries equation revisited. Studies in Applied Mathematics, in press.
Mitsudera, H., 1994: Eddy solitary waves: a theory of type B cyclogenesis. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51, 3137-3154.
Mitsudera, H., and R. Grimshaw, 1994: Capture and resonant forcing of solitary waves by the interaction of a baroclinic current with topography. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 24, 2217-2244.
Mitsudera, H., and R. Grimshaw, 1993: Effects of friction on a localized structure in a baroclinic current. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 23, 2265-2292.
Baines, P.G., and H. Mitsudera, 1992: On the mechanism of shear flow instability in stratified fluids and boundary layers. Proceedings of 11th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 75-78.
Mitsudera, H., and P.G. Baines, 1992: Downslope gravity currents in a continuously stratified environment: a model of the Bass Strait outflow. Proceedings of 115h Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 1017-1020.
Mitsudera, H., and R. Grimshaw, 1991: Effects of radiative damping on resonantly generated internal gravity waves. Studies in Applied Mathematics, 84, 183-206.
Mitsudera, H., and R. Grimshaw, 1991: Generation of mesoscale variability by resonant interaction between a baroclinic current and localized topography. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 221, 737-765.
Mitsudera, H., and R. Grimshaw, 1990: Resonant forcing of coastally trapped waves in a continuously stratified ocean. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 133, 635-664.
Mitsudera, H., and K. Hanawa, 1989: Frictional coastal trapped waves in a two-layered ocean. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 198, 459-469.
Mitsudera, H., and K. Hanawa, 1988: Damping of coastal trapped waves due to bottom friction in a baroclinic ocean. Continental Shelf Research, 7, 113-129.
Mitsudera, H., and K. Hanawa, 1987: Effects of bottom friction on continental shelf waves. Continental Shelf Research, 7, 699-714.
Hanawa, K., and H. Mitsudera, 1986: Variation of water system distribution in the Sanriku coastal area. Journal of Oceanographical Society of Japan, 42, 435-466.
Hanawa, K., and H. Mitsudera, 1985: On daily average of oceanographic data. Coastal Oceanographic Bulletin, 23, 79-87.