2006 - Ph.D., Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Dissertation title: Importance of Midlatitude Oceanic Frontal Zones for the General Circulation of the Extratropical Troposphere
2002 - M.S., Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University
of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2000 - B.S., Department of Earth and Planetary Physics, University
of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Research Interests
Climate dynamics
Large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction:
Formation and variability of storm
tracks and jet streams
Influence of oceanic frontal zones
on the atmospheric circulation system
Formation of (Meiyu-) Baiu front in
the Northwestern Pacific
Scientific Work Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST,
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2006–present
Research Assistant, Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2003–February 2006
Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
Refereed Publications
Sampe, T., and S.-P. Xie: Large-scale dynamics of the Meiyu-Baiu
rain band: Environmental forcing by the westerly jet. J. Climate,
in press.
Tokinaga, H., Y. Tanimoto, S.-P. Xie, T. Sampe, H. Tomita, and
H. Ichikawa, 2009: Ocean frontal effects on the vertical development
of clouds over the western North Pacific: In situ and satellite
observations. J. Climate, 22 (16), 4241–4260.
Xie, S.-P., K. Hu, J. Hafner, H. Tokinaga, Y. Du, G. Huang, and
T. Sampe, 2009: Indian Ocean capacitor effect on Indo-western
Pacific climate during the summer following El Nino. J. Climate,
22 (3), 730–747, DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2544.1.
Nakamura, H., T. Sampe, A. Goto, W. Ohfuchi, and S-P Xie, 2008:
On the importance of midlatitude oceanic frontal zones for the mean
state and dominant variability in the tropospheric circulation. Geophys. Res. Lett.,
35, L15709,
doi:10.1029/2008GL034010.
Sampe, T., and S.-P. Xie, 2008: Mapping high sea winds from space:
A global climatology. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88 (12), 1965–1978.
Nakamura, H., T. Sampe, Y. Tanimoto, and A. Shimpo, 2004: Observed
associations among storm tracks, jet streams and midlatitude oceanic
fronts. In Earth's Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction. C. Wang, S.-P. Xie and J.A. Carton
(eds.), AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, 147, 329–345.
Nakamura, H., T. Izumi, and T. Sampe 2002: Interannual and decadal
modulations recently observed in the Pacific storm track activity and
East Asian winter monsoon. J. Climate, 15, 1855–1874.
Nakamura, H., and T. Sampe, 2002: Trapping of synoptic-scale
disturbances into the North-Pacific subtropical jet core in midwinter.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (16), doi: 10.1029/2002GL015535.