Research Project

Current Project

Arctic climate: ArCS II


Period: 2020/06/01-2025/03/31 (5 yrs)
Fund: MEXT-Japan
Title: ArCS II
PI: Meiji Honda (Niigata University)
Role: Sub-theme PI, Co-Investigator
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Paleoclimate: Methane variations for the last 10 kyrs


Period: 2020/04/01-2024/03/31 (4 yrs)
Fund: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Title: 「両極の氷床コアと全球気候植生モデルによる過去1万年のメタン濃度の変動要因の解明」
PI: Ikumi Oyabu (National Institute of Polar Research)
Role: Co-Investigator
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Future climate: Global warming and climate feedbacks


Period: 2019/04/01-2022/03/31 (3 yrs)
Fund: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Title: Elucidation of climate feedback codependency towards fundamental theory of global warming
PI: Masakazu Yoshimori (The University of Tokyo)
Role: Principlal Investigator
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Paleoclimate: CO2 variations over the last 6 Myrs


Period: 2019/06/26-2024/03/31 (5 yrs)
Fund: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
Title: Reconstruction of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration during the last 6 million years and the study of the interaction between atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate
PI: Masanobu Yamamoto (Hokkaido University)
Role: Co-Investigator
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Paleoclimate: Interactions of ice sheets, oceans, and atmosphere


Period: 2017/05/31-2022/03/31 (5 yrs)
Fund: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
Title: 「過去の大規模な気候変動における氷床・海洋・大気の相互作用の解明」
PI: Ayako Abe-Ouchi (The University of Tokyo)
Role: Co-Investigator
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Antarctic climate: Giant Reservoirs - Antarctic


Period: 2017/-2021/03 (5 yrs)
Fund: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
Grand title: Giant reservoirs of heat/water/material: Global environmental changes driven by the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Project leader: Kenji Kawamura (National Institute of Polar Research)
Title: Integrative modeling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, ocean, and climate
PI: Ayako Abe-Ouchi (The University of Tokyo)
Role: Co-Investigator
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Climate model: Tougou


Period: 2017/-present
Fund: MEXT-Japan
Grand title: Integrated Research Program for Advancing Climate Models
Title: Area Theme A, Prediction and Projection of Large-Scale Climate Changes Based on Advanced Model Development
PI: Masahiro Watanabe (Theme leader，The University of Tokyo)
Role: Collaborator
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Former Project

Arctic climate: ArCS


Period: 2015/09-2020/03 (5 yrs)
Fund: MEXT-Japan
Grand title: Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS)
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PI: Hiroyasu Hasumi (JAMSTEC)
Role: Collaborator
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Arctic climate: GRENE


Period: FY2011-FY2015 (5 years)
Fund: GRENE Arctic Climate Change Research Project
Grand Title: Rapid Change of the Arctic Climate System and its Global Influences
Title: (1) Improvement of coupled general circulation models based on validations of Arctic climate reproducibility and on mechanism analyses of Arctic climate change and variability
PI: Toru Nozawa (Okayama University)
Role: Collaborator (2011-2014), Co-Investigator (2015-2016)
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Tropical climate: Teleconnection from mid-high latitudes to the tropics


Period: 2015/04/01-2018/03/31 (3 yrs)
Fund: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Title: Elucidation of teleconnection mechanism from extratropics to tropics in the future climate change
PI: Masakazu Yoshimori (Hokkaido University)
Role: Principlal Investigator
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S10


Period: FY2012-FY2016 (5 yrs)
Fund: The Environmental Research and Technology Development Fund of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Grand title: Comprehensive Research on the Development of Global Climate Change Risk Management Strategies
Title: S-10-3 Research on critical climate change risks, (4) Climate change risk identification around the Cryosphere and generalization of a geophysical risk identification
PI: Ayako Abe-Ouchi (The University of Tokyo)
Role: Collaborator (FY2012-FY2013: Project research associate)
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S5


Period: F2007-FY2011 (5 yrs)
Fund: The Environmental Research and Technology Development Fund of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Grand title: Integrated Research on Climate Change Scenarios to Increase Public Awareness and Contribute to the Policy Process
Title: S-5-1 Developing and Communicating Comprehensive Climate Change Scenarios, (5) Drawing the future of cryosphere and sea levels based on climate change scenarios
PI: Ayako Abe-Ouchi (The University of Tokyo)
Role: Collaborator (Postdoctoral fellow, Project research associate)
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Climate model: Sousei


Period: H24〜H28
Fund: MEXT-Japan
Grand title: Program for Risk Information on Climate Change
Title: Prediction anddiagnosis of imminent global climate change
PI: Masahide Kimoto (Theme leader, The University of Tokyo)
Role: Collaborator
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Paleoclimate: Abrupt climate change


Period: 2013/04/01-2016/03/31 (3 years)
Fund: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Title: Understanding the interaction between abrupt climate change and glacial cycle using earth system modeling
PI: Ayako Abe-Ouchi (The University of Tokyo)
Role: Co-Investigator
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Paleoclimate: Glacial-interglacial cycles


Period: 2009/05/11-2014/03/31
Fund: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (S)
Title: Elucidation of glacial-interglacial variations based on Antarctic ice core analysis and climate modeling
PI: Kenji Kawamura (National Institute of Polar Research)
Role: Co-Investigator
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Paleoclimate: Japan-France partnership


Period: 2009/04/01-2011/03/31 (2 yrs)
Fund: JSPS, Bilateral Joint Research Project
Title: Research on large melting of ice sheets and climate change from the past to the future
PI: Ayako Abe-Ouchi (The University of Tokyo) - Gilles Ramstein (France, CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research)
Role: Participant on Japanese side
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AMOC


Period: 2013/09-2016/08 (3 yrs)
Fund: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), ESS
Title: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) - Mechanisms and Decadal Predictability
PI: Andreas Schmittner（Oregon State University, USA）
Role: Collaborator
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Rutgers


Period: 2005/01-2007/03
Fund: NOAA
Title: Evaluation of Fingerprints of Natural and Anthropogenic Climate Change
PI: Anthony J. Broccoli (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Role: Postdoctoral fellow

Bern


Period: 2002/01-2004/12
Fund: Swiss National Science Foundation, National Centre of Competence in Research Climate (NCCR Climate)
Title: Past Climate Variability (Work Package 1), MONALISA: Modelling and Reconstruction of the North Atlantic-Climate System Variability
PI: Thomas F. Stocker（University of Bern, Switzerland）
Role: Postdoctoral fellow

Victoria


Period: 1997/09-2001/12
Fund: The Climate System History and Dynamics (CSHD) Program
Title: Paleoclimatic experiments using coupled atmosphere ocean models
PI: Andrew J. Weaver (University of Victoria, BC, Canada)
Role: PhD student