Refereed Papers
Yoshihiro Tachibana (Mie University)
June 24th, 2024
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Manda, A., Y. Tachibana,, H. Nakamura, T. Takikawa, A. Nishina, Q. Moteki, N. Zhao, and S. Iizuka, Intensive Radiosonde Observations of Environmental Conditions on the Development of a Mesoscale Convective System in the Baiu Frontal Zone, Earth and Space Science,11,e2023EA003486. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003486, 2024 (accepted)

Amano, M., Tachibana, Y., and Y. Ando, Consideration of whether a climatic regime shift has prevented the occurrence of a cold summer in northeast Eurasia since 2010, Journal of Climate, 36, 8059-8071, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0191.1, 2023

Tachibana, Y., M. Honda, H. Nishikawa, H. Kawase, H. Yamanaka, D. Hata,and Y. Kashino, High moisture confluence in Japan Sea polar air mass convergence zone captured by hourly radiosonde launches from a ship, Scientific Reports, 12, 22674, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23371-x , 2022

Overland, J. E., Baek-Min Kim, and Tachibana, Y, Communicating Arctic-Midlatitude Weather and Ecosystem Connections: Direct Observations and Sources of Intermittency, Environmental Research Letters, 16, 105006, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac25bc , 2021

Yasunari JTH, Nakamura KMK, Choi N, Lee MI, Tachibana Y, Silva AMD, Relationship between circum-Arctic atmospheric wave patterns and large-scale wildires in boreal summer, Environmental Research Letters, 16, 064009, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abf7ef , 2021

Nakanishi, T., Tachibana, Y., and Y. Ando, Possible semi-circumglobal teleconnection across Eurasia driven by deep convection over the Sahel, Climate Dynamics, 57, 2287-2299, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05804-x , 2021

Kawasaki, K., Tachibana, Y., T. Nakamura, and K. Yamazaki, Role of the cold Okhotsk Sea on the climate of the North Pacific subtropical high and Baiu precipitation, Journal of Climate, 34, 495-507, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0432.1 , 2020

Tachibana, Y., K. K. Komatsu, V. A. Alexeev, L. Cai, and Y. Ando, Warm hole in Pacific Arctic sea ice cover forced mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere cooling during winter 2017-18, Scientific Reports, 9, 5567, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41682-4 , 2019

Tachibana, Y., Y. Inoue, K. K. Komatsu, T. Nakamura, M. Honda, K. Ogata, and K. Yamazaki, Interhemispheric synchronization between the AO and the AAO, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 13477-13484, DOI:10.1029/2018GL081002 , 2018

Yamazaki, K., M. Ogi, Y. Tachibana, T. Nakamura, and K. Oshima, Recent breakdown of the seasonal linkage between the winter North Atlantic Oscillation/Northern Annular Mode and summer Northern Annular Mode, Journal of Climate,32, 591-605 DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0820.1 , 2018

Ando, Y., K. Yamazaki, Y. Tachibana, M. Ogi, and J. Ukita, Detection of a climatological short break in the polar night jet in early winter and its relation to cooling over Siberia, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18, 12639-12661, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12639-2018 , 2018

Oshima, K., K. Ogata, H. Park, and Y. Tachibana, Influence of atmospheric internal variability on the long-term Siberian water cycle during the past 2 centuries, Earth System Dynamics, 9, 497-506, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-497-2018 , 2018

Komatsu K. K., V. A. Alexeev, I. A. Repina, and Y. Tachibana, Poleward upgliding Siberian atmospheric rivers over sea ice heat up Arctic upper air, Scientific Reports, 8, 2872, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21159-6 , 2018

Fathrio, I., S. Iizuka, A. Manda,Y.-M. Kodama, S. Ishida, Q. Moteki, H. Yamada, and Y. Tachibana, Assessment of western Indian Ocean SST bias of CMIP5 models, Journal of Geophysical Research Ocean, 122, 3915-3936, doi:10.1002/2016JC012443. , 2017

Komatsu K. K. and Y. Tachibana, Two Types of Strong Local Wind Captured by Simultaneous Multiple-Site Radiosonde Soundings across a Mountain Range, Monthly Weather Review, 144, 3915-3936, DOI:10.1175/MWR-D-15-0347.1, 2016

Nishikawa H., Y. Tachibana, Y. Kawai, M, K. Yoshioka, and H, Nakamura, Evidence for SST-forced anomalous winds revealed from simultaneous radiosonde launches from three ships across the Kuroshio Extension front, Monthly Weather Review, 144, 3553-3567, DOI:10.1175/MWR-D-15-0442.1, 2016

Diawara A., Y. Tachibana, K. Oshima, H. Nishikawa, and Y. Ando, Synchrony of trend shifts in Sahel boreal summer rainfall and global oceanic evaporation, 1950–2012, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20, 3789-3798, doi:10.5194/hess-20-3789-2016, 2016

Iijima, Y., T. Nakamura, H. Park, Y. Tachibana, and A. N. Fedorov, Enhancement of Arctic storm activity in relation to permafrost degradation in eastern Siberia, International Journal of Climatology, 36, 4265-4275, DOI: 10.1002/joc.4629, 2016

Sato, K.,A. Manda,Q. Moteki, K. K. Komatsu, K. Ogata,H. Nishikawa, M. Oshika, Y. Otomi,S. Kunoki, H. Kanehara,T. Aoshima, K. Shimizu,J. Uchida, M. Shimoda, M. Yagi, S. Minobe, and Y. Tachibana, Influence of the Kuroshio on Mesoscale Convective Systems in the Baiu Frontal Zone over the East China Sea, Monthly Weather Review, 144, 1017-1032, DOI:10.1175/MWR-D-15-0139.1, 2016

Oshima, K., Y. Tachibana, and T. Hiyama, Climate and year-to-year variability of atmospheric and terrestrial water cycles in the three great Siberian rivers, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmosphere, 120, 3043-3062, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022489, 2015

Nakamura T., M. Oshika, M. Hara, and Y. Tachibana, Impact of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on the Western Pacific (WP) pattern in the following winter through Arctic sea ice and ENSO. Part II: Multi-model evaluation of the NAO-ENSO linkage, Climate Dynamics, 40, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2556-7, 2015 (View Article)

Kunoki, S., A. Manda, Y. M. Kodama, S. Iizuka, K. Sato, I. Fathrio, T. Mitsui, H. Seko, Q. Moteki, S. Minobe, Y. Tachibana, Oceanic influence on the Baiu frontal zone in the East China Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmosphere, 120, 449–463, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022234, 2015

Kawai, Y., T. Miyama, S. Iizuka, A. Manda, M. Yoshioka, S. Katagiri, Y. Tachibana and H. Nakamura, Marine atmospheric boundary layer and low-level cloud responses to the Kuroshio Extension sea surface temperature front in the early summer of 2012: Three-vessel simultaneous observations and numerical simulations, Journal of Oceanography, 71, 511–526, doi:10.1007/s10872-014-0266-0., 2015

Oshika, M., Y. Tachibana and T. Nakamura, Impact of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation on the Western Pacific pattern in the following winter through Arctic sea ice and ENSO. Part I: Observational evidence, Climate Dynamics, 45, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2384-1, 2015

Ando, Y., M. Ogi and Y. Tachibana, Abnormal winter weather in Japan during 2012 was controlled by large-scale atmospheric and small-scale oceanic phenomena, Monthly Weather Review, 143, 54-63, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00032.1, 2015 (PDF)

Nishikawa, H., Y. Tachibana, and Y. Udagawa, Radiosonde observational evidence of the impact of an extremely cold SST spot on a mesoscale anticyclone, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmosphere, 119, 9183-9195, doi: 10.1002/2014JD021538, 2014 (PDF)

Kasamo K, A. Isobe, S. Minobe, A. Manda , H. Nakamura, K. Ogata, H. Nishikawa, Y. Tachibana, S. Kako, Transient and local weakening of surface winds observed above the Kuroshio front in the winter East China Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmosphere, 119, 1277-1291, doi:10.1002/2013JD020610, 2014

Otomi, Y., Y. Tachibana, and T. Nakamura, A possible cause of the AO polarity reversal from winter to summer in 2010 and its relation to hemispheric extreme summer weather, Climate Dynamics, 40, 1939-1947, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1386-0, 2013

Munemoto, M. and Y. Tachibana, The recent trend of increasing precipitation in Sahel and the associated inter-hemispheric dipole of global SST, International Journal of Climatology, 32, 1346-1348, DOI: 10.1002/joc.2356, 2012

Hori, E. M, J. Inoue, T. Kikuchi, M. Honda, and Y. Tachibana, Recurrence of Intraseasonal Cold Air Outbreak during the 2009/2010 Winter in Japan and its Ties to the Atmospheric Condition over the Barents-Kara Sea, SOLA, 7, 25-28, 2011

Inoue, J., M. E. Hori, Y. Tachibana, and T. Kikuchi, A polar low embedded in a blocking high over the Pacific Arctic, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L14808, 2010

Tachibana, Y T. Nakamura, H. Komiya and M. Takahashi, Abrupt evolution of the summer Northern Hemisphere annular mode and its association with blocking, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D12125, doi:10.1029/2009JD012894 , 2010

Ogino S. Y., M. I. Nodzu, Y. Tachibana, J. Matsumoto, M. D. Yamanaka and A. Watanabe, Temperature inversions over the inland Indochina revealed by GAME-T enhanced rawinsonde observations, SOLA, 6, 5-8, 2010.

Udagawa, Y., Y. Tachibana, and K. Yamazaki, Modulation in interannual sea-ice patterns in the Southern Ocean in association with large-scale atmospheric mode shift, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D21103, doi:10.1029/2009JD011807, 2009

Takano, Y., Y. Tachibana, and K. Iwamoto, Influences of large-scale atmospheric circulation and local sea surface temperature on convective activity over the Sea of Japan in December, SOLA, 4, 113-116, doi.org/10.2151/sola.2008-029, 2008


Tachibana, Y., K. Iwamoto, H. Ogawa, M. Shiohara, K. Takeuchi, and M. Wakatsuchi, Observational study on atmospheric and oceanic boundary-layer structures accompanying the Okhotsk anticyclone under fog and non-fog conditions, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 86, 753-771, doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.86.753, 2008

Tachibana, Y., K. Oshima, and M. Ogi, Seasonal and interannualvariations of Amur River discharge and their relationships to large-scale atmospheric patterns and moisture fluxes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D16102, doi:10.1029/2007JD009555, 2008


Tachibana, Y., T. Nakamura, and N. Tazou, Interannual variation in snow-accumulation events in Tokyo and its relationship to the Eurasian pattern, SOLA, 3, 129-132, doi:10.2151/sola.2007‒033, 2007


Nakamura, T., Y. Tachibana, and H. Shimoda, Importance of cold and dry surges in substantiating the NAM and ENSO relationship, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L22703, doi:10.1029/2007GL031220, 2007


Iwasaki S., K. Maruyama, M. Hayashi, S. Y. Ogino, H. Ishimoto, Y. Tachibana, A. Shimizu, I. Matsui, N. Sugimoto, K. Yamashita, K. Saga, K. Iwamoto, Y. Kamiakito, A. Chabangborn, B. Thana, M. Hashizume, T. Koike, T. Oki, Characteristics of particle size distributions in the tropical tropopause based on optical particle counter and lidar measurements, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7, 1595-1622, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00223.x, 2007

Ukita J., M. Honda, H. Nakamura, Y. Tachibana, D. J. Cavalieri, C. L. Parkinson, H. Koide, and K. Yamamoto, Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Variability: Lag and Propagation, Tellus A, 59, 261-272, DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00223.x, 2007


Yamamoto, K., Y. Tachibana, M. Honda, and J. Ukita, Intra-seasonal relationship between the Northern Hemisphere sea ice variability and the North Atlantic Oscillation, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L14711, doi:10.1029/2006GL026286, 2006


Ogi, M. and Y. Tachibana, Influence of the annual Arctic Oscillation on the negative correlation between Okhotsk sea ice and Amur River discharge, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L08709, doi:10.1029/2006GL025838, 2006


Nakamura, T, Y. Tachibana, M. Honda, S. Yamane, Influence of the Northern Hemisphere annular mode on ENSO by modulating westerly wind bursts, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L07709, doi:10.1029/2005GL025432, 2006


Nodzu, M. I., Shin-Ya, Ogino, Y. Tachibana, M. D. Yamanaka, Climatological description of seasonal variations in lower-tropospheric inversion layers over the Indochina Peninsula, Journal of Climate, 19, 3307-3319,https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3792.1, 2006

Ogi, M., K. Yamazaki and Y. Tachibana, The summer northern annular mode and abnormal summer weather in 2003, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L04706, doi:10.1029/2004GL021528, 2005


Tachibana, Y., T. Iwamoto, and M. Ogi, Abnormal meridional temperature gradient and its relation to the Okhotsk high, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 82, 1399-1415, doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2004.1399, 2004


Ogi, M., K. Yamazaki and Y. Tachibana, The Summertime annular mode in the northern hemisphere and its linkage to the winter mode, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D20114, doi:10.1029/2004JD004514, 2004


Ogi., M., Y. Tachibana, and K. Yamazaki, The Connectivity of the Winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Summer Okhotsk high, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 82, 905-913, doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2004.905, 2004


Ogi., M., K. Yamazaki, and Y. Tachibana, Solar cycle modulation of the seasonal linkage of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 2170, doi:10.1029 /2003GL018545, 2003


Ogi., M., Y. Tachibana, and K. Yamazaki, Impact of the Wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on the Summertime Atmospheric Circulation, Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 1704, doi:10.1029/2003GL017280, 2003


Inoue, J., J. Ono, Y. Tachibana, M. Honda, K. Iwamoto, Y. Fujiyoshi, and K. Takeuchi, Characteristics of heat transfer over the ice covered Sea of Okhotsk during cold-air outbreaks, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 81, 1057-1067, 2003. (PDF)

Iwamoto, K., K. Domon, M. Honda, Y. Tachibana, and K. Takeuchi, Estimation of surface heat flux based on rawinsonde observation in the southwestern part of the Sea of Okhotsk under ice-covered condition, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 79, 687-694, 2001.

Ogi, M., Y. Tachibana, M. A. Danchenkov, and F. Nishio, Does the fresh water supply from the Amur River flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk affect sea ice formation? , Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 79, 123-129, doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.79.123, 2001


Aoki, Te., Aoki, Ta., Fukabori, M., Hachikubo, A., Y. Tachibana, F. Nishio, Effects of snow physical parameters on spectral albedo and bidirectional reflectance of snow surface, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105 , 10219-10236, 2000.

Zaizen, Y., Y. Tachibana et al, Size distribution of aerosols at Barrow in Alaska - a case study in spring, Polar Meteorology and Glaciology, 12, 40-48, 1998.

Aoki, Te, Y. Tachibana et al, Spectral albedo observation on the snow field at Barrow, Alaska, Polar Meteorology and Glaciology, 12, 1-9, 1998.

Honda, M., K. Yamazaki, Y. Tachibana, and K. Takeuchi, Influence of Okhotsk sea-ice extent on atmospheric circulation, Geophysical Research Letters, 23, 3595-3598, 1996

Tachibana, Y., M. Honda and K. Takeuchi, The Abrupt decrease of the sea ice over the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk in 1989 and its relation to the recent weakening of the Aleutian low, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 74, 579-584, doi.org/10.2151/jmsj1965.74.4_579, 1996


Tachibana, Y., A Statistical Study of the Snowfall Distribution on the Japan Sea Side of Hokkaido and Its Relation to Synoptic-Scale and Meso-Scale Environments, Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 73, 697- 715, 1995.

Uyeda, H., Y. Tachibana et al., Doppler Radar Observations on Structure and Characteristics of Tropical Clouds during the TOGA-COARE IOP in Manus, Papua New Guinea -- Outline of the Observation -- ,Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 73, 415-426, 1995.

Honda, M., Y. Tachibana and M. Wakatsuchi, The Influences of the Sea Ice and the Wind Field on the Winter Air Temperature Variation in Hokkaido, Polar Meteorology and Glaciology, 8, 81-94, 1994.

Fujiyoshi,Y., Y. Tachibana et al., Determination of a Z-R Relationship for Snowfall Using a Radar and High Sensitivity Snow Gauges, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 29, 147-152,1990.