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Hideharu Sasaki is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant concentration in Environmental Science. Sasaki's work spans several subfields, including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics, emphasizing Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Hideharu Sasaki has published extensively, with key papers including:

  • Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Generation Mechanisms of Submesoscale Currents in the Northeastern South China Sea Revealed by Numerical Simulations, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • A global eddying hindcast ocean simulation with OFES2, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Seasonal Modulation of Submesoscale Kinetic Energy in the Upper Ocean of the Northeastern South China Sea, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Atmospheric-Driven and Intrinsic Interannual-to-Decadal Variability in the Kuroshio Extension Jet and Eddy Activities, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Interannual Variations of Submesoscale Circulations in the Subtropical Northeastern Pacific, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

Sasaki frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including Masami Nonaka, Yoshikazu Sasai, Ryo Furue, Bo Qiu, and Zhiwei Zhang.

Publications by Sasaki appear regularly in a range of venues, demonstrating a broad dissemination of their work. The main publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Ocean Dynamics
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography

The body of work from Hideharu Sasaki contributes to the understanding of dynamic ocean processes and atmospheric interactions, including the development and use of numerical simulations and modeling approaches for oceanic and atmospheric phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Upper Ocean Turbulence from High-Resolution 3D Simulations

    Patrice Klein;Bach Lien Hua;Guillaume Lapeyre;Xavier Capet

  • Observational evidence of alternating zonal jets in the world ocean

    Nikolai A. Maximenko;Bohyun Bang;Hideharu Sasaki

  • Impact of oceanic-scale interactions on the seasonal modulation of ocean dynamics by the atmosphere

    Hideharu Sasaki;Patrice Klein;Bo Qiu;Yoshikazu Sasai

  • An Eddy-Resolving Hindcast Simulation of the Quasiglobal Ocean from 1950 to 2003 on the Earth Simulator

    Hideharu Sasaki;Masami Nonaka;Yukio Masumoto;Yoshikazu Sasai

  • Decadal Variability of the Kuroshio Extension: Observations and an Eddy-Resolving Model Hindcast*

    Bunmei Taguchi;Shang Ping Xie;Niklas Schneider;Masami Nonaka

  • South China Sea throughflow: A heat and freshwater conveyor

    Tangdong Qu;Yan Du;Hideharu Sasaki

  • Seasonal Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddy Variability along the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen;Patrice Klein;Hideharu Sasaki

  • Observational evidence of alternating zonal jets in the world ocean

    N. A. Maximenko;K. J. Richards;B. Bang;H. Sasaki

  • Decadal Variability in the Kuroshio–Oyashio Extension Simulated in an Eddy-Resolving OGCM

    Masami Nonaka;Hisashi Nakamura;Youichi Tanimoto;Takashi Kagimoto

  • Stationary mesoscale jet-like features in the ocean

    Nikolai A. Maximenko;Oleg V. Melnichenko;Oleg V. Melnichenko;Pearn P. Niiler;Hideharu Sasaki

  • Oceanic fronts and jets around Japan: A review

    Shinichiro Kida;Humio Mitsudera;Shigeru Aoki;Xinyu Guo

  • Zonal jets in the Pacific Ocean

    K. J. Richards;N. A. Maximenko;F. O. Bryan;H. Sasaki

  • Seasonal heat budget in the mixed layer of the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean in a high-resolution ocean general circulation model

    Yan Du;Tangdong Qu;Gary Meyers;Yukio Masumoto

  • Intraseasonal variability in sea surface height over the South China Sea

    Wei Zhuang;Shang-Ping Xie;Dongxiao Wang;Bunmei Taguchi

  • Multiple causes of interannual sea surface temperature variability in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    Ingo Richter;Swadhin K. Behera;Yukio Masumoto;Bunmei Taguchi

  • Effect of El Niño on migration and larval transport of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)

    Heeyong Kim;Shingo Kimura;Akira Shinoda;Takashi Kitagawa

  • Diagnosis of vertical velocities in the upper ocean from high resolution sea surface height.

    P. Klein;J. Isern-Fontanet;G. Lapeyre;G. Roullet

  • Generation of the North Equatorial Undercurrent Jets by Triad Baroclinic Rossby Wave Interactions

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen;Hideharu Sasaki

  • SSH Wavenumber Spectra in the North Pacific from a High-Resolution Realistic Simulation

    Hideharu Sasaki;Patrice Klein

  • Wind-Generated Power Input to the Deep Ocean: An Estimate Using a 1/10° General Circulation Model

    Jin-Song von Storch;Hideharu Sasaki;Jochem Marotzke

Frequent Co-Authors

Yukio Masumoto
Yukio Masumoto University of Tokyo
Bo Qiu
Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Niklas Schneider
Niklas Schneider University of Hawaii at Manoa
Patrice Klein
Patrice Klein California Institute of Technology
Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Hisashi Nakamura
Hisashi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Kelvin J. Richards
Kelvin J. Richards University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nikolai Maximenko
Nikolai Maximenko University of Hawaii at Manoa
Toshio Yamagata
Toshio Yamagata Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Yasuhiro Yamanaka Hokkaido University

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