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Overview

Ichiro Fukumori is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Environmental Science.

Their work covers specialized subfields including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Molecular Biology. Key topics investigated by Fukumori include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Climate change and permafrost.

Several recent publications demonstrate the scope and focus of their research. These include:

  • Synopsis of the ECCO Central Production Global Ocean and Sea-Ice State Estimate, Version 4 Release 4 (2021) published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Sea Surface Salinity as a Proxy for Arctic Ocean Freshwater Changes (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Local and Remote Forcing of Interannual Sea-Level Variability at Nantucket Island (2022) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Synopsis of the ECCO Central Production Global Ocean and Sea-Ice State Estimate, Version 4 Release 4 (2020) published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Influence of Nonseasonal River Discharge on Sea Surface Salinity and Height (2022) published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Fukumori are Ou Wang, Ian Fenty, Rui M. Ponte, Gaël Forget, and Patrick Heimbach.

Fukumori's research is often published in specific scientific venues, with the most common being Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Journal of Physical Oceanography, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other venues include Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems and OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads.

Best Publications

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • Using Green's Functions to Calibrate an Ocean General Circulation Model

    Dimitris Menemenlis;Ichiro Fukumori;Tong Lee

  • An approximate Kaiman filter for ocean data assimilation: An example with an idealized Gulf Stream model

    Ichiro Fukumori;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli

  • Effects of the Indonesian Throughflow on the Pacific and Indian Oceans

    Tong Lee;Ichiro Fukumori;Dimitris Menemenlis;Zhangfan Xing

  • Atmospheric and oceanic excitation of the Earth's wobbles during 1980–2000

    Richard S. Gross;Ichiro Fukumori;Dimitris Menemenlis

  • The Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by the ECCO-Consortium

    Carl Wunsch;Patrick Heimbach;Rui Ponte;Ichiro Fukumori

  • A Partitioned Kalman Filter and Smoother

    Ichiro Fukumori

  • Nature of global large‐scale sea level variability in relation to atmospheric forcing: A modeling study

    Ichiro Fukumori;Ramanujam Raghunath;Lee‐Lueng Fu

  • DISTINGUISHING THE ROLES OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENICALLY FORCED DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY Implications for Prediction

    Amy Solomon;Lisa M. Goddard;Arun Kumar;James Carton

  • Deep-ocean contribution to sea level and energy budget not detectable over the past decade

    W. Llovel;J. K. Willis;F. W. Landerer;I. Fukumori

  • NASA Supercomputer Improves Prospects for Ocean Climate Research

    D. Menemenlis;C. Hill;A. Adcrocft;J.-M. Campin

  • The Origin, Pathway, and Destination of Niño-3 Water Estimated by a Simulated Passive Tracer and Its Adjoint

    Ichiro Fukumori;Tong Lee;Benny Cheng;Dimitris Menemenlis

  • Interruption of two decades of Jakobshavn Isbrae acceleration and thinning as regional ocean cools

    Ala Khazendar;Ian G. Fenty;Dustin Carroll;Alex Gardner

  • Assimilation of TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data into a global ocean circulation model: How good are the results?

    Ichiro Fukumori;Ramanujam Raghunath;Lee-Lueng Fu;Yi Chao

  • Recent Earth oblateness variations: unraveling climate and postglacial rebound effects.

    Jean O. Dickey;Steven L. Marcus;Olivier de Viron;Ichiro Fukumori

  • Record warming in the South Pacific and western Antarctica associated with the strong central‐Pacific El Niño in 2009–10

    Tong Lee;William R. Hobbs;Joshua K. Willis;Daria Halkides

  • Interannual-to-Decadal Variations of Tropical–Subtropical Exchange in the Pacific Ocean: Boundary versus Interior Pycnocline Transports

    Tong Lee;Ichiro Fukumori

  • Assimilation of Sea Surface Topography into an Ocean Circulation Model Using a Steady-State Smoother

    Ichiro Fukumori;Jéroôme Benveniste;Carl Wunsch;Dale B. Haidvogel

  • Atmospheric and oceanic excitation of length-of-day variations during 1980–2000

    Richard S. Gross;Ichiro Fukumori;Dimitris Menemenlis;Pascal Gegout

  • State estimation improves prospects for ocean research

    Detlef Stammer;C. Wunsch;I. Fukumori;J. Marshall

  • Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by the ECCO-Consortium

    Carl Wunsch;Patrick Heimbach;Rui M. Ponte;Ichiro Fukumori

  • Concepts and Terminology for Sea Level: Mean, Variability and Change, Both Local and Global (vol 40, pg 1251, 2019)

    Jonathan M Gregory;Stephen M Griffies;Chris W Hughes;Jason A Lowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Tong Lee
Tong Lee California Institute of Technology
Rui M. Ponte
Rui M. Ponte Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Dimitris Menemenlis
Dimitris Menemenlis California Institute of Technology
Patrick Heimbach
Patrick Heimbach The University of Texas at Austin
Detlef Stammer
Detlef Stammer Universität Hamburg
Lee-Lueng Fu
Lee-Lueng Fu Jet Propulsion Lab
Armin Köhl
Armin Köhl Universität Hamburg
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Tangdong Qu
Tangdong Qu University of California, Los Angeles
Keith Haines
Keith Haines University of Reading

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