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Michio Kawamiya is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and Earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and oceanography.

The scientist's recent work includes notable publications such as:

  • Two decades of Earth system modeling with an emphasis on Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC), 2020, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Development of the MIROC-ES2L Earth system model and the evaluation of biogeochemical processes and feedbacks, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • The Climate Response to Emissions Reductions Due to COVID-19: Initial Results From CovidMIP, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • PMIP4 experiments using MIROC-ES2L Earth system model, 2021, Geoscientific model development

They frequently co-author with researchers including Tomohiro Hajima, Kaoru Tachiiri, Michio Watanabe, A. Yamamoto, and Hiroaki Tatebe.

The scientist publishes regularly in several key venues, among which are:

  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Biogeosciences
  • Research Square

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their work further delves into specific subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Main research topics explored by the scientist are:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Best Publications

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • MIROC-ESM 2010: model description and basic results of CMIP5-20c3m experiments

    S. Watanabe;T. Hajima;K. Sudo;T. Nagashima

  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models

    Vivek K. Arora;Anna Katavouta;Anna Katavouta;Richard G. Williams;Chris D. Jones

  • Development of the MIROC-ES2L Earth system model and the evaluation of biogeochemical processes and feedbacks

    Tomohiro Hajima;Michio Watanabe;Akitomo Yamamoto;Hiroaki Tatebe

  • Twenty-First-Century Compatible CO2 Emissions and Airborne Fraction Simulated by CMIP5 Earth System Models under Four Representative Concentration Pathways

    Chris Jones;Eddy Robertson;Vivek Arora;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • C4MIP – The Coupled Climate–Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project: Experimental protocol for CMIP6

    Chris D. Jones;Vivek K. Arora;Pierre Friedlingstein;Laurent Bopp

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;K. Alexander;K. Zickfeld

  • Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: A model intercomparison

    Andrew J. Weaver;Jan Sedláček;Michael Eby;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Evaluation of spatially explicit emission scenario of land-use change and biomass burning using a process-based biogeochemical model

    Etsushi Kato;Tsuguki Kinoshita;Akihiko Ito;Michio Kawamiya

  • An ecological-physical coupled model applied to Station Papa

    Michio Kawamiya;Michio J. Kishi;Yasuhiro Yamanaka;Nobuo Suginohara

  • Causes and implications of persistent atmospheric carbon dioxide biases in Earth System Models

    Forrest M Hoffman;Forrest M Hoffman;James T. Randerson;Vivek K. Arora;Qing Bao

  • Roles of the Okhotsk Sea and Gulf of Alaska in forming the North Pacific Intermediate Water

    Yuzhu You;Nobuo Suginohara;Masao Fukasawa;Ichiro Yasuda

  • Two decades of Earth system modeling with an emphasis on Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC)

    Michio Kawamiya;Tomohiro Hajima;Kaoru Tachiiri;Shingo Watanabe

  • Possible change in distribution of seaweed, Sargassum horneri, in northeast Asia under A2 scenario of global warming and consequent effect on some fish

    Teruhisa Komatsu;Masahiro Fukuda;Atsuko Mikami;Shizuha Mizuno

  • Set-up of the PMIP3 paleoclimate experiments conducted using an Earth system model, MIROC-ESM

    T. Sueyoshi;R. Ohgaito;A. Yamamoto;M. O. Chikamoto

  • The Climate Response to Emissions Reductions due to COVID-19: Initial Results from CovidMIP

    Chris D. Jones;Jonathan Hickman;Steven T Rumbold;Jeremy Walton

  • Impact of rapid sea-ice reduction in the Arctic Ocean on the rate of ocean acidification

    Akitomo Yamamoto;Akitomo Yamamoto;Akitomo Yamamoto;M. Kawamiya;A. Ishida;A. Ishida;Y. Yamanaka;Y. Yamanaka

  • PMIP4 experiments using MIROC-ES2L Earth system model

    Rumi Ohgaito;Akitomo Yamamoto;Tomohiro Hajima;Ryouta O'ishi

  • Geographical distribution of the feedback between future climate change and the carbon cycle

    Chisato Yoshikawa;Chisato Yoshikawa;Michio Kawamiya;Tomomichi Kato;Yasuhiro Yamanaka;Yasuhiro Yamanaka

  • An ecosystem model for the North Pacific embedded in a general circulation model: Part I: Model description and characteristics of spatial distributions of biological variables

    Michio Kawamiya;Michio J. Kishi;Nobuo Suginohara

  • Development of an Atmospheric General Circulation Model for Integrated Earth System Modeling on the Earth Simulator

    Shingo Watanabe;Hiroaki Miura;Miho Sekiguchi;Tatsuya Nagashima

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Shingo Watanabe
Shingo Watanabe Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Dai Yamazaki
Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo
Etsushi Kato
Etsushi Kato Institute of Applied Energy
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Masakazu Yoshimori
Masakazu Yoshimori University of Tokyo
Tomomichi Kato
Tomomichi Kato Hokkaido University
Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Yasuhiro Yamanaka Hokkaido University
Seita Emori
Seita Emori University of Tokyo

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