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Shoshiro Minobe

Shoshiro Minobe

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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
8896
World Ranking
7804
National Ranking
229

Overview

Shoshiro Minobe is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography, with additional contributions to Nature and Landscape Conservation and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics within climate and environmental studies. These include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and fisheries research

Minobe has published research in multiple venues, notably Frontiers in Marine Science and the Journal of Climate, with additional publications appearing in Nature Climate Change, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Journal of Oceanography. Frequent collaboration partners include Malcolm Roberts, Rein Haarsma, Dian Putrasahan, Enrico Scoccimarro, and Laurent Terray.

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on understanding climate dynamics and ocean-atmosphere interactions. Selected recent papers are:

  • "Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Ocean Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Influence on Large-Scale Climate: A Review," 2023, Journal of Climate
  • "Marine Heatwave of Sea Surface Temperature of the Oyashio Region in Summer in 2010-2016," 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Diurnal Cycles of Precipitation and Lightning in the Tropics Observed by TRMM3G68, GSMaP, LIS, and WWLLN," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Relations between Interannual Variability of Regional-Scale Indonesian Precipitation and Large-Scale Climate Modes during 1960-2007," 2020, Journal of Climate

Best Publications

  • The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

    Matthew Newman;Matthew Newman;Michael A. Alexander;Toby R. Ault;Kim M. Cobb

  • A 50-70 year climatic oscillation over the North Pacific and North America

    Shoshiro Minobe

  • Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere

    Shoshiro Minobe;Akira Kuwano-Yoshida;Nobumasa Komori;Shang-Ping Xie

  • Air–sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies

    R.J. Small;R.J. Small;S.P. deSzoeke;S.P. deSzoeke;S.P. Xie;L. O’Neill;L. O’Neill

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

    Clara Deser;Flavio Lehner;Keith B. Rodgers;Toby R. Ault

  • Resonance in bidecadal and pentadecadal climate oscillations over the North Pacific : Role in climatic regime shifts

    Shoshiro Minobe

  • North Pacific regime shifts: Definitions, issues and recent transitions

    James Overland;Sergei Rodionov;Shoshiro Minobe;Nicholas Bond

  • Spatio-temporal structure of the pentadecadal variability over the North Pacific

    Shoshiro Minobe

  • Upper ocean O2 trends: 1958–2015

    Takamitsu Ito;Shoshiro Minobe;Matthew C. Long;Curtis Deutsch

  • Atmospheric Response to the Gulf Stream: Seasonal Variations*

    Shoshiro Minobe;Masato Miyashita;Akira Kuwano-Yoshida;Hiroki Tokinaga

  • Permanent El Niño during the Pliocene warm period not supported by coral evidence

    Tsuyoshi Watanabe;Atsushi Suzuki;Shoshiro Minobe;Tatsunori Kawashima

  • The atmospheric frontal response to SST perturbations in the Gulf Stream region

    Rhys Parfitt;Arnaud Czaja;Shoshiro Minobe;Akira Kuwano-Yoshida

  • Interannual to interdecadal changes in the Bering Sea and concurrent 1998/99 changes over the North Pacific

    S Minobe

  • Interdecadal modulation of interannual atmospheric and oceanic variability over the North Pacific

    Shoshiro Minobe;Nathan Mantua

  • Storm-Track Response to SST Fronts in the Northwestern Pacific Region in an AGCM

    Akira Kuwano-Yoshida;Shoshiro Minobe

  • Interdecadal variations in Japanese sardine and ocean/climate

    Ichiro Yasuda;Hiroya Sugisaki;Yoshiro Watanabe;Sho‐Shiro Minobe

  • Interannual to Interdecadal Variability in the Japan Sea Based on a New Gridded Upper Water Temperature Dataset

    Shoshiro Minobe;Akinori Sako;Makoto Nakamura

  • Precipitation Response to the Gulf Stream in an Atmospheric GCM

    Akira Kuwano-Yoshida;Shoshiro Minobe;Shang-Ping Xie

  • Response of Storm Tracks to Bimodal Kuroshio Path States South of Japan

    Hirohiko Nakamura;Ayako Nishina;Shoshiro Minobe

  • Decadal Response of the Kuroshio Extension Jet to Rossby Waves: Observation and Thin-Jet Theory*

    Yoshi N. Sasaki;Shoshiro Minobe;Niklas Schneider

  • Marine Heatwave of Sea Surface Temperature of the Oyashio Region in Summer in 2010–2016

    Toru Miyama;Shoshiro Minobe;Hanako Goto

Frequent Co-Authors

Niklas Schneider
Niklas Schneider University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Hisashi Nakamura
Hisashi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Curtis Deutsch
Curtis Deutsch Princeton University
Nicole S. Lovenduski
Nicole S. Lovenduski University of Colorado Boulder
Clara Deser
Clara Deser National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jennifer E. Kay
Jennifer E. Kay University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Toby R. Ault
Toby R. Ault Cornell University
Nathan J. Mantua
Nathan J. Mantua National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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