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Tomoki Tozuka

Tomoki Tozuka

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
5013
World Ranking
6888
National Ranking
196

Overview

Tomoki Tozuka is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on oceanography, global and planetary change, and atmospheric science, with additional work in geology and astronomy and astrophysics.

Tozuka's publications cover diverse topics including climate variability and models, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, marine and coastal ecosystems, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, geophysics and gravity measurements, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Frequent co-authors of Tozuka include:

  • Shoichiro Kido
  • Weiqing Han
  • Ming Feng
  • Yan Du
  • Wenju Cai

Tozuka's research has been published in several prominent venues, notably:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Scientific Reports

Selected recent papers include:

  • Thermocline Warming Induced Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole in 2019, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air-sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry, 2021, Ocean Science
  • A Road Map to IndOOS-2: Better Observations of the Rapidly Warming Indian Ocean, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Triggering the Indian Ocean Dipole From the Southern Hemisphere, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Sea level extremes and compounding marine heatwaves in coastal Indonesia, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

    Lisa M. Beal;Wilhelmus P. M. De Ruijter;Arne Biastoch;Rainer Zahn

  • Can Luzon Strait Transport Play a Role in Conveying the Impact of ENSO to the South China Sea

    Tangdong Qu;Yoo Yin Kim;Max Yaremchuk;Tomoki Tozuka

  • On the Ningaloo Niño/Niña

    Takahito Kataoka;Tomoki Tozuka;Swadhin Behera;Toshio Yamagata

  • Oceanic fronts and jets around Japan: A review

    Shinichiro Kida;Humio Mitsudera;Shigeru Aoki;Xinyu Guo

  • Seasonal Variation of the Seychelles Dome

    Takaaki Yokoi;Tomoki Tozuka;Toshio Yamagata

  • On the Growth and Decay of the Subtropical Dipole Mode in the South Atlantic

    Yushi Morioka;Tomoki Tozuka;Toshio Yamagata

  • Decadal modulations of the indian ocean dipole in the SINTEX-F1 coupled GCM

    Tomoki Tozuka;Jing-Jia Luo;Sebastien Masson;Toshio Yamagata

  • Thermocline Warming Induced Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole in 2019

    Yan Du;Yuhong Zhang;Lian-Yi Zhang;Tomoki Tozuka

  • Dramatic impact of the South China Sea on the Indonesian Throughflow

    Tomoki Tozuka;Tangdong Qu;Toshio Yamagata;Toshio Yamagata

  • Simulated Multiscale Variations in the Western Tropical Pacific: The Mindanao Dome Revisited

    Tomoki Tozuka;Takashi Kagimoto;Yukio Masumoto;Toshio Yamagata

  • Impacts of the South China Sea Throughflow on seasonal and interannual variations of the Indonesian Throughflow

    Tomoki Tozuka;Tangdong Qu;Yukio Masumoto;Yukio Masumoto;Toshio Yamagata;Toshio Yamagata

  • Climate variability in the southern Indian Ocean as revealed by self-organizing maps

    Yushi Morioka;Tomoki Tozuka;Toshio Yamagata

  • A road map to IndOOS-2: better observations of the rapidly warming Indian Ocean

    L. M. Beal;J. Vialard;M. K. Roxy;J. Li

  • Chlorophyll- a bloom along the southern coasts of Java and Sumatra during 2006

    I. Iskandar;S. A. Rao;T. Tozuka

  • Subtropical Dipole Modes Simulated in a Coupled General Circulation Model

    Yushi Morioka;Tomoki Tozuka;Sebastien Masson;Pascal Terray

  • Intraseasonal variations of surface and subsurface currents off Java as simulated in a high‐resolution ocean general circulation model

    Iskhaq Iskandar;Tomoki Tozuka;Hideharu Sasaki;Yukio Masumoto;Yukio Masumoto

  • The Atlantic Meridional Mode and Its Coupled Variability with the Guinea Dome

    Takeshi Doi;Tomoki Tozuka;Toshio Yamagata

  • Respective influences of IOD and ENSO on the Tibetan snow cover in early winter

    Chaoxia Yuan;Tomoki Tozuka;Takafumi Miyasaka;Toshio Yamagata

  • Heat balance and regime shifts of the mixed layer in the Kuroshio Extension

    Ichiro Yasuda;Tomoki Tozuka;Masayuki Noto;Shinya Kouketsu

  • A Sustained Ocean Observing System in the Indian Ocean for Climate Related Scientific Knowledge and Societal Needs

    J. C. Hermes;Y. Masumoto;Y. Masumoto;L. M. Beal;M. K. Roxy;M. K. Roxy

  • Locally and remotely forced atmospheric circulation anomalies of Ningaloo Niño/Niña

    Tomoki Tozuka;Takahito Kataoka;Toshio Yamagata

  • A modeling study of interannual variations of the Seychelles Dome

    Tomoki Tozuka;Takaaki Yokoi;Toshio Yamagata

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Yamagata
Toshio Yamagata Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yukio Masumoto
Yukio Masumoto University of Tokyo
Meghan F. Cronin
Meghan F. Cronin Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Weiqing Han
Weiqing Han University of Colorado Boulder
Jing-Jia Luo
Jing-Jia Luo Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Tangdong Qu
Tangdong Qu University of California, Los Angeles
Ming Feng
Ming Feng Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Swadhin K. Behera
Swadhin K. Behera Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yan Du
Yan Du Chinese Academy of Sciences

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