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Current Affiliation

• • Associate Professor, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

• - Kamae Lab.

Research Interests

• • Cloud Feedback and Climate Sensitivity

  • Atmospheric rivers and extreme rainfall

  • Monsoon and Global Climate Variability

  • Paleoclimate Modeling (Pliocene) [Link]

Awards & Honours

• • Early-career encouragement award, University of Tsukuba, November 2024

  • Okada Award, Japan Weather Association, Sep 28, 2023 [Video]

  • Shono Medal (Mid-Career Researcher Award), Meteorological Society of Japan, May 20, 2023 "Research on variability of atmospheric general circulation based on understanding on mechanisms of fast climate response and research on atmospheric rivers" [Slide]

  • Outstanding Reviewer Award 2018, MDPI Atmosphere, January 29, 2019 [Link]

  • Early Career Researcher Distinguished Lecturer, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, August 3, 2016 "Uncertainty in Climate Sensitivity: Cloud Adjustment and Feedback" [Link] [Slide]

  • Yamamoto Medal (Early Career Researcher Award), Meteorological Society of Japan, October 22, 2014 "Physical processes responsible for tropospheric adjustment to increasing CO2 and its importance for climate change" [Slide]

Committee

• • AOGS Section Secretary in Atmospheric Sciences

  • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Editorial board member

  • Frontiers in Earth Science Community reviewer 

Referee

• • Nature Geoscience

  • Nature Climate Change

  • Nature Communications

  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

  • Scientific Reports

  • Scientific Data

  • Science Advances

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

  • Journal of Climate

  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

  • International Journal of Climatology

  • Climate Dynamics

  • Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

  • Climate of the Past

  • Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

  • Weather and Climate Extremes 

  • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

  • Theoretical and Applied Climatology

  • Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

  • Atmosphere-Ocean

  • Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

  • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

  • Frontiers in Earth Science 

  • Remote Sensing

  • Atmosphere

  • Journal of Geography

  • Advances in Climate Change Research

  • Earth Science Informatics

  • Acta Geophysica

  • Geophysical Research Letters

  • Environmental Research Letters

  • Environmental Research: Climate

  • Environmental Research Communications

  • Atmospheric Science Letters

  • SOLA

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

  • Geoscience Letters

Youichi KAMAE

Associate Professor

Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

E-mail: kamae.yoichi.fw(at)u.tsukuba.ac.jp