気象庁気象研究所
全球大気海洋研究部 第四研究室
〒300-0052 茨城県つくば市長峰1-1
y-kawakami [at] mri-jma.go.jp
専門分野
専門は海洋物理学です.
北太平洋の物理場の変動を, 観測資料解析や海洋モデル実験により調べています.
また, 海洋学の観点から気候変動についても研究しています.
研究テーマ
黒潮/黒潮続流の変動
親潮の変動
海面水温の変動
表層水塊の変動
大気海洋相互作用
研究成果(査読付原著論文)
Usui, N., Hirose, N., Sakamoto, K., Asai, H., Nishikawa, S., Igarashi, H., Kawakami, Y., Aoki, K., Nakano, H., and Ishikawa, Y. (2026):
Four-dimensional variational ocean reanalysis for the seas around Japan over 60 years (FORA-JPN60):Part I - system configuration and basic performance.
Journal of Oceanography, in press.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-026-00795-x
Aoki, K., Nakano, H., Hirose, N., Usui, N., Sakamoto, K., Toyoda, T., Urakawa, S., and Kawakami, Y. (2026):
Application of variational autoencoder-based clustering for geophysical fluid circulations with small smaple size.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 3, e2025JH001051
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JH001051
Ushijima, Y., Sakamoto, K., Yagi, K., Kawakami, Y., Togawa, H., Sasaki, H., and Fukuda, Y. (2026):
Marine heatwave around Japan over the past four decades: links to interannual-to-decadal variability of sea surface temperature.
Journal of Oceanography, in press
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-026-00787-x
Ushijima, Y., Nakano, H., Sakamoto, K., Mizuta, R., Kawakami, Y., and Tsujino, H. (2026):
Upper-ocean warming in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean due to the intensified Kuroshio Extension in the eddying model compared to the non-eddy-resolving model.
Journal of Climate, 39, 1015-1031
https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-25-0060.1
Kawakami, Y., Hirose, N., Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Aoki, K., Hirahara, S., and Toyoda, T. (2026):
Oceanic cool spot formed off Boso Peninsula in the late June 2022.
Journal of Oceanography, 82, 109-118
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-025-00768-6
Toyoda, T., Urakawa, L. S., Sakamoto, K., Kawakami, Y., Aoki, K., Nakano, H., Takaya, Y., Toyama, K., Kosugi, N., Kitamura, Y., and Ishii, M. (2025):
Sensitivity of the Arctic sea ice representation to the ice thickness category resolution in an OGCM.
Journal of Oceanography, 81, 273-288
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-025-00748-w
Sugimoto, S., Kojima, A., Sakamoto, T., Kawakami, Y., and Nakano, H. (2025):
Influence of Extreme Northward Meandered Kuroshio Extension during 2023–2024 on Ocean-Atmosphere Conditions in the Sanriku offshore region, Japan
Journal of Oceanography, 81, 203-215
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-025-00747-x
Toyoda, T., Hirose, N., Sakamoto, K., Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Kawakami, Y., Aoki, K., Yamagami, A., Ushijima, Y., Usui, N., Yamanaka, G., Nakayama, T., In, T., Kuji, T., Kofuji, H., and Tanaka, T. (2025):
Bottom topography effect on the seasonal mode generation of the Tsugaru Warm Current.
Journal of Climate, 38, 1791-1811
https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0124.1
Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Aoki, K., Kawakami, Y., and Hirahara, S. (2025):
On the speeding up and accuracy of the Second Order Moment (SOM) advection scheme using a mixed-precision method.
Ocean Modeling, 194, 102495
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2024.102495
Kawakami, Y., Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Toyoda, T., Aoki, K., Hirose, N., and Usui, N. (2025):
Temporal changes of the Oyashio water distribution east of Japan under the changing climate: development of an objective evaluation method and its application.
Journal of Oceanography, 81, 5-21
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-024-00727-7
Kawakami, Y., Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Toyoda, T., Sakamoto, K., Nishikawa, S., Sugiyama, T., Kurogi, M., Ishikawa, Y., Sato, K., and Yamanaka, G. (2024):
Future changes in marine heatwaves based on high-resolution ensemble projections for the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Journal of Oceanography, 80, 177-195
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-024-00714-y
Toyoda, T., Sakamoto, K., Toyota, T., Tsujino, H., Urakawa, L. S., Kawakami, Y., Yamagami, A., Komatsu, K. K., Yamanaka, G., Tanikawa, T., Shimada, R., and Nakano, H. (2024):
Improvements of sea ice thermodynamics with variable sea ice salinity and melt pond parameterizations in an OGCM.
Ocean Modelling, 187, 102288
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2023.102288
Kawakami, Y., Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Toyoda, T., Aoki, K., and Usui, N. (2023):
Northward shift of the Kuroshio Extension during 1993-2021.
Scientific Reports, 13, 16223
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43009-w
Toyoda, T., Urakawa, L. S., Aiki, H., Nakano, H., Shindo, E., Yoshimura, H., Kawakami, Y., Yamagami, A., Ushijima, Y., Harada, Y., Kobayashi, C., Tomita, H., Tozuka, T., and Yamanaka G. (2023):
Effective generation mechanisms of tropical instability waves as represented by high-resolution coupled atmosphere-ocean prediction experiments.
Scientific Reports, 13, 14742
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41159-5
Sakamoto, K., Nakano, H., Urakawa, S., Toyoda, T., Kawakami, Y., Tsujino, H., and Yamanaka, G. (2023):
Reference manual for the Meteorological Research Institute Community Ocean Model version 5 (MRI.COMv5).
Technical Reports of the Meteorological Research Institute, 87
https://doi.org/10.11483/mritechrepo.87
Kawakami, Y., Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Toyoda, T., Sakamoto, K., Yamanaka, G., and Sugimoto, S. (2023):
Cold- versus warm-season-forced variability of the Kuroshio and North Pacific subtropical mode water.
Scientific Reports, 13, 256
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26879-4
Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Sakamoto, K., Toyoda, T., Kawakami, Y., and Yamanaka, G. (2023):
Long-term sea-level variability along the coast of Japan during the 20th century revealed by a 1/10° OGCM.
Journal of Oceanography, 79, 123-143
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-022-00671-4
Kawakami, Y., Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Toyoda, T., Sakamoto, K., Yoshimura, H., Shindo, E., and Yamanaka, G. (2022):
Interactions between ocean and successive typhoons in the Kuroshio region in 2018 in atmosphere-ocean coupled model simulations.
Journal of Geophysical Research: oceans, 127, e2021JC018203
https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018203
Kawakami, Y., Kojima, A., Murakami, K., Nakano, T., and Sugimoto S. (2022):
Temporal variations of net Kuroshio transport based on a repeated hydrographic section along 137°E.
Climate Dynamics, 59, 1703-1713
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-06061-8
Toyoda, T., Sakamoto, K., Usui, N., Hirose, N., Tanaka, K., Katsumata, T., Takahashi, D., Niki, M., Kutsuwada, K., Miyama, T., Nakano, H., Urakawa, L. S., Komatsu, K. K., Kawakami, Y., and Yamanaka G. (2021):
Surface-layer circulations in Suruga Bay induced by intrusions of Kuroshio branch water.
Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 721500
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.721500
Kawakami, Y., Kitamura, Y., Nakano, T., and Sugimoto, S. (2020):
Long‐term thermohaline variations in the North Pacific subtropical gyre from a repeat hydrographic section along 165°E.
Journal of Geophysical Research: oceans, 125, e2019JC015382
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015382
Kawakami, Y., Sugimoto, S., and Suga, T. (2016):
Inter-annual zonal shift of the formation region of the lighter variety of the North Pacific Central Mode Water.
Journal of Oceanography, 72, 225-234
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-015-0325-1
発表/講演 等
川上雄真:
北西太平洋上層の海洋循環・水塊の変動と変化に関する研究
2025年度日本海洋学会秋季大会, 函館, 2025年9月
Kawakami, Y.:
Ocean current changes in the western North Pacific.
The Second International Scientific Symposium of the CSK-2*, Sendai, Nov. 2024
*CSK-2 : 2nd Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and its Adjacent Regions
川上雄真, 中野英之, 浦川昇吾, 豊田隆寛, 青木邦弘, 碓氷典久, 杉本周作:
北西太平洋の海流変動と海洋熱波.
2024年度日本海洋学会秋季大会, 東京, 2024年9月
川上雄真, 中野英之, 豊田隆寛, 坂本圭, 浦川昇吾, 杉本周作:
船舶観測, アルゴフロート, および数値モデルを用いた黒潮と水塊の時間変動の研究.
日本地球惑星科学連合2023年大会, 千葉, 2023年5月
競争的資金等の研究課題
海洋異常昇温と気候災害の統合的理解が示す北太平洋中緯度の「気候新常態」
科研費, 基盤研究 (B), 2026年4月ー2030年3月, 研究分担者
黒潮大蛇行と海洋極端現象の過去・現在・未来: 予測可能性と海洋生物資源への影響
科研費, 学術変革領域研究 (A) ハビタブル日本, 計画研究, 2024年4月ー2029年3月, 研究分担者
日本の沿岸湧昇の実態解明 ~熱収支解析を用いた大気・海洋変動の影響評価
科研費, 基盤研究 (C), 2024年4月ー2027年3月, 研究分担者
黒潮海流系に対する大規模大気・海洋変動の影響評価
科研費, 研究活動スタート支援, 2021年8月ー2024年3月, 研究代表者