Naoya TAKAHASHI

Biosketch 

Dr. Naoya Takahashi is an assistant professor at Faculty of Science, Niigata University. He has a strong background in the air-sea interaction of clouds, atmospheric circulation, and ocean. He earned D.Sc. in Geophysics from Tohoku University in 2020, under the guidance of Dr. Tadahiro Hayasaka. His dissertation focused on the air-sea interaction process of oceanic low-level clouds and sea surface temperature in the summertime North Pacific. Also, at the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) in University of Hawaii, Naoya was working on the ocean mixed layer dynamics and its role in the formation of sea surface temperature anomaly, as a postdoctral researcher collaborated with Dr. Kelvin Richards, Dr. Niklas Schneider, and many colleagues from IPRC and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). Naoya's work has been recognized with numerous awards and fellowships, including "Yamamoto Award from the Meteorological Society of Japan in 2021" and "Research Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2018".  My CV is here.

Research interests

• Air-Sea Interactions in the Tropics, Subtropics, and Mid-latitude

• Ocean Mixed Layer Dynamics

• Cloud Physics (e.g. Deep Convective Cloud, Cirrus, Stratocumulus, Stratus, Fog)

• Radiation and Energy Budget of the Earth

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Mar. 2020.

  • Advisor : Dr. Tadahiro Hayasaka

  • Dissertation : Interaction of low-level cloud and sea surface temperature around oceanic frontal region in summertime North Pacific 

• M.Sc., Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Mar. 2017.

  • Advisor : Dr. Tadahiro Hayasaka

  • Thesis : Differences in cloud properties between western and eastern tropical Pacific regions derived from CloudSat and CALIPSO measurements

• B. Sc., Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Mar. 2015.

*** Visiting student, IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa (2018/01-03. 2019/04-05 08-10), supervised with Dr. Bo Qiu, Dr. Kelvin Richards, and Dr. Niklas Schneider

Scientific Work Experiences

• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Apr 2024 - present

• Postdoctoral Researcher, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 2020-Mar. 2024

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Apr. 2020 - Sep. 2020

• JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2020

• Research Assistant, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Oct. 2015-Mar. 2020

Selected publications

• Naoya Takahashi, Kelvin Richards, Niklas Schneider, Malte Stuecker, H. Annamalai, and Masami Nonaka, 2023 : Observed relative contribution of anomalous heat fluxes and effective heat capacity to sea surface temperature variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103165, Link
  
  

• Naoya Takahashi, Kelvin Richards, Niklas Schneider, H. Annamalai, Wei-Ching Hsu, and Masami Nonaka, 2021: Formation mechanism of warm SST anomalies in 2010s around Hawaii, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2021JC017763, Link
  
  

• Naoya Takahashi, Tadahiro Hayasaka, Atsuyoshi Manda, and Niklas Schneider, 2020: Impact of Oyashio Extension SST front on Synoptic Variability of Oceanic Low-level Cloud in Summertime based on WRF Numerical Simulation, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, doi: 10.1029/2020JD032518, Link

Awards

• Yamamoto award, Meteorological Society of Japan, Dec. 2021   Link

• JSPS Research fellow (DC2), Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2020   Link

• Outstanding Student Presentation Awards, JpGU Meeting 2019, May 2019   Link

Link

• NAOS : Niigata university laboratory of Atmosphere and Ocean Systems

• Today's SST map (Climate Reanalyzer, University of Maine)

• Marine heat wave observation & forecast (NOAA PSL)

• UH weather

• International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii at Manoa

• Radiation and Cloud Physics (RCP) groups, Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Tohoku University