Masunaga Hirohiko

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate professor
Homepage URL (1)： http://precip.hyarc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~masunaga

Research field (1)： Atmospheric and hydrospheric science

Research theme for competitive and other funds (11)：

2019 - 2024 Uncertainties of climate variability and change and future projection in mid-latitudes
2019 - 2022 A thermodynamic mechanism for the maintenance of the moist-tropical margins
2016 - 2019 Intense investigation of the oxidation capacity of global atmosphere and its changes
2014 - 2018 Exploring methods to evaluate cloud-resolving models using satellite data simulators
2016 - 2018 Exploring methods to evaluate cloud-resolving models using satellite data simulators(Fostering Joint International Research)

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Papers (70)：

Hirohiko Masunaga. The Edge Intensification of Eastern Pacific ITCZ Convection. Journal of Climate. 2023. 36. 10. 3469-3480
Ito, M., Masunaga, H. Process-Level Assessment of the Iris Effect Over Tropical Oceans. Geophysical Research Letters. 2022. 49. 7
Hanii Takahashi, Matthew Lebsock, Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, Hirohiko Masunaga, Cindy Wang. Detection and Tracking of Tropical Convective Storms Based on Globally Gridded Precipitation Measurements: Algorithm and Survey over the Tropics. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 2021. 60. 3. 403-421
Hirohiko Masunaga, Christopher E. Holloway, Hironari Kanamori, Sandrine Bony, Thorwald H. M. Stein. Transient Aggregation of Convection: Observed Behavior and Underlying Processes. Journal of Climate. 2021. 34. 5. 1685-1700
Jeyavinoth Jeyaratnam, Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, Scott E. Giangrande, Dié Wang, Hirohiko Masunaga. A Satellite-Based Estimate of Convective Vertical Velocity and Convective Mass Flux: Global Survey and Comparison With Radar Wind Profiler Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 2021. 48. 1

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Books (1)：

Satellite measurements of clouds and precipitation : Theoretical basis
Springer 2022 ISBN:9789811922428

Education (2)：

1994 - 1999 University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science Department of Astronomy
1990 - 1994 University of Tokyo School of Science Department of Astronomy

Professional career (1)：

Work history (7)：

2015/10/01 - 現在 Nagoya University Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research Meteorological and Atmospheric Research Division Associate professor
2007/04/01 - 2015/09/30 Nagoya University Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center Division of Regional-Scale Water Cycle Processes Associate professor
2006/07/01 - 2007/03/31 Nagoya University Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center Division of Regional-Scale Water Cycle Processes Assistant Professor
2004/05 - 2006/06 Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science Research Scientist II,
2002/05 - 2004/04 Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science Postdoctoral Fellow

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Awards (2)：

2022 - Atmospheric Sciecne Librarians International (ASLI) ASLI Choice Award (Science and Technology) Satellite Measurements of Clouds and Precipitation: Theoretical Basis
2019/05 - Meteorological Society of Japan Meteorological Society of Japan Award "Studies of tropical convective dynamics by combined analysis of satellite observations"

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