Research field (1):
Atmospheric and hydrospheric science
Research keywords (3):
planetary meteorology
, geophysical fluid dynamics
, atmospheric general circulation
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2014 - 2018 Re-consideration on the atmospheric circulation on an aquaplanet: toward the proposal of a new model intercomparison, APE2
2010 - 2016 Basin scale atmosphere and ocean interaction
2009 - 2011 Research on the representation of precipitation structure in general circulation models based on the results of the Aqua-Planet Experiment Project
Papers (38):
Motoki Sumi, Shin-ichi Takehiro, Wataru Ohfuchi, Hideko Nomura, Yuka Fujii. Superrotation of Titan’s Stratosphere Driven by the Radiative Heating of the Haze Layer. The Astrophysical Journal. 2022. 928. 2. 149-149
Hiroki Kashimura, Norihiko Sugimoto, Masahiro Takagi, Yoshihisa Matsuda, Wataru Ohfuchi, Takeshi Enomoto, Kensuke Nakajima, Masaki Ishiwatari, Takao M. Sato, George L. Hashimoto, et al. Planetary-scale streak structure reproduced in high-resolution simulations of the Venus atmosphere with a low-stability layer. Nature Communications. 2019. 10. 1
Kei KUMAGAI, Kaito SASAKI, Kensei ASANO, Sakuya TANIZAWA, Jumpei YAMANAKA, Wataru OHFUCHI. An SIR model simulation study on effect of vaccination speed. 2022. 10. 17-26
Kashimura H., Sugimoto N., Takagi M., Ando H., Imamura T., Matsuda Y., Enomoto T., Ohfuchi W., Hashimoto G. L., Ishiwatari M., et al. Road to the first star : Venus orbiter from Japan (36) - Numerical simulations and data assimilations with AFES-Venus -. Planetary People - The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences. 2018. 27. 4. 314-319
Kensuke Nakajima, Seiya Nishizawa, Masatsugu Odaka, Yoshiyuki O.Takahashi, Wataru Ohfuchi, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Masaki Ishiwatari, Shin-ichi Takehiro, Hisashi Yashiro, Yousuke Sato, et al. Numerical study on small scale vortices in Mars's lower atmosphere. Fundamental Aspects of Geophysical Turbulence III. 2018
Understanding Roles of Oceanic Fine Structures in Climate and Its Variability(4). Annual report of the Earth Simulator Center. 2013. 11-16
Study of the superrotation of Titan's stratosphere using a general circulation model with simple radiative processes
(Workshop on Venus and other related atmosphere 2024)
Ph.D. (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) (Princeton University)
M.A. (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) (Princeton University)
M.Sc. (Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences) (Nagoya University)
B.S. (Geophysics) (The University of Tokyo)
Awards (1):
2002/10 - Gordon Bell Prize for Peak Performance A 26.58 Tflops global atmospheric simulation with the spectral transform method on the Earth Simulator.