What becomes of the general circulation of the atmosphere of a planet,
if its solar constant, its radius, its rotation rate, its gravitational
acceleration and so on are different from those of the Earth? I am pursuing
such an issue by observing an idealistic atmosphere generated virtually
in a numerical computer with the help of collaborators distributed over
the Internet. This is an effort to locate the atmospheric circulations
of Earth, Mars, Venus and outer planets as particular realizations on a
wide parameter space, and consequently to recognize necessity and/or contingency
of those states. This is also an attempt to verify and deepen the understandings
of the Earth's atmosphere, since all of the knowledge on the present Earth's
atmosphere must be thrown out to speculate a possible atmospheric state
which might be realized under the conditions of the planets other than
the Earth, past or future of those planets, and virtual planets without
any real substances. It may be worth notifying that, they are not unrealistic
chimeras at all since many exosolar planets have been discovered.
Structures of planetary atmospheres; thermal structures, convection and general circulations of the atmospheres.
Computation and information meteorology; development of simulation models for geophysical fluids and planetary atmospheres, development of analysis and visualization tools for multidimensional numerical data.
Recent Publications:
How waves and turbulence maintain the super-rotation of Venus' atmosphere.
Takeshi Horinouchi, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi, Shigeto Watanabe, Manabu Yamada, Atsushi Yamazaki, Toru Kouyama, Makoto Taguchi, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Masahiro Takagi, Kazunori Ogohara, Shin-ya Murakami, Javier Peralta, Sanjay S. Limaye, Takeshi Imamura, Masato Nakamura, Takao M. Sato, Takehiko Satoh, Science 368(6489) 405-409 2020年4月
Noda, S., Ishiwatari, M., Nakajima, K., Takahashia, Y.O., Takehiro, S.,
Onishi, M., Hashimoto, G.L., Kuramoto, K., Hayashi, Y.-Y., The circulation pattern
and day-night heat transport in the atmosphere of a synchronously rotating aquaplanet:
dependence on planetary rotation rate. Icarus, 282, 1--18. (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.09.004.
Noda, S., Ishiwatari, M., Nakajima, K., Takahashia, Y.O., Takehiro, S.,
Onishi, M., Hashimoto, G.L., Kuramoto, K., Hayashi, Y.-Y., The circulation pattern
and day-night heat transport in the atmosphere of a synchronously rotating aquaplanet:
dependence on planetary rotation rate. Icarus, 282, 1--18. (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.09.004.
Yamashita, T., Odaka, M., Sugiyamac, K., Nakajima, K., Ishiwatari, M., Nishizawa, S., Takahashi, Y.O., Hayashi, Y.-Y.,
A Numerical Study of Convection in a Condensing CO2 Atmosphere under Early Mars-Like Conditions. J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 4151--4169. (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0132.1
Nishizawa, S., Odaka, M., Takahashi, Y.O., Sugiyama, K., Nakajima, K., Ishiwatari, M., Takehiro, S., Yashiro, H., Sato, Y., Tomita, H., Hayashi, Y.-Y.,
Martian dust devil statistics from high$B!>(Bresolution large$B!>(Beddy simulations. Geohys. Res. Ret., 43, 4180--4188. (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068896
Sugiyama, K., Nakajima, K., Odaka, M., Kuramoto, K., Hayashi, Y.-Y.,
Numerical simulations of Jupiter’s moist convection layer:
structure and dynamics in statistically steady states.
Icarus, 229, 71--91. (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2013.10.016.
Nakajima, K., Yamada, Y., Takahashi Y. O.,
Ishiwatari, M., Ohfuchi, W., Hayashi, Y.-Y.,
The variety of spontaneously generated tropical precipitation patterns
found in APE results.
J. Met. Soc. Japan, 91A, 91-141. (2013)
Nakajima, K., Yamada, Y., Takahashi Y. O.,
Ishiwatari, M., Ohfuchi, W., Hayashi, Y.-Y.:
The variety of forced atmospheric structure
in response to tropical SST amonaly
in the Aqua-planet experiments.
J. Met. Soc. Japan, 91A, 143-193. (2013)
Ishiwatari, M., Toyoda, E., Morikawa, Y., Takehiro, S.,
Sasaki, Y., Nishizawa, S., Odaka, M., Otobe, N.,
Takahashi, Y. O., Nakajima, K., Horinouchi, T.,
Shiotani, M., Hayashi, Y.-Y.,
Gtool development group, "Gtool5":
a Fortran90 library of input/output interfaces
for self-descriptive multi-dimensional numerical data,
Geosci. Model Dev., 5, 449-455. (2012)
doi:10.5194/gmd-5-449-2012