Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Tomonori Sato

Affiliation:
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science
Hokkaido University, Japan
Mailing address:
North 10 West 5, Sapporo, 060-0810 JAPAN
Phone: +81-11-706-2288, Fax: +81-11-706-4867
E-mail: t_sato@ees.hokudai.ac.jp

Research InterestAtmosphere-Earth surface (land and ocean) interactions
Precipitation variability from sub-daily to decadal timescales
Regional climate modeling and dynamical downscaling
Asian monsoon system including the role of Tibetan Plateau in multiple timescales

Education
 1999, B.S. (Meteorology and Climatology), University of Tsukuba, Japan 2001, M.S. (Meteorology and Climatology), University of Tsukuba, Japan 2005, Ph.D. (Meteorology and Climatology), University of Tsukuba, Japan Title: Numerical study on the formation mechanism of the arid climate in northeastern Asia

(Advisor: Prof. Fujio Kimura)Academic career April 2002 – May 2005, Technician, Japan Science and Technology Agency
 June 2005 – March 2006, Research fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (PI: Prof.

Michiaki Sugita) April 2006 – November 2007, Research fellow, Center for climate system research, University ofTokyo (Advisor: Prof. Masaki Satoh) December 2007 – March 2009, Project assistant professor, Center for climate system research,
University of Tokyo (Project PIs: Prof. Teruyuki Nakajima and Prof. Masahide Kimoto) April 2009 – December 2012, Assistant professor (Tenure track), Faculty of Environmental Earth
Science, Hokkaido University
 January 2013 – onward, Associate professor, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science,
Hokkaido University
 July 2018 – onward, Visiting researcher, The National Research Institute for Earth Science andDisaster Resilience (NIED), Japan
 March 2010 – June 2010, Visiting researcher, Department of Geography, University ofCalifornia Los Angeles (Advisor: Prof. Yongkang Xue)

Teaching and supervision
 Supervision of 47 graduate students (from 10 countries) including 7 PhDs since 2009
 Classes
 Advanced Course in Hydrological Cycle
 Advanced Course in Climate Change Impacts
 Advanced lecture in natural environmental studies
 Field Work in Integrated Observation

Academic services

2014-onward: Editor of Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan (ONLINE ISSN: 2186-9057,
PRINT ISSN: 0026-1165)
2022-onward: Guest editor of Progress in Earth and Planetary Science: “Water-carbon cycles andterrestrial changes in the Arctic and subarctic regions”
2017-2019: Guest editor of Atmosphere: special issue on "Regional Climate Modeling" (ISSN
2073-4433; CODEN: ATMOCZ)
Co-chair of the organizing committee for GEWEX Open Science Conference 2024 in Sapporo

Journal reviews


Journal of Climate, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
Journal of Hydrometeorology, Nature communications, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, Climate Dynamics, International Journal of
Climatology, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Journalof Hydrology, SOLA, Hydrological Research Letters, Scientific Reports, Progress in Earth andPlanetary Science, Polar Science, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Atmospheres, Advances in
Atmospheric Sciences

Refereed Publications
 Senzaki, M., K. Tamura, Y. Watanabe, M. Watanabe, and T. Sato, 2024: Rare bird forecast: a combined approach
using a long-term dataset of an arctic seabird and a numerical weather prediction model, Ecology and Evolution,
14, e11388, DOI:10.1002/ece3.11388
 Zhang, Y. Y. Pan, Y. Xue, I. Diallo, X. Zeng, S. Li, J. D. Neelin, W. K. M. Lau, A. A. Boone, F. Vitart, T. Yao, Q.
Tang, T. Sato, M.-S. Koo, C. Ardilouze, S. K. Saha, J. Yang, S. Materia, Z. Lin, X. Qi, Y. Qin, T. Nakamura, P.
Nobre, D. Peano, R. Senan, Y. Takaya, H. Wang, H. Zhang, Y. Zhan, M. Zhao, C. R. Mechoso, Q. Bao, M. J.
Bottino, S. Hong, Y. Lin, S. Xie, X. Pan, H. P. Nayak, S. C. Chou, and W. Guo, 2024: Near-global summer
circulation response to the spring surface temperature anomaly in Tibetan Plateau --the GEWEX/LS4P first phase
experiment. Clim. Dyn., DOI:10.1007/s00382-024-07210-5
 Takahashi, G.H., S. Sugimoto, and T. Sato, 2024: Impact of spring land-surface conditions over the Tibetan
Plateau on the early summer Asian monsoon using an AGCM large ensemble, Clim. Dyn.,
DOI:10.1007/s00382-023-07077-y

 Tang, J., Y. Xue, M. Long, M. Ma, X-Z Liang, S. Sugimoto, K. Yang, Z. Ji, J. Hong, J. Kim, H. Xu, X. Zhou, T.
Sato, H.G. Takahashi, S. Wang, G. Wang, S.C. Chou, W. Guo, M. Yu, X. Pan, 2023: Regional Climate Model
Intercomparison

over

the

TibetanPlateauinthe

GEWEX/LS4P

Phase

I,

Clim.

Dyn.,

DOI:10.1007/s00382-023-06992-4.

 Zhou, X., T. Sato, and S. Li, 2023: Interannual Variation of the Warm Arctic-Cold Eurasia Pattern Modulated by
Ural Blocking and the North Atlantic Oscillation under Changing Sea Ice Conditions, Progress in Earth andPlanetary Science, 10, 59. DOI:10.1186/s40645-023-00591-x

 Li, S., T. Sato, T. Nakamura, and W. Guo, 2023: East Asian summer rainfall stimulated by subseasonal Indian
monsoonal heating, Nature Communications, 14, 5932, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41644-5

 Xue Y., I. Diallo, A. A. Boone, Y. Zhang, X. Zeng, W. K.M. Lau, J. D. Neelin, T. Yao , Q. Tang , T. Sato, M.-S.
Koo, F. Vitart, C. Ardilouze, S. K. Saha, S. Materia, Z. Lin, Y. Takaya, J. Yang, T. Nakamura, X. Qi, Y. Qin, P.
Nobre, R. Senan, H. Wang, H. Zhang, M. Zhao, H. P. Nayak, Y. Pan, X. Pan, J. Feng, C. Shi, S. Xie, M. A. Brunke,
Q. Bao, M. J. Bottino, T. Fan, S. Hong, Y. Lin, D. Peano, Y. Zhan, C. R. Mechoso, X. Ren, G. Balsamo, S. C.
Chou, P. de Rosnay, P. J. van Oevelen, D. Klocke, M. Ek, X. Li, W. Guo, Y. Zhu, J. Tang, X.-Z. Liang, Y. Qian, P.
Zhao, 2023: Remote effects of Tibetan Plateau spring land temperature on global subseasonal to seasonalprecipitation prediction and comparison with effects of sea surface temperature: The GEWEX/LS4P Phase I
experiment. Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-023-06905-5

 Tamura, K. and T. Sato, 2023: Localized strong warming and humidification over winter Japan tied to sea ice
retreat, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL103522, DOI:10.1029/2023GL103522

 Terao, T., S. Kanae, H. Fujinami, S. Das, A. P. Dimri, S. Dutta, K. Fujita, A. Fukushima, K.J. Ha, M. Hirose, J.
Hong, H. Kamimera, R. B. Kayastha, M. Kiguchi. K. Kikuchi, H. M. Kim, A. Kitoh, H. Kubota, W. Ma, Y. Ma, M.
Mujumdar, M. I. Nodzu, T. Sato, Z. Su, S. Sugimoto, H. G. Takahashi, Y. Takaya, S. Wang, K. Yang, S. Yokoi, andJ. Matsumoto, 2023: AsiaPEX: Challenges and Prospects in Asian Precipitation Research, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,
104, E884-E908, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0220.1

 Sato, T., T. Nakamura, Y. Iijima, and T. Hiyama, 2022: Enhanced Arctic moisture transport toward Siberia
in autumn revealed by tagged moisture transport model experiment, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science,
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00310-1
 Sugimoto, S., Xue, Y., Sato, T., and H. G. Takahashi, 2022: Influence of convective processes on Weather
Research

andForecastingmodel

precipitationbiases

over

East

Asia,

Clim.

Dyn.,

DOI:10.1007/s00382-022-06587-5
 Fujinami, H., Sato, T., Kanamori, H., and M. Kato, 2022: Nocturnal Southerly Moist Surge Parallel to the
Coastline

over

the

Western

BayofBengal.

Geophys.

Res.

Lett.,

49,

e2022GL100174,

DOI:10.1029/2022GL100174
 Xue, Y., Diallo, I. Boone, A.A., Yao, T., Zhang, Y., Zeng, X., Neelin, J.D., Lau, W.K.M., Pan, Y., Liu, Y.,
Pan, X., Tang, Q.,van Oevelen, P.J., Sato, T., Koo, M.S., Materia, S., Shi, C., Yang, J., Ardilouze, C., Lin, Z.,
Qi, X., Nakamura, T., Saha, S.K., Senan, R., Takaya, Y., Wang, H., Zhang, H., Zhao, M., Nayak, H.P., Chen,
Q.,, Feng, J., Brunke, M.A., Fan, T., Hong, S., Nobre, P., Peano, D., Qin, Y., Vitart, F., Xie, S., Zhan, Y.,
Klocke, D., Leung, R., Li, X., Ek, M., Guo, W., Balsamo, G., Bao, Q., Chou, S.C., de Rosnay, P., Lin, Y.,
Zhu, Y., Qian, Y., Zhao, P., Tang, J., Liang, X-Z., Hong, J., Ji, D.,, Ji, Z., Qiu, Y., Sugimoto, S., Wang, W.,
Yang, K., Yu, M., 2022: Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer
Precipitation -Initialization and Improved Prediction. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., accepted.
 Tamura, K. and T. Sato, 2022: Decrease of winter cyclone passage over Northern Japan due to the reductionin the regional cyclogenesis associated with cold air outbreak, Int. J. Climatol., DOI:10.1002/joc.7667, inpress.
 Hatsuzuka, D., and T. Sato, 2022: Impact of SST on present and future extreme precipitation in Hokkaido
investigatedconsidering

weatherpatterns,

J.

Geophys.

Res.

-Atmos.,127,e2021JD036120,

DOI:10.1029/2021JD036120.
 Nakamura, T., and T. Sato, 2022: A Possible Linkage of Eurasian Heat Wave and East Asian Heavy Rainfall
in Relation to the Rapid Arctic Warming. Env. Res., 209, 112881, DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2022.112881

 Li, S., T. Sato, T. Nakamura, X. Liu, W. Guo, 2021: Controlling factors of historical variation of winterTibetan Plateau snow cover revealed by large-ensemble experiments. J. Geophys. Res. -Atmos., 127,e2021JD035127, DOI:10.1029/2021JD035127.
 Sugimoto, S., K. Ueno, H. Fujinami, T. Nasuno, T. Sato, and H. G. Takahashi, 2021: Cloud-resolving-model
simulations of nocturnal precipitation over the Himalayan slopes and foothills, J. Hydrometeor., 22,3171-3188, DOI:10.1175/JHM-D-21-0103.1.
 Islam, M. A. and T. Sato, 2021: Influence of terrestrial precipitation on the variability of extreme sea levels
along the coast of Bangladesh. Water, 13, 2915; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13202915
 Fujinami, H. K. Fujita, N. Takahashi, T. Sato, H. Kanamori, S. Sunako, and R. B. Kayashtha, 2021:
Twice-daily monsoon precipitation maxima in the Himalayas driven by land surface effects. J. Geophy. Res.
-Atmos., 126, e2020JD034255, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD034255.
 Xue, Y., Yao, T., Boone, A. A., Diallo, I., Liu, Y., Zeng, X., Lau, W. K.-M., Sugimoto, S., Tang, Q., Pan, X.,
van Oevelen, P. J., Klocke, D., Koo, M.-S., Sato, T., Lin, Z., Takaya, Y., Ardilouze, C., Saha, S. K., Zhao,
M., Liang, X.-Z., Vitart, F., Li, X., Zhao, P., Neelin, D., Guo, W., Yu, M., Qian, Y., Shen, S. S. P., Zhang, Y.,
Yang, K., Leung, R., Yang, J., Qiu, Y., Brunke, M. A., Chou, S. C., Ek, M., Fan, T., Guan, H., Lin, H., Liang,
S., Materia, S., Nakamura, T., Qi, X., Senan, R., Shi, C., Wang, H., Wei, H., Xie, S., Xu, H., Zhang, H.,
Zhan, Y., Li, W., Shi, X., Nobre, P., Qin, Y., Dozier, J., Ferguson, C. R., Balsamo, G., Bao, Q., Feng, J.,
Hong, J., Hong, S., Huang, H., Ji, D., Ji, Z., Kang, S., Lin, Y., Liu, W., Muncaster, R., Pan, Y., Peano, D., de
Rosnay, P., Takahashi, H. G., Tang, J., Wang, G., Wang, S., Wang, W., Zhou, X., and Zhu, Y., 2021: Impact
of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, PhaseI(LS4P-I):

Organization

andExperimental

design.

Geosci.

Model

Dev.,

14,

4465-4494,

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4465-2021.
 Sakurai, H., M. Yamamoto, O. Seki, T. Omori, and T. Sato, 2021: Cellulose oxygen isotopes of Sphagnum
and vascular plants in a peat core reveal climate change in northern Japan over the past 2,000 years,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009597, DOI:10.1029/2020GC009597.
 Lucas, K. R. E., T. Sato*, M. Ohba, 2021: Hourly variation of wind speeds in the Philippines and its
potential impact on the stability of the power system, Energies, 14, 2310. doi: 10.3390/en14082310.
 Hatsuzuka, D., T. Sato, and Y. Higuchi, 2021: Sharp rises in large-scale, long-duration precipitation
extremes with higher temperatures over Japan. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4, 29.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00184-9
 Tamura, K., and T. Sato, 2020: Responses of polar mesocyclone genesis to topographic forcing along theeastern coast of Eurasian continent, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 98. 1261-1277, DOI:10.2151/jmsj.2020-065.
[Track data] Tamura, K., and T. Sato, 2021: Track data of mesocyclones around Hokkaido
created by using numerical experiments. Meteorological Society of Japan. Dataset. DOI:
10.34474/data.jmsj.14431202.v2

 Nagai, S., A. Kotani, T. Sato, A. Sugimoto, T. C. Maximov, A. Nogovitcyn, Y. Miyamoto, H. Kobayashi, S.
Tei, 2020: Direct measurement of leaf area index in a deciduous needle-leaf forest, eastern Siberia, Polar
Science, 25, 100550, DOI:10.1016/j.polar.2020.100550
 Hatsuzuka, D., T. Sato, K. Yoshida, M. Ishii, R. Mizuta, 2020: Regional projection oftropical-cyclone-induced extreme precipitation around Japan based on large ensemble simulations, SOLA,
16, 23-29, DOI:10.2151/sola.2020-005 [Link] [pdf] Dogar, M. M., T. Sato, F. Liu, 2020: Ocean Sensitivity to Periodic and Constant Volcanism, Scientific
Reports, 10, 293(2020), DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-57027-0
 Nakamura, T., K. Yamazaki, T. Sato, and J. Ukita, 2019: Memory effects of Eurasian land processes cause
enhanced cooling in response to sea ice loss. Nature communications, 10, 5111 (2019), DOI:
10.1038/s41467-019-13124-2
 Sato, T. and T. Nakamura, 2019: Intensification of hot Eurasian summers by climate change andland-atmosphere interactions. Scientific Reports, 9, 10866(2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47291-5
 Dogar, M. M., and T. Sato, 2019: Regional climate response of Middle Eastern, African and South Asianmonsoon regions to explosive volcanism and ENSO forcing. J. Geophys. Res: Atmospheres, 124, DOI:
10.1029/2019JD030358
 Teramura, H., T. Sato*, and K. Tamura, 2019: Observed evidence of enhanced probability of mesoscaleconvective system initiations due to land surface heterogeneity in semiarid East Asia. SOLA, 15, 143-148,
DOI:10.2151/sola.2019-026
 Hatsuzuka, D., and T. Sato, 2019: Future changes in monthly extreme precipitation in Japan usinglarge-ensemble regional climate simulations. J. Hydrometeor., 20, 563-574, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0095.1
 Ta-Huu. C., and T. Sato, 2019: Effect of ENSO phase on the contribution of environmental variables totropical cyclone genesis in the western North Pacific. Int. J. Climatol., 39, 2461-2473, DOI:
10.1002/joc.5966.
 Habib, S. M. A., T. Sato*, and D. Hatsuzuka, 2019: Decreasing number of propagating mesoscale convective
systems in Bangladesh and surrounding area during 1998-2015. Atmos. Sci. Lett., 2019;e879. DOI:
10.1002/asl.879
 Fujita, M., T. Sato, T. J. Yamada, S. Kawazoe, M. Nakano, and K. Ito, 2019: Analyses of extreme
precipitation associated with the Kinugawa River flood in September 2015 using a large ensemble
downscaling experiment. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 97, 387-401, DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2019-022
 Dogar M. M., F. Kucharski, T. Sato, S. Mehmood, S Ali, Z. Gong, D. Das, J. Arraut, 2019: Towards
understanding the global and regional climatic impacts of Modoki magnitude. Global and Planetary Change,
172, 223-241. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.10.004
 Fujita, M., R. Mizuta, M. Ishii, H. Endo, T. Sato, Y. Okada, S. Kawazoe, S. Sugimoto, K. Ishihara, and S.
Watanabe, 2018: Precipitation changes in a climate with 2 K surface warming from large ensemble

simulations using 60 km global and 20 km regional atmospheric models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45. DOI:
10.1029/2018GL079885
 Dogar, M. M., and T. Sato, 2018: Analysis of climate trends and leading modes of climate variability for
MENA region. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 123, 13,074-13,091. DOI: 10.1029/2018JD029003
 Erdenebat, E. and T. Sato, 2018: Role of soil moisture-atmosphere feedback during high temperature eventsin 2002 over Northeast Eurasia. PEPS (Progress in Earth and Planetary Science), 5:37, DOI:
10.1186/s40645-018-0195-4
 Kariuki, B.W., and T. Sato, 2018: Interannual and spatial variability of solar radiation energy potential in
Kenya using Meteosat satellite. Renewable Energy, 116A, 88-96, DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2017.09.069
 Fujinami, H., T. Sato, H. Kanamori, and F. Murata, 2017: Contrasting features of monsoon precipitation
around the Meghalaya Plateau under westerly and easterly regimes. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos., DOI:
10.1002/2016JD026116.
 Fujita, M., and T. Sato, 2017: Observed behaviours of precipitable water vapour and precipitation intensity
in response to upper air profiles estimated from surface air temperature, Scientific Reports, 7, 4233, DOI:
10.1038/s41598-017-04443-9
 Nemoto, M., T. Hirota, T. Sato, 2016: Prediction of climatic suitability for wine grape production under the
climatic change in Hokkaido. J. Agr. Meteorol., 72, 167-172.DOI: 10.2480/agrmet.D-15-00027
 Matsumura, S., T. Horinouchi, S. Sugimoto, T. Sato, 2016: Response of the Baiu rainband to northwest
Pacific SST anomalies and its impact on atmospheric circulation. J. Climate, 29, 3075-3093, DOI:
10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0691.1
 Erdenebat, E., and T. Sato, 2016: Recent increase in heat wave frequency around Mongolia: role ofatmospheric forcing and possible influence of soil moisture deficit. Atmos. Sci. Lett., 17, 135-140, DOI:
10.1002/asl.616
 Shimokawabe, A., Y. Yamaura, T. Akasaka, T. Sato, Y. Shida, S. Yamanaka, and F. Nakamura, 2015: The
Distribution of Cool Spots as Microrefugia in a Mountainous Area. PLoS ONE 10(8), e0135732.
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0135732
 Mori, K., and T. Sato, 2015: Evaluating the Role of Snow Cover in Urban Canopy Layer on the Urban Heat
Island in Sapporo, Japan with a Regional Climate Model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 93, 581-592, DOI:
10.2151/jmsj.2015-039.
 Takahashi, H. G., S. A. Adachi, T. Sato, M. Hara, X. Ma, and F. Kimura, 2015: An oceanic impact of theKuroshio on surface air temperature on the Pacific coast of Japan in summer: Regional H2O greenhouse gas
effect J. Climate, 28, 7128-7144. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00763.1
 Sugimoto, S., T. Sato, and T. Sasaki, 2015: Impact of land-use change on winter precipitation in Hokkaido,
Japan SOLA, 11, 95-99, DOI: 10.2151/sola.2015-023
 Sugimoto, S., T. Sato, and T. Sasaki, 2015: Seasonal and diurnal variability in historical warming due to theurbanization of Hokkaido, Japan. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos., 120, 5437-5445, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022759

 Matsumura, S., K. Yamazaki, and T. Sato, 2015: Role of Siberian Land-Atmosphere Coupling in theDevelopment of the August Okhotsk High in 2008 J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 93, 229-244. DOI:
10.2151/jmsj.2015-013
 Inatsu, M., T. Sato, T. J. Yamada, R. Kuno, S. Sugimoto, M. A. Farukh, Y. N. Pokhrel, and S. Kure, 2015:
Multi-GCM by Multi-RAM Experiments for Dynamical Downscaling on Summertime Climate Change in
Hokkaido. Atmos. Sci. Lett., 16, 297-304, DOI: 10.1002/asl2.557
 Matsumura, S., S. Sugimoto, and T. Sato, 2015: Recent intensification of the western Pacific subtropicalhighassociated

with

East

Asian

summermonsoon.

J.

Climate,28,2873-2883.

DOI:

10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00569.1
 Yamada, T. J., M. A. Farukh, T. Fukushima, M. Inatsu, T. Sato, Y. N. Pokhrel, and T. Oki, 2014: Extreme
precipitation intensity in future climates associated with the Clausius-Clapeyron-like relationship. Hydro.
Res. Lett., 8, 108-113. DOI: 10.3178/hrl.8.108
 Mori, K., and T. Sato, 2014: Spatio-temporal variation of high-temperature events in Hokkaido, North Japan.
J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 92, 327-346, DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2014-404
 Tanaka, A., T. Sato, M. Nemoto, Y. Yamanaka, 2014: Sensitivity of cool summer-induced sterility of rice toincreased growing-season temperatures: A case study in Hokkaido, Japan. J. Agr. Meteorol., 70, 25-40. DOI:
10.2480/agrmet.D-13-00016
 Sato, T., and S. Sugimoto, 2013: A numerical experiment on the influence of the interannual variation of sea
surface temperature on terrestrial precipitation in northern Japan during the cold season. Water Resour. Res.,49, 7763-7777, DOI:10.1002/2012WR013206
 Sugimoto, S., T. Sato, and K. Nakamura, 2013: Effects of synoptic-scale control on long-term declining
trends of summer fog frequency over the Pacific side of Hokkaido Island J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 52,
2226-2242. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0192.1
 Sato, T., 2013: Mechanism of orographic precipitation around the Meghalaya Plateau associated withintraseasonal

oscillation

anddiurnalcycle.

Mon.

Wea.

Rev.,

141,

2451-2466,

DOI:

10.1175/MWR-D-12-00321.1
 Sato, T., and Y. Xue, 2013: Validating a regional climate model's downscaling ability for East Asian summer
monsoonal interannual variability. Clim. Dyn., 41, 2411-2426, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1616-5
 Matsumura, S., and T. Sato, 2011: Snow/Ice and Cloud Responses to Future Climate Change around
Hokkaido. SOLA, 7, 205-208.
 Sato, T., A. Juri, K. Masuyama, E. Imakita, and M. Kimoto, 2011: Verification of downscaling framework
for interannual variation of tropical cyclone in Western North Pacific. SOLA, 7, 169-172,
doi:10.2151/sola.2011-043.
 Tsunematsu, N., H. Kuze, T. Sato, M. Hayasaki F. Cui, A, Kondoh, 2011: Potential impact of spatial patternsof future atmospheric warming on Asian dust emission. Atmos. Env., 45, 6682-6695.

 Batbold, A., T. Sato, M. Ishikawa, and J. Tsogt, 2011: Performance of dynamic downscaling for extreme
weather event in eastern Mongolia: Case study of severe windstorm in 26 May 2008, SOLA, 7, 117-120,
doi:10.2151/sola.2011-030
 Sato, T., H. Miura, M. Satoh, Y. N. Takayabu, and Y. Wang, 2009: Diurnal cycle of precipitation in thetropics simulated in a global cloud-resolving model. J. Climate, 22, 4809-4826.
 Sato, T., 2009: Influences of subtropical jet and Tibetan Plateau on precipitation pattern in Asia: Insightsfrom regional climate modeling. Quat. Int., 194, 148-158, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2008.07.008.
 Sato, T., T. Yoshikane, M. Satoh, H. Miura, and H. Fujinami, 2008: Resolution dependency of the diurnal
cycle of convective clouds over the Tibetan Plateau in a mesoscale model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86A,
17-31.
 Iwasaki, H., T. Sato, T. Nii, F. Kimura, K. Nakagawa, I. Kaihotsu, and T. Koike, 2008: Diurnal variation of
convective activity and precipitable water around Ulaanbaator, Mongolia, and the impact of soil moisture on
convective activity during nighttime. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1401-1415.
 Li, G., F. Kimura, T. Sato, and D. Huang, 2008: A composite analysis of diurnal cycle of GPS precipitablewater vapor in central Japan during calm summer days. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 92, 15-29,
10.1007/s00704-006-0293-x.
 Chen F. H., Z. C. Yu, M. L. Yang, E. Ito, S. M. Wang, D. B. Madsen, X. Z. Huang, Y. Zhao, T. Sato, H. J. B.
Birks, I. Boomer, J. H. Chen, C. B. An, B. Wünnemann, 2008: Holocene moisture evolution in arid Central
Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history. Quat. Sci. Rev., 27, 351-364.
 Kawase, H., T. Yoshikane, M. Hara, F. Kimura, T. Sato, and S. Ohsawa, 2008: Impact of extensive irrigationon the formation of cumulus clouds. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L01806, doi:10.1029/2007GL032435.
 Sato, T., F. Kimura, and A. S. Hasegawa, 2007: Vegetation and topographic control of cloud activity overarid/semiarid Asia. J. Geophys. Res. -Atmospheres, 112, D24109,
doi:10.1029/2006JD008129.
 Sato, T., H. Miura, and M. Satoh, 2007: Spring diurnal cycle of clouds over Tibetan Plateau: Global
cloud-resolving

simulations

andsatellite

observations.

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34,

L18816,

doi:10.1029/2007GL030782.
 Sato, T., M. Tsujimura, T. Yamanaka, H. Iwasaki, A. Sugimoto, M. Sugita, F. Kimura, G. Davaa, and D.
Oyunbaatar, 2007: Water sources in semi-arid Northeast Asia as revealed by field observations and isotope
transport model. J. Geophys. Res. -Atmospheres, 112, D17112, doi:10.1029/2006JD008321.
 Sato, T., and F. Kimura, 2007: How does the Tibetan Plateau affect the transition of Indian monsoon
rainfall? Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 2006-2015.
 Sato, T., F. Kimura, and A. Kitoh, 2007: Projection of global warming onto regional precipitation over
Mongolia using a regional climate model. J. Hydrol., 333, 144-154, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.07.023.
 Kawase, H., Y. Takeuchi, T. Sato, and F. Kimura, 2006: Precipitable water around orographically induced
convergence line. SOLA, 2, 25-28.

 Tsunematsu, N., T. Sato, K. Kai, F. Kimura, Y. Kurosaki, T. Nagai, and H. Zhou, 2005: Extensive dust
outbreaks following the morning inversion breakup in the Taklimakan Desert. J. Geophys. Res., 110,
D21207, 10.1029/2005JD005994.
 Kawase, H., T. Sato, and F. Kimura, 2005: Numerical experiments on cloud streets in the lee of channel
during cold-air outbreaks. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L14823, doi:10.1029/2005GL023256.
 Sato, T., and F. Kimura, 2005: Diurnal cycle of convective instability around the central mountains in Japan
during the warm season. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 1626-1636.
 Aoki, I., Y. Kurosaki, R. Osada, T. Sato, and F. Kimura, 2005: Dust storms generated by mesoscale cold
fronts in the Tarim Basin, Northwest China. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L06807 10.1029/2004GL021776.
 Sato, T., and F. Kimura, 2005: Impact of diabatic heating over the Tibetan plateau on subsidence over
Northeast Asian arid region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L05809, doi:10.1029/2004GL022089.
 Sato, T., 2005: The TianShan rain-shadow influence on the arid climate formation in northwestern China.
SOLA, 1, 13-16.
 Sato, T., and F. Kimura, 2003: A two-dimensional numerical study on diurnal cycle of mountain lee
precipitation. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1992-2003.

Funding acquisition
 OngoingPredictability of extreme weather events in Japan under changing monsoon conditions, JSPS
KAKENHI (2024-2028), 84,200,000JPYArctic Challenge for Sustainability II (ArCSII), MEXT (2020-2024), 31,020,000JPY

MEXT-program for The Advanced Studies of Climate Change Projection (SENTAN), MEXT
(2022-2027)

 Past

JSPS KAKENHI, total 51,700,000JPY (until March 2024)

Climate projection related projects funded by MEXT and MoE, total 127,600,000JPY (until March
2024)



Arctic change related projects funded by MEXT, total 56,540,000JPY (until March 2024)