


Kensuke Nakajima | Last modified date:2021.06.14 |

Assistant Professor /
Earth Planetary Fluid and Space Sciences
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Academic Degree
Ph.D
Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)
No
Field of Specialization
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
ORCID(Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
0000-0002-0333-2364
Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country
00years00months
Outline Activities
Theoretical and numerical study on the atmosphere, ocean, and, interior fluids and the interaction with seismological behavior on the planets inside and outside of our solar system.
Research
Research Interests
- Geophysical and Planetary Fluid Dynamics
keyword : GFD, Planetary Sciences, cumulus convection, Jupiter, Mars, ocean, exoplanets, earth's core, infradound, tsunamis
1995.06~2022.03theoretical and numerical study on the dynamics of fluids in the atmosphere, ocean, and, inetior of the earth and planets. cumulus convection, jupiter, mars, ocean.
- Data assimilation of Venus atmospheric observations by AKATSUKI spacefraft
- Development of a numerical model for various phemomena in planetary atmospheres
- Development of a numerical model for various phemomena in planetary atmospheres
- Venus Exploration focusing of the atmosphere
- Aqua-Planet Experiment Project
- Development of a telecrope for planets on satellte
- Jupiter system exploration prgram in 2010's - 2020's by JAXA/ESA/NASA.
Mainly participating the planning of observation of Jupiter's atmosphere.
Reports
1. | Masaki Ishiwatari, Kensuke Nakajima, Shin-ichi Takehiro, Yuta Kawai, Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi, George L. Hashimoto, Youhei Sasaki and Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi , Numerical studies on the variety of climates of exoplanets using idealistic configurations, CGER's supercomputer monograph report, Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute of Enviroronmental Studies, Japan, Vol.27, pp.1-96, 2021.03, [URL]. |
2. | Frontiers of Research on Planetary Atmospheres (A Report on the Symposium of the 2014 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan), Preface. |
3. | Kensuke Nakajima, Idealized numerical experiments on the space-time structure of cumulus convection using a large-domain two-dimensional cumulus-resolving model, CGER's supercomputer monograph report, Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute of Enviroronmental Studies, Japan, Vol.16, pp.1-72, 2011.01, [URL]. |
4. | Nakajima, K., Odaka, M., Sugiyama, K., Kitamori, T., Numerical experiment on the interaction between large-scale atmospheric motion and cumulus convection: mechanism of spontaneous large-scale stationary concentration of cloud activity, CGER's supercomputer activity report, National Institute of Enviroronmental Studies, Vol.14-2005, pp.55-60., 2007.06. |
5. | Hayashi, Y.-Y., Ishiwatari, M., Yamada, Y., Morikawa, Y., Takahashi, Y.O., Nakajima, K., Odaka, M., Takehiro, S., Equatorial precipitation patterns in aqua-planet experiments: effects of vertical turbulent mixing processes., CGER's supercomputer activity report, National Institute of Enviroronmental Studies, Vol.14-2005, pp.69-76., 2007.06. |
6. | Recent developments of planetary meteorology. |
7. | Numerical modeling of precipitating convective clouds: evolution in idealized experiments. |
8. | Nakajima, K., Odaka, M., Sugiyama, K., Kitamori, T., Numerical experiment on the interaction between large-scale atmospheric motion and cumulus convection: preferred scale of the planetary-scale concentration of cloud activity and new model development., CGER's supercomputer activity report, National Institute of Enviroronmental Studies, Vol.13-2004, pp.69-76., 2006.06. |
9. | Meteorology of Jupiter. |
10. | Hayashi, Y., Y., Toyoda, E., Hosaka, M., Takehiro, S., Nakajima, K., Ishiwatari M., Tropical precipitation patterns in response to a local warm SST area placed at the equator of an aqua planet, CGER's supercomputer monograph report, Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute of Enviroronmental Studies, Japan, Vol.6, 2000.02, [URL]. |
Papers
1. | M. Ishiwatari, K. Nakajima, S. Takehiro, Y.-Y. Hayashi, Y. Kawai, Y. O. Takahashi, Revision of “Dependence of Climate States of Gray Atmosphere on Solar Constant: From the Runaway Greenhouse to the Snowball States” by Ishiwatari et al. (2007), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031761, 126, 11, 2021.04, [URL]. |
2. | Hiroaki Saito, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Kensuke Nakajima, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, and Masa-yuki Yamamoto, Identification of the infrasound signals emitted by explosive eruption of Mt. Shinmoedake by three-dimensional ray tracing, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0003366, 149, 1, 2021.01, [URL]. |
3. | Yuta Nakagawa, Takanori Kodama, Masaki Ishiwatari, Hajime Kawahara, Yasushi Suto, Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi, George L. Hashimoto, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, Kensuke Nakajima, Shin-ichi Takehiro, and Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi, Obliquity of an Earth-like Planet from Frequency Modulation of Its Direct-imaged Lightcurve: Mock Analysis from General Circulation Model Simulation, The Astrophysical Journal, doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9eb8, 898, 2, Article id 95, 2020.07, [URL]. |
4. | Hiroki Tsuji, Kensuke Nakajima, Relationship Between the Change in Size of Tropical Cyclones and Spatial Patterns of Precipitation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030404, 2019.08, [URL]. |
5. | Hiroki Kashimura, Norihiko Sugimoto, Masahiro Takagi, Yoshihisa Matsuda, Wataru Ohfuchi, Takeshi Enomoto, Kensuke Nakajima, Masaki Ishiwatari, Takao M. Sato, George L. Hashimoto, Takehiko Satoh, Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi & Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi , Planetary-scale streak structure reproduced in high-resolution simulations of the Venus atmosphere with a low-stability layer, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07919-y, 70:10, 2019.01, [URL]. |
6. | Takeshi Horinouchi, Toru Kouyama, Yeon Joo Lee, Shin-ya Murakami, Kazunori Ogohara, Masahiro Takagi, Takeshi Imamura, Kensuke Nakajima, Javier Peralta, Atsushi Yamazaki, Manabu Yamada, Shigeto Watanabe, Mean winds at the cloud top of Venus obtained from two-wavelength UV imaging by Akatsuki, Earth Planets and Space, 10.1186/s40623-017-0775-3, 70:10, 2018.01, [URL]. |
7. | S.Noda, M.Ishiwatari, K.Nakajima, Y.O.Takahashi, S.Takehiro, M.Onishi, G.L.Hashimoto, K.Kuramoto, Y.-Y.Hayashi, The circulation pattern and day-night heat transport in the atmosphere of a synchronously rotating aquaplanet: Dependence on planetary rotation rate, ICARUS, 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.09.004, 1, 1-18, 2017.01, [URL]. |
8. | Hiroki Tsuji, Hisanori Itoh, Kensuke Nakajima, Mechanism governing the size change of tropical cyclone-like vortices, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2016-012, 94, 3, 2016.06. |
9. | Seiya Nishizawa, Masatsugu Odaka, Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Kensuke Nakajima, Masaki Ishiwatari, Shin-ichi Takehiro, Hisashi Yashiro, Yousuke Sato, Hirofumi Tomita, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi, Martian dust devil statistics from high-resolution large-eddy simulations, Geophysical Research Letters, 10.1002/2016GL068896, 2016.05, [URL]. |
10. | Tatsuya Yamashita, Masatsugu Odaka, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Kensuke Nakajima, Masaki Ishiwatari, Seiya Nishizawa, Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi, and Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi , A numerical study on convection of a condensing CO2 atmosphere under early Mars like conditions, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0132.1, 2016.05, [URL]. |
11. | Masato Nakamura, Kensuke Nakajima, ほか50名, AKATSUKI returns to Venus, Earth Planets and Space, 10.1186/s40623-016-0457-6, 2016.05, [URL]. |
12. | Tsumura, K., Nakajima, K., and 13 others, Near-infrared Brightness of the Galilean Satellites Eclipsed in Jovian Shadow: A New Technique to Investigate Jovian Upper Atmosphere, Astrophysical Journal, 10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/122, 789, 2, article id. 122, 2014.07. |
13. | Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Kensuke Nakajima, Masatsugu Odaka, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi, Numerical Simulations of Jupiter's Moist Convection Layer: Structure and Dynamics in Statistically Steady States, ICARUS, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2013.10.016, 229, 71-91, 2014.02, [URL]. |
14. | Linear stability of thermal convection of anelastic fluid in a rotating spherical shell. |
15. | M.Blackburn, Kensuke Nakajima, ほか26名, The Aqua Planet Experiment (APE): Control SST Simulation, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A02, 91A, 17-56, 2013.09, [URL]. |
16. | D.L. WIlliamson, Kensuke Nakajima, ほか26名, The Aqua Planet Experiment (APE): Response to changed SST fields, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A03, 91A, 57-89, 2013.09, [URL]. |
17. | Kensuke Nakajima, Yukiko Yamada, Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi, Masaki Ishiwatari, Wataru Ohfuchi, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi, The variety of spontaneously generated tropical precipitation patterns found in APE results , J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A04., 91A, 91-141, 2013.09, [URL]. |
18. | Nakajima Kensuke, Yukiko Yamada, Yoshiyuki O Takahashi, Masaki Ishiwatari, Wataru Ohfuchi, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi, The Variety of Forced Atmospheric Structure in Response to Tropical SST Anomaly Found in APE Results, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A05., 91A, 143-193, 2013.09, [URL]. |
19. | D.L.Williams, Kensuke Nakajima, ほか26名, The APE ATLAS, NCAR Technical Note, doi:10.5065/D6FF3QBR , NCAR/TN-484+STR, 508pp, 2012.12, [URL]. |
20. | M. Ishiwatari, E. Toyoda, Y. Morikawa, S. Takehiro, Y. Sasaki, S. Nishizawa, M. Odaka, N. Otobe, Y. O. Takahashi, K. Nakajima, T. Horinouchi, M. Shiotani, Y.-Y. Hayashi, and Gtool development group, "Gtool5": a Fortran90 library of input/output interfaces for self-descriptive multi-dimensional numerical data, Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-5-449-2012, 5, 2, 449-455, 2012.04, [URL]. |
21. | K. Nakajima, Y. Yamada, M. Ishiwatari, Y.-Y. Hayashi, Dependence of equatorial precipitation activity on the vertical profile of radiative cooling in an aqua-planet experiment, NAGARE Mutimedia, 2012 , 2012.03, [URL]. |
22. | Sugiyama,K., Nakajima,K., Odaka,M., Ishiwatari,M.,Kuramoto,K., Morikawa,Y., Nishizawa,S., Takahashi,Y.O., Hayashi,Y.-Y., Intermittent cumulonimbus activity breaking the three-layer cloud structure of Jupiter, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2011GL047878, 2011.07, [URL]. |
23. | Yamashita,T., Odaka, M., Sugiyama,K., Nakajima,K., Ihiwatari,M., Hayashi,Y.-Y., A two dimensional numerical experiment of atmospheric convection with condensation of the major component, Proceedings of the 42th ISAS Lunar and Planetary Symposium, 2010.07. |
24. | Development of a Cloud Convection Model to Investigate the Jupiter's Atmosphere, [URL]. |
25. | Tanaka,K.-K, Yamamoto,T., Watanabe,S., Nakajima,K., Analytic model of upper tropospheric clouds in the tropical Hadley cell, Earth, Planets and Space, Vol.60, pp.219-228., 2008.02. |
26. | Moist Convection in Jupiter's Atmosphere. |
27. | M. Ishiwatari, K. Nakajima S.Takehiro and Y.-Y. Hayashi, Dependence of climate states of gray atmosphere on solar constant: From the runaway greenhouse to the snowball states., J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 112, No. D13, D13120, 2007.06. |
28. | Yamada, Y., Sampe, T., Takahashi, Y.O., Yoshioka, M.K., Ohfuchi,W., Ishiwatari, M., Nakajima, K., Hayashi, Y.-Y., A resolution dependence of equatorial precipitation activities represented in a general circulation model., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Japan, Vol.43, pp.289-297, 2005.01. |
29. | K.Nakajima, E.Toyoda, M.Ishiwatari, S.Takehiro, Y.-Y. Hayashi,, Initial Development of Tropical Precipitation Patterns in Response to a Local Warm SST Area: An Aqua-Planet Ensemble Study, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan,, 10.2151/jmsj.82.1483, 82, 6, 1483-1504, Vol.82, No.6, pp.1483-1504., 2004.12. |
30. | Ishiwatari,M., Takehiro,S.-I., Nakajima, K., Hayashi,Y.-Y., A numerical study on the appearance of the runaway greenhouse state of a three-dimensional gray atmosphere, Journal of Atmospheric Science, 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<3223:ANSOAO>2.0.CO;2, 59, 22, 3223-3238, Vol.59, pp.3223-3238., 2002.06. |
31. | A numerical simulation of thermal convection in the Martian lower atmosphere with a two-dimensional anelastic model.. |
32. | S. Takehiro, M. Ishiwatari, K. Nakajima and Y.-Y. Hayashi,, Linear stability of thermal convection in rotating systems with fixed heat flux boundaries, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 10.1080/0309192021000036996, 96, 6, 439-459, Vol.96, pp.439-459., 2001.06. |
33. | Nakajima,K., Takehiro,S.-I., Ishiwatari,M., Hayashi,Y.-Y., Numerical modeling of Jupiter's moist convection layer., Geophysical Research Letters, 10.1029/2000GL011740, 27, 19, 3129-3132, Vol.27, No.19, pp.3129-3132., 2000.10. |
34. | Response of the Tropical Atmosphere to a Localized Warm SST Area: Time-Development Observed in an Aqua-Planet Ensemble Experiment. |
35. | S. Takehiro, M. Ishiwatari, K. Nakajima and Y.-Y. Hayashi,, The effects of thermal boundary condition on convection in rapidly rotating spherical shells, Theoretical and Applied Mech., Vol.48, pp.415-421, 1999.10. |
36. | The dependency of the strucure of the three-dimensional gray atmosphere on the solar constant and the runaway greenhouse states.. |
37. | "Cloud convections" in geophysical and planetary fluids. |
38. | Convection in a rotating cylindrical annulus with fixed heat flux boundaries. |
39. | Odaka,M., Nakajima,K., Takehiro,S.-I., Ishiwatari,M., Hayashi,Y.-Y., A numerical study of the Martian atmospheric convection with a two dimensional anelastic model, Earth, Planet and Space, Vol.50, pp.431-437., 1998.06. |
40. | The structure of Jupiter's atmosphere and the role of cloud convection. |
41. | Hosaka,M., Ishiwatari,M., Takehiro,S.-I., Nakajima,K., Hayashi,Y.-Y., Tropical precipitation patterns in response to a local warm SST area placed at the equator of an aqua planet, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan,, 76, 2, 289-305, Vol.76, No.2. pp.289-305., 1998.04. |
42. | Hibiya,T., Niwa,Y., Nakajima,K. and Suginphara,N, Direct Numerical Simulation of the Rolloff Range of Internal Wave Shear Spectra in the Ocean., Journal of Geophysical Research, 10.1029/96JC01001, 101, C6, 14123-14129, Vol.101, No.C6, pp.14123-14129., 1996.06. |
43. | Furue,R., Nakajima,K. and Ishikawa,I., Modal decomposition of deep ocean circulation models: Comparison with reduced-gravity models., Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.100, No.C6, pp.10567-10588., 1995.06. |
44. | Nakajima,K. and Matsuno,T., Numerical experiments concerning the origin of cloud clusters in the tropical atmospher, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan,, Vol.66, pp.309-329., 1988.04. |
Works, Software and Database
1. | DCPAM: Dennou Club Planetary Atmosphere Model. |
2. | gms: a framework of grid model. |
3. | deepconv: convection model for planetary atmospheres. |
Presentations
Educational
Educational Activities
Supervision of M.S. and Ph.D studies for graduate students
Exercise on mathematics for geophysics for 1st year of graduate students
Exercise on Mechanics for 1st year of undergraduate students
Lectures on Space Sciences
Astronomical Observations
Physics experiments ( oscillation, thermal conduction, and, elasticity ) for 2nd and 3rd year students
Supervision of B.S. studies for 4th year students.
Other Educational Activities
Exercise on mathematics for geophysics for 1st year of graduate students
Exercise on Mechanics for 1st year of undergraduate students
Lectures on Space Sciences
Astronomical Observations
Physics experiments ( oscillation, thermal conduction, and, elasticity ) for 2nd and 3rd year students
Supervision of B.S. studies for 4th year students.
- 2021.08, Supervision of high school students in "Q-University Research Internship in Engineering and Science".
- 2018.05.
- 2018.11.
- 2018.07.
- 2017.01.
- 2003.08.


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