Noboru Nakamura, Associate Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College

Recent Publications

Nakamura, N., 2004: Quantifying Asymmetric Wave Breaking and Two-Way Transport. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61, in press.

Allen, D.R. and N. Nakamura, 2003: Tracer equivalent latitude: a diagnostic tool for isentropic transport studies. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 287-304.

Allen, D.R. and N. Nakamura, 2002: Dynamical reconstruction of the record-low column ozone over Europe on 30 November 1999. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10.1029/2002GL014935.

Nakamura, N., 2001: A new look at eddy diffusivity as a mixing diagnostic. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3686-3701.

Allen, D.R. and N. Nakamura, 2001: A seasonal climatology of effice diffusivity in the stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 106(D8), 7917-7936.

Song, Y.-C., and N. Nakamura, 2000: Eddy instability of isolated baroclinic jets with meridionally varying tropopause height. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 46-65.

Nakamura, N., 1999: Baroclinic-barotropic adjustments in a meridionally wide domain. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 2246-2260.

Nakamura, N., 1998: Leaky containment vessels of air: a Langrangian-mean approach to the stratospheric tracer transport. In Advances in Fluid Mechanics: Dynamics of Atmospheric Flows. Part I. Atmospheric Transport and Diffusion Processes. M. P. Singh and S. Raman, Eds. Ashurst Lodge, Comput. Mech. Publ., 193-246.

Nakamura, N., and J. Ma, 1997: Modified Lagrangian-mean diagnostics of the stratospheric polar vortices: 2. Nitrous oxide and seasonal barrier migration in cryogenic etalon limb array spectrometer and SKYHI general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res. 102, 25, 721-25, 735.

Nakamura, N. (1996) Two-dimensional mixing, edge formation, and permeability diagnosed in an area coordinate. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 1524-1537.

Nakamura, N. (1995) Modified Lagrangian-mean diagnostics of the stratospheric polar vortices. Part I. Formulation and analysis of GFDL, SKYHI GCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2096-2108.

Nakamura, N. (1994) Nonlinear equilibration of two-dimensional Eady waves: Simulations with viscous geostrophic momentum equations. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 1023-1035.

Nakamura, N. (1993) Momentum flux, flow symmetry, and the non linear barotropic governor. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 2159-2179.

Nakamura, N. (1993) An illustrative model of instabilities in meridionally and vertically sheared flows. J. Atmos. Sci. ,50, 357-375.