Hirohiko Nakamura

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University

Degree: Dr. Sci.(Hokkaido Univ.)

Researcher number: 50284914
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901059079419918
researchmap Member ID: 1000205810

External link: http://www.fish.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/efish/field/aqu.html

Research Interests

Research Areas

Natural sciences / Atmospheric and hydrospheric science /

Research History

May, 2016 - Present

Professor, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University
Apr, 2007 - Apr, 2016

Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University
Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2007

Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University
Apr, 1998 - Mar, 2005

Lecturer, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University
Apr, 1996 - Mar, 1998

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University
Oct, 1995 - Mar, 1996

Postdoctoral fellow, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Education

Apr, 1989 - Sep, 1995

Geophysics (for Master and Doctor), Graduate School of Science,, Hokkaido University,

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2015 - Present

評議員, 日本海洋学会
Nov, 2007 - Mar, 2011

Journal of Oceanography編集委員, 日本海洋学会

Awards

May, 2017

Best paper award for Journal of Oceanography, The Oceanographic Society of Japan

Hirohiko Nakamura, Riku Hiranaka, Daisuke Ambe, Tsutomu Saito

Papers

Submesoscale Processes Fueled by the Kuroshio in the Tokara Strait

Juntian Chen, Xiao‐Hua Zhu, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ruixiang Zhao, Min Wang, Hua Zheng, Ayako Nishina

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(3), Mar 18, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Energetic Stratified Turbulence Generated by Kuroshio–Seamount Interactions in Tokara Strait

Anne Takahashi, Ren-Chieh Lien, Eric Kunze, Barry Ma, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina, Eisuke Tsutsumi, Ryuichiro Inoue, Takeyoshi Nagai, Takahiro Endoh

Journal of Physical Oceanography, 54(2) 461-484, Feb, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Warming of the Kuroshio Current Over the Last Four Decades has Intensified the Meiyu‐Baiu Rainband

Yu‐Xiang Qiao, Hirohiko Nakamura, Tomohiko Tomita

Geophysical Research Letters, 51(2), Jan 24, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Numerical Simulation of the Kuroshio Flowing over the Hirase Seamount in the Tokara Strait in Autumn: Tidal Vortex Shedding in a Baroclinic Jet

Ryuichiro Inoue, Eisuke Tsutsumi, Hirohiko Nakamura

Journal of Physical Oceanography, 54(1) 153-172, Jan, 2024 Peer-reviewed
ENSO‐Related Interannual Variability of the Kuroshio in the East China Sea Since the Mid‐2000s

Yu‐Xiang Qiao, Hirohiko Nakamura, Tomohiko Tomita, Shinichiro Kako, Ayako Nishina, Xiao‐Hua Zhu, Zhao‐Jun Liu

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(11), Nov 13, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Interannual eddy variability in the eastern Ryukyu Island chain

Zhang Z-L, Nakamura H, Kako S, Zhu X-H

Front. Mar. Sci., 10:1242294, Aug, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Evaluation of coastal waters advected to the Kuroshio based on particle-tracking experiments with a high-resolution coastal ocean model

Shin KAZUNO, Shin’ichiro KAKO, Hirohiko NAKAMURA, Toru YAMASHIRO, Ayako NISHINA, Gen KUME, Toru KOBARI

Bull. Jpn. Soc. Fish. Oceanogr., 86(4) 153-165, Dec, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Response of the Ryukyu Current to Climate Change During 1993–2018: Is There a Robust Trend?

Zhao‐Jun Liu, Xiao‐Hua Zhu, Hirohiko Nakamura, Min Wang, Ayako Nishina, Yu‐Xiang Qiao, Ze‐Nan Zhu

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(12), Dec, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Effect of interannual variations of Kuroshio–Tsushima Warm Current system on the transportation of juvenile Japanese jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus) to the Pacific coast of Japan

Yosuke Igeta, Chiyuki Sassa, Motomitsu Takahashi, Mizuki Kuga, Satoshi Kitajima, Taku Wagawa, Shoko Abe, Chikako Watanabe, Takashi Setou, Hirohiko Nakamura …

Fisheries Oceanography, 32(1) 133-146, Nov 30, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Observation of Topographic Rossby Waves Triggered by Kuroshio Path Meander in the East China Sea

Juntian Chen, Xiao‐Hua Zhu, Hua Zheng, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ruixiang Zhao, Min Wang, Jae‐Hun Park, Ayako Nishina

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(8), Aug, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Incoherent signatures of internal tides in the Tokara Strait modulated by the Kuroshio

Juntian Chen, Xiao-Hua Zhu, Min Wang, Hua Zheng, Ruixiang Zhao, Hirohiko Nakamura, Toru Yamashiro

Progress in Oceanography, 102863-102863, Jul, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Synchronized decadal variabilities in the Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension system

Yu Xiang Qiao, Hirohiko Nakamura, Shinichiro Kako, Ayako Nishina, Tomohiko Tomita

Progress in Oceanography, 204, Jun, 2022 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Comprehensive Observational Features for the Kuroshio Transport Decreasing Trend During a Recent Global Warming Hiatus

Zhao‐Jun Liu, Xiao‐Hua Zhu, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina, Min Wang, Hua Zheng

Geophysical Research Letters, 48(18), Sep, 2021 Peer-reviewed
The Kuroshio flowing over seamounts and associated submesoscale flows drive 100-km-wide 100-1000-fold enhancement of turbulence

Takeyoshi Nagai, Daisuke Hasegawa, Eisuke Tsutsumi, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina, Tomoharu Senjyu, Takahiro Endoh, Takeshi Matsuno, Ryuichiro Inoue, Amit Tandon

Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), Aug, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Seasonal velocity variations over the entire Kuroshio path part II: dynamical interpretation for the current speed variation

Zhen-Long Zhang, Hirohiko Nakamura, Xiao-Hua Zhu

Journal of Oceanography, Apr 5, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Seasonal velocity variations over the entire Kuroshio path part I: data analysis and numerical experiments

Zhen-Long Zhang, Hirohiko Nakamura, Xiao-Hua Zhu

Journal of Oceanography, Apr 1, 2021 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
How a Small Reef in the Kuroshio Cultivates the Ocean

D. Hasegawa, T. Matsuno, E. Tsutsumi, T. Senjyu, T. Endoh, T. Tanaka, N. Yoshie, H. Nakamura, A. Nishina, T. Kobari …

Geophysical Research Letters, 48(7), Apr, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Enhanced vertical turbulent nitrate flux in the intermediate layer of the Kuroshio in the Tokara Strait

T. Tanaka, D. Hasegawa, I. Yasuda, D. Yanagimoto, S. Fujio, H. Nakamura, R. Inoue, J. Nishioka

Journal of Oceanography, 77(1) 45-53, Feb, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Seasonal variations in salinity of the North Pacific Intermediate Water and vertical mixing intensity over the Okinawa Trough

Hirohiko Nakamura, Ryuichiro Inoue, Ayako Nishina, Toshiya Nakano

Journal of Oceanography, Jan 12, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Microstructure and Mooring Observations of Enhanced Mixing in the Kerama Gap

Ryuichiro Inoue, Takahiro Tanaka, Hirohiko Nakamura, Daigo Yanagimoto, Shinzou Fujio, Ichiro Yasuda

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(8), Aug, 2020 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

沿岸・縁辺海および日本南岸域の大気海洋相互作用

磯辺篤彦, 中村啓彦, 岩崎慎介, 郭新宇, 吉江直樹, 広瀬直毅, 加古真一郎

気象研究ノート, (244) 1-32, Oct 29, 2021
南岸低気圧と総観スケール環境場 (南岸低気圧による大雪(2)マルチスケールの要因) -- (大雪の背景場 : 大気循環場と南岸低気圧)

荒木健太郎, 吉田聡, 北畠尚子, 加藤輝之, 中村啓彦, 早崎将光, 見延庄士郎, 渡邉俊一, 新野宏, 上野健一 …

気象研究ノート, (240) 163-234, Dec, 2019
Particle‐tracking experiments of the transport of eggs, larvae and juveniles of red tilefish Branchiostegus japonicus from the East China Sea to the coastal area of Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

石川和雄, 伊藤幸彦, 中村啓彦, 仁科文子, 齋藤友則, 渡慶次力

水産海洋研究, 83(2) 93‐103-103, May 25, 2019
Flow Visualization of an Artificial Upwelling Induced by Marine Structures in Density Stratified Flows

永松哲郎, 中村啓彦, 野本達美

水産工学 = Fisheries engineering/, 51(1) 1-10, Jul, 2014
INVESTIGATION OF THE KUROSHIO CURRENT IN THE TOKARA STRAIT FOR OCEAN CURRENT POWER GENERATION

KOMAKI Hiroyuki, YAMASHIRO Toru, JOMOTO Kazuyoshi, NISHINA Ayako, NAKAMURA Hirohiko, HIROSE Naoki

PROCEEDINGS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING IN THE OCEAN, 69(2) I_109-I_113, 2013
CHARACTERISTICS OF OCEANIC WATER INFLOW INTO KAGOSHIMA BAY DURING WINTER-MIXING PERIOD

TAKATA Masashi, YAMASHIRO Toru, JYOMOTO Kazuyoshi, NAKAMURA Hirohiko, UCHIYAMA Masaki, FUKUDA Ryuji, NISHINA Ayako

PROCEEDINGS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING IN THE OCEAN, 67(2) I_715-I_720, 2011
Flow Visualization of an Artificial Upwelling Induced by Various Shapes of Marine Structure Installed on the Seabed

NAGAMATSU Tetsuo, NAKAMURA Hirohiko, NOMOTO Tatsumi, NAKAO Satoshi

鹿児島大学水産学部紀要, 60 25-32, 2011
Mooring observation: its history and roles in the study of the Kuroshio

中村啓彦

Kaiyo monthly, 40(1) 19-25, Mar, 2008
Sea-surface dynamic height of the Kuroshio south of Japan estimated from inverted echo sounders and its error estimation

柿木康児, 今脇資郎, 内田裕, 中村啓彦, 馬谷紳一郎, 仁科文子, 市川洋

Reports of Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, 130(130) 11-20, Mar, 2006
東シナ海およびトカラ海峡での黒潮の変動 (総特集黒潮変動予測実験) -- (3章東シナ海での黒潮および琉球海流系)

中村啓彦, 仁科文子, 市川香

海洋, 号外, (37) 106-126, 2004
奄美大島南東海域における琉球海流系の変動 (総特集黒潮変動予測実験) -- (3章東シナ海での黒潮および琉球海流系)

市川洋, 中村啓彦, 仁科文子

海洋, 号外, (37) 127-142, 2004
上流域の黒潮の観測 (総特集黒潮変動の予測を目指して)

市川洋, 中村啓彦, 仁科文子

海洋, 32(8) 504-513, Aug, 2000
沖縄舟状海盆北部の流系とその変動

中村啓彦, 市川洋, 仁科文子

海と空, 76(1) 26-28, Jul 31, 2000
Bottom Trapped Cyclonic Eddy Southwest of Kyushu Revealed by Field Observation

NAKAMURA Hirohiko, ICHIKAWA Hiroshi

Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 7, Geophysics, 11(2) 461-477, Mar 30, 1998
Temporal Change of the Kuroshio in the East China Sea During Several Days

中村啓彦, 市川洋, 茶円正明

鹿児島大学水産学部紀要, (46) 11-30, Dec, 1997

Teaching Experience

Physical Oceanography, Biological Oceanography, Practical Course of Physics for Fisheries, Onboard Training of Oceanography I (Hydrographic Observation) (Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University)

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Submesoscale Mixing Processes caused by Northward Shifted Kuroshio near the Yakushima and Tanegashima Islands and their chemical and biological impacts

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2027
Investigation of coastal upwelling induced by western boundary currents

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2026
島嶼海岸生物の地理的分布に分散ネットワークが果たす役割：温暖化に伴う北上は容易か

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

山本智子, 久米元, 藤井琢磨, 平瑞樹, 中村啓彦, 寺田竜太, 本村浩之
Multiple time-scale Kuroshio variations driven by the East Asian Monsson

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025
Interannual variability of the ECS-Kuroshio and its impact on the sea surface temperature field: role in interannual Baiu rainfall variability

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024
Interannual and decadal variations of the Kuroshio and their impacts on the sea surface temperature field

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022
Mixing processes, nutrient transport, fundamental structure of ecosystem in the Kuroshio and its origin area

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jun, 2015 - Mar, 2020

Guo Xinyu
Dynamics of the Ryukyu Current System and its role in the material circulation in the North Pacific

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019

Nakamura Hirohiko, Zhu Xiao-Hua, Park Jae-Hun, Min Hong Sik, Na Hanna
Air-sea interactions with complex oceanographic structure over the marginal seas and their influence on marine ecosystem

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2015

ISOBE Atsuhiko, KAKU Shinu, NAKAMURA Hirohiko, HIROSE Naoki, ISHIZAKA Joji, KIDA Shinichiro, KAKO Shinichiro, NAKAMURA Tomohiro, MANDA Atsuyoshi
Studies of atmospheric response to oceanic fronts and associated feedback onto the ocean using high-resolution analysis, observation and hierarchical models

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2014

MINOBE Shoshiro, ISOBE Atsuhiko, MANDA Atsuyoshi, NAKAMURA Hirohiko, KOMORI Nobumasa, INATSU Masaru, YOSHIDA Akira, SATOH Sinsuke
Study on circulation and water mass formation in the intermediate and deep layers of the Okinawa Trough

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011 - 2013

NAKAMURA Hirohiko, NISHINA Ayako, YAMASHIERO Toru
Mechanisms governing the winter Kuroshio path destabilization Phenomenon in the East China Sea and its interannual amplitude modulation

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2008 - 2010

NAKAMURA Hirohiko, NISHINA Ayako, YAMASHIERO Toru
Deep countercurrent beneath the Kuroshio on the continental slope in the East China Sea

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2004 - 2006

NAKAMURA Hirohiko, NISHINA Ayako
Basic study on baroclinic variations of the Kuroshio estimated from IES data

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003 - 2005

IMAWAKI Shiro, ICHIKAWA Kaoru, UMATANI Shin-ichiro, NAKAMURA Hirohiko
The study on the monitoring of oceanic condition in the East China Sea

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1999 - 2002

ICHIKAWA Hiroshi, MAEDA Hiroto, ICHIKAWA Toshihiro, MATSUNO Takeshi, NAKAMURA Hirohiko, SAKURAI Masahito
沖縄舟状海盆北部における黒潮流路変動の力学の解明

科学研究費助成事業奨励研究(A), 奨励研究(A), 日本学術振興会, 2000 - 2001

中村啓彦
PHYSICAL STUDIES ON THE GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM (GOOS)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1995 - 1997

TAIRA Keisuke, HIBIYA Toshiyuki, HANAWA Kimio, FUJIO Shinzo, KAWABE Masaki, IMAWAKI Shiro

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