Science - Ocean Circulation: People: Ichiro Fukumori

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Ichiro Fukumori
Group Supervisor

Education

B.S., Geophysics, University of Tokyo, Japan (1983)
Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Joint Program in Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1989)

Research Interests

Analysis of ocean general circulation using observations and models to understand processes controlling the ocean's mean state and temporal variability
Studies of climate variability, its impact on and the role of ocean circulation
Data assimilation to estimate the complete time-variable, three-dimensional circulation of the ocean
Development and advancement of methods in ocean data assimilation and numerical ocean modeling

Projects

ECCO
The "Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean" (ECCO) project produces sustained estimates of the complete global three-dimensional state of the ocean by assimilating observations with ocean circulation models.

Professional Experience

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1992-present)
- Group Supervisor, Ocean Circulation Group (2005-present)
- Principal Scientist, Ocean Sciences Group (2003-present)
- Team Leader, Ocean Data Assimilation, (1999-present)
- Research Scientist, Ocean Sciences Group (1992-2003)
National Research Council Resident Research Associate, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1990-1992)
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989-1990)

Selected Awards

NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2005)
National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (1990-1992)

Selected Publications

From a total of 38 refereed publications:

Fukumori, I., D. Menemenlis, and T. Lee, 2006. A near-uniform basin-wide sea level fluctuation of the Mediterranean Sea, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 338--358.
Fukumori, I., 2006. What is data assimilation really solving, and how is the calculation actually done?, in Ocean Weather Forecasting: An Integrated View of Oceanography, E. P. Chasignet and J.Verron, Eds., Springer, 578pp.
Lee, T., I. Fukumori, and B. Tang, 2004. Temperature budget: Interior vs exterior processes. J. Phys. Oceanog., 34 (8), 1936-1944.
Fukumori, I., T. Lee, B. Cheng, and D. Menemenlis, 2004. The origin, pathway, and destination of Nino3 water estimated by a simulated passive tracer and its adjoint, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 582-604.
Fukumori, I., 2002. A partitioned Kalman filter and smoother, Mon. Weather Rev., 130, 1370-1383.
Fukumori, I., 2000. Data Assimilation by Models, in Satellite Altimetry and Earth Sciences, L.-L. Fu and A. Cazenave, Eds., Academic Press, 463pp.
Fukumori, I., R. Raghunath, L. Fu, and Y. Chao, 1999. Assimilation of TOPEX/POSEIDON data into a global ocean circulation model: How good are the results?, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 25,647-25,665.
Fukumori, I., R. Raghunath, and L. Fu, 1998. Nature of global large-scale sea level variability in relation to atmospheric forcing: A modeling study, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 5493-5512
Fukumori, I., and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, 1995. An approximate Kalman filter for ocean data assimilation; an example with an idealized Gulf Stream model, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 6777-6793.
Fukumori, I., J. Benveniste, C. Wunsch, and D. B. Haidvogel, 1993. Assimilation of sea surface topography into an ocean circulation model using a steady-state smoother, J. Phys. Oceanogr,. 23, 1831-1855.

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