Rate My Professor Yoshiki Fukutomi

Yoshiki Fukutomi is Designated Associate Professor at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Division for Land-Ocean Ecosystem Research, Nagoya University. He earned a Ph.D. in Science from the University of Tsukuba in 2000 and completed his undergraduate and graduate studies there in the College of Natural Sciences, First Cluster of Colleges, Geoscience Major, and Graduate School of Geoscience from 1990 to 2000, with a focus on the Laboratory for Climatology and Meteorology.

His research centers on atmospheric and hydrospheric science, specifically atmospheric science, meteorology, and climatology. Key interests include climate change, atmospheric general circulation, climate and weather variability in the Arctic and cold regions, and tropical and monsoon meteorology. Fukutomi has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed papers on topics such as synoptic-scale waves in the Northern Eurasian storm track, tropical synoptic-scale waves propagating across the Maritime Continent, and intraseasonal oscillations of precipitation over Northern Eurasia. He maintains professional memberships in the Japan Geoscience Union and the Meteorological Society of Japan.

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