2019 JMSJ Award

The JMSJ Editorial Committee presents the JMSJ Award each year to outstanding papers published in the journal. In 2019, the following four papers were awarded:

• Tomoaki OSE:

  “Characteristics of Future Changes in Summertime East Asian Monthly Precipitation in MRI-AGCM Global Warming Experiments.”

  J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Vol. 97, No. 2, 317–335 (2019)

  https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2019-018

• Boqi LIU, Congwen ZHU, Jingzhi SU, Shuangmei MA, Kang XU:

  “Record-Breaking Northward Shift of the Western North Pacific Subtropical High in July 2018.”

  J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Vol. 97, No. 4, 913–925 (2019)

  Special Edition on Extreme Rainfall Events in 2017 and 2018

  https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2019-047

• Seiji YUKIMOTO, Hideaki KAWAI, Tsuyoshi KOSHIRO, Naga OSHIMA, Kohei YOSHIDA, Shogo URAKAWA, Hiroyuki TSUJINO, Makoto DEUSHI, Taichu TANAKA, Masahiro HOSAKA, Shokichi YABU, Hiromasa YOSHIMURA, Eiki SHINDO, Ryo MIZUTA, Atsushi OBATA, Yukimasa ADACHI, Masayoshi ISHII:

  “The Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model Version 2.0, MRI-ESM2.0: Description and Basic Evaluation of the Physical Component.”

  J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Vol. 97, No. 5, 931–965 (2019)

  https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2019-051

• Tadashi TSUYUKI:

  “Ensemble Kalman Filtering Based on Potential Vorticity for Atmospheric Multiscale Data Assimilation.”

  J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Vol. 97, No.6, 1191–1210 (2019)

  https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2019-067

Masaki Satoh

Chief Editor, JMSJ