CURRICULUM VITAE Akio KITOH (appears as Akio KITO in the passport) Researcher Japan Meteorological Business Support Center c/o Meteorological Research Institute 1-1 Nagamine, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0052, Japan Phone: +81-29-853-8617 Email: kitoh@jmbsc.or.jp DATE OF BIRTH: 1 April 1953 PLACE OF BIRTH: Osaka, JAPAN

Gender: Male Nationality: Japanese EDUCATION B.Sc: Geophysics Kyoto University 1975 M.S.: Geophysics Kyoto University 1977 D.Sc.: Geophysics Kyoto University 1991

Thesis: "A Study of Low-Frequency Response of the Atmosphere to the Sea Surface Temperature Variations"

EMPLOYMENT RECORD Technical Official, Osaka District Meteorological Observatory / Japan Meteorological

Agency (JMA), Osaka, Japan, 1978-1980 Researcher, Third Research Laboratory, Forecast Research Department, Meteorological

Research Institute (MRI) / JMA, Tsukuba, Japan, 1980-1987 Staff Research Associate, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, U.S.A., 1983-1985 Senior Researcher, First Research Laboratory, Climate Research Department,

MRI/JMA, Tsukuba, Japan, 1987-1994 Head, First Research Laboratory, Climate Research Department, MRI/JMA, Tsukuba,

Japan, 1994-2007 Director, Climate Research Department, MRI/JMA, Tsukuba, Japan, 2007-2013 Senior Researcher, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba,

Tsukuba, Japan, 2013-2017 Director, Office of Climate and Environmental Research Promotion, Japan

Meteorological Business Support Center, Tsukuba, Japan, 2017-2020 Researcher, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tsukuba, Japan,

2020-present

Affiliated Professor, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 1995-2004 Visiting Professor, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 2004-2013 Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2009-2012 Member, Science Council of Japan, 2011-2017 Guest Researcher, MRI/JMA, 2013-present PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Member, Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ), 1978- Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 1983-2018 Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2005-2018 Member, Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), 2006- Lead Author, Chapter 5 "Climate Models - Evaluation", IPCC WGI Second Assessment

Report (SAR), 1992-1995 Member, CLIVAR Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (WGSIP),

1994-2000 Lead Author, Chapter 8 "Model Evaluation", IPCC WG1 Third Assessment Report

(TAR), 1998-2001 Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, International Pacific Research Center (IPRC),

2002-2004 Lead Author, Chapter 10 "Global Climate Projections", IPCC WGI Fourth Assessment

Report (AR4), 2004-2007 Lead Author, IPCC Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water, 2007-2008 Member, CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel (AAMP), 2009-2013 Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Beijing Climate Center (BCC), 2009-2013 Lead Author, Chapter 14 "Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional

Climate Change", IPCC WGI Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), 2010-2013 Member, IPCC National Liaison Committee of Japan, 2004-present Member, International Scientific Advisory Panel, Centre for Climate Research

Singapore (CCRS), 2009-2015 Member, Steering Committee on Arctic Research, National Institute of Polar Research,

2011-2016 Member, Advisory Committee, Central Environment Council, Ministry of the

Environment, 2013-2015 Lead Author, Chapter 10 "Asia", IPCC WGII Sixth Assessment Report (AR6),

2018-2021 AWARD The Society Award, Meteorological Society of Japan, 1993 The Okada Award, Japan Weather Association, 2008 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Engaged in development of MRI AGCM/AOGCM/ESM since 1980 at MRI. Numerical experiments and analyses on monsoons, ENSO, extremes, past (LGM and

Mid-Holocene) and future climate. PROJECTS Integrated Climate Change Projection (TOUGOU: Integrated Model Advanced

Research Program), funded by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (FY2017-2021)

Development of Basic Technology for Risk Information on Climate Change (SOUSEI: Program for Risk Information on Climate Change), funded by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (FY2012-2016)

Research on Prediction of Climate and Environmental Change to Contribute to Mitigation Plan Decision Making Against Climate Change, funded by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) (FY2010-2014)

Projection of the Change in Future Weather Extremes Using Super-High Resolution Atmospheric Models (KAKUSHIN: Innovative Program of Climate Change Projection for the 21st Century), funded by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (FY2007-2011)

RESEARCH TOPICS Climate modeling Climate variability, extremes, monsoon and ENSO Seasonal prediction Global warming Paleoclimate simulation EDITORIAL BOARD Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ), 1992-1998 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2000-2012 SOLA, Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere, Meteorological Society of Japan,

2004-2012 Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (APJAS) (former Journal of the Korean

Meteorological Society), 2008-2012 JOURNAL REVIEWS Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Annals of Glaciology, Monthly Weather Review, Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics, Geophysical Research Letters, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Climate Dynamics, Climate Research, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Climate, Paleoceanography, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, SOLA (Scientific Online Journal of the Atmosphere), Annales Geophysicae, Global Planetary Change, International Journal of Ecology & Development, Climate of the Past, Journal of Disaster Research, Science, Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Research, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Atmospheric Science Letters,

Ecological Modeling, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Nature Communications, Weather and Climate Extremes, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, Engineering, Geoscientific Model Development, Nature, Scientific Reports, Earth’s Future, Environmental Research, Environmental Research Letters RECENT PUBLICATIONS (since 2006) Wang, B., M. Biasutti, M. P. Byrne, C. Castro, C.-P. Chang, K. Cook, R. Fu, A. Grimm,

K.-J. Ha, H. Hendon, A. Kitoh, R. Krishnan, J.-Y. Lee, J. Li, J. Liu, A. Moise, S. Pascale, M. K. Roxy, A. Seth, C.-H. Sui, A. Turner, S. Yang, K.-S. Yun, L. Zhang, T. Zhou, 2020: Monsoon climate change assessment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (in press)

Sun, N., T. Zhou, X. Chen, H. Endo, A. Kitoh, and B. Wu, 2020: Amplified tropical Pacific rainfall variability related to background SST warming. Clim. Dyn., 54, 2387-2402, doi:10.1007/s00382-020-05119-3.

Varghese, S. J., S. Surendran, K. Rajendran, and A. Kitoh, 2020: Future projections of Indian summer monsoon under multiple RCPs using a high resolution global climate model multiforcing ensemble simulations. Clim. Dyn., 54, 1315-1328, doi:10.1007/s00382-019-05059-7.

Kitoh, A., 2019: Climate Change We Human Are Responsible for. In: Himiyama, Y., Satake, K., Oki,T. (eds), Human Geoscience. Advances in Geological Science. Springer, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-32-9223-9, doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9224-6_20, pp.283-293.

Kitoh, A., 2019: Atmosphere – The Gaseous Realm Which Supports Human Life. In: Himiyama, Y., Satake, K., Oki,T. (eds), Human Geoscience. Advances in Geological Science. Springer, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-32-9223-9, doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9224-6_2, pp.21-26.

Chen, C.-A., H.-H. Hsu, C.-C. Hong, P.-G. Chiu, C.-Y. Tu, S.-J. Lin, and A. Kitoh, 2019: Seasonal precipitation change in the Western North Pacific and East Asia under global warming in two high-resolution AGCMs. Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-019-04883-1.

Huang, W.-R., P.-H. Huang, Y.-H. Chang, C.-T. Cheng, H.-H. Hsu, C.-Y. Tu, and A. Kitoh, 2019: Dynamical downscaling simulation and future projection of extreme precipitation activities in Taiwan during the Mei-Yu season. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 97, 481-499, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2019-028.

Kitoh, A., 2019: Climate Change Projection over Turkey with a High-Resolution Atmospheric General Circulation Model. In: T. Watanabe, S. Kapur, M. Aydin, R. Kanber and E. Akca (eds.), Climate Change Impacts on Basin Agro-ecosystems, Springer, ISBN 978-3-030-01036-2, pp.19-32.

Kitoh, A. and H. Endo, 2019: Precipitation extremes associated with tropical cyclones and their future changes projected by large-ensemble simulations. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 97, 141-152, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2019-007.

Widlansky, M. J., H. Annamalai, S. B. Gingerich, C. D. Storlazzi, J. J. Marra, K. I. Hodges, B. Choy and A. Kitoh, 2019: Tropical cyclone projections: Changing climate threats for Pacific Island defense installations. Weather, Climate and Society, 11, 3-15, doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-17-0112.1.

Noda, S., K. Kodera, Y. Adachi, M. Deushi, A. Kitoh, R. Mizuta, S. Murakami, K. Yoshida, and S. Yoden, 2018: Mitigation of global cooling by stratospheric chemistry feedbacks in a simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 123, doi:10.1029/2017JD028017.

Endo, H., A. Kitoh and H. Ueda: A unique feature of the Asian summer monsoon response to global warming: the role of different land-sea thermal contrast change between the lower and upper troposphere. SOLA, 14, 57-63, doi:10.2151/sola.2018-010.

Surendran, S., S. Gadgil, K. Rajendran, S. J. Varghese and A. Kitoh, 2018: Monsoon rainfall over India in June and link with Northwest tropical Pacific. Theor. Appl. Climatol., https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2440-6.

Mizuta, R., A. Murata, M. Ishii, H. Shiogama, K. Hibino, N. Mori, O. Arakawa, Y. Imada, K. Yoshida, T. Aoyagi, H. Kawase, M. Mori, Y. Okada, T. Shimura, T. Nagatomo, M. Ikeda, H. Endo, M. Nosaka, M. Arai, C. Takahashi, K. Tanaka, T. Takemi, Y. Tachikawa, K. Temur, Y. Kamae, M. Watanabe, H. Sasaki, A. Kitoh, I. Takayabu, E. Nakakita, and M. Kimoto, 2017: Over 5,000 years of ensemble future climate simulations by 60-km global and 20-km regional atmospheric models. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98, 1383-1398, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0099.1.

Ha, K.-J., J.-Y. Lee, B. Wang, S.-P. Xie and A. Kitoh, 2017: Asian monsoon climate change ? understanding and prediction. Asia-Pac. J. Atmos. Sci., 53(2), 179-180.

Sperber, K.R., E. Cusiner, A. Kitoh, C.R. Mechoso, A.F. Moise, W. Moufouma-Okia, K. Schiro and A.G. Turner, 2017: Modelling Monsoons. In: C.-P. Chang, H.-C. Kuo, N.-C. Lau, R. H. Johnson, B. Wang and M. C. Wheeler (eds.), The Global Monsoon System, Research and Forecast 3rd Edition. World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate, Volume 9, ISBN: 978-981-3200-90-6, 79-101, doi:10.1142/9789813200913_0007.

Kitoh, A. and H. Endo, 2017: Monsoon Precipitation in a Future Warmer World. In: C.-P. Chang, H.-C. Kuo, N.-C. Lau, R. H. Johnson, B. Wang and M. C. Wheeler (eds.), The Global Monsoon System, Research and Forecast 3rd Edition. World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate, Volume 9, ISBN: 978-981-3200-90-6, 303-313, doi:10.1142/9789813200913_0024.

Noda, S., K. Kodera, Y. Adachi, M. Deushi, A. Kitoh, R. Mizuta, S. Murakami, K. Yoshida and S. Yoden, 2017: Impact of interactive chemistry of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere paleoclimate simulation. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 878-895, doi:10.1002/2016JD025508.

Kitoh, A., 2017: The Asian monsoon and its future change in climate models: A review. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 95, 7-33, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2017-002.

Endo, H., A. Kitoh, R. Mizuta and M. Ishii, 2017: Future changes in precipitation extremes in East Asia and their uncertainty based on large ensemble simulations with a high-resolution AGCM. SOLA, 13, 7-12, doi:10.2151/sola.2017-002.

Kitoh, A. and O. Arakawa, 2016: Reduction in the east-west contrast in water budget over the Tibetan Plateau under a future climate. Hydrol. Res. Lett., 10(4), 113-118, doi:10.3178/hrl.10.113.

Xue, Y., F. De Sales, W.K.-M. Lau, A. Boone, K.-M. Kim, C.R. Mechoso, G. Wang, F. Kucharski, K. Schiro, M. Hosaka, S. Li, L.M. Druyan, I. Seidou Sanda, W. Thiaw, N. Zeng, R.E. Comer, Y.-K. Lim, S. Mahanama, G. Song, Y. Gu, S.M. Hagos, M. Chin, P. Dirmeyer, L.R. Leung, E. Kalnay, A. Kitoh, C.-H. Lu, N.M. Mahowald, and Z. Zhang, 2016: West African monsoon decadal variability and drought and surface-related forcings: Second West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation Project Experiment (WAMME II). Clim. Dyn., 47, 3517-3545, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3224-2.

Huang, W.-R., Y.-H. Chang, C.-T. Cheng, H.-H. Sui, C.-Y. Tu, and A. Kitoh, 2016: Summer convective afternoon rainfall simulation and projection using WRF driven by global climate model. Part I: Over Taiwan. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 27, 659-671, doi:10.3319/TAO.2016.05.02.01

Su, Y.-F., C.-T. Cheng, J.-J. Liou, Y.-M. Chen and A. Kitoh, 2016: Bias correction of MRI-WRF dynamic downscaling datasets. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 27, 649-657, doi:10.3319/TAO.2016.07.14.1.

Kitoh, A. and H. Endo, 2016: Future changes in rainfall extremes associated with El Niño projected by a global 20-km mesh atmospheric model. SOLA, 12A, 1-6, doi:10.2151/sola.12A-001.

Rajendran, K., S. Surendran, A. Kitoh and S. J. Varghese, 2016: Reduction of

uncertainty associated with future changes in Indian summer monsoon projected by climate models and assessment of monsoon teleconnections. Proc. SPIE 9882, Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Interactions VI, 98820D (May 3, 2016), doi:10.1117/12.2229392.

Kitoh, A. and H. Endo, 2016: Changes in precipitation extremes projected by a 20-km mesh global atmospheric model. Weather and Climate Extremes, 11, 41-52, doi:10.1016/j.wace.2015.09.001.

Kieu, X., H. Vu, T. Nguyen, D. Le, L. Nguyen, I. Takayabu, H. Sasaki and A. Kitoh, 2016: Rainfall and tropical cyclone activity over Vietnam simulated and projected by the Non-hydrostatic regional climate model - NHRCM. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 94A, 135-150, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2015-057.

Muramatsu, T., T. Kato, M. Nakazato, H. Endo and A. Kitoh, 2016: Future change of tornadogenesis-favorable environmental conditions in Japan estimated by a 20-km-mesh atmospheric general circulation model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 94A, 105-120, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2015-053.

Kitoh, A., T. Ose and I. Takayabu, 2016: Dynamical downscaling for climate projection with high-resolution MRI AGCM-RCM. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 94A, 1-16, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2015-022.

Yun, K.-S., Y.-W. Seo, K.-J. Ha, J.-Y. Lee and A. Kitoh, 2016: The seasonally varying effect of the Tibetan Plateau on Northern Hemispheric blocking frequency and amplitude. Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-016-2981-2.

Endo, H. and A. Kitoh, 2016: Projecting Changes of the Asian Summer Monsoon Through the Twenty-First Century. In: L.M.V. Carvalho and C. Jones (eds.), The Monsoons and Climate Change: Observations and Modeling, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-21649-2, 47-66.

Ueda, H., Y. Kamae, M. Hayasaki, A. Kitoh, S. Watanabe, Y. Miki and A. Kumai, 2015: Combined effects of recent Pacific cooling and Indian Ocean warming on the Asian monsoon. Nature Commun., 6, 8854, doi:10.1038/ncomms9854.

Lee, J.-Y., B. Wang, K.-H. Seo, K.-J. Ha, A. Kitoh and J. Liu, 2015: Effects of mountain uplift on global monsoon precipitation. Asia-Pacific J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 275-290, doi:10.1007/s13143-015-0077-2.

Kitoh, A. and T. Zhou, 2015: Long-term anthropogenic drivers of monsoons. CLIVAR Exchanges, 66, 35-37.

Tsuboki, K., M.K. Yoshioka, T. Shinoda, M. Kato, S. Kanada and A. Kitoh, 2015: Future increase of supertyphoon intensity associated with climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2014GL061793.

Murakami, H., M. Sugi, and A. Kitoh, 2014: Future changes in tropical cyclone activity in the North Indian Ocean projected by the new high-resolution MRI-AGCMs. In: Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change., Mohanty, U. C., M. Mohapatra, O. P. Singh, B. K. Bandyopadhyay, and L. S. Rathore, Eds., Springer, 65-71.

Mizuta R., O. Arakawa, T Ose, S. Kusunoki, H. Endo and A. Kitoh, 2014: Classification of CMIP5 future climate responses by the tropical sea surface temperature changes. SOLA, 10, 167-171, doi:10.2151/sola.2014-035.

Ogata, T. and A. Kitoh, 2014: Effect of high-resolution SST on 60km-AGCM simulated snowfall in Japan. SOLA, 10, 131-135.

Rajendran, K., A Kitoh and S. Sajani, 2014: Ultra-high Resolution Global Model Climate Change Projection for India: A Data Intensive Paradigm. In: Geospatial Technologies and Climate Change [Sundaresan, J., K.M. Santosh, A. Deri, R. Roggema and R. Singh (eds.)], Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-01689-4, 217-236.

Kitoh, A., 2014: Global climate model and projected hydro-meteorological extremes in the future. In: Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications. Edited by A. Ismail-Zadeh, J. Urrutia-Fucugaughi, A. Kijko, K. Takeuchi and I. Zaliapin. Cambridge University Press, pp. 77-87, ISBN 978-1-107-03386-3.

Nakaegawa, T., A. Kitoh, H. Murakami and S. Kusunoki, 2014: Annual maximum 5-day rainfall total and maximum number of consecutive dry days over Central America and the Caribbean in the late twenty-first century projected by an atmospheric general circulation model with three different horizontal resolutions. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 116, 155-168, doi:10.1007/s00704-013-0934-9.

Nakaegawa, T., A. Kitoh, Y. Ishizaki, S. Kusunoki and H. Murakami, 2014: Caribbean low-level jet and accompanying moisture fluxes in a global warming climate projected with CMIP3 multi-model ensemble and fine-mesh atmospheric general circulation models. Int. J. Climatol., 34, 964-977, doi:10.1002/joc.3733.

Alpert, P., F. Jin and A. Kitoh, 2014: The Projected Death of the Fertile Crescent. In: J. Norwine (ed.), A World After Climate Change and Culture-Shift. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 193-203, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0.

Christensen, J. H., K. Krishna Kumar, E. Aldrian, S.-I. An, I. F. A. Cavalcanti, M. de Castro, W. Dong, P. Goswami, A. Hall, J. K. Kanyanga, A. Kitoh, J. Kossin, N.-C. Lau, J. Renwick, D. Stephenson, S.-P. Xie and T. Zhou, 2013: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T. F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S. K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P. M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

Endo, H. and A. Kitoh, 2014: Thermodynamic and dynamic effects on regional monsoon rainfall changes in a warmer climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 1704-1710, doi:10.1002/2013GL059158.

Nakaegawa, T., A. Kitoh, S. Kusunoki, H. Murakami and O. Arakawa, 2014: Hydroclimate change over Central America and the Caribbean in a global warming climate projected with 20-km and 60-km mesh MRI atmospheric general circulation models. Pap. Meteorol. Geophys., 65, 15-33, doi:10.2467/mripapers.65.15.

Kimura, N., A. Tai, S. Chiang, H.-P. Wei, Y.-F. Su, C.-T. Cheng and A. Kitoh, 2014: Hydrological flood simulation using a design hyetograph created from extreme weather data of a high-resolution atmospheric general circulation model. Water, 6, 345-366, doi:10.3390/w6020345.

Adachi, Y., S. Yukimoto, M. Deushi, A. Obata, H. Nakano, T.Y. Tanaka, M. Hosaka, T. Sakami, H. Yoshimura, M. Hirabara, E. Shindo, H. Tsujino, R. Mizuta, S. Yabu, T. Koshiro, T. Ose and A. Kitoh, 2013: Basic performance of a new earth system model of the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI-ESM1). Pap. Meteorol. Geophys., 64, 1-19.

Sperber, K.R., H. Annamalai, I.-S. Kang, A. Kitoh, A. Moise, A.G. Turner, B. Wang and T. Zhou, 2012: The Asian summer monsoon: An intercomparison of CMIP5 vs. CMIP3 simulations of the late 20th century. Climate Dynamics, 41, 2711-2744, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1607-6.

Rahman, Md. M., M. Rafiuddin, Md. M. Alam, S. Kusunoki, A. Kitoh and F. Giorgi, 2013: Summer monsoon rainfall scenario over Bangladesh using a high-resolution AGCM. Natural Hazards, 69, 793-807, doi:10.1007/s11069-013-0734-7.

Rajendran, K., A. Kitoh and J. Srinivasan, 2013: Effect of SST variation on ITCZ in APE simulations. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 91A, 195-215, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A06.

Williamson, D. L., M. Blackburn, K. Nakajima, W. Ohfuchi, Y. O. Takahashi, Y.-Y. Hayashi, H. Nakamura, M. Ishiwatari, J. McGregor, H. Borth, V. Wirth, H. Frank, P. Bechtold, N. P. Wedi, H. Tomita, M. Satoh, M. Zhao, I. M. Held, M. J. Suarez, M.-I. Lee, M. Watanabe, M. Kimoto, Y. Liu, Z. Wang, A. Molod, K. Rajendran, A. Kitoh and R. Stratton, 2013: The Aqua-Planet Experiment (APE): Response to changed meridional SST profile. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 91A, 57-89, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A03.

Blackburn, M., D. L. Williamson, K. Nakajima, W. Ohfuchi, Y. O. Takahashi, Y.-Y. Hayashi, H. Nakamura, M. Ishiwatari, J. McGregor, H. Borth, V. Wirth, H. Frank, P. Bechtold, N. P. Wedi, H. Tomita, M. Satoh, M. Zhao, I. M. Held, M. J. Suarez, M.-I. Lee, M. Watanabe, M. Kimoto, Y. Liu, Z. Wang, A. Molod, K. Rajendran, A. Kitoh and R. Stratton, 2013: The Aqua-Planet Experiment (APE): CONTROL SST simulation. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 91A, 17-56, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A02.

Murakami, H., B. Wang, T. Li and A. Kitoh, 2013: Projected increase in tropical cyclones near Hawaii. Nature Climate Change, 3, 749-754, doi:10.1038/nclimate1890.

Lee, S.-S., J.-Y. Lee, K.-J. Ha, B. Wang, A. Kitoh, Y. Kajikawa and M. Abe, 2013: Role of the Tibetan Plateau on climatological annual variation of mean atmospheric circulation and storm track activity. J. Climate, 65, 5270-5286.

Hall, T.C., A.M. Seally, T.S. Stephenson, S. Kusunoki, M.A. Taylor, A.A. Chen and A. Kitoh, 2012: Future climate of the Caribbean from a super-high-resolution atmospheric general circulation model. Theor. Appl. Climatol., doi:10.1007/s00704-012-0779-7.

Rajendran, K., S. Sajani, C.B. Jayasankar and A. Kitoh, 2013: How dependent is climate change projection of Indian summer monsoon rainfall and extreme events on model resolution? Current Science, 104, 1409-1418.

Kitoh, A., H. Endo, K. Krishna Kumar, I.F.A. Cavalcanti, P. Goswami, T. Zhou, 2013: Monsoons in a changing world: a regional perspective in a global context. J. Geophys. Res., 118, 3053-3065, doi:10.1002/jgrd.5025.

Murakami, H., M. Sugi and A. Kitoh, 2013: Future changes in tropical cyclone activity in the North Indian Ocean projected by highresolution MRI-AGCMs. Climate Dynamics, 40, 1949-1968, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1407-z

Abe, M., M.E. Hori, T. Yasunari and A. Kitoh, 2013: Effects of the Tibetan Plateau on the onset of the summer monsoon in South Asia: The role of the air-sea interaction. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 1760-1776, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50210.

Hsu, P.-c., T. Li, H. Murakami and A. Kitoh, 2013: Future change of the global monsoon revealed from 19 CMIP5 models. J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1247-1260, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50145.

Rajendran, K., A. Kitoh, J. Srinivasan, R. Mizuta and R. Krishnan, 2012: Monsoon circulation interaction with Western Ghats orography under changing climate: Projection by an ultra-high resolution global model. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 110, 555-571, doi:10.1007/s00704-012-0690-2.

Krishnan, R., T.P. Sabin, D.C. Ayantika, A. Kitoh, M. Sugi, H. Murakami, A.G. Turner, J.M. Slingo and K. Rajendran, 2013: Will the South Asian monsoon overturning circulation stabilize any further? Climate Dynamics, 40, 187-211, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1317-0.

Yatagai, A., K. Kamiguchi, O. Arakawa, A. Hamada, N. Yasutomi and A. Kitoh, 2012: APHRODITE: Constructing a long-term daily gridded precipitation dataset for Asia based on a dense network of rain gauges. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 1401-1415.

Yun, K.-S., K.-Y. Heo, J.-E. Chu, K.-J. Ha, E.-J. Lee, Y. Choi and A. Kitoh, 2012: Changes in climate classification and extreme climate indices from a high-resolution future projection in Korea. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 48, 213-226.

Endo, H., A. Kitoh, T. Ose, R. Mizuta and S. Kusunoki, 2012: Future changes and uncertainties in Asian precipitation simulated by multi-physics and multi-sea surface temperature ensemble experiments with high-resolution Meteorological Research Institute atmospheric general circulation models (MRI-AGCMs). J. Geophys. Res., 117, D16118, doi:10.1029/2012JD017874.

Murakami, H., Y. Wang, H. Yoshimura, R. Mizuta, M. Sugi, E. Shindo, Y. Adachi, S. Yukimoto, M. Hosaka, S. Kusunoki , T. Ose and A. Kitoh, 2012: Future changes in tropical cyclone activity projected by the new high-resolution MRI-AGCM. J.

Climate, 25, 3237-3260. Mizuta, R., H. Yoshimura, H. Murakami, M. Matsueda, H. Endo, T. Ose, K. Kamiguchi,

M. Hosaka, M. Sugi, S. Yukimoto, S. Kusunoki and A. Kitoh, 2012: Climate simulations using MRI-AGCM3.2 with 20-km grid. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90A, 233-258.

Arakawa, O. and A. Kitoh, 2012: Elevation dependency of summertime precipitation and its change by global warming over the Tibetan Plateau and the surroundings simulated by a 60-km-mesh atmospheric general circulation model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90A, 151-165.

Yukimoto, S., Y. Adachi, M. Hosaka, T. Sakami, H. Yoshimura, M. Hirabara, T.Y. Tanaka, E. Shindo, H. Tsujino, M. Deushi, R. Mizuta, S. Yabu, A. Obata, H. Nakano, T. Koshiro, T. Ose and A. Kitoh, 2012: A new global climate model of the Meteorological Research Institute: MRI-CGCM3 - Model description and basic performance -. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 90A, 23-64.

Hsu, P.-C., T. Li, J.-J. Luo, H. Murakami, A. Kitoh and M. Zhao, 2012: Increase of global monsoon area and precipitation under global warming: A robust signal? Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L06701, doi:10.1029/2012GL051037.

Rahman, Md.M., N. Ferdousi, Y. Sato, S. Kusunoki and A. Kitoh, 2012: Rainfall and temperature scenario for Bangladesh using 20km mesh AGCM. Int. J. Climate Change Strategies and Management (IJCCSM), 4, 66-80.

Raible, C.C., S. Kleppek, M. Wüest, D.N. Bresch, A. Kitoh, H. Murakami and T.F. Stocker, 2012: Atlantic hurricanes and associated insurance loss potentials in future climate scenarios: limitations of high-resolved AGCM simulations. Tellus A, 64, 15672, doi: 10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.15672

Kitoh, A. and O. Arakawa, 2011: Precipitation climatology over the Middle East simulated by the high-resolution MRI-AGCM3. Global Environmental Research, Vol.15, No.2, 139-146.

Arakawa, O. and A. Kitoh, 2011: Intercomparison of the relationship between precipitation and elevation among gridded precipitation datastes over the Asian summer monsoon region. Global Environmental Research, Vol.15, No.2, 109-118.

Kamiguchi, K., O. Arakawa and A. Kitoh, 2011: Long-term changes in Japanese extreme precipitation analyzed with APHRO_JP_EX. Global Environmental Research, Vol.15, No.2, 91-99.

Kamae, Y., H. Ueda and A. Kitoh, 2011: Hadley and Walker circulations in Mid-Pliocene warm period simulated by an atmospheric general circulation model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 89, 475-493.

Wang, B., H.-J. Kim, K. Kikuchi and A. Kitoh, 2011: Diagnostic metrics for evaluation of annual and diurnal cycles. Clim. Dyn., 37, 941-955.

Jin, F., A. Kitoh and P. Alpert, 2011: Climatological relationships among the moisture budget components and rainfall amounts over the Mediterranean based on a super-high resolution climate model. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D09102, doi:10.1029/2010JD014021.

Kitoh. A., 2011: Impact of Climate Change on Asian Monsoon Characteristics. In: C.-P. Chang, Y. Ding, N.-C. Lau, R.H. Johnson, B. Wang and T. Yasunari (eds.) The Global Monsoon System: Research and Forecast, 2nd Edition, World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate - Vol. 5, World Scientific Publication Company, 557-568.

Yukimoto, S., H. Yoshimura, M. Hosaka, T. Sakami, H. Tsujino, M. Hirabara, T.Y. Tanaka, M. Deushi, A. Obata, H. Nakano, Y. Adachi, E. Shindo, S. Yabu, T. Ose and A. Kitoh, 2011: Meteorological Research Institute-Earth System Model v1 (MRI-ESM1) - Model Description -. Technical Report of MRI, No. 64, 83 pp.

Murakami, H., B. Wang and A. Kitoh, 2011: Future changes in the western North Pacific typhoons: Projection with a 20-km-mesh global atmospheric model. J. Climate, 24, 1154-1169.

Kitoh, A., S. Kusunoki and T. Nakaegawa, 2011: Climate change projections over South America in the late twenty-first century with the 20-km and 60-km mesh MRI-AGCM. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D06105, doi:10.1029/2010JD014920.

Kitoh, A., S. Kusunoki, Y. Sato, N. Ferdousi, M. Rahman, E.E.S. Makmur, A.L.S. Solis, W. Chaowiwat and T.D. Trong, 2011: Climate Change Projections in Some Asian Countries. In: Climate Change Adaptation and International Development, (R. Fujikura and M. Kawanishi), Earthscan, London, 19-62.

Kitoh, A., T. Motoi and O. Arakawa, 2010: Climate modelling study on mountain uplift and Asian monsoon evolution. In: Monsoon Evolution and Tectonics - Climate Linkage in Asia. [Clift, P.D., R. Tada and H. Zheng (eds.)], Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 342, 293-301.

Jin, F., A. Kitoh and P. Alpert, 2010: Water cycle changes over the Mediterranean: a comparison study of a super-high-resolution global model with CMIP3. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 368, 1-13.

Xue, Y., F. De Sales, W.K.-M. Lau, A. Boone, J. Feng, P. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, K.-M. Kim, A. Kitoh, V. Kumar, I. Poccard-Leclercq, N. Mahowald, W. Moufouma-Okia, P. Pegion, D.P. Rowell, J. Schemm, S.D. Schubert, A. Sealy, W.M. Thiaw, A. Vintzileos, S.F. Williams and M.-L.C. Wu, 2010: Intercomparison and analyses of the climatology of the West African Monsoon in the West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation project (WAMME) first model intercomparison experiment. Clim. Dyn., 35, 3-27.

Kamiguchi, K., O. Arakawa, A. Kitoh, A. Yatagai, A. Hamada and N. Yasutomi, 2010: Development of APHRO_JP, the first Japanese high-resolution daily precipitation product for more than 100 years. Hydrological Research Letters, 4, 60-64.

Kitoh, A., T. Ose, K. Kurihara, S. Kusunoki, M. Sugi and KAKUSHIN Team-3 Modeling Group, 2009: Projection of changes in future weather extremes using super-high-resolution global and regional atmospheric models in the KAKUSHIN Program: Results of preliminary experiments. Hydrological Research Letters., 3, 49-53.

Kitoh, A. and T. Mukano, 2009: Changes in daily and monthly surface air temperature variability by multi-model global warming experiments. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 87, 513-524.

Liu, P., Y. Kajikawa, B. Wang, A. Kitoh, T. Yasunari, T. Li, H. Annamalai, X. Fu, K. Kikuchi, R. Mizuta, K. Rajendran, D.E. Waliser and D. Kim, 2009: Tropical intraseasonal variability in the MRI-20km60L AGCM. J. Climate, 22, 2006-2022.

Wohlfahrt, J., S.P. Harrison, P. Braconnot, C.D. Hewitt, A. Kitoh, U. Mikolajewicz, B.L. Otto-Bliesner and S.L. Weber, 2008: Evaluation of coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations of the mid-Holocene using palaeovegetation data from the northern hemisphere extratropics. Clim. Dyn., 31, 871-890.

Rajendran, K. and A. Kitoh, 2008: Indian summer monsoon in future climate projection by a super-high-resolution global model. Current Science, 95, 1560-1569.

Kim, K-Y., A. Kitoh and K.-J. Ha, 2008: The SST-forced predictability of the sub-seasonal mode over East Asia with an atmospheric general circulation model. Int. J. Climatol., 28, 1599-1606.

Kanada, S., M. Nakano, S. Hayashi, T. Kato, M. Nakamura, K. Kurihara and A. Kitoh, 2008: Reproducibility of maximum daily precipitation amount over Japan by a high-resolution non-hydrostatic model. SOLA, 4, 105-108.

Kitoh, A., A. Yatagai and P. Alpert, 2008: Reply to comment by Ben-Zvi and Givati on 'First super-high-resolution model projection that the ancient "Fertile Crescent" will disappear in this century'. Hydrological Research Letters, 2, 46.

Kitoh, A. and S. Kusunoki, 2007: East Asian summer monsoon simulation by a 20-km mesh AGCM. Clim. Dyn., 31, 389-401.

Yun, K.-S., S.-H. Shin, K.-J. Ha, A. Kitoh and S. Kusunoki, 2008: East Asian precipitation change in the global warming climate simulated by a 20-km mesh

AGCM. Asia-Pacific J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 233-247. Bates, B.C., Z.W. Kundzewicz, S. Wu and J.P. Palutikof (Eds.), 2008: Climate Change

and Water. Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, 210 pp.

Rajendran, K., A. Kitoh, R. Mizuta, S. Sajani and T. Nakazawa, 2008: High-resolution simulation of mean convection and its intraseasonal variability over the tropics in the MRI/JMA 20-km mesh AGCM. J. Climate, 21, 3722-3739.

Kitoh, A., 2008: Climate change. In: Asia-Pacific Coasts and Their Management: States of Environment. [Mimura, N. (ed.)], Springer, The Netherlands, 18-25.

Kitoh, A., A. Yatagai and P. Alpert, 2008: First super-high-resolution model projection that the ancient "Fertile Crescent" will disappear in this century. Hydrological Research Letters, 2, 1-4.

Meehl, G.A., T.F. Stocker, W.D. Collins, P. Friedlingstein, A.T. Gaye, J.M. Gregory, A. Kitoh, R. Knutti, J.M. Murphy, A. Noda, S.C.B. Raper, I.G. Watterson, A.J. Weaver and Z.-C. Zhao, 2007: Global Climate Projections. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 747-845.

Takayabu, I., H. Kato, K. Nishizawa, Y.N. Takayabu, Y. Sato, H. Sasaki K. Kurihara and A. Kitoh, 2007: Future projections in precipitation over Asia simulated by two RCMs nested into MRI-CGCM2.2. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 85, 511-519.

Kitoh, A., 2007: Variability of Indian monsoon-ENSO relationship in a 1000-year MRI-CGCM2.2 simulation. Nat. Hazards, 42, 261-272.

Sajani, S., T. Nakazawa, A. Kitoh and K. Rajendran, 2007: Ensemble simulation of Indian summer monsoon rainfall by an atmospheric general circulation model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 85, 213-231.

Braconnot, P., B. Otto-Bliesner, S. Harrison, S. Joussaume, J.-Y. Peterchmitt, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Crucifix, E. Driesschaert, Th. Fichefet, C.D. Hewitt, M. Kageyama, A. Kitoh, A. Laine, M.-F. Loutre, O. Marti, U. Merkel, G. Ramstein, P. Valdes, S.L. Weber, Y. Yu and Y. Zhao, 2007: Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 1: experiments and large-scale features. Clim. Past, 3, 261-277.

Braconnot, P., B. Otto-Bliesner, S. Harrison, S. Joussaume, J.-Y. Peterchmitt, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Crucifix, E. Driesschaert, Th. Fichefet, C.D. Hewitt, M. Kageyama, A. Kitoh, M.-F. Loutre, O. Marti, U. Merkel, G. Ramstein, P. Valdes, S.L. Weber, Y. Yu and Y. Zhao, 2007: Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget. Clim. Past, 3, 279-296.

Kitoh, A., T. Motoi and S. Murakami, 2007: El Nino/Southern Oscillation simulated at 6,000 yrs B.P. with the MRI-CGCM2.3: Effect of flux adjustment. J. Climate, 20, 2484-2499.

Kitoh, A., 2007: ENSO modulation by mountain uplift. Clim. Dyn., 28, 781-796. Nakaegawa, T, S. Kusunoki, M. Sugi, A. Kitoh, C. Kobayashi and K. Takano, 2007: A

study of dynamical seasonal prediction of potential water resoures based on an atmospheric GCM experiment with prescribed sea-surface temperature. Hydrol. Sci. J., 52, 152-165.

Sato, T., F. Kimura and A. Kitoh, 2007: Projection of global warming onto regional precipitation over Mongolia using a regional climate model. J. Hydrol., 333, 144-154.

Nohara, D., A. Kitoh, M. Hosaka and T. Oki, 2006: Impact of climate change on river runoff using multi-model ensembles. J. Hydrometeor., 7, 1076-1089.

Kageyama, M., A. Laine, A. Abe-Ouchi, P. Braconnot, E. Cortijo, M. Crufifix, A. de Vernal, J. Guiot, C.D. Hewitt, A. Kitoh, M. Kucera, O. Marti, R. Ohgaito, B. Otto-Bliesner, W.R. Peltier, A. Rosell-Mele, G. Vettoretti, S.L. Weber, Y. Yu and MARGO Project Members, 2006: Last Glacial Maximum temperatures over the North Atlantic, Europe and western Siberia: a comparison between PMIP models, MARGO sea-surface temperatures and pollen-based reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 2082-2102.

Yukimoto, S., A. Noda, T. Uchiyama, S. Kusunoki and A. Kitoh, 2006: Climate changes of the twentieth through twenty-first centuries simulated by the MRI-CGCM2.3. Pap. Meteor. Geophys., 56, 9-24.

Uchiyama, T., R. Mizuta, K. Kamiguchi, A. Kitoh and A. Noda, 2006: Changes in temperature-based extremes indices due to global warming projected by a global 20-km-mesh atmospheric model.

SOLA, 2, 68-71. Kamiguchi, K., A. Kitoh, T. Uchiyama, R. Mizuta and A. Noda, 2006: Changes in

precipitation-based extremes indices due to global warming projected by a global 20-km-mesh atmospheric model.

SOLA, 2, 64-67. Yukimoto, S., A. Noda, A. Kitoh, M. Hosaka, H. Yoshimura, T. Uchiyama, K. Shibata,

O. Arakawa and S. Kusunoki, 2006: The Meteorological Research Institute coupled GCM, Version 2.3 (MRI-CGCM2.3) - Control climate and climate sensitivity -. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 84, 333-363.

Kitoh, A. and T. Uchiyama, 2006: Changes in onset and withdrawal of the East Asian summer rainy season by multi-model global warming experiments. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 84, 247-258.

Masson-Delmotte, V., M. Kageyama, P. Braconnot, S. Charbit, G. Krinner, C. Ritz, E. Guilyardi, J. Jouzel, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Crucifix, R.M. Gladstone, C.D. Hewitt, A. Kitoh, A. Legrande, O. Marti, U. Merkel, T. Motoi, R. Ohgaito, B. Otto-Bliesner, W.R. Peltier, I. Ross, P.J. Valdes, G. Vettoretti, S.L. Weber and F. Wolk, 2006: Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints. Clim. Dyn., 26, 513-529.

Rajendran, K. and A. Kitoh, 2006: Modulation of tropical intraseasonal oscillations by ocean-atmosphere coupling. J. Climate, 19, 366-391.

Kitoh, A., 2006: Asian Monsoons in Future. Chapter 17 In: The Asian Monsoon, Bin Wang (Ed), Praxis Publishing, pp. 631-649.

[191 peer reviewed articles (54 first authored) + 3 Books + 32 Book chapters] INVITED/KEYNOTE TALKS (since 2015) Kitoh, A., 2019.10.22: TOUGOU-C: Integrated Climate Change Projection. 2019

TCCIP International Workshop on Climate Change, 22-24 October 2019, Taipei, Taiwan. [Keynote Address]

Kitoh, A. and H. Endo, 2019.4.28: Future changes in precipitation extremes associated with tropical cyclones projected by large-ensemble simulations. EAC 14thWorkshop, 27-29 April 2019, Hong Kong.

Kitoh, A. and H. Endo, 2018.6.5: Rainfall extremes associated with tropical cyclones and their future changes. AOGS 2018 Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA, AS20-A007.

Kitoh, A., H. Endo, R. Mizuta, H. Kawai and O. Arakawa, 2017.11.17: Future changes in global monsoon precipitation and their uncertainty: Results from high-resolution MRI-AGCM ensemble simulation with multi-SSTs and multi-physics. IWM-VI, 13-17 November 2017, Singapore.

Kitoh, A. and H. Endo, 2016.8.2: Future changes of the monsoon precipitation by

CMIP5 models and high-resolution MRI-AGCM ensemble simulations. 13th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 1-5 August 2016, Beijing, China.

Kitoh, A., 2015.11.12: High-resolution modeling under the Program for Risk Information on Climate Change (SOUSEI Program). Eighth Jeremy Grantham Lecture on Climate Change, Devecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.