(Last updated: May 15, 2015)

English Papers


  1. Nakanishi, M., R. Shibuya, J. Ito, and H. Niino, 2014: Large-eddy simulation of a residual layer: Low-level jet, convective rolls, and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 4473-4491.
  2. Nakanishi, M. and H. Niino, 2012: Large-eddy simulation of roll vortices in a hurricane boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 3558-3575.
  3. Nakanishi, M. and H. Niino, 2009: Development of an improved turbulence closure model for the atmospheric boundary layer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 87, 895-912.
  4. Nakanishi, M. and H. Niino, 2006: An improved Mellor-Yamada Level-3 model: Its numerical stability and application to a regional prediction of advection fog. Boundary-Layer Meteor., 119, 397-407.
  5. Nakanishi, M. and H. Niino, 2004: An improved Mellor-Yamada Level-3 model with condensation physics: Its design and verification. Boundary-Layer Meteor., 112, 1-31.
  6. Nakanishi, M., 2001: Improvement of the Mellor-Yamada turbulence closure model based on large-eddy simulation data. Boundary-Layer Meteor., 99, 349-378.
  7. Nakanishi, M., 2000: Large-eddy simulation of radiation fog. Boundary-Layer Meteor., 94, 461-493.

  1. Ito, J., H. Niino, M. Nakanishi, and C.-H. Moeng, 2015: An extension of the Mello-Yamada model to the Terra Incognita zone for dry convective mixed layers in the free convection regime. Boundary-Layer Meteor., (accepted).
  2. Ito, J., H. Niino, and M. Nakanishi, 2014: Horizontal turbulent diffusion in a convective mixed layer. J. Fluid Mech., 758, 553-564.
  3. Shibuya, R., K. Sato, and M. Nakanishi, 2013: Diurnal wind cycles forcing inertial oscillations: A latitude-dependent resonance phenomenon. J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 767-781.
  4. Ito, J., H. Niino, and M. Nakanishi, 2012: Formation mechanism of dust devil-like vortices in idealized convective mixed layers. J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 1173-1186.
  5. Ito, J., H. Niino, and M. Nakanishi, 2011: Effects of ambient rotation on dust devils. SOLA, 7, 165-168.
  6. Fujiwara, C., K. Yamashita, M. Nakanishi, and Y. Fujiyoshi, 2011: Dust devil-like vortices in an urban area detected by a 3-D scanning Doppler lidar. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 50, 534-547.
  7. Ito, J., H. Niino, and M. Nakanishi, 2010: Large eddy simulation on dust suspension in a convective mixed layer. SOLA, 6, 133-136.
  8. Ito, J., R. Tanaka, H. Niino, and M. Nakanishi, 2010: Large eddy simulation of dust devils in a diurnally-evolving convective mixed layer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 88, 63-77.
  9. Oda, M., M. Nakanishi, and G. Naito, 2006: Interaction of an asymmetric double vortex and trochoidal motion of a tropical cyclone with the concentric eyewall structure. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 1069-1081.
  10. Oda, M., T. Itano, G. Naito, M. Nakanishi, and K. Tomine, 2005: Destabilization of the symmetric vortex and formation of the elliptical eye of Typhoon Herb. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 2965-2976.

  1. Niino, H., M. Nakanishi, and R. Tanaka, 2006: On the conditions for a dustdevil genesis in a large eddy simulation, Proc., 4th International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, Yokohama, Japan, 197-200.

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