AOGS Fellows


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Yukari TAKAYABU

The University of Tokyo


Yukari Takayabu is Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo (UT). Her research interests extend from tropical meteorology (Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves, MJO and ENSO) to global climate and precipitation. Her career started at National Institute for Environmental Studies and continued at UT from 2000, served as Professor at CCSR and AORI/UT for 2007-2024, and as Vice Director of AORI for 2019-2023. She contributed as the leader of JAXA’s Science Team for TRMM and GPM satellite missions for 2010-2025, and herself put emphasis on science with space-borne precipitation radar observations. She led the Spectral Latent Heating algorithm group to publish four-dimensional atmospheric convective latent heating data. She also focused on global extreme rainfalls and their environments. Yukari received the Society’s Award and the Fujiwara Award from the Japan Meteorological Society, Saruhashi Award, a distinguished women scientist award, AMS Fellow 2021, and the Joanne Simpson Tropical Meteorology Research Award from the AMS.