Princeton University

Ken Takahashi
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Ph. D. University of Washington, Seattle
Address: 237 GFDL
Phone: (609)987-5055
Email: ken.takahashi at noaa.gov
Webpage at UW

I use simplified models to gain understanding of the processes controlling basic aspects of climate. I'm currently working on trying to understand the double ITCZ bias in full climate models and the relation between global surface temperature and hydrological cycle under global warming scenarios. I'm also interested on the impacts of climate variability and change in Andean regions.

• Ken Takahashi, 2008: The global hydrological cycle and atmospheric shortwave absorption in climate models under CO₂ forcing. Submitted to Journal of Climate. (PDF)
• Ken Takahashi, 2008: Radiative constraints on the hydrological cycle in an idealized radiative-convective equilibrium model. Submitted to the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. (PDF)
• A. G. Martínez, K. Takahashi, E. Núñez, Y. Silva, G. Trasmonte, K. Mosquera, and P. Lagos, 2008: A multi-institutional and interdisciplinary approach to the assessment of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the Peruvian Central Andes: Problems and prospects. Adv. Geosciences 14, 257-260.
• Yamina Silva, Ken Takahashi and Raul Chávez, 2007: Dry and wet rainy seasons in the Mantaro river basin (Central Peruvian Andes). Adv. Geosciences 14, 261-264.
• K. Takahashi, G. A. Vecchi, B. J. Soden and I. M. Held, 2007: Comment on "How much more rain will global warming bring?" by Wentz et al. (2007). Rejected by Science.
• Ken Takahashi and David S. Battisti, 2007: Processes controlling the mean tropical Pacific precipitation pattern: II. The SPCZ and the southeast Pacific dry zone. Journal of Climate 20, 23, 5696-5706. (PDF)
• Ken Takahashi and David S. Battisti, 2007: Processes controlling the mean tropical Pacific precipitation pattern: I. The Andes and the eastern Pacific ITCZ. Journal of Climate 20, 14, 3434-3451 (PDF)
• Ken Takahashi, 2006: Processes controlling the tropical Pacific mean precipitation pattern. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
• Ken Takahashi, 2005: Tropospheric Kelvin waves and extreme rainfall events in Piura, northwestern Peru, during El Niño. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters. Rejected. (PDF).
• Ken Takahashi, 2005: The annual cycle of heat content in the Peru Current region. Journal of Climate 18, 23, 4937-4954 (PDF).
• Ken Takahashi, 2004: The atmospheric circulation associated with extreme rainfall events in Piura, Peru, during the 1997-98 and 2002 El Niño events. Annales Geophysicae 22, 3917-26. (PDF).
• Ken Takahashi and D. Thompson, 1999: Measuring air resistance in a computerized laboratory. American Journal of Physics, 67, 8. (PDF).