Yasuhiko Arakawa an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo and in 1993, was promoted Full Professor there. He is now at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo and is also the Director of Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics. He has been a visiting scientist of the California Institute of Technology in the period 1984-1986 and visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich in the period 2009-2011. He is a member of Science Council of Japan since 2009. Yasuhiko Arakawa Yasuhiko Arakawa (Japanese , "Arakawa Yasuhiko"; born 6 November 1952) is a Japanese physicist. His research focuses
Arakawa grids Arakawa grids The Arakawa grid system depicts different ways to represent and compute orthogonal physical quantities (especially velocity- and mass-related quantities) on rectangular grids used for Earth system models for meteorology and oceanography. For example, the Weather Research and Forecasting Model uses the Arakawa Staggered C-Grid in its atmospheric calculations when using the ARW core. The five Arakawa grids (A-E) were first introduced in Arakawa and Lamb 1977. For an image of the five grids, see the following picture, or Fig. 1 in Purser and Leslie 1988. The "unstaggered" Arakawa A-grid evaluates all quantities at the same point on each