Ayako Abe-Ouchi

Ayako Abe-Ouchi is a Professor at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI) of the University of Tokyo. Her research focuses on understanding past climate change mechanisms using climate models, with specialties in paleoclimate modeling, atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation models (GCMs), and dynamical ice sheet models. She holds a Dr. Sc. Nat. from ETH Zurich.

Her key research themes include reconstructing atmospheric CO₂ concentrations over the past ten million years, investigating interactions between ice sheets, oceans, and the atmosphere, and studying extreme climate events like the Weissert Event. She has led or co-investigated multiple grants, including:

• Principal Investigator for 'Integrative modeling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, ocean, and climate' (2019–2023).
• Co-Investigator in projects like 'Reconstruction of atmospheric CO₂ concentration during the last 6 million years' (2020–2023) and 'Giant reservoirs of heat/water/material: Global environmental changes driven by Southern Ocean and Antarctic Ice Sheet' (2017–2021).

Her work emphasizes the role of CO₂, ocean circulation patterns, and ice sheet dynamics in past climate transitions. She collaborates on ice core analyses (e.g., Greenland and Antarctic cores) to reconstruct atmospheric methane and CO₂ levels.

Awards: No explicitly stated scientific awards in the provided text.

Advising and Grants: Overseeing interdisciplinary projects and contributing to global environmental change studies. Grants span climate modeling, paleoclimatology, and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, leading collaborative efforts in climate system modeling and paleoenvironmental reconstruction.