Hiroyuki Murakami is a research scientist at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Plainsboro, New Jersey. He was a contributing author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Scientific Assessment (AR5, 2013) and been identified as one of the 500 most influential climate scientists by Reuters. His research interests include tropical cyclone climate projections, extreme events and numerical weather prediction.