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  1. Energetic cyclonic mesoscale eddies, which are called cold-core rings and are shed southward from the Kuroshio Extension jet and form closed streamlines, affect the atmosphere through the heat exchange across ...

    Authors: Akira Nagano, Minoru Kitamura, Kensuke Watari and Iwao Ueki
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:48
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  2. Uncontrolled terpenoid emissions from forest trees in Japan may have contributed to high O3 concentrations observed in urban and suburban areas. To estimate ozone formation via a series of reactions between NOx a...

    Authors: Akira Tani, Noboru Masui, Ting-Wei Chang, Motonori Okumura and Yutaka Kokubu
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:42
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  3. Atmospheric transport and dispersion models (ATDMs) are widely used to study and forecast pollution events. In the frame of the “Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the re...

    Authors: Alexandros Panagiotis Poulidis, Sarah-Lena Seemann, Hans Schlager and Mihalis Vrekoussis
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:37
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  4. Methane emission in South Asia is poorly understood due to a lack of observations, despite being a major contributor to methane emissions globally. We present the first results of atmospheric CH4 inversions using...

    Authors: Dmitry A. Belikov, Prabir K. Patra, Yukio Terao, Manish Naja, Md. Kawser Ahmed and Naoko Saitoh
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:36
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  5. The dynamics of waves and eddies in the upper ocean plays an important role in the climate variation of tropical and subtropical regions. Previous diagnoses for annual Rossby waves in oceanic model outputs man...

    Authors: Kaiwen Ye and Hidenori Aiki
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:29
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:43

  6. From 1998 to 2017, neutron monitors located at an altitude of 4300 m on the Tibetan plateau detected 127 long-duration bursts of high-energy radiation in association with thunderclouds. These bursts typically ...

    Authors: Harufumi Tsuchiya, Kinya Hibino, Kazumasa Kawata, Munehiro Ohnishi, Masato Takita, Kazuoki Munakata, Chihiro Kato, Susumu Shimoda, Quanqi Shi, Shuo Wang, Chenyao Han and Liuming Zhai
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:26
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  7. Emerging large ensemble climate datasets produced by multiple general circulation models and their downscaling products challenge the limits of hydrodynamic models because of the immense data size. To overcome...

    Authors: Jiachao Chen, Takahiro Sayama, Masafumi Yamada and Yoshito Sugawara
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:16
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  9. Snow is the most important component of the Arctic climatic and hydrological system and is directly vulnerable to climate change. In recent decades, observations have indicated significant decreases in the Arc...

    Authors: Hotaek Park, Youngwook Kim, Kazuyoshi Suzuki and Tetsuya Hiyama
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:13
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  10. In August 2021, rain front stagnation in Japan resulted in prolonged and disastrous rainfall across the entire country. During the heavy rainfall period, the large-scale atmospheric field over the East Asian–w...

    Authors: Masaya Kuramochi, Hiroaki Ueda, Tomoshige Inoue, Meiji Honda and Koutarou Takaya
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:69
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  12. A technique is developed to quantify the ultra-trace 231Pa (35–3904 ag) concentration in seawater using multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS). The method is a modification of th...

    Authors: Pu Zhang, Yanbin Lu, Zhe Zhang, Richard Lawrence Edwards, Robert Anderson and Phoebe Lam
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:65
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  13. This study examined the performance of an explicit bulk lightning model coupled with a meteorological model for forecasting lightning by numerical weather prediction over Japan. The evaluation was conducted by...

    Authors: Takumi Tomioka, Yousuke Sato, Syugo Hayashi, Satoru Yoshida and Takeshi Iwashita
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:60
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  14. Together with rapid Arctic warming and sea ice decline, especially over the Barents–Kara seas (BKS), extreme cold winters have occurred frequently in mid-latitudes, particularly in Central Eurasia. A pattern w...

    Authors: Xiling Zhou, Tomonori Sato and Shixue Li
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:59
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  15. Water resources are key to economic development of the Mekong River Basin, but are threatened by climate change and affected by hydropower development. Knowledge of these drivers’ integrated impact on future h...

    Authors: Steven Ly, Takahiro Sayama and Sophal Try
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:55
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  16. Increased rainfall associated with climate change can increase sediment discharge. The supply of fine sediment from slope failures inhibits bed armoring of mountain rivers and increases sediment discharge to t...

    Authors: Riho Kido, Takuya Inoue, Misako Hatono and Kazuki Yamanoi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:54
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  17. Clouds are the primary source of uncertainty in the prediction of climate change. To reduce the uncertainty of cloud simulations and overcome this difficulty in prediction, many climate modeling centers are no...

    Authors: Akira T. Noda, Tomoki Ohno, Chihiro Kodama, Ying-Wen Chen, Naomi Kuba, Tatsuya Seiki, Yohei Yamada and Masaki Satoh
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:48
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. Detailed investigations of time series features across climates, continents and variable types can progress our understanding and modelling ability of the Earth’s hydroclimate and its dynamics. They can also i...

    Authors: Georgia Papacharalampous, Hristos Tyralis, Yannis Markonis, Petr Máca and Martin Hanel
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:46
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  19. The linkage between environmental conditions in the coastal ocean and the open sea varies greatly by region. It is important to clarify, on an area-by-area basis, what coastal monitoring information reveals ab...

    Authors: Shuhei Masuda, Masato Kobayashi, Luis Alfredo Icochea Salas and Gandy Maria Rosales Quintana
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:38
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  20. The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite 2 (GOSAT-2) was launched in October 2018 as a successor to GOSAT (launched in 2009), the first satellite to specialize in greenhouse gas observations. Compared to the G...

    Authors: Ryoichi Imasu, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Masakatsu Nakajima, Yukio Yoshida, Kei Shiomi, Isamu Morino, Naoko Saitoh, Yosuke Niwa, Yu Someya, Yu Oishi, Makiko Hashimoto, Hibiki Noda, Kouki Hikosaka, Osamu Uchino, Shamil Maksyutov, Hiroshi Takagi…
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:33
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:44

  21. Proposed in 1954, Alisov’s climate classification (CC) focuses on climatic changes observed in January–July in large-scale air mass zones and their fronts. Herein, data clustering by machine learning was appli...

    Authors: Ryu Shimabukuro, Tomohiko Tomita and Ken-ichi Fukui
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:19
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  22. Light-absorbing aerosols affect atmospheric radiation, dynamics, and precipitations through shortwave absorption in the atmosphere and snowpack. Black carbon (BC) is considered the most significant contributor...

    Authors: Nobuhiro Moteki
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:14

  23. We developed a near-real-time estimation method for temporal changes in fossil fuel CO2 (FFCO2) emissions from China for 3 months [January, February, March (JFM)] based on atmospheric CO2 and CH4 observations on ...

    Authors: Yasunori Tohjima, Yosuke Niwa, Prabir K. Patra, Hitoshi Mukai, Toshinobu Machida, Motoki Sasakawa, Kazuhiro Tsuboi, Kazuyuki Saito and Akihiko Ito
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:10
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  24. We investigate historical regional climate changes in Japan from 1959 to 2020, analyzing a high-resolution dynamical downscaling forced by the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55). One-year continuous simulati...

    Authors: Hiroaki Kawase, Shin Fukui, Masaya Nosaka, Shun-ichi I. Watanabe, Keishi Otomo, Akihiko Murata, Kazuyo Murazaki and Tosiyuki Nakaegawa
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:7
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  25. The Gamma-ray Observation of Winter Thunderclouds collaboration has detected 70 gamma-ray glows, a high-energy phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, from October 2016 to March 2020 in Kanazawa and Komatsu,...

    Authors: Yuuki Wada, Miwa Tsurumi, Syugo Hayashi and Koichiro Michimoto
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:6
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  26. This paper presents the 1000 ensemble flood simulations using ensemble rainfalls simulated by 4D LETKF. The number of ensemble rainfall members is large as 1000 compared to the operational rainfall products of...

    Authors: Kenichiro Kobayashi, Le Duc, Takuya Kawabata, Atsushi Tamura, Tsutao Oizumi, Kazuo Saito, Daisuke Nohara and Tetsuya Sumi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:5
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  27. Using outputs from an ecosystem model embedded in an eddy-resolving ocean general circulation model that can realistically simulate decadal modulations of the Kuroshio Extension (KE) between stable and unstabl...

    Authors: Tomoki Tozuka, Yoshikazu Sasai, Sayaka Yasunaka, Hideharu Sasaki and Masami Nonaka
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:70
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  28. In this study, we conducted the quantitative evaluation of aerosol optical properties in the Indochina Peninsula (ICP), which is significantly affected yearly by both biomass burning (BB) and anthropogenic aer...

    Authors: Takeru Ohno, Hitoshi Irie, Masahiro Momoi and Arlindo M. da Silva
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:61
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  29. Sr isotope ratios of hydrothermal fluids were observed at five sediment-associated sites in the Okinawa Trough to investigate the diversity of subseafloor fluid–rock–sediment interactions. The estimated 87Sr/86Sr...

    Authors: Tomohiro Toki, Tasuku Nohara, Yoshiaki Urata, Ryuichi Shinjo, Shuko Hokakubo-Watanabe, Jun-ichiro Ishibashi and Shinsuke Kawagucci
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:59
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  30. Prior to the cold phase of the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), sea surface water in the western tropical North Pacific is heated. To evaluate the impact of the subsurface water on the upper-ocean (

    Authors: Akira Nagano, Takuya Hasegawa and Masahide Wakita
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:57
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  31. The eastern part of the Tsugaru Strait (located at ~ 41.5° N) is a remarkable region of the coastal flow system around Japan due to the Tsugaru Warm Current (TgWC), an intensive eastward current that flows ove...

    Authors: Hitoshi Kaneko, Takahiro Tanaka, Hiroto Abe, Masahide Wakita, Ken’ichi Sasaki, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Takeshi Okunishi, Shuichi Watanabe, Shoko Tatamisashi and Yoshiaki Sato
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:53
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  32. We describe a collaborative analysis study involving numerical models and observation data for the Tokyo metropolitan area called the ULTra-sIte for Measuring Atmosphere of Tokyo Metropolitan Environment (ULTI...

    Authors: Masaki Satoh, Shuhei Matsugishi, Woosub Roh, Yasutaka Ikuta, Naomi Kuba, Tatsuya Seiki, Tempei Hashino and Hajime Okamoto
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:51
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  33. Determining physical process parameters in atmospheric models is critical to obtaining accurate weather and climate simulations; estimating optimal parameters is essential for reducing model error. Recently, a...

    Authors: Kenta Sueki, Seiya Nishizawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaura and Hirofumi Tomita
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:47
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  34. We investigated the water-mass structure on the Okinawa Trough and Pacific sides of the southern Ryukyu Island Arc (Yonaguni, Iriomote, and Ishigaki subareas) using the Nd isotope composition (143Nd/144Nd ratios;...

    Authors: Andros Daniel Cruz Salmeron, Hideko Takayanagi, Shigeyuki Wakaki, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Toshihiro Miyajima, Hitomi Wakaki, Takuya Itaki and Yasufumi Iryu
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:44
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  35. Accurate estimates of the carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes at the earth’s surface are imperative for comprehending the carbon cycle mechanisms and providing reliable global warming predictions. Furthermore, they can a...

    Authors: Yosuke Niwa, Kentaro Ishijima, Akihiko Ito and Yosuke Iida
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:42
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  36. Permafrost covers a wide area of the Northern Hemisphere, including high-altitude mountainous areas and even at mid-latitudes. There is concern that the thawing of mountain permafrost can cause slope instabili...

    Authors: Tokuta Yokohata, Go Iwahana, Kazuyuki Saito, Noriko N. Ishizaki, Taiga Matsushita and Tetsuo Sueyoshi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:39
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  37. Egypt, a predominantly arid and hyper-arid country, is one of the environmentally most fragile regions of the world. The country became a hot spot for climatic extremes and aridity change in the global warming...

    Authors: Mohammed Magdy Hamed, Mohamed Salem Nashwan and Shamsuddin Shahid
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:35
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  39. Antarctic ozone has been regarded as a major driver of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) circulation change in the recent past. Here, we show that Antarctic ozone can also affect the subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) p...

    Authors: Jiyoung Oh, Seok-Woo Son, Jung Choi, Eun-Pa Lim, Chaim Garfinkel, Harry Hendon, Yoonjae Kim and Hyun-Suk Kang
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:25
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  40. The deposition of insoluble radiocesium-bearing microparticles (CsMPs), which were released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (F1NPP) accident in March 2011, has resulted in the widespread contami...

    Authors: Peng Tang, Kazuyuki Kita, Yasuhito Igarashi, Yukihiko Satou, Koutarou Hatanaka, Kouji Adachi, Takeshi Kinase, Kazuhiko Ninomiya and Atsushi Shinohara
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:17
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  41. To advance our understanding of surface and aloft nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution, this study extensively evaluated NO2 concentrations simulated by the regional air quality modeling system with a 1.3 km horizont...

    Authors: Syuichi Itahashi and Hitoshi Irie
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:15
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  42. The exact occurrence frequency of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) in middle latitudes is significant information because it is thought to be sensitive to long-term atmospheric change. We conducted NLC observation fr...

    Authors: Hidehiko Suzuki, Ayako Matsumoto, Peter Dalin, Yuriko Nakamura, Satoshi Ishii, Kazuyo Sakanoi, Kaori Sakaguchi, Taku Takada, Takuo T. Tsuda and Yuta Hozumi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:11
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  43. We developed lookup tables for the correlated k-distribution (CKD) method in the 940 nm water vapor absorption region (WV-CKD), with the aim of rapid and accurate computation of narrow-band radiation around 940 n...

    Authors: Masahiro Momoi, Hitoshi Irie, Miho Sekiguchi, Teruyuki Nakajima, Hideaki Takenaka, Kazuhiko Miura and Kazuma Aoki
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:10
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  44. Image data classification using machine learning is an effective method for detecting atmospheric phenomena. However, extreme weather events with a small number of cases cause a decrease in classification pred...

    Authors: Daisuke Matsuoka
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:68
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  45. Several mountainous river basins in Japan do not have a consistent hydrological record due to their complex environment and remoteness, as discharge measurements are not economically feasible. However, underst...

    Authors: Shakti P.C. and Kaoru Sawazaki
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:58
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. We developed a snowdrift model to evaluate the snowdrift height around snow fences, which are often installed along roads in snowy, windy locations. The model consisted of the conventional computational fluid ...

    Authors: Seika Tanji, Masaru Inatsu and Tsubasa Okaze
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:57
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  47. The global activities of typhoons and hurricanes are gradually changing, and these storms can drastically affect lake ecosystems through the recession of submerged macrophytes that regulate the water quality i...

    Authors: Satoshi Nakada, Hiroki Haga, Maho Iwaki, Kohji Mabuchi and Noriko Takamura
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:46
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:64

  48. The modern-day Tarim Basin is covered almost entirely by the Taklimakan sand desert and is one of the most arid regions in the world. Unraveling the aridification history of the desert is important for underst...

    Authors: Aki Sakuma, Ryuji Tada, Tomohiro Yoshida, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Naomi Sugiura, Akinori Karasuda, Ke Wang and Hongbo Zheng
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:44
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  49. A recently developed energy flux diagnosis scheme, which incorporates a smooth connection between the tropical and subtropical zones, is used in the present study to investigate vertically propagating waves in...

    Authors: Zimeng Li, Hidenori Aiki, Motoki Nagura and Tomomichi Ogata
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:43
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  50. The ongoing increases in anthropogenic radiative forcing have changed the global water cycle and are expected to lead to more intense precipitation extremes and associated floods. However, given the limitation...

    Authors: Yukiko Hirabayashi, Haireti Alifu, Dai Yamazaki, Yukiko Imada, Hideo Shiogama and Yuki Kimura
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:36
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