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  1. 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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  2. 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
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:14

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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:

  16. 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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  17. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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
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  26. 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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  27. 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

  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia and is considered one of the most vulnerable cities to climate-related disasters, including flooding, sea-level rise, and storm surges. Therefore, the development of a flood...

    Authors: Bambang Adhi Priyambodoho, Shuichi Kure, Ryuusei Yagi and Nurul Fajar Januriyadi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:34
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  32. Ground-based remote sensing using multi-axis differential optical absorption spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) was used to conduct continuous simultaneous observations of ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and formaldehyd...

    Authors: Hitoshi Irie, Daichi Yonekawa, Alessandro Damiani, Hossain Mohammed Syedul Hoque, Kengo Sudo and Syuichi Itahashi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:31
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  33. The measurements of one of the major greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), are being made using dedicated satellite remote sensing since the launch of the greenhouse gases observing satellite (GOSAT) by a three...

    Authors: Prabir K. Patra, Tomohiro Hajima, Ryu Saito, Naveen Chandra, Yukio Yoshida, Kazuhito Ichii, Michio Kawamiya, Masayuki Kondo, Akihiko Ito and David Crisp
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:25
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  34. Soil Water Index (SWI) represents the conceptual water stored in the soil and is calculated using a three-layer tank model with hourly precipitation. In Japan, landslide disasters are likely to occur when SWI ...

    Authors: Hiroshi Matsuyama, Hitoshi Saito and Valerii Zemtsov
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:17
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  35. Small water parcels, which are characterized by a low salinity and high dissolved oxygen (DO) are observed by Seaglider in the main thermocline (26.0–27.0 σθ) south of the Kuroshio Extension (KE), have horizontal...

    Authors: Shigeki Hosoda, Ryuichiro Inoue, Masami Nonaka, Hideharu Sasaki, Yoshikazu Sasai and Mizue Hirano
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:16
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  36. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident in March 2011 emitted a considerable amount of radioactive materials. This study isolated radiocesium-bearing microparticles (CsMPs), a form of radioa...

    Authors: Yoshinari Abe, Seika Onozaki, Izumi Nakai, Kouji Adachi, Yasuhito Igarashi, Yasuji Oura, Mitsuru Ebihara, Takafumi Miyasaka, Hisashi Nakamura, Keisuke Sueki, Haruo Tsuruta and Yuichi Moriguchi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:13
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  37. Microplastic pollutes water, land, air, and groundwater environments not only visually but also ecologically for plants, animals, and humans. Microplastic has been reported to act as vectors by sorbing polluta...

    Authors: Tan Suet May Amelia, Wan Mohd Afiq Wan Mohd Khalik, Meng Chuan Ong, Yi Ta Shao, Hui-Juan Pan and Kesaven Bhubalan
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:12
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  38. Previous projections of the frequency of tropical cyclone genesis due to global warming, even in terms of sign of the change, depends on the chosen model simulation. Here, we systematically examine projected c...

    Authors: Yohei Yamada, Chihiro Kodama, Masaki Satoh, Masato Sugi, Malcolm J. Roberts, Ryo Mizuta, Akira T. Noda, Tomoe Nasuno, Masuo Nakano and Pier Luigi Vidale
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:11
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  39. In this study, we developed two high-resolution future ocean regional projection datasets for coastal applications in Japan, in which we made use of dynamical downscaling via regional ocean models with atmosph...

    Authors: Shiro Nishikawa, Tsuyoshi Wakamatsu, Hiroshi Ishizaki, Kei Sakamoto, Yusuke Tanaka, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Goro Yamanaka, Masafumi Kamachi and Yoichi Ishikawa
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:7
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  41. The application of soft computing (SC) models for predicting environmental variables is widely gaining popularity, because of their capability to describe complex non-linear processes. The sea surface temperat...

    Authors: Masoud Haghbin, Ahmad Sharafati, Davide Motta, Nadhir Al-Ansari and Mohamadreza Hosseinian Moghadam Noghani
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:4
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  42. In extreme event attribution, which aims to answer whether and to what extent a particular extreme weather event can be attributed to global warming, the probability of an event is generally estimated through ...

    Authors: Akira Hasegawa, Yukiko Imada, Hideo Shiogama, Masato Mori, Hiroaki Tatebe and Masahiro Watanabe
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:78
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  43. Ensembles of climate change projections created by general circulation models (GCMs) with high resolution are increasingly needed to develop adaptation strategies for regional climate change. The Meteorologica...

    Authors: Rui Ito, Tosiyuki Nakaegawa and Izuru Takayabu
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:77
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  44. The heavy rain event of July 2018 and Typhoon Hagibis in October 2019 caused severe flash flood disasters in numerous parts of western and eastern Japan. Flash floods need to be predicted over a wide range wit...

    Authors: Takahiro Sayama, Masafumi Yamada, Yoshito Sugawara and Dai Yamazaki
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:75
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  45. The transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions (TCRE) is a key metric in estimating the remaining carbon budget for given temperature targets. However, the TCRE has a small scenario dependence t...

    Authors: Kaoru Tachiiri
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:74
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  46. Although importance of co-control of SLCPs together with the emission reduction of CO2 has attracted much attention for the mid-term climate change mitigation, the contribution to radiative forcing (RF) is rather...

    Authors: Hajime Akimoto, Tatsuya Nagashima, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Zbigniew Klimont and Markus Amann
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:73
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  47. To date, the treatment of permafrost in global climate models has been simplified due to the prevailing uncertainties in the processes involving frozen ground. In this study, we improved the modeling of permaf...

    Authors: Tokuta Yokohata, Kazuyuki Saito, Kumiko Takata, Tomoko Nitta, Yusuke Satoh, Tomohiro Hajima, Tetsuo Sueyoshi and Go Iwahana
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:69
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  48. Accurate simulations of land processes are crucial for many purposes, such as climate simulation, weather, flood, and drought prediction, and climate change impact assessment studies. In this paper, we present...

    Authors: Tomoko Nitta, Takashi Arakawa, Misako Hatono, Akira Takeshima and Kei Yoshimura
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:68
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  49. In the present study, the relative importance of ocean heat uptake and heat redistribution on future sea level changes in the western North Pacific has been reconciled based on a set of climate model experimen...

    Authors: Tatsuo Suzuki and Hiroaki Tatebe
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:67
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  50. The past 20 years of research using Earth system models (ESMs) is reviewed with an emphasis on results from the ESM based on MIROC (Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate) developed in Japan. Earth sy...

    Authors: Michio Kawamiya, Tomohiro Hajima, Kaoru Tachiiri, Shingo Watanabe and Tokuta Yokohata
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:64
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