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2015

The combined influences of westerly phase of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and 11-year solar maximum conditions on the Northern Hemisphere extratropical winter circulation: Yamashita Y., Akiyoshi H., Shepherd T. G., Takahashi M. (2015) The combined influences of westerly phase of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and 11-year solar maximum conditions on the Northern Hemisphere extratropical winter circulation. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 93(6), 629–644, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2015-054.
Comparison of GOSAT SWIR and Aircraft Measurements of XCH₄ over West Siberia: Ono A., Hayashida S., Sugita T., Machida T., Sasakawa M., Arshinov M. (2015) Comparison of GOSAT SWIR and Aircraft Measurements of XCH₄ over West Siberia. SOLA, 11, 160−164, doi:10.2151/sola.2015-036.
Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO₂ emissions: Smith P., Davis S. J., Creutzig F., Fuss S., Minx J., Gabrielle B., Kato E., Jackson R. B., Cowie A., Kriegler E., van Vuuren D. P., Rogelj J., Ciais P., Milne J., Canadell J. G., McCollum D., Peters G., Andrew R., Krey V., Shrestha G., Friedlingstein P., Gasser T., Grübler A., Heidug W. K., Jonas M., Jones C. D., Kraxner F., Littleton E., Lowe J., Moreira J. R., Nakicenovic N., Obersteiner M., Patwardhan A., Rogner M., Rubin E., Sharifi A., Torvanger A., Yamagata Y., Edmonds J., Yongsung C. (2015) Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO₂ emissions. Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate2870.
Observations of XCO₂ and XCH₄ with ground-based high-resolution FTS at Saga, Japan, and comparisons with GOSAT products: Ohyama H., Kawakami S., Tanaka T., Morino I., Uchino O., Inoue M., Sakai T., Nagai T., Yamazaki A., Uchiyama A., Fukamachi T., Sakashita M., Kawasaki T., Akaho T., Arai K., Okumura H. (2015) Observations of XCO₂ and XCH₄ with ground-based high-resolution FTS at Saga, Japan, and comparisons with GOSAT products. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 5263–5276, doi:10.5194/amt-8-5263-2015.
Exceedances of air quality standard level of PM_2.5 in Japan caused by Siberian wildfires: Ikeda K., Tanimoto, H. (2015) Exceedances of air quality standard level of PM_2.5 in Japan caused by Siberian wildfires, Environmental Research Letters, 10, 105001, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/105001.
Does GOSAT capture the true seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide?: Lindqvist H., O’Dell C. W., Basu S., Boesch H., Chevallier F., Deutscher N., Feng L., Fisher B., Hase F., Inoue M., Kivi R., Morino I., Palmer P. I., Parker R., Schneider M., Sussmann R., Yoshida Y. (2015) Does GOSAT capture the true seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide? Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 1302313040, doi:10.5194/acp-15-13023-2015.
Consistency of tropospheric ozone observations made by different platforms and techniques in the global databases: Tanimoto, H., Zbinden R. M., Thouret V., Nédélec P. (2015) Consistency of tropospheric ozone observations made by different platforms and techniques in the global databases, Tellus B, 67, 27073, doi: 10.3402/tellusb.v67.27073.
From Garden City to Eco-urbanism: The quest for sustainable neighborhood development: Sharifi A. (2015) From Garden City to Eco-urbanism: The quest for sustainable neighborhood development. Sustainable Cities and Society, 20, 1–16.
Roof ponds as passive heating and cooling systems: A systematic review: Sharifi A., Yamagata Y. (2015) Roof ponds as passive heating and cooling systems: A systematic review. Applied Energy, 160, 336–357.
Natural and anthropogenic methane fluxes in Eurasia: a mesoscale quantification by generalized atmospheric inversion: Berchet A., Pison I., Chevallier F., Paris J.-D., Bousquet P., Bonne J.-L., Arshinov M. Y., Belan B. D., Cressot C., Davydov D. K., Dlugokencky E. J., Fofonov A. V., Galanin A., Lavrič J., Machida T., Parker R., Sasakawa M., Spahni R., Stocker B. D., Winderlich J. (2015) Natural and anthropogenic methane fluxes in Eurasia: a mesoscale quantification by generalized atmospheric inversion. Biogeosciences, 12, 5393–5414, doi:10.5194/bg-12-5393-2015.
Adaptation pathways of global wheat production: Importance of strategic adaptation to climate change: Tanaka A., Takahashi K., Masutomi Y., Hanasaki N., Hijioka Y., Shiogama H., Yamanaka Y. (2015) Adaptation pathways of global wheat production: Importance of strategic adaptation to climate change. Scientific Reports, 5, 14312; doi: 10.1038/srep14312.
Regional forest biomass estimation using ICESat/GLAS spaceborne LiDAR over Borneo: Hayashi M., Saigusa N., Yamagata Y., Hirano T. (2015) Regional forest biomass estimation using ICESat/GLAS spaceborne LiDAR over Borneo. Carbon Management, 6(1-2), 19-33, DOI: 10.1080/17583004.2015.1066638.
The GRENE-TEA Model Intercomparison Peoject (GTMIP): overview and experiment protocol for Stage 1: Miyazaki S., Saito K., Mori J., Yamazaki T., Ise T., Arakida H., Hajima T., Iijima Y., Machiya H., Sueyoshi T., Yabuki H., Burke E. J., Hosaka M., Ichii K., Ikawa H., Ito A., Kotani A., Matsuura Y., Niwano M., Nitta T., O’ishi R., Ohta T., Park H., Sasai T., Sato A., Sato H., Sugimoto A., Suzuki R., Tanaka K., Yamaguchi S., Yoshimura K. (2015) The GRENE-TEA Model Intercomparison Peoject (GTMIP): overview and experiment protocol for Stage 1, Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 2841–2856, doi: 10.5194/gmd-8-2841-2015.
Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends: Mao J., Fu W., Shi X., Ricciuto D. M., Fisher J. B., Wei Y., Shem W., Piao S., Wang K., Schwalm C. R., Tian H., Mu M., Parazoo N., Ciais P., Cook R., Dai Y., El-Masri B., Hayes D., Hoffman F. M., Huang M., Huntzinger D. N., Ito A., Jacobson A., Jain A., King A. W., Lei H., Lu C., Michalak A. M., Peng C., Peng S., Poulter B., Schaefer K., Thornton P. E., Wang W., Zeng N., Zhu Z. (2015) Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends, Environ. Res. Lett., 10, 094008, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/1010/1089/094008.
Comparison of the data-driven top-down and bottom-up global terrestrial CO₂ exchanges: GOSAT CO₂ inversion and empirical eddy flux upscaling: kondo M., Ichii K., Takagi H., Sasakawa M. (2015) Comparison of the data-driven top-down and bottom-up global terrestrial CO₂ exchanges: GOSAT CO₂ inversion and empirical eddy flux upscaling. J. Geophys. Res.: Biogeosci., 120, 1226–1245, doi:10.1002/ 2014JG002866.
SMILES observations of mesospheric ozone during the solar eclipse: Imai K., Imamura T., Takahashi K., Akiyoshi H., Ymashita Y., Suzuki M., Ebisawa K., Shiotani M. (2015) SMILES observations of mesospheric ozone during the solar eclipse, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42(9), 3576-3582, doi:10.1002/2015GL063323.
Consistent satellite XCO₂ retrievals from SCIAMACHY and GOSAT using the BESD algorithm: Heymann J., Reuter M., Hilker M., Buchwitz M., Schneising O., Bovensmann H., Burrows J. P., Kuze A., Suto H., Deutscher N. M., Dubey M. K., Griffith D. W. T., Hase F., Kawakami S., Kivi R., Morino I., Petri C., Roehl C., Schneider M., Sherlock V., Sussmann R., Velazco V. A., Warneke T., Wunch D. (2015) Consistent satellite XCO₂ retrievals from SCIAMACHY and GOSAT using the BESD algorithm. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 2961–2980, doi:10.5194/amt-8-2961-2015.
A framework for the cross-sectoral integration of multi-model impact projections: land use decisions under climate impacts uncertainties: Frieler K., Levermann A., Elliott J., Heinke J., Arneth A., Bierkens M. F. P., Ciais P., Clark D. B., Deryng D., Döll P., Falloon P., Fekete B., Folberth C., Friend A. D., Gellhorn C., Gosling S. N., Haddeland I., Khabarov N., Lomas M., Masaki Y., Nishina K., Neumann K., Oki T., Pavlick R., Ruane A. C., Schmid E., Schmitz C., Stacke T., Stehfest E., Tang Q., Wisser D., Huber V., Piontek F., Warszawski L., Schewe J., Lotze-Campen H., Schellnhuber H. J. (2015) A framework for the cross-sectoral integration of multi-model impact projections: land use decisions under climate impacts uncertainties. Earth Syst. Dynam., 6, 447-460, doi:10.5194/esd-6-447-2015.
Propagation of biases in humidity in the estimation of global irrigation water: Masaki Y., Hanasaki N., Takahashi K., Hijioka Y. (2015) Propagation of biases in humidity in the estimation of global irrigation water. Earth System Dynamics, 6, 461-484, doi:10.5194/esd-6-461-2015.
Decomposing uncertainties in the future terrestrial carbon budget associated with emission scenario, climate projection, and ecosystem simulation using the ISI-MIP result: Nishina K., Ito A., Falloon P., Friend A. D., Beerling D. J., Ciais P., Clark D. B., Kahana R., Kato E., Lucht W., Lomas M., Pavlick R., Schaphoff S., Warszawski L., Yokohata T. (2015) Decomposing uncertainties in the future terrestrial carbon budget associated with emission scenario, climate projection, and ecosystem simulation using the ISI-MIP result. Earth Syst. Dynam., 6, 435–445, doi:10.5194/esd-6-435-2015.
Global spatiotemporal distribution of soil respiration modeled using a global database: Hashimoto S., Carvalhais N., Ito A., Migliavacca M., Nishina K., Reichstein M. (2015) Global spatiotemporal distribution of soil respiration modeled using a global database. Biogeosciences 12:4121–4132, doi:10.5194/bg-12-4121-2015.
Toward “optimal” integration of terrestrial biosphere models: Schwalm C., Huntzinger D. N., Fisher J. B., Michalak A. M., Bowman K., Ciais P., Cook R., El-Masri B., Hayes D., Huang M., Ito A., Jain A., King A. W., Lei H., Liu J., Lu C., Mao J., Peng S., Poulter B., Ricciuto D., Schaefer K., Shi X., Tao B., Tian H., Wang W., Wei Y., Yang J., Zeng N. (2015) Toward “optimal” integration of terrestrial biosphere models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064002.
On the stability of radiometric ratios of photosynthetically active radiation to global solar radiation in Tsukuba, Japan: Akitsu T., Kume A., Hirose Y., Ijima O., Nasahara K. N. (2015) On the stability of radiometric ratios of photosynthetically active radiation to global solar radiation in Tsukuba, Japan. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 209-210, 59-68.
Laboratory measurements of emission factors of nonmethane volatile organic compounds from burning of Chinese crop residues: Inomata S., Tanimoto H., Pan X., Taketani F., Komazaki Y., Miyakawa T., Kanaya Y., Wang Z. (2015) Laboratory measurements of emission factors of nonmethane volatile organic compounds from burning of Chinese crop residues. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2014JD022761.
Interannual variability of nitrogen oxides emissions from boreal fires in Siberia and Alaska during 1996–2011 as observed from space: Tanimoto H., Ikeda K., Boersma K. F., van der A R. J., Garivait S. (2015) Interannual variability of nitrogen oxides emissions from boreal fires in Siberia and Alaska during 1996–2011 as observed from space. Environ. Res. Lett., 10, 065004, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/065004.
Enhancement of dimethylsulfide production by anoxic stress in natural seawater: Omori Y., Tanimoto H., Inomata S., Wada S, Thume K., Pohnert G. (2015) Enhancement of dimethylsulfide production by anoxic stress in natural seawater. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 4047–4053, doi:10.1002/2015GL063546.
Climate change effects on the worst-case storm surge: a case study of Typhoon Haiyan: Takayabu I, Hibino K, Sasaki H. Shiogama H, Mori N, Shibutani Y, Takemi T. (2015) Climate change effects on the worst-case storm surge: a case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Environm. Res. Lett., 10, 064011, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064011.
Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: current status and future directions: Tian H., Lu C., Yang J., Banger K., Huntzinger D. N., Schwalm C. R., Schwalm C. R., Michalak A. M., Cook R., Ciais P., Hayes D., Huang M., Ito A., Jain A., Lei H., Mao J., Pan S., Post W. M., Peng S., Poulter B., Ren W., Ricciuto D., Schaefer K., Shi X., Tao B., Wang W., Wei Y., Yang Q., Zhang B., Zeng N. (2015) Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: current status and future directions. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 29, doi:10.1002/2014GB005021.
WETCHIMP-WSL: Intercomparison of wetland methane emissions over West Siberia: Bohn T. J., Melton J. R., Ito A., Kleinen T., Spahni R., Stocker B. D., Zhang B., Zhu X., Schroeder R., Glagorev M. V., Maksyutov S., Brovkin V., Chen G., Denisov S. N., Eliseev A. V., Gallego-Sala A., McDonald K. C., Rawlins M. A., Riley W. J., Subin Z. M., Tian H., Zhuang Q., Kaplan J. O. (2015) WETCHIMP-WSL: Intercomparison of wetland methane emissions over West Siberia. Biogeosciences, 12, 3321–3349, doi:10.5194/bg-12-3321-2015.
Multiannual top-down estimate of HFC-23 emissions in East Asia: Fang X., Stohl A., Yokouchi Y., Kim J., Li S., Saito T., Park S., Hu J. (2015) Multiannual top-down estimate of HFC-23 emissions in East Asia. Environ. Sci. Technol., 49(7), 4345-4353, DOI:10.1021/es505669j.
Reconciling reported and unreported HFC emissions with atmospheric observations: Lunt, M. F., Rigby M., Ganesan A. L, Manning A. J., Prinn R. G., O’Doherty S., Muhle J., Harth C. M., Salameh P. K., Arnold T., Weiss R. F., Saito T., Yokouchi Y., Krummel P. B., Steele L. P., Fraser P. J., Li S., Park S., Reimann S., Vollmer M. K., Lunder C., Hermansen O., Schmidbauer N., Maione M., Arduini J., Young D., Simmonds P. G. (2015) Reconciling reported and unreported HFC emissions with atmospheric observations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 112(19), 5927-5931, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1420247112.
ENSO-related variability in latitudinal distribution of annual mean atmospheric potential oxygen (APO) in the equatorial Western Pacific: Tohjima Y., Terao Y., Mukai H., Machida T., Nojiri Y., Maksyutov S. (2015) ENSO-related variability in latitudinal distribution of annual mean atmospheric potential oxygen (APO) in the equatorial Western Pacific. Tellus B, 67, 25869.
The Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparison and quality assessment of near-surface-sensitive satellite-derived CO₂ and CH₄ global data sets: Buchwitz M., Reuter M., Schneising O., Boesch H., Guerlet S., Dils B., Aben I., Armante R., Bergamaschi P., Blumenstock T., Bovensmann H., Brunner D., Buchmann B., Burrows J. P., Butz A., Chédin A., Chevallier F., Crevoisier C. D., Deutscher N. M., Frankenberg C., Hase F., Hasekamp O. P., Heymann J., Kaminski T., Laeng A., Lichtenberg G., De Mazière M., Noël S., Notholt J., Orphal J., Popp C., Parker R., Scholze M., Sussmann R., Stiller G. P., Warneke T., Zehner C., Bril A., Crisp D., Griffith D. W. T., Kuze A., O'Dell C., Oshchepkov S., Sherlock V., Suto H., Wennberg P., Wunch D., Yokota T., Yoshida Y. (2015) The Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparison and quality assessment of near-surface-sensitive satellite-derived CO₂ and CH₄ global data sets. Remote Sensing of Environment, 162, 344-362.
Rapid adjustments of cloud and hydrological cycle to increasing CO₂: a review: Kamae Y., Watanabe M., Ogura T., Yoshimori M., Shiogama H. (2015) Rapid adjustments of cloud and hydrological cycle to increasing CO₂: a review. Curr. Clim. Change Rep., 1, 103–113, DOI 10.1007/s40641-015-0007-5.
Random effects specifications in eigenvector spatial filtering: A simulation study: Murakami D., Griffith D. A. (2015) Random effects specifications in eigenvector spatial filtering: A simulation study. J. Geogr. Syst., DOI 10.1007/s10109-015-0212-8.
Recent slowdown of tropical upper-tropospheric warming associated with Pacific climate variability: Kamae Y., Shiogama H., Watanabe M., Ishii M., Ueda H., Kimoto M. (2015) Recent slowdown of tropical upper-tropospheric warming associated with Pacific climate variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063608.
Extraordinary halocarbon emissions initiated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake: Saito T., Fang X., Stohl A., Yokouchi Y., Zeng J., Fukuyama Y., Mukai H. (2015) Extraordinary halocarbon emissions initiated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2014GL062814.
Synergies between observational and modeling studies at the Takayama site: toward a better understanding of processes in terrestrial ecosystems: Ito A., Saitoh T. M., Sasai T. (2015) Synergies between observational and modeling studies at the Takayama site: toward a better understanding of processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecol. Res., 30, 201-210, DOI 10.1007/s11284-014-1205-7.
Variations in global methane sources and sinks during 1910–2010: Ghosh A., Patra P. K., Ishijima K., Umezawa T., Ito A., Etheridge D. M., Sugawara S., Kawamura K., Miller J. B., Dlugokencky E. J., Krummel P. B., Fraser P. J., Steele L. P., Langenfelds R. L., Trudinger C. M., White J. W. C., Vaughn B., Saeki T., Aoki S., Nakazawa T. (2015) Variations in global methane sources and sinks during 1910–2010. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15-2595-2612, doi:10.5194/acp-15-2595-2015.
Reconstructing the Carbon Dioxide Absorption Patterns of World Oceans Using a Feed-Forward Neural Network: Software Implementation and Employment Techniques: Zeng J., Nakajima H., Nojiri Y., Nakaoka S. (2015) Reconstructing the Carbon Dioxide Absorption Patterns of World Oceans Using a Feed-Forward Neural Network: Software Implementation and Employment Techniques. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 448, 417-425. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15994-2_42.
Current status and future of land surface models: Sato H., Ito A., Ito A., Ise T., Kato E. (2015) Current status and future of land surface models. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 61, 34–47, doi:10.1080/00380768.2014.917593.
GOSAT-2014 methane spectral line list: Nikitin A. V., Lyulin O. M., Mikhailenko S. N., Perevalov V. I., Filippov N. N., Grigoriev I. M., Morino I., Yoshida Y., Matsunaga T. (2015) GOSAT-2014 methane spectral line list. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 154, 63-71, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.12.003.
Nonlinear regional warming with increasing CO₂ concentration: Good P., Lowe J. A., Andrews T., Wiltshire A., Chadwick R., Ridley J. K., Menary M. B., Bouttes N., Dufresne J. L., Gregory J. M., Schaller N., Shiogama H. (2015) Nonlinear regional warming with increasing CO₂ concentration. Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2498.
Scenarios for the risk of hunger in the twenty-first century using Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: Hasegawa T., Fujimori S., Takahashi K., Masui T. (2015) Scenarios for the risk of hunger in the twenty-first century using Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Environ. Res. Lett., 10, 014010, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/1/014010.
Asymmetric Impact of the Physiological Effect of Carbon Dioxide on Hydrological Responses to Instantaneous Negative and Positive CO₂ Forcing: Abe M., Shiogama H., Yokohata T., Emori S., Nozawa T. (2015) Asymmetric Impact of the Physiological Effect of Carbon Dioxide on Hydrological Responses to Instantaneous Negative and Positive CO₂ Forcing. Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2465-1.
Quantitative assessment of the impact of typhoon disturbance on a Japanese forest using satellite laser altimetry: Hayashi M., Saigusa N., Oguma H., Yamagata Y., Takao G. (2015) Quantitative assessment of the impact of typhoon disturbance on a Japanese forest using satellite laser altimetry. Remote Sensing of Environment 156, 216–225, 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.09.028.