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Akihiko Murata is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their work covers several key topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Ocean acidification effects and responses
  • Methane hydrates and related phenomena
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Akihiko Murata has published frequently in the following scientific venues:

  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • SOLA
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Earth system science data
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles

The scientist has authored or co-authored several research papers, including:

  • "An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020," 2020, Earth system science data
  • "GLODAPv2.2022: the latest version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product," 2022, Earth system science data
  • "Horizontal distribution of surface microplastic concentrations and water-column microplastic inventories in the Chukchi Sea, western Arctic Ocean," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Sea-ice loss amplifies summertime decadal CO2 increase in the western Arctic Ocean," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Decadal Trends in the Oceanic Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon From 1994 to 2014," 2023, AGU Advances

Frequent collaborators working with Akihiko Murata include:

  • Shigeto Nishino
  • Hiroaki Kawase
  • Masaya Nosaka
  • Brendan R. Carter
  • Masao Ishii

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007

    Nicolas Gruber;Dominic Clement;Brendan Carter;Brendan Carter;Richard A. Feely

  • A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;Camilla S. Landa;Camilla S. Landa;Nicolas Metzl

  • Global ocean storage of anthropogenic carbon

    S. Khatiwala;T. Tanhua;S. Mikaloff Fletcher;Michael Gerber

  • Over 5,000 years of ensemble future climate simulations by 60-km global and 20-km regional atmospheric models

    Ryo Mizuta;Akihiko Murata;Masayoshi Ishii;Hideo Shiogama

  • Decrease in the CO2 uptake capacity in an ice-free Arctic Ocean basin.

    Wei-Jun Cai;Liqi Chen;Baoshan Chen;Zhongyong Gao

  • A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;A. Olsen;D.C.E. Bakker;S. Hankin

  • Decadal changes in the aragonite and calcite saturation state of the Pacific Ocean

    Richard A. Feely;Christopher L. Sabine;Robert H. Byrne;Frank J. Millero

  • An update to the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT version 2)

    Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;K. Smith;K. Smith;S. Hankin

  • GLODAPv2.2019 – an update of GLODAPv2

    Are Olsen;Nico Lange;Robert M. Key;Toste Tanhua

  • Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products

    C.L. Sabine;S. Hankin;H. Koyuk;H. Koyuk;D.C.E. Bakker

  • An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020

    Are Olsen;Nico Lange;Robert M. Key;Toste Tanhua

  • Southward spreading of the Fukushima-derived radiocesium across the Kuroshio Extension in the North Pacific

    Yuichiro Kumamoto;Michio Aoyama;Yasunori Hamajima;Tatsuo Aono

  • The Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP): A Platform for Integrated Multidisciplinary Ocean Science

    Bernadette M. Sloyan;Rik Wanninkhof;Martin Kramp;Gregory C. Johnson

  • Summertime CO2 sinks in shelf and slope waters of the western Arctic Ocean

    Akihiko Murata;Takatoshi Takizawa

  • Distributions, speciation and stable isotope composition of organic matter in the southeastern Bering Sea

    Laodong Guo;Tomoyuki Tanaka;Deli Wang;Noriyuki Tanaka

  • Mapping of the air–sea CO2 flux in the Arctic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Basin-wide distribution and seasonal to interannual variability

    Sayaka Yasunaka;Akihiko Murata;Eiji Watanabe;Melissa Chierici

  • Sea-ice loss amplifies summertime decadal CO2 increase in the western Arctic Ocean

    Zhangxian Ouyang;Di Qi;Liqi Chen;Taro Takahashi

  • Enhancement of heavy daily snowfall in central Japan due to global warming as projected by large ensemble of regional climate simulations

    Hiroaki Kawase;Akihiko Murata;Ryo Mizuta;Hidetaka Sasaki

  • Decadal change of dissolved inorganic carbon in the subarctic western North Pacific Ocean

    M. Wakita;S. Watanabe;A. Murata;N. Tsurushima

  • Arctic Ocean CO2 uptake: An improved multiyear estimate of the air-sea CO2 flux incorporating chlorophyll a concentrations

    Sayaka Yasunaka;Eko Siswanto;Are Olsen;Mario Hoppema

  • An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2021

    Siv K. Lauvset;Nico Lange;Toste Tanhua;Henry C. Bittig

Frequent Co-Authors

Michio Aoyama
Michio Aoyama University of Tsukuba
Masao Ishii
Masao Ishii Japan Meteorological Agency
Fiz F. Pérez
Fiz F. Pérez Spanish National Research Council
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Bronte Tilbrook
Bronte Tilbrook CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Mario Hoppema
Mario Hoppema Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Are Olsen
Are Olsen University of Bergen
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jeremy T. Mathis
Jeremy T. Mathis National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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