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Akio Kitoh publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Akio Kitoh sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 245 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Akio Kitoh D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Akio Kitoh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Akio Kitoh is affiliated with the University of Tsukuba in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography, with additional research interests in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Plant Science.

Kitoh's research encompasses a range of topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

The scientist has published research papers in several prominent venues, such as:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • Earth's Future
  • Journal of Climate
  • Climate Dynamics

Recent publications include the following:

  • "Monsoons Climate Change Assessment" (2020), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Future Changes in the Frequency and Destructiveness of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Over East Asia Projected by High-Resolution AGCMs" (2021), Earth's Future
  • "Future Changes in Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Frequency over the Western North Pacific Based on 20-km HiRAM and MRI Models" (2020), Journal of Climate
  • "Seasonal characteristics of future climate change over Japan and the associated atmospheric circulation anomalies in global model experiments" (2020), Hydrological Research Letters
  • "Amplified tropical Pacific rainfall variability related to background SST warming" (2020), Climate Dynamics

Collaboration has been an active aspect of Kitoh's research career, with frequent co-authors including Hirokazu Endo, Kyung-Ja Ha, Tianjun Zhou, Kavirajan Rajendran, and Ryo Mizuta. These collaborators have contributed to multiple publications jointly, highlighting a network of sustained academic partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 1: experiments and large-scale features

    P. Braconnot;B. Otto-Bliesner;S. Harrison;S. Joussaume

  • A New Global Climate Model of the Meteorological Research Institute: MRI-CGCM3 —Model Description and Basic Performance—

    Seiji Yukimoto;Yukimasa Adachi;Masahiro Hosaka;Tomonori Sakami

  • The Asian Summer Monsoon: An Intercomparison of CMIP5 vs. CMIP3 Simulations of the Late 20th Century

    K. R. Sperber;H. Annamalai;I. Kang;A. Kitoh

  • Intraseasonal oscillations in 15 atmospheric general circulation models: results from an AMIP diagnostic subproject

    J. M. Slingo;K. R. Sperber;J. S. Boyle;J.-P. Ceron

  • Climate Simulations Using MRI-AGCM3.2 with 20-km Grid

    Ryo Mizuta;Hiromasa Yoshimura;Hiroyuki Murakami;Mio Matsueda

  • Impact of Climate Change on River Discharge Projected by Multimodel Ensemble

    Daisuke Nohara;Akio Kitoh;Masahiro Hosaka;Taikan Oki

  • 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

  • Intercomparison of the climatological variations of Asian summer monsoon precipitation simulated by 10 GCMs

    I.-S. Kang;K. Jin;B. Wang;K.-M. Lau

  • Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

    S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

  • Monsoons in a changing world: A regional perspective in a global context

    Akio Kitoh;Hirokazu Endo;K. Krishna Kumar;Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti

  • Local and Remote Responses to Excessive Snow Mass over Eurasia Appearing in the Northern Spring and Summer Climate A Study with the MRI * GCM

    Tetsuzo Yasunari;Akio Kitoh;Tatsushi Tokioka

  • Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum – Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget

    P. Braconnot;B. Otto-Bliesner;S. Harrison;S. Joussaume

  • Future Changes in Tropical Cyclone Activity Projected by the New High-Resolution MRI-AGCM*

    Hiroyuki Murakami;Yuqing Wang;Hiromasa Yoshimura;Ryo Mizuta

  • Projection of global warming onto regional precipitation over Mongolia using a regional climate model

    Tomonori Sato;Fujio Kimura;Akio Kitoh

  • The equatorial 30-60 day oscillation and the Arakawa-Schubert penetrative cumulus parameterization

    Tatsushi Tokioka;Koji Yamazaki;Akio Kitoh;Tomoaki Ose

  • Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints

    Valérie Masson-Delmotte;Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;S. Charbit

  • Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking as simulated by 15 atmospheric general circulation models in the period 1979–1988

    F. D’Andrea;S. Tibaldi;M. Blackburn;G. Boer

  • AGCM simulations of intraseasonal variability associated with the Asian summer monsoon

    D. E. Waliser;K. Jin;I.-S. Kang;W. F. Stern

  • Future Change of Western North Pacific Typhoons: Projections by a 20-km-Mesh Global Atmospheric Model*

    Hiroyuki Murakami;Bin Wang;Akio Kitoh

  • Monsoons Climate Change Assessment

    Bin Wang;Michela Biasutti;Michael P. Byrne;Christopher Castro

  • Simulated Changes in the Asian Summer Monsoon at Times of Increased Atmospheric CO2

    Akio Kitoh;Seiji Yukimoto;Akira Noda;Tatsuo Motoi

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryo Mizuta
Ryo Mizuta Japan Meteorological Agency
Kyung-Ja Ha
Kyung-Ja Ha Pusan National University
Akira Noda
Akira Noda Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hiroyuki Murakami
Hiroyuki Murakami National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tetsuzo Yasunari
Tetsuzo Yasunari Nagoya University
Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Kunihiko Kodera
Kunihiko Kodera Nagoya University
Koji Yamazaki
Koji Yamazaki Hokkaido University
Huang-Hsiung Hsu
Huang-Hsiung Hsu Academia Sinica
Tim Li
Tim Li University of Hawaii at Manoa

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