2026 Atsushi Shimizu: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	52	4490	4298	74	71	246	9809

Overview

Atsushi Shimizu is affiliated with the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan and has established a research profile primarily in environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and engineering. Their work encompasses a range of topics related to atmospheric science and environmental impacts, demonstrating a focus on understanding air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and the interactions between aerosols and health.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Engineering

Within these fields, Shimizu's subfields of study place emphasis on:

Atmospheric Science
Global and Planetary Change
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Materials Chemistry
Aerospace Engineering

The research topics covered often relate to:

Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Air Quality and Health Impacts
Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
Nuclear Materials and Properties
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies

Shimizu has contributed to multiple publication venues, with significant outputs in:

The Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE)
Nuclear Engineering and Design
EPJ Web of Conferences
Research Square (Research Square)
The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shimizu include:

Tomoaki Nishizawa
Kazuhiko Iigaki
Yoshitaka Jin
Hiroyuki Satō
Nariaki Sakaba

Among their recent published papers are:

"Impacts of local versus long-range transported aerosols on PM10 concentrations in Seoul, Korea: An estimate based on 11-year PM10 and lidar observations," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
"Assessing CALIOP-Derived Planetary Boundary Layer Height Using Ground-Based Lidar," 2021, Remote Sensing
"Effect of Asian dust on respiratory symptoms among children with and without asthma, and their sensitivity," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
"Comparison of three aerosol representations of NHM-Chem (v1.0) for the simulations of air quality and climate-relevant variables," 2021, Geoscientific model development
"Comparative Analysis of PM2.5-Bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Nitro-PAHs (NPAHs), and Water-Soluble Inorganic Ions (WSIIs) at Two Background Sites in Japan," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Best Publications

Asian dust transported one full circuit around the globe

Itsushi Uno;Kenta Eguchi;Keiya Yumimoto;Toshihiko Takemura

883
Citations
Continuous observations of Asian dust and other aerosols by polarization lidars in China and Japan during ACE-Asia

Atsushi Shimizu;Nobuo Sugimoto;Ichiro Matsui;Kimio Arao

620
Citations
ACE-ASIA Regional Climatic and Atmospheric Chemical Effects of Asian Dust and Pollution

John H. Seinfeld;Gregory R. Carmichael;Richard Arimoto;William C. Conant

418
Citations
Overview of the Atmospheric Brown Cloud East Asian Regional Experiment 2005 and a study of the aerosol direct radiative forcing in east Asia

Teruyuki Nakajima;Soon Chang Yoon;Veerabhadran Ramanathan;Guang Yu Shi

318
Citations
Record heavy Asian dust in Beijing in 2002: Observations and model analysis of recent events

Nobuo Sugimoto;Itsushi Uno;Masataka Nishikawa;Atsushi Shimizu

300
Citations
Characterization of Asian dust and Siberian smoke with multi‐wavelength Raman lidar over Tokyo, Japan in spring 2003

Toshiyuki Murayama;Detlef Müller;Katsuya Wada;Atsushi Shimizu

250
Citations
Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum with the POLARBEAR Experiment

P. A. R. Ade;Y. Akiba;A. E. Anthony;K. Arnold

226
Citations
Data assimilation of CALIPSO aerosol observations

T. T. Sekiyama;T. Y. Tanaka;A. Shimizu;T. Miyoshi;T. Miyoshi

221
Citations
Adjoint inversion modeling of Asian dust emission using lidar observations

Keiya Yumimoto;Itsushi Uno;N. Sugimoto;A. Shimizu

182
Citations
First retrieval of tropospheric aerosol profiles using MAX-DOAS and comparison with lidar and sky radiometer measurements

H. Irie;Y. Kanaya;H. Akimoto;H. Iwabuchi

175
Citations
A high-resolution numerical study of the Asian dust storms of April 2001

Ming Liu;Douglas L. Westphal;Shigong Wang;Atsushi Shimizu

173
Citations
Observation of dust and anthropogenic aerosol plumes in the Northwest Pacific with a two-wavelength polarization lidar on board the research vessel Mirai

Nobuo Sugimoto;Ichiro Matsui;Atsushi Shimizu;Itsushi Uno

172
Citations
3D structure of Asian dust transport revealed by CALIPSO lidar and a 4DVAR dust model

I. Uno;K. Yumimoto;A. Shimizu;Y. Hara

149
Citations
Evolution of a lidar network for tropospheric aerosol detection in East Asia

Atsushi Shimizu;Tomoaki Nishizawa;Yoshitaka Jin;Sang-Woo Kim

144
Citations
Trans-pacific dust transport: integrated analysis of NASA/CALIPSO and a global aerosol transport model

K. Eguchi;I. Uno;K. Yumimoto;T. Takemura

136
Citations
Characterization of atmospheric bioaerosols along the transport pathway of Asian dust during the Dust-Bioaerosol 2016 Campaign

Kai Tang;Zhongwei Huang;Jianping Huang;Teruya Maki

131
Citations
Numerical study of Asian dust transport during the springtime of 2001 simulated with the Chemical Weather Forecasting System (CFORS) model

Itsushi Uno;Shinsuke Satake;Gregory R. Carmichael;Youhua Tang

131
Citations
An elevated large-scale dust veil from the Taklimakan Desert: Intercontinental transport and three-dimensional structure as captured by CALIPSO and regional and global models

Keiya Yumimoto;K. Eguchi;Itsushi Uno;Toshihiko Takemura

126
Citations
Cirrus observations in the tropical tropopause layer over the western Pacific

M. Fujiwara;S. Iwasaki;A. Shimizu;Y. Inai

123
Citations
An intercomparison of lidar‐derived aerosol optical properties with airborne measurements near Tokyo during ACE‐Asia

Toshiyuki Murayama;Sarah J. Masonis;Jens Redemann;Theodore L. Anderson

106
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuo Sugimoto National Institute for Environmental Studies

Itsushi Uno Kyushu University

Keiya Yumimoto Kyushu University

Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University

Zhaoyan Liu Langley Research Center

Zifa Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

Teruyuki Nakajima University of Tokyo

Hitoshi Irie Chiba University

Toshimasa Ohara Asia Center for Air Pollution Research

Yoshizumi Kajii Kyoto University

External Links

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