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Hideaki Motoyama is affiliated with the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial number of publications in Environmental Science as well. The main subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, especially related to cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, and polar research and ecology. Other notable topics include winter sports injuries and performance, climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and landslides and related hazards.

Frequent publication venues for Hideaki Motoyama include:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • Journal of the Japanese Society of Snow and Ice
  • Climate of the Past
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Motoyama include:

  • "Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum," 2021, Science
  • "Geothermal heat flux from measured temperature profiles in deep ice boreholes in Antarctica," 2020, The Cryosphere
  • "Surface Mass Balance Controlled by Local Surface Slope in Inland Antarctica: Implications for Ice-Sheet Mass Balance and Oldest Ice Delineation in Dome Fuji," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Deep ice core drilling to a depth of 3035.22 m at Dome Fuji, Antarctica in 2001-07," 2020, Annals of Glaciology
  • "Variations in mineralogy of dust in an ice core obtained from northwestern Greenland over the past 100 years," 2021, Climate of the Past

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kenji Kawamura
  • Shun Tsutaki
  • Fumio Nakazawa
  • Ikumi Oyabu
  • Ayako Abe-Ouchi

Overall, Motoyama's body of work integrates studies on ice cores, temperature profiles in polar regions, and climate-related processes, emphasizing Antarctic and Greenlandic environments. The research contributes to understanding ice-sheet mass balance, paleoclimate indicators, and the geological and atmospheric factors influencing polar conditions.

Best Publications

  • High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period.

    K. K. Andersen;N. Azuma;J.-M. Barnola;M. Bigler

  • Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years

    Kenji Kawamura;Frédéric Parrenin;Lorraine Lisiecki;Ryu Uemura

  • A Review of Antarctic Surface Snow Isotopic Composition : Observations, Atmospheric Circulation, and Isotopic Modeling

    V. Masson-Delmotte;S. Hou;A. Ekaykin;J. Jouzel

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Evidence of deuterium excess in water vapor as an indicator of ocean surface conditions

    Ryu Uemura;Ryu Uemura;Yohei Matsui;Yohei Matsui;Kei Yoshimura;Hideaki Motoyama

  • Distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in glacier environments.

    Takahiro Segawa;Nozomu Takeuchi;Andres Rivera;Akinori Yamada

  • Insights from Antarctica on volcanic forcing during the Common Era

    Michael Sigl;Joseph R. McConnell;Joseph R. McConnell;Matthew Toohey;Mark Curran

  • State dependence of climatic instability over the past 720,000 years from Antarctic ice cores and climate modeling

    Kenji Kawamura;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Hideaki Motoyama;Yutaka Ageta

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Christo Buizert;T. J. Fudge;William H. G. Roberts;Eric J. Steig

  • Abrupt ice-age shifts in southern westerly winds and Antarctic climate forced from the north

    Christo Buizert;Michael Sigl;Mirko Severi;Bradley R. Markle

  • A comparison of the present and last interglacial periods in six Antarctic ice cores

    Valérie Masson-Delmotte;D. Buiron;A. Ekaykin;M. Frezzotti

  • Ice cores from Svalbard - useful archives of past climate and pollution history

    Elisabeth Isaksson;Mark Hermanson;Sheila Hicks;Makoto Igarashi

  • Ranges of moisture-source temperature estimated from Antarctic ice cores stable isotope records over glacial-interglacial cycles

    R. Uemura;R. Uemura;V. Masson-Delmotte;J. Jouzel;A. Landais

  • Snow chemistry across Antarctica

    N. Bertler;P.A. Mayewski;A. Aristarain;P. Barrett

  • Ice core record of 10Be over the past millennium from Dome Fuji, Antarctica: A new proxy record of past solar activity and a powerful tool for stratigraphic dating

    Kazuho Horiuchi;Tomoko Uchida;Yuko Sakamoto;Aoi Ohta

  • Spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation rate on the East Antarctic ice divide between Dome Fuji and EPICA DML

    S. Fujita;Per Holmlund;I. Andersson;Ian Brown

  • Temporal and spatial variability of surface mass balance at Dome Fuji, East Antarctica, by the stake method from 1995 to 2006

    Takao Kameda;Hideaki Motoyama;Shuji Fujita;Shuhei Takahashi

  • The paleoclimate record in the ice core at Dome Fuji station, East Antarctica

    Okitsugu Watanabe;Kokichi Kamiyama;Hideaki Motoyama;Yoshiyuki Fujii

  • Convective mixing of air in firn at four polar sites

    Kenji Kawamura;Kenji Kawamura;Kenji Kawamura;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Shigeyuki Ishidoya;Satoshi Sugawara

  • The second deep ice coring project at dome Fuji, Antarctica

    Hideaki Motoyama

  • State dependence of climatic instability over the past 720,000 years from Antarctic ice cores and climate modelling

    Kenji Kawamura;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Hideaki Motoyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuji Fujita
Shuji Fujita National Institute of Polar Research
Kenji Kawamura
Kenji Kawamura National Institute of Polar Research
Okitsugu Watanabe
Okitsugu Watanabe National Institute of Polar Research
Kumiko Goto-Azuma
Kumiko Goto-Azuma National Institute of Polar Research
Koji Fujita
Koji Fujita Nagoya University
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Teruo Aoki
Teruo Aoki Okayama University
Frédéric Parrenin
Frédéric Parrenin Grenoble Alpes University
Elisabeth Isaksson
Elisabeth Isaksson Norwegian Polar Institute
Nozomu Takeuchi
Nozomu Takeuchi Chiba University

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