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Hideki Kobayashi is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant publication contributions in these fields.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, environmental engineering, and plant science. Key topics covered in their research include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate change and permafrost, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, remote sensing in agriculture, climate variability and models, and remote sensing and LiDAR applications.

Hideki Kobayashi has contributed to research published in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Nature Climate Change, and Polar Science.

Their recent notable papers are:

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Hideki Kobayashi has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Masahito Ueyama, Oliver Sonnentag, E. S. Euskirchen, Donatella Zona, and Hiroki Iwata.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests.

    Jin Wu;Loren P. Albert;Aline P. Lopes;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

  • Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales

    Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Hideki Kobayashi;Catharine van Ingen

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • How to quantify tree leaf area index in an open savanna ecosystem: A multi-instrument and multi-model approach

    Youngryel Ryu;Oliver Sonnentag;Tiit Nilson;Rodrigo Vargas

  • Sulfurimonas autotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing ε-proteobacterium isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough

    Fumio Inagaki;Ken Takai;Hideki Kobayashi;Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson

  • MODIS-derived global land products of shortwave radiation and diffuse and total photosynthetically active radiation at 5 km resolution from 2000

    Youngryel Ryu;Chongya Jiang;Hideki Kobayashi;Matteo Detto

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • On the correct estimation of effective leaf area index: does it reveal information on clumping effects?

    Youngryel Ryu;Tiit Nilson;Hideki Kobayashi;Oliver Sonnentag

  • The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing

    Jean Luc Widlowski;Corrado Mio;Mathias Disney;Jennifer Adams

  • Prevalence and Characteristics of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli from Healthy Cattle in Japan

    Hideki Kobayashi;Jun Shimada;Muneo Nakazawa;Tetsuo Morozumi

  • Genetic variation among Staphylococcus aureus strains from bovine milk and their relevance to methicillin-resistant isolates from humans.

    Eiji Hata;Ken Katsuda;Hideki Kobayashi;Ikuo Uchida

  • Continuous observation of tree leaf area index at ecosystem scale using upward-pointing digital cameras

    Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Joseph Verfaillie;Craig Macfarlane;Hideki Kobayashi;Hideki Kobayashi

  • A coupled 1-D atmosphere and 3-D canopy radiative transfer model for canopy reflectance, light environment, and photosynthesis simulation in a heterogeneous landscape

    Hideki Kobayashi;Hironobu Iwabuchi

  • RAMI4PILPS: An intercomparison of formulations for the partitioning of solar radiation in land surface models

    J.-L. Widlowski;B. Pinty;M. Clerici;Y. Dai

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

    Anna Maria Virkkala;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Brendan M. Rogers;Torbern Tagesson;Torbern Tagesson

  • Atmospheric conditions for monitoring the long-term vegetation dynamics in the Amazon using normalized difference vegetation index

    Hideki Kobayashi;Dennis G. Dye

  • The fourth radiation transfer model intercomparison (RAMI-IV): Proficiency testing of canopy reflectance models with ISO-13528

    J. L. Widlowski;B. Pinty;M. Lopatka;C. Atzberger

  • New data-driven estimation of terrestrial CO2 fluxes in Asia using a standardized database of eddy covariance measurements, remote sensing data, and support vector regression

    Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Masahito Ueyama;Masayuki Kondo;Masayuki Kondo;Nobuko Saigusa

  • Deferribacter desulfuricans sp. nov., a novel sulfur-, nitrate- and arsenate-reducing thermophile isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent.

    Ken Takai;Hideki Kobayashi;Kenneth H. Nealson;Koki Horikoshi

  • Modeling energy and carbon fluxes in a heterogeneous oak woodland: A three-dimensional approach

    Hideki Kobayashi;Hideki Kobayashi;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Youngryel Ryu;Qi Chen

  • Biological processes dominate seasonality of remotely sensed canopy greenness in an Amazon evergreen forest

    Jin Wu;Jin Wu;Hideki Kobayashi;Scott C. Stark;Ran Meng

  • On the correct estimation of gap fraction: How to remove scattered radiation in gap fraction measurements?

    Hideki Kobayashi;Hideki Kobayashi;Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Jon M. Welles

  • Assessing the potential of sun-induced fluorescence and the canopy scattering coefficient to track large-scale vegetation dynamics in Amazon forests

    Philipp Köhler;Luis Guanter;Hideki Kobayashi;Sophia Walther

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Youngryel Ryu
Youngryel Ryu Seoul National University
Tomomichi Kato
Tomomichi Kato Hokkaido University
Hiroyuki Muraoka
Hiroyuki Muraoka Gifu University
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Nobuko Saigusa
Nobuko Saigusa National Institute for Environmental Studies
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal

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