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Hiroyuki Kumagai

Hiroyuki Kumagai

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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
3581
World Ranking
8106
National Ranking
247

Overview

Hiroyuki Kumagai is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on geophysics. Their research portfolio spans related subfields, including geophysics, astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric science, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, planetary science and exploration, astro and planetary science, and high-pressure geophysics and materials.

Frequent publication venues for Kumagai include:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Harvard Dataverse

The list of recent papers illustrates the diversity and range of Kumagai's research contributions:

  • Topographic Degradation Processes of Lunar Crater Walls Inferred From Boulder Falls (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Empirical formula for the quality factors of crack resonances and its application to the estimation of source properties of long-period seismic events at active volcanoes (2020), Geophysical Journal International
  • Source models of long-period seismic events at Galeras volcano, Colombia (2021), Geophysical Journal International
  • Scattering and Attenuation Characteristics at Volcanoes Inferred From Envelope Widths of Natural and Active Seismic Sources (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Plume height, duration and volume of sustained explosive eruptions inferred from eruption tremor amplitudes (2022), Geophysical Journal International

Kumagai has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Kimiko Taguchi, Azusa Mori, Roberto Torres, Indira Molina, and Ayame Ikeda, indicating an active participation in multi-author, interdisciplinary work.

Best Publications

  • Acoustic properties of a crack containing magmatic or hydrothermal fluids

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Bernard A. Chouet

  • Very-Long-Period Seismic Signals and Caldera Formation at Miyake Island, Japan

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Takao Ohminato;Masaru Nakano;Masahiro Ooi

  • The complex frequencies of long‐period seismic events as probes of fluid composition beneath volcanoes

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Hiroyuki Kumagai;Bernard A. Chouet

  • Source mechanism of long-period events at Kusatsu–Shirane Volcano, Japan, inferred from waveform inversion of the effective excitation functions

    Masaru Nakano;Hiroyuki Kumagai;Bernard A. Chouet

  • Broadband seismic monitoring of active volcanoes using deterministic and stochastic approaches

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Masaru Nakano;Takuto Maeda;Hugo Yepes

  • Temporal evolution of a hydrothermal system in Kusatsu-Shirane Volcano, Japan, inferred from the complex frequencies of long-period events

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Bernard A. Chouet;Masaru Nakano

  • Dynamic landslide processes revealed by broadband seismic records

    Masumi Yamada;Hiroyuki Kumagai;Yuki Matsushi;Takanori Matsuzawa

  • Detection of landslides and submarine slumps using broadband seismic networks

    C. H. Lin;H. Kumagai;M. Ando;T. C. Shin

  • Waveform inversion of oscillatory signatures in long‐period events beneath volcanoes

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Bernard A. Chouet;Masaru Nakano

  • Source process of a long-period event at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Bernard A. Chouet;Phillip B. Dawson

  • Waveform inversion in the frequency domain for the simultaneous determination of earthquake source mechanism and moment function

    M. Nakano;H. Kumagai;H. Inoue

  • Seismic tracking of lahars using tremor signals

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Pablo Palacios;Takuto Maeda;Diego Barba Castillo

  • Vulcanian eruptions with dominant single force components observed during the Asama 2004 volcanic activity in Japan

    Takao Ohminato;Minoru Takeo;Hiroyuki Kumagai;Tadashi Yamashina

  • The excitation and characteristic frequency of the long-period volcanic event: An approach based on an inhomogeneous autoregressive model of a linear dynamic system

    Masaru Nakano;Hiroyuki Kumagai;Mineo Kumazawa;Koshun Yamaoka

  • The dependence of acoustic properties of a crack on the resonance mode and geometry

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Bernard A. Chouet

  • Time sequence and the recurrence models for large earthquakes along the Nankai Trough revisited

    Hiroyuki Kumagai

  • Magmatic dike resonances inferred from very-long-period seismic signals.

    Hiroyuki Kumagai;Koji Miyakawa;Hiroaki Negishi;Hiroshi Inoue

  • Source mechanism of a very-long-period event at Mt Ontake, central Japan: Response of a hydrothermal system to magma intrusion beneath the summit

    Haruhisa Nakamichi;Hiroyuki Kumagai;Masaru Nakano;Makoto Okubo

  • Resonances of a volcanic conduit triggered by repetitive injections of an ash‐laden gas

    Indira Molina;Hiroyuki Kumagai;Hugo Yepes

  • Three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure of Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador

    Indira Molina;Hiroyuki Kumagai;Jean-Luc Le Pennec;Jean-Luc Le Pennec;Minard Hall

  • Broadband seismic monitoring of active volcanoes using deterministic and stochastic approaches

    H. Kumagai;M. Nakano;T. Maeda;H. Yepes

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugo Yepes
Hugo Yepes National Polytechnic School
Bernard A. Chouet
Bernard A. Chouet United States Geological Survey
Mario Ruiz
Mario Ruiz National Polytechnic School
Eiichi Fukuyama
Eiichi Fukuyama Kyoto University
Takuto Maeda
Takuto Maeda Hirosaki University
Patricia Mothes
Patricia Mothes National Polytechnic School
Kazuro Hirahara
Kazuro Hirahara RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Phillip B. Dawson
Phillip B. Dawson United States Geological Survey
Yoshio Fukao
Yoshio Fukao Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Teruyuki Kato
Teruyuki Kato University of Tokyo

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