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Hisashi Nakamura

Hisashi Nakamura

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
66
Citations
18936
World Ranking
1289
National Ranking
26

Hisashi Nakamura publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hisashi Nakamura sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 241 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Hisashi Nakamura D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hisashi Nakamura sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hisashi Nakamura is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions to Oceanography and minor involvement in Inorganic Chemistry and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Hisashi Nakamura's recent papers include:

  • "The 2019 Southern Hemisphere Stratospheric Polar Vortex Weakening and Its Impacts" (2021), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "On the role of Ural Blocking in driving the Warm Arctic-Cold Siberia pattern" (2020), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "The Role of Transient Eddies in North Pacific Blocking Formation and Its Seasonality" (2020), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • "Cyclonic and anticyclonic contributions to atmospheric energetics" (2021), Scientific Reports
  • "Energetics of Transient Eddies Related to the Midwinter Minimum of the North Pacific Storm-Track Activity" (2021), Journal of Climate

The scientist regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Climate (16 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (8 publications)
  • SOLA (6 publications)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (5 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (4 publications)

Frequent collaborators include Yu Kosaka, Satoru Okajima, Takafumi Miyasaka, Bunmei Taguchi, and Patrick Martineau, with coauthorship counts ranging from 9 to 21 papers.

Best Publications

  • A Formulation of a Phase-Independent Wave-Activity Flux for Stationary and Migratory Quasigeostrophic Eddies on a Zonally Varying Basic Flow

    Koutarou Takaya;Hisashi Nakamura

  • The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

    Matthew Newman;Matthew Newman;Michael A. Alexander;Toby R. Ault;Kim M. Cobb

  • Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

    Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Liping Zhang;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Structure and dynamics of the summertime Pacific–Japan teleconnection pattern

    Y. Kosaka;H. Nakamura

  • Midwinter Suppression of Baroclinic Wave Activity in the Pacific

    Hisashi Nakamura

  • Role of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio–Oyashio Systems in Large-Scale Atmosphere–Ocean Interaction: A Review

    Young-Oh Kwon;Michael A. Alexander;Nicholas A. Bond;Claude Frankignoul

  • Decadal Climate Variability in the North Pacific during the Recent Decades

    H. Nakamura;G. Lin;T. Yamagata

  • The Role of High- and Low-Frequency Dynamics in Blocking Formation

    Hisashi Nakamura;Mototaka Nakamura;Jeffrey L. Anderson

  • Mechanisms of Intraseasonal Amplification of the Cold Siberian High

    Koutarou Takaya;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Observed Associations Among Storm Tracks, Jet Streams and Midlatitude Oceanic Fronts

    Hisashi Nakamura;Takeaki Sampe;Youichi Tanimoto;Akihiko Shimpo

  • Scandinavian pattern and its climatic impact

    Cholaw Bueh;Hisashi Nakamura

  • On the importance of midlatitude oceanic frontal zones for the mean state and dominant variability in the tropospheric circulation

    Hisashi Nakamura;Takeaki Sampe;Atsushi Goto;Wataru Ohfuchi

  • A formulation of a wave-activity flux for stationary Rossby waves on a zonally varying basic flow

    Koutarou Takaya;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Seasonal Variations in the Southern Hemisphere Storm Tracks and Jet Streams as Revealed in a Reanalysis Dataset

    Hisashi Nakamura;Akihiko Shimpo

  • A reconciled estimate of the influence of Arctic sea-ice loss on recent Eurasian cooling

    Masato Mori;Yu Kosaka;Masahiro Watanabe;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Interannual and Decadal Modulations Recently Observed in the Pacific Storm Track Activity and East Asian Winter Monsoon

    Hisashi Nakamura;Takuya Izumi;Takeaki Sampe

  • Mechanisms of Meridional Teleconnection Observed between a Summer Monsoon System and a Subtropical Anticyclone. Part I: The Pacific–Japan Pattern

    Y. U. Kosaka;Hisashi Nakamura

  • 10-km Mesh Meso-scale Resolving Simulations of the Global Atmosphere on the Earth Simulator - Preliminary Outcomes of AFES (AGCM for the Earth Simulator) -

    Wataru Ohfuchi;Hisashi Nakamura;Mayumi K. Yoshioka;Takeshi Enomoto

  • Significance of a Midlatitude SST Frontal Zone in the Formation of a Storm Track and an Eddy-Driven Westerly Jet*

    Takeaki Sampe;Hisashi Nakamura;Atsushi Goto;Wataru Ohfuchi

  • Geographical Dependence of Upper-Level Blocking Formation Associated with Intraseasonal Amplification of the Siberian High

    Koutarou Takaya;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Decadal Variability in the Kuroshio–Oyashio Extension Simulated in an Eddy-Resolving OGCM

    Masami Nonaka;Hisashi Nakamura;Youichi Tanimoto;Takashi Kagimoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Yu Kosaka
Yu Kosaka University of Tokyo
Kaoru Maruta
Kaoru Maruta Tohoku University
Masahide Kimoto
Masahide Kimoto University of Tokyo
Noel Keenlyside
Noel Keenlyside University of Bergen
Yvan J. Orsolini
Yvan J. Orsolini Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Kazuyuki Kita
Kazuyuki Kita Ibaraki University
Makoto Koike
Makoto Koike University of Tokyo
Nobuyuki Takegawa
Nobuyuki Takegawa Tokyo Metropolitan University
Katja Matthes
Katja Matthes GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Hideharu Sasaki
Hideharu Sasaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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