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Hitoshi Mukai is affiliated with the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Environmental Science. The scientist's work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Mechanics of Materials, Artificial Intelligence, and Environmental Engineering.

Their main research topics cover Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies.

Frequent collaborators in Mukai's research include Toshinobu Machida, Yasunori Tohjima, Motoki Sasakawa, Shin-Ichiro Nakaoka, and Prabir K. Patra.

Hitoshi Mukai has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most regular places of publication are Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Scientific Reports, and Journal of Earth System Science.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Detection of fossil-fuel CO2 plummet in China due to COVID-19 by observation at Hateruma, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Measurement report: Regional characteristics of seasonal and long-term variations in greenhouse gases at Nainital, India, and Comilla, Bangladesh, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Assessment of spatio-temporal distribution of CO2 over greater Asia using the WRF-CO2 model, 2020, Journal of Earth System Science
  • Near-real-time estimation of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from China based on atmospheric observations on Hateruma and Yonaguni Islands, Japan, 2023, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Measurement report: Assessment of Asian emissions of ethane and propane with a chemistry transport model based on observations from the island of Hateruma, 2023, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Best Publications

  • CO2 surface fluxes at grid point scale estimated from a global 21 year reanalysis of atmospheric measurements

    F. Chevallier;P. Ciais;T. J. Conway;T. Aalto

  • Regional Characteristics of Sulfur and Lead Isotope Ratios in the Atmosphere at Several Chinese Urban Sites

    Hitoshi Mukai;Atsushi Tanaka;Toshihiro Fujii;Yiqiang Zeng

  • Characterization of sources of lead in the urban air of Asia using ratios of stable lead isotopes

    Hitoshi Mukai;Naoki Furuta;Toshihiro Fujii;Yoshinari Ambe

  • Characterization of a humic acid-like brown substance in airborne particulate matter and tentative identification of its origin

    Hitoshi Mukai;Yoshinari Ambe

  • Lead isotope ratios of airborne particulate matter as tracers of long-range transport of air pollutants around Japan

    Hitoshi Mukai;Atsushi Tanaka;Toshihiro Fujii;Makoto Nakao

  • High frequency measurements of HFCs at a remote site in east Asia and their implications for Chinese emissions

    Y. Yokouchi;S. Taguchi;T. Saito;Y. Tohjima

  • Long-range transport of ozone in the East Asian Pacific rim region

    Hajime Akimoto;Hitoshi Mukai;Masataka Nishikawa;Kentaro Murano

  • Long-term variation of chemical composition of atmospheric aerosol on the Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan

    Hitoshi Mukai;Yoshinari Ambe;Keiko Shibata;Tatsunori Muku

  • Significant geographic gradients in particulate sulfate over Japan determined from multiple-site measurements and a chemical transport model: Impacts of transboundary pollution from the Asian continent

    Masahide Aikawa;Toshimasa Ohara;Takatoshi Hiraki;Okihiro Oishi

  • Aircraft measurements of the concentrations of CO2, CH4, N2O, and CO and the carbon and oxygen isotopic ratios of CO2 in the troposphere over Russia

    Takakiyo Nakazawa;Satoshi Sugawara;Gen Inoue;Toshinobu Machida

  • Estimating temporal and spatial variation of ocean surface p CO 2 in the North Pacific using a self-organizing map neural network technique

    S. Nakaoka;M. Telszewski;M. Telszewski;Y. Nojiri;S. Yasunaka

  • Distribution of methyl iodide, ethyl iodide, bromoform, and dibromomethane over the ocean (east and southeast Asian seas and the western Pacific)

    Y. Yokouchi;H. Mukai;H. Yamamoto;A. Otsuki

  • Temporal changes in the emissions of CH 4 and CO from China estimated from CH 4 / CO 2 and CO / CO 2 correlations observed at Hateruma Island

    Y. Tohjima;M. Kubo;C. Minejima;H. Mukai

  • Lead isotope ratios in the urban air of eastern and central Russia

    Hitoshi Mukai;Toshinobu Machida;Atsushi Tanaka;Yelpatievskiy Pavel Vera

  • The CO 2 release and Oxygen uptake from Fossil Fuel Emission Estimate (COFFEE) dataset: effects from varying oxidative ratios

    J. Steinbach;C. Gerbig;C. Rödenbeck;Ute Karstens

  • Correlations and emission ratios among bromoform, dibromochloromethane, and dibromomethane in the atmosphere

    Y. Yokouchi;F. Hasebe;M. Fujiwara;H. Takashima

  • Effect of air composition (N 2 , O 2 , Ar, and H 2 O) on CO 2 and CH 4 measurement by wavelength-scanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy: calibration and measurement strategy

    H. Nara;H. Tanimoto;Y. Tohjima;H. Mukai

  • Growth Rate, Seasonal, Synoptic, Diurnal Variations and Budget of Methane in the Lower Atmosphere

    Prabir K. Patra;Masayuki Takigawa;Kentaro Ishijima;Byoung-Choel Choi

  • Measurements of NO, NO y , CO and O3 and estimation of the ozone production rate at Oki Island, Japan, during PEM‐West

    Daniel A. Jaffe;Richard E. Honrath;Lizhen Zhang;Hajime Akimoto

  • Flow injection inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the determination of platinum in airborne particulate matter

    Hitoshi Mukai;Yoshinari Ambe;Masatoshi Morita

  • Aerial measurement of air pollutants and aerosols during 20-22 March 2001 over the East China Sea

    Shiro Hatakeyama;Akinori Takami;Fumio Sakamaki;Fumio Sakamaki;Hitoshi Mukai

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshinobu Machida
Toshinobu Machida National Institute for Environmental Studies
Yukihiro Nojiri
Yukihiro Nojiri National Institute for Environmental Studies
Hiroshi Tanimoto
Hiroshi Tanimoto National Institute for Environmental Studies
Yoko Yokouchi
Yoko Yokouchi National Institute for Environmental Studies
Shamil Maksyutov
Shamil Maksyutov National Institute for Environmental Studies
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Itsushi Uno
Itsushi Uno Kyushu University
Takakiyo Nakazawa
Takakiyo Nakazawa Tohoku University
Willi A. Brand
Willi A. Brand Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Masao Uchida
Masao Uchida National Institute for Environmental Studies

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