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Itsushi Uno

Itsushi Uno

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Environmental Sciences
Japan
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
75
Citations
16189
World Ranking
1299
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Itsushi Uno is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and has a research focus primarily within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses a number of related subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's contributions are concentrated in topics such as Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, COVID-19 impact on air quality, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Itsushi Uno include:

  • Impacts of COVID-19 lockdown, Spring Festival and meteorology on the NO2 variations in early 2020 over China based on in-situ observations, satellite retrievals and model simulations, 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • Paradigm shift in aerosol chemical composition over regions downwind of China, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Regional variability in black carbon and carbon monoxide ratio from long-term observations over East Asia: assessment of representativeness for black carbon (BC) and carbon monoxide (CO) emission inventories, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Effect of Asian dust on respiratory symptoms among children with and without asthma, and their sensitivity, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Implementation of an ensemble Kalman filter in the Community Multiscale Air Quality model (CMAQ model v5.1) for data assimilation of ground-level PM 2.5, 2022, Geoscientific model development

Itsushi Uno frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Syuichi Itahashi
  • Zhe Wang
  • Keiya Yumimoto
  • Zifa Wang
  • Yuki Yamamura

Their research has been published in journals such as Scientific Reports, The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, Atmospheric Environment, and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.

Best Publications

  • Asian dust transported one full circuit around the globe

    Itsushi Uno;Kenta Eguchi;Keiya Yumimoto;Toshihiko Takemura

  • Transport of Asian air pollution to North America

    Dan Jaffe;Theodore Anderson;Dave Covert;Robert Kotchenruther

  • Continuous observations of Asian dust and other aerosols by polarization lidars in China and Japan during ACE-Asia

    Atsushi Shimizu;Nobuo Sugimoto;Ichiro Matsui;Kimio Arao

  • NOx emission trends for China, 1995–2004: The view from the ground and the view from space

    Qiang Zhang;David G. Streets;Kebin He;Yuxuan Wang

  • ACE-ASIA Regional Climatic and Atmospheric Chemical Effects of Asian Dust and Pollution

    John H. Seinfeld;Gregory R. Carmichael;Richard Arimoto;William C. Conant

  • Ground-based network observation of Asian dust events of April 1998 in east Asia

    Toshiyuki Murayama;Nobuo Sugimoto;Itsushi Uno;Kisei Kinoshita

  • Airborne dust distributions over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas derived from the first year of CALIPSO lidar observations

    Zhaoyan Liu;Dong Liu;Jianping Huang;M. Vaughan

  • Trans‐Pacific yellow sand transport observed in April 1998: A numerical simulation

    Itsushi Uno;Hiroyasu Amano;Seita Emori;Kisei Kinoshita

  • Record heavy Asian dust in Beijing in 2002: Observations and model analysis of recent events

    Nobuo Sugimoto;Itsushi Uno;Masataka Nishikawa;Atsushi Shimizu

  • Dust model intercomparison (DMIP) study over Asia: Overview

    Itsushi Uno;Zifa Wang;M. Chiba;Y. S. Chun

  • Characterization of Asian Dust during ACE-Asia

    R. Arimoto;Y.J. Kim;Y.P. Kim;P.K. Quinn

  • Regional chemical weather forecasting system CFORS: Model descriptions and analysis of surface observations at Japanese island stations during the ACE‐Asia experiment

    I. Uno;G. R. Carmichael;D. G. Streets;Y. Tang

  • Significance of direct and indirect radiative forcings of aerosols in the East China Sea region

    Teruyuki Nakajima;Miho Sekiguchi;Toshihiko Takemura;Itsushi Uno

  • Evaluating regional emission estimates using the TRACE-P observations

    G. R. Carmichael;Y. Tang;G. Kurata;Itsushi Uno

  • Regional-scale chemical transport modeling in support of the analysis of observations obtained during the TRACE-P experiment

    G. R. Carmichael;Y. Tang;G. Kurata;I. Uno

  • Tropospheric ozone production and transport in the springtime in east Asia

    Gregory R. Carmichael;Itsushi Uno;Itsushi Uno;Mahesh J. Phadnis;Yang Zhang

  • Adjoint inversion modeling of Asian dust emission using lidar observations

    Keiya Yumimoto;Itsushi Uno;N. Sugimoto;A. Shimizu

  • Observation of dust and anthropogenic aerosol plumes in the Northwest Pacific with a two-wavelength polarization lidar on board the research vessel Mirai

    Nobuo Sugimoto;Ichiro Matsui;Atsushi Shimizu;Itsushi Uno

  • Aeolian dust experiment on climate impact: An overview of Japan-China joint project ADEC

    M. Mikami;G.Y. Shi;I. Uno;S. Yabuki

  • The MICS-Asia study: Model intercomparison of long-range transport and sulfur deposition in East Asia

    Gregory R. Carmichael;Giuseppe Calori;Hiroshi Hayami;Itsushi Uno

  • Regional-scale chemical transport modeling in support of the analysis of observations obtained during the TRACE-P experiment : NASA global tropospheric experiment transport and chemical evolution over the pacific (TRACE-P): Measurements and analysis (TRACEP1)

    G. R. Carmichael;Y. Tang;G. Kurata;I. Uno

  • Evaluating regional emission estimates using the TRACE-P observations : NASA global tropospheric experiment transport and chemical evolution over the pacific (TRACE-P): Measurements and analysis (TRACEP1)

    G. R. Carmichael;Y. Tang;G. Kurata;I. Uno

Frequent Co-Authors

Keiya Yumimoto
Keiya Yumimoto Kyushu University
Toshimasa Ohara
Toshimasa Ohara Asia Center for Air Pollution Research
Nobuo Sugimoto
Nobuo Sugimoto National Institute for Environmental Studies
Atsushi Shimizu
Atsushi Shimizu National Institute for Environmental Studies
Zifa Wang
Zifa Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gregory R. Carmichael
Gregory R. Carmichael University of Iowa
Youhua Tang
Youhua Tang George Mason University
Mitsuo Uematsu
Mitsuo Uematsu University of Tokyo
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
David G. Streets
David G. Streets Harvard University

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