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Kei Yoshimura

Kei Yoshimura

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
9932
World Ranking
5992
National Ranking
106

Overview

Kei Yoshimura is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has an extensive publication record in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Geochemistry and Petrology, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology.

Yoshimura's research topics focus on:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Their recent papers include:

  • The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • Advances in Land Surface Modelling (2021), published in Current Climate Change Reports
  • Enriched East Asian oxygen isotope of precipitation indicates reduced summer seasonality in regional climate and westerlies (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Interannual oxygen isotope variability in Indian summer monsoon precipitation reflects changes in moisture sources (2021), published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • Development of a Reservoir Flood Control Scheme for Global Flood Models (2022), published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Yoshimura frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B1 (Hydraulic Engineering)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

They collaborate regularly with coauthors including Atsushi Okazaki, Alexandre Cauquoin, Taikan Oki, Yukihiko Onuma, and Satoru Shoji, with collaboration counts ranging from 11 to 25 joint works per coauthor.

Best Publications

  • Description and basic evaluation of simulated mean state, internal variability, and climate sensitivity in MIROC6

    Hiroaki Tatebe;Tomoo Ogura;Tomoko Nitta;Yoshiki Komuro

  • Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation

    Luis Gimeno;Andreas Stohl;Ricardo M. Trigo;Ricardo M. Trigo;Francina Dominguez

  • Historical isotope simulation using Reanalysis atmospheric data

    K. Yoshimura;K. Yoshimura;M. Kanamitsu;D. Noone;T. Oki

  • Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration

    Zhongwang Wei;Kei Yoshimura;Lixin Wang;Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles

  • An Abrupt Shift in the Indian Monsoon 4000 Years Ago

    M. Berkelhammer;A. Sinha;L. Stott;H. Cheng

  • Evidence of deuterium excess in water vapor as an indicator of ocean surface conditions

    Ryu Uemura;Ryu Uemura;Yohei Matsui;Yohei Matsui;Kei Yoshimura;Hideaki Motoyama

  • The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change

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  • Interannual variability in the oxygen isotopes of atmospheric CO2 driven by El Nino

    Lisa R. Welp;Ralph F. Keeling;Harro A. J. Meijer;Alane F. Bollenbacher

  • Dynamic Processes Governing Lower-Tropospheric HDO/H2O Ratios as Observed from Space and Ground

    Christian Frankenberg;Kei Yoshimura;Thorsten Warneke;Ilse Aben

  • Probabilistic estimates of future changes in California temperature and precipitation using statistical and dynamical downscaling

    David W. Pierce;Tapash Das;Daniel R. Cayan;Edwin P. Maurer

  • A grid-based assessment of global water scarcity including virtual water trading

    Md. Sirajul Islam;Taikan Oki;Shinjiro Kanae;Naota Hanasaki

  • Advances in Land Surface Modelling

    Eleanor M. Blyth;Vivek K. Arora;Douglas B. Clark;Simon J. Dadson

  • A quantitative analysis of short-term 18O variability with a Rayleigh-type isotope circulation model

    K. Yoshimura;T. Oki;N. Ohte;S. Kanae

  • Paired oxygen isotope records reveal modern North American atmospheric dynamics during the Holocene

    Zhongfang Liu;Kei Yoshimura;Gabriel J. Bowen;Nikolaus H. Buenning

  • Regional downscaling for stable water isotopes: A case study of an atmospheric river event

    Kei Yoshimura;Kei Yoshimura;Masao Kanamitsu;Michael Dettinger;Michael Dettinger

  • The Key Role of Heavy Precipitation Events in Climate Model Disagreements of Future Annual Precipitation Changes in California

    David W. Pierce;Daniel R. Cayan;Tapash Das;Edwin P. Maurer

  • Dynamical Global Downscaling of Global Reanalysis

    Kei Yoshimura;Masao Kanamitsu

  • Colored Moisture Analysis Estimates of Variations in 1998 Asian Monsoon Water Sources

    Kei Yoshimura;Taikan Oki;Nobuhito Ohte;Shinjiro Kanae

  • Interannual controls on oxygen isotope variability in Asian monsoon precipitation and implications for paleoclimate reconstructions

    H. Yang;K. R. Johnson;M. L. Griffiths;K. Yoshimura

  • The isotopic composition of precipitation from a winter storm – a case study with the limited-area model COSMO iso

    S. Pfahl;H. Wernli;K. Yoshimura

  • Errors of Interannual Variability and Trend in Dynamical Downscaling of Reanalysis

    Masao Kanamitsu;Kei Yoshimura;Yoo-Bin Yhang;Song-You Hong

Frequent Co-Authors

Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Masao Kanamitsu
Masao Kanamitsu University of California, San Diego
Shinjiro Kanae
Shinjiro Kanae Tokyo Institute of Technology
Max Berkelhammer
Max Berkelhammer University of Illinois at Chicago
Lowell D. Stott
Lowell D. Stott University of Southern California
Hyungjun Kim
Hyungjun Kim University of Tokyo
Dai Yamazaki
Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo
Manabu D. Yamanaka
Manabu D. Yamanaka National Institutes for the Humanities
Xuhui Lee
Xuhui Lee Yale University
Camille Risi
Camille Risi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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