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Kenichi Matsuoka is affiliated with the Norwegian Polar Institute in Norway. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions also in Environmental Science and Medicine. The main subfields of their work include Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Global and Planetary Change.

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

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost

Matsuoka's work has been published in multiple venues, with repeated publications in:

  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • The Cryosphere
  • Environmental Modelling & Software

Representative recent papers include:

  • "Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands" (2021) published in Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Characteristics of ice rises and ice rumples in Dronning Maud Land and Enderby Land, Antarctica" (2020) published in Journal of Glaciology
  • "Surface Mass Balance Controlled by Local Surface Slope in Inland Antarctica: Implications for Ice-Sheet Mass Balance and Oldest Ice Delineation in Dome Fuji" (2021) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "A Mobile, Multichannel, UWB Radar for Potential Ice Core Drill Site Identification in East Antarctica: Development and First Results" (2020) published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Atmospheric and Oceanographic Signatures in the Ice Shelf Channel Morphology of Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Inferred From Radar Data" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Throughout their career, Matsuoka has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Geir Moholdt
  • Vikram Goel
  • Brice Van Liefferinge
  • Reinhard Drews
  • Frank Pattyn

Best Publications

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

    Peter Fretwell;Hamish D. Pritchard;David G. Vaughan;J. L. Bamber

  • Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

    M. Morlighem;Eric Rignot;Tobias Binder;Donald Blankenship

  • Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Anders Skoglund;George Roth;Jean de Pomereu

  • Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh;Geir Moholdt;Michael J. Bentley

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

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  • A summary of the complex dielectric permittivity of ice in the megahertz range and its applications for radar sounding of polar ice sheets

    Shuji Fujita;Takeshi Matsuoka;Toshihiro Ishida;Kenichi Matsuoka

  • Modeling Englacial Radar Attenuation at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, Using Ice Chemistry and Temperature Data

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Dale P. Winebrenner;Howard Conway;Kenichi Matsuoka

  • Crystal orientation fabrics within the Antarctic ice sheet revealed by a multipolarization plane and dual-frequency radar survey

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Kenichi Matsuoka;Teruo Furukawa;Shuji Fujita;Shuji Fujita;Hideo Maeno

  • Radio-wave depolarization and scattering within ice sheets: a matrix-based model to link radar and ice-core measurements and its application

    Shuji Fujita;Hideo Maeno;Kenichi Matsuoka

  • Predicting radar attenuation within the Antarctic ice sheet

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Joseph A. MacGregor;Frank Pattyn

  • Pitfalls in radar diagnosis of ice‐sheet bed conditions: Lessons from englacial attenuation models

    Kenichi Matsuoka

  • High variability of climate and surface mass balance induced by Antarctic ice rises

    Jan T.M. Lenaerts;Joel Brown;Michiel R. Van Den Broeke;Kenichi Matsuoka

  • Anisotropic radio-wave scattering from englacial water regimes, Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Throstur Thorsteinsson;Helgi Björnsson;Edwin D. Waddington

  • Effects of Birefringence Within Ice Sheets on Obliquely Propagating Radio Waves

    K. Matsuoka;L. Wilen;S.P. Hurley;C.F. Raymond

  • Mass Balance Features Derived from a Firn Core at Hielo Patagónico Norte, South America

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Renji Naruse

  • Estimating englacial radar attenuation using depth profiles of the returned power, central West Antarctica

    K. Matsuoka;D. Morse;C. F. Raymond

  • Anomalously high geothermal flux near the South Pole

    T. A. Jordan;C. Martin;F. Ferraccioli;K. Matsuoka

  • A low-frequency ice-penetrating radar system adapted for use from an airplane: test results from Bering and Malaspina Glaciers, Alaska, USA

    Howard Conway;Ben Smith;Pavan Vaswani;Kenichi Matsuoka

  • Actively evolving subglacial conduits and eskers initiate ice shelf channels at an Antarctic grounding line.

    R. Drews;R. Drews;R. Drews;F. Pattyn;I. J. Hewitt;F. S. L. Ng

  • Evolution of Derwael Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last millennia

    R. Drews;K. Matsuoka;C. Martín;D. Callens

  • Recovery Lakes, East Antarctica: Radar assessment of sub-glacial water extent

    K. Langley;K. Langley;J. Kohler;K. Matsuoka;A. Sinisalo

  • Radar diagnosis of the subglacial conditions in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

    S. Fujita;Per Holmlund;K. Matsuoka;H. Enomoto;H. Enomoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Pattyn
Frank Pattyn Université Libre de Bruxelles
Shuji Fujita
Shuji Fujita National Institute of Polar Research
René Forsberg
René Forsberg Technical University of Denmark
Fausto Ferraccioli
Fausto Ferraccioli National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics
Jack Kohler
Jack Kohler Norwegian Polar Institute
Tom A. Jordan
Tom A. Jordan British Antarctic Survey
Kenji Kawamura
Kenji Kawamura National Institute of Polar Research
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Hugh F. J. Corr
Hugh F. J. Corr British Antarctic Survey
Howard Conway
Howard Conway University of Washington

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