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Kenji Kawamura is affiliated with the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on atmospheric science and cryospheric studies.

Their work frequently appears in scientific venues such as The Cryosphere, Communications Earth & Environment, Geophysical Research Letters, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Climate of the Past. The scientist's research covers primary fields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

Main topics addressed in their research include Geology and Paleoclimatology, Cryospheric studies and observations, Polar Research and Ecology, Climate change and permafrost, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Kenji Kawamura has coauthored extensively with several researchers, frequently collaborating with Ikumi Oyabu, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Hideaki Motoyama, Shuji Fujita, and Christo Buizert.

Recent publications by Kawamura include:

  • "Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum" (2021) in Science
  • "Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "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) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "A Mobile, Multichannel, UWB Radar for Potential Ice Core Drill Site Identification in East Antarctica: Development and First Results" (2020) in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "New technique for high-precision, simultaneous measurements of CH 4, N 2O and CO 2 concentrations; isotopic and elemental ratios of N 2, O 2 and Ar; and total air content in ice cores by wet extraction" (2020) in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Best Publications

  • High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present

    Dieter Lüthi;Martine Le Floch;Bernhard Bereiter;Thomas Blunier

  • A redetermination of the isotopic abundances of atmospheric Ar

    Jee-Yon Lee;Jee-Yon Lee;Jee-Yon Lee;Kurt Marti;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Kenji Kawamura;Kenji Kawamura

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

    A. Berger;M. Crucifix;D.A. Hodell

  • Atmospheric Methane and Nitrous Oxide of the Late Pleistocene from Antarctic Ice Cores

    Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;Jérôme Chappellaz;Jérôme Chappellaz;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker;Laetitia Loulergue;Laetitia Loulergue

  • Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years

    Kenji Kawamura;Frédéric Parrenin;Lorraine Lisiecki;Ryu Uemura

  • Insolation-driven 100,000-year glacial cycles and hysteresis of ice-sheet volume

    Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Fuyuki Saito;Kenji Kawamura;Kenji Kawamura;Maureen E. Raymo

  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

    Frédéric Parrenin;Jean-Marc Barnola;J. Beer;Thomas Blunier

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Evidence for substantial accumulation rate variability in Antarctica during the Holocene, through synchronization of CO 2 in the Taylor Dome, Dome C and DML ice cores

    Eric Monnin;Eric J. Steig;Urs Siegenthaler;Kenji Kawamura

  • Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest-Ice" ice core

    H. Fischer;J. Severinghaus;E. Brook;E. Wolff;E. Wolff

  • Insights from Antarctica on volcanic forcing during the Common Era

    Michael Sigl;Joseph R. McConnell;Joseph R. McConnell;Matthew Toohey;Mark Curran

  • State dependence of climatic instability over the past 720,000 years from Antarctic ice cores and climate modeling

    Kenji Kawamura;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Hideaki Motoyama;Yutaka Ageta

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Christo Buizert;T. J. Fudge;William H. G. Roberts;Eric J. Steig

  • N2O and CH4 variations during the last glacial epoch: Insight into global processes

    Jacqueline Flückiger;Thomas Blunier;Bernhard Stauffer;Jérôme Chappellaz

  • Mean global ocean temperatures during the last glacial transition

    Bernhard Bereiter;Sarah Shackleton;Daniel Baggenstos;Daniel Baggenstos;Kenji Kawamura

  • 1-D-ice flow modelling at EPICA Dome C and Dome Fuji, East Antarctica

    F. Parrenin;G. Dreyfus;Geoffroy Durand;Geoffroy Durand;S. Fujita

  • Abrupt ice-age shifts in southern westerly winds and Antarctic climate forced from the north

    Christo Buizert;Michael Sigl;Mirko Severi;Bradley R. Markle

  • Gas transport in firn: multiple-tracer characterisation and model intercomparison for NEEM, Northern Greenland

    C. Buizert;P. Martinerie;V. Petrenko;V. Petrenko;J. P. Severinghaus

  • High variability of Greenland surface temperature over the past 4000 years estimated from trapped air in an ice core

    Takuro Kobashi;Takuro Kobashi;Kenji Kawamura;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Jean-Marc Barnola

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Hideaki Motoyama
Hideaki Motoyama National Institute of Polar Research
Shuji Fujita
Shuji Fujita National Institute of Polar Research
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus University of California, San Diego
Takakiyo Nakazawa
Takakiyo Nakazawa Tohoku University
Shuji Aoki
Shuji Aoki Tohoku University
Kumiko Goto-Azuma
Kumiko Goto-Azuma National Institute of Polar Research
Frédéric Parrenin
Frédéric Parrenin Grenoble Alpes University
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern

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