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Overview

Kiyotaka Shibata is affiliated with Kochi University of Technology in Japan. The primary research focus lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Environmental Science. The scientist has contributed extensively to several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Spectroscopy.

The main topics of Shibata's research involve Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Climate variability and models, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols. Additional focus areas include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Shibata has published numerous papers, primarily in the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II and Climate. Notable recent publications include:

  • Simulations of Ozone Feedback Effects on the Equatorial Quasi-Biennial Oscillation with a Chemistry-Climate Model, 2021, Climate
  • Decadal Amplitude Modulations of the Stratospheric Quasi-biennial Oscillation, 2021, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • Partitioning of Ozone Loss Pathways in the Ozone Quasi-biennial Oscillation Simulated by a Chemistry-Climate Model, 2020, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • Long-Term Trends and Variations in Surface Humidity and Temperature in the Japanese Archipelago over 100 years from 1880s, 2021, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II

One publication where Shibata appears as a coauthor is "Representation of Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in JRA-3Q," published in 2025 in the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Shibata include Hiroaki Naoe, Chiaki Kobayashi, Shinya Kobayashi, Yuki Kosaka, and Ralph Lehmann.

The scientist's work is often featured in specialized venues, primarily:

  • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • Climate
  • Japanese Journal of JSCE

Best Publications

  • Assessment of temperature, trace species, and ozone in chemistry-climate model simulations of the recent past

    V. Eyring;N. Butchart;D. W. Waugh;H. Akiyoshi

  • Simulations of anthropogenic change in the strength of the Brewer–Dobson circulation

    N. Butchart;A. A. Scaife;M. Bourqui;M. Bourqui;J. de Grandpre

  • The impact of stratospheric ozone recovery on the Southern Hemisphere westerly jet.

    S.-W. Son;L. M. Polvani;D. W. Waugh;H. Akiyoshi

  • Multimodel projections of stratospheric ozone in the 21st century

    V. Eyring;D. W. Waugh;G. E. Bodeker;Eugene C. Cordero

  • Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment

    S.-W. Son.;E. P. Gerber;J. Perlwitz;J. Perlwitz;L. M. Polvani

  • Chemistry-Climate Model Simulations of Twenty- First Century Stratospheric Climate and Circulation Changes

    Neal Butchart;I. Cionni;V. Eyring;T. G. Shepherd

  • Multi-model assessment of stratospheric ozone return dates and ozone recovery in CCMVal-2 models

    V. Eyring;I. Cionni;G. E. Bodeker;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez

  • Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends

    A. Gettelman;M. I. Hegglin;S.-W. Son;Jung-Hyun Kim

  • Multimodel climate and variability of the stratosphere

    N. Butchart;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez;I. Cionni;S. C. Hardiman

  • The GCM–Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC (GRIPS): Scientific Issues and Initial Results

    Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;K. Kodera;K. Hamilton;T. G. Shepherd

  • Downward propagation of upper stratospheric mean zonal wind perturbation to the troposphere

    Kunihiko Kodera;Koji Yamazaki;Masaru Chiba;Kiyotaka Shibata

  • Assessing 1D atmospheric solar radiative transfer models: Interpretation and handling of unresolved clouds

    Howard W. Barker;G. L. Stephens;P. T. Partain;J. W. Bergman

  • A New Look at Stratospheric Sudden Warmings. Part II: Evaluation of Numerical Model Simulations

    Andrew J. Charlton;Lorenzo M. Polvani;Judith Perlwitz;Fabrizio Sassi

  • Coupled chemistry climate model simulations of the solar cycle in ozone and temperature

    John Austin;K. Tourpali;E. Rozanov;H. Akiyoshi

  • Review of the formulation of present-generation stratospheric chemistry-climate models and associated external forcings

    Olaf Morgenstern;M. A. Giorgetta;K. Shibata;V. Eyring

  • The Tropical Tropopause Layer 1960–2100

    Andrew Gettelman;Thomas Birner;Veronika Eyring;H. Akiyoshi

  • MASINGAR, a global tropospheric aerosol chemical transport model coupled with MRI/JMA98 GCM: Model description

    Y. Taichu Tanaka;Kotaro Orito;Tsuyoshi T. Sekiyama;Kiyotaka Shibata

  • Present-day climate and climate sensitivity in the meteorological research institute coupled GCM version 2.3 (MRI-CGCM2.3)

    Seiji Yukimoto;Akira Noda;Akio Kitoh;Masahiro Hosaka

  • The New Meteorological Research Institute Coupled GCM ( MRI-CGCM 2 )---Model Climate and Variability

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  • Kinetic energy spectrum of horizontal motions in middle-atmosphere models

    John N. Koshyk;Byron A. Boville;Kevin Hamilton;Elisa Manzini

  • Tropical Cumulus Convection and Upward Propagating Waves in Middle Atmospheric Gcms

    T. Horinouchi;S. Pawson;S. Pawson;K. Shibata;U. Langematz

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene Rozanov
Eugene Rozanov Saint Petersburg State University
Slimane Bekki
Slimane Bekki Sorbonne University
Olaf Morgenstern
Olaf Morgenstern National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Martyn P. Chipperfield
Martyn P. Chipperfield University of Leeds
David A. Plummer
David A. Plummer Environment and Climate Change Canada
Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Theodore G. Shepherd
Theodore G. Shepherd University of Reading
Douglas E. Kinnison
Douglas E. Kinnison National Center for Atmospheric Research
Martin Dameris
Martin Dameris German Aerospace Center
Giovanni Pitari
Giovanni Pitari University of L'Aquila

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