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Koji Fujita

Koji Fujita

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Earth Science

D-Index
57
Citations
14610
World Ranking
2238
National Ranking
48

Overview

Koji Fujita is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has an extensive research background primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work encompasses various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to cryospheric and environmental studies. These include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models

Koji Fujita has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, 2021, Nature
  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Partitioning the Uncertainty of Ensemble Projections of Global Glacier Mass Change, 2020, Earth's Future
  • Isotopic evidence for acidity-driven enhancement of sulfate formation after SO2 emission control, 2021, Science Advances
  • The influence of water percolation through crevasses on the thermal regime of a Himalayan mountain glacier, 2020, The Cryosphere

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cryosphere
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Teruo Aoki
  • Sumito Matoba
  • Yoshinori Iizuka
  • Akiko Sakai
  • Rijan Bhakta Kayastha

Best Publications

  • The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers

    Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;A Kulkarni;Andreas Kääb;Christian Huggel;Christian Huggel

  • Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century

    A. P. Ahlström;B. Anderson;M. Arenillas;S. Bajracharya

  • Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

    J. S. Kargel;G. J. Leonard;D. H. Shugar;U. K. Haritashya

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

    Tamsin L Edwards;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Review of the status and mass changes of Himalayan-Karakoram glaciers

    Mohd Farooq Azam;Patrick Wagnon;Etienne Berthier;Christian Vincent

  • Effect of summer accumulation on glacier mass balance on the Tibetan Plateau revealed by mass-balance model

    Koji Fujita;Yutaka Ageta

  • Spatially heterogeneous wastage of Himalayan glaciers.

    Koji Fujita;Takayuki Nuimura

  • Partitioning the uncertainty of ensemble projections of global glacier mass change

    Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Brian Anderson;Andrew Bliss

  • The GAMDAM glacier inventory: a quality-controlled inventory of Asian glaciers

    T. Nuimura;T. Nuimura;A. Sakai;K. Taniguchi;H. Nagai;H. Nagai

  • Performance of ASTER and SRTM DEMs, and their potential for assessing glacial lakes in the Lunana region, Bhutan Himalaya

    Koji Fujita;Ryohei Suzuki;Takayuki Nuimura;Akiko Sakai

  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Xavier Fettweis;Stefan Hofer;Stefan Hofer;Uta Krebs-Kanzow;Charles Amory

  • Effect of precipitation seasonality on climatic sensitivity of glacier mass balance

    Koji Fujita

  • Role of supraglacial ponds in the ablation process of a debris-covered glacier in the Nepal Himalayas

    Akiko Sakai;Nozomu Takeuchi;Koji Fujita;Masayoshi Nakawo

  • Contrasting glacier responses to recent climate change in high-mountain Asia.

    Akiko Sakai;Koji Fujita

  • 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

  • Potential flood volume of Himalayan glacial lakes

    K. Fujita;A. Sakai;S. Takenaka;T. Nuimura

  • Recent changes in Imja Glacial Lake and its damming moraine in the Nepal Himalaya revealed by in situ surveys and multi-temporal ASTER imagery

    Koji Fujita;Akiko Sakai;Takayuki Nuimura;Satoru Yamaguchi

  • Elevation changes of glaciers revealed by multitemporal digital elevation models calibrated by GPS survey in the Khumbu region, Nepal Himalaya, 1992-2008

    Takayuki Nuimura;Koji Fujita;Satoru Yamaguchi;Rishi R. Sharma

  • Estimated impact of black carbon deposition during pre-monsoon season from Nepal Climate Observatory – Pyramid data and snow albedo changes over Himalayan glaciers

    T.J. Yasunari;T.J. Yasunari;P. Bonasoni;Paolo Laj;K. Fujita

  • Climatic and atmospheric circulation pattern variability from ice-core isotope/geochemistry records (Altai, Tien Shan and Tibet)

    Vladimir B. Aizen;Elena M. Aizen;Daniel R. Joswiak;Koji Fujita

Frequent Co-Authors

Akiko Sakai
Akiko Sakai Nagoya University
Nozomu Takeuchi
Nozomu Takeuchi Chiba University
Hideaki Motoyama
Hideaki Motoyama National Institute of Polar Research
Masayoshi Nakawo
Masayoshi Nakawo Hokkaido University
Teruo Aoki
Teruo Aoki Okayama University
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Matthias Huss
Matthias Huss University of Fribourg
Shuji Fujita
Shuji Fujita National Institute of Polar Research
Walter W. Immerzeel
Walter W. Immerzeel Utrecht University
Naohiro Yoshida
Naohiro Yoshida Tokyo Institute of Technology

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