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Koji Yamazaki

Koji Yamazaki

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
5522
World Ranking
8886
National Ranking
180

Overview

Koji Yamazaki is a researcher affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan. Their work focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broad fields, the research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Food Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range, notably involving climate variability and models, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, polyamine metabolism and applications, probiotics and fermented foods, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by the researcher include:

  • A tropospheric pathway of the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) impact on the boreal winter polar vortex, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Histamine Production Behaviors of a Psychrotolerant Histamine-Producer, Morganella psychrotolerans, in Various Environmental Conditions, 2020, Current Microbiology
  • Broad host range bacteriophage, EscoHU1, infecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica: Characterization, comparative genomics, and applications in food safety, 2022, International Journal of Food Microbiology
  • Sanitizing efficacy and antimicrobial mechanism of peracetic acid against histamine-producing bacterium, Morganella psychrotolerans, 2020, LWT
  • Antimicrobial activity and mechanism of action of oregano essential oil against Morganella psychrotolerans and potential application in tuna, 2022, LWT

Yamazaki frequently publishes in venues such as LWT, Food Science and Technology Research, arXiv (Cornell University), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Current Microbiology.

The research collaborations of Yamazaki include work with several frequent coauthors:

  • Shogo Yamaki
  • Yuji Kawai
  • Tetsu Nakamura
  • Shinji Matsumura
  • Di Wang

Best Publications

  • The equatorial 30-60 day oscillation and the Arakawa-Schubert penetrative cumulus parameterization

    Tatsushi Tokioka;Koji Yamazaki;Akio Kitoh;Tomoaki Ose

  • A negative phase shift of the winter AO/NAO due to the recent Arctic sea‐ice reduction in late autumn

    Tetsu Nakamura;Tetsu Nakamura;Koji Yamazaki;Koji Yamazaki;Katsushi Iwamoto;Katsushi Iwamoto;Meiji Honda

  • Four years' observations of terrestrial lipid class compounds in marine aerosols from the western North Pacific

    K. Kawamura;Y. Ishimura;K. Yamazaki

  • Impact of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on the summertime atmospheric circulation

    Masayo Ogi;Yoshihiro Tachibana;Koji Yamazaki

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

    Kunihiko Kodera;Koji Yamazaki;Masaru Chiba;Kiyotaka Shibata

  • Dynamic and Thermodynamic Characteristics of Atmospheric Response to Anomalous Sea-Ice Extent in the Sea of Okhotsk

    Meiji Honda;Koji Yamazaki;Hisashi Nakamura;Kensuke Takeuchi

  • Seasonal variation and origins of dicarboxylic acids in the marine atmosphere over the western North Pacific

    Michihiro Mochida;Aki Kawabata;Kimitaka Kawamura;Hiroaki Hatsushika;Hiroaki Hatsushika

  • The stratospheric pathway for Arctic impacts on midlatitude climate

    Tetsu Nakamura;Tetsu Nakamura;Koji Yamazaki;Koji Yamazaki;Katsushi Iwamoto;Meiji Honda

  • The summertime annular mode in the Northern Hemisphere and its linkage to the winter mode

    Masayo Ogi;Masayo Ogi;Koji Yamazaki;Yoshihiro Tachibana;Yoshihiro Tachibana

  • What kind of stratospheric sudden warming propagates to the troposphere

    Ken I. Nakagawa;Koji Yamazaki

  • Influence of winter and summer surface wind anomalies on summer Arctic sea ice extent

    Masayo Ogi;Koji Yamazaki;John M. Wallace

  • Water-Soluble dicarboxylic acids, ketoacids and dicarbonyls in the atmospheric aerosols over the southern ocean and western pacific ocean

    Haobo Wang;Kimitaka Kawamura;Koji Yamazaki

  • Solar cycle modulation of the seasonal linkage of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)

    Masayo Ogi;Koji Yamazaki;Yoshihiro Tachibana

  • The Connectivity of the Winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Summer Okhotsk High

    Masayo Ogi;Yoshihiro Tachibana;Koji Yamazaki

  • Latitudinal distribution of terrestrial lipid biomarkers and n-alkane compound-specific stable carbon isotope ratios in the atmosphere over the western Pacific and Southern Ocean

    James Bendle;Kimitaka Kawamura;Koji Yamazaki;Takeji Niwai

  • The summer northern annular mode and abnormal summer weather in 2003

    Masayo Ogi;Koji Yamazaki;Yoshihiro Tachibana;Yoshihiro Tachibana

  • Stratospheric drain over Indonesia and dehydration within the tropical tropopause layer diagnosed by air parcel trajectories

    Hiroaki Hatsushika;Koji Yamazaki

  • Seasonal and QBO variations of ascent rate in the tropical lower stratosphere as inferred from UARS HALOE trace gas data

    Masanori Niwano;Koji Yamazaki;Masato Shiotani

  • Observations of Wave-Mean Flow Interaction in the Southern Hemisphere

    Dennis L. Hartmann;Carlos R. Mechoso;Koji Yamazaki

  • Can preferred atmospheric circulation patterns over the North-Atlantic-Eurasian region be associated with arctic sea ice loss?

    Berit Crasemann;Doerthe Handorf;Ralf Jaiser;Klaus Dethloff

  • Possible effect of boreal wildfire soot on Arctic sea ice and Alaska glaciers

    Yongwon Kim;Yongwon Kim;Hiroaki Hatsushika;Reginald R. Muskett;Koji Yamazaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Akio Kitoh
Akio Kitoh University of Tsukuba
Klaus Dethloff
Klaus Dethloff Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Kunihiko Kodera
Kunihiko Kodera Nagoya University
Carlos R. Mechoso
Carlos R. Mechoso University of California, Los Angeles
Kiyotaka Shibata
Kiyotaka Shibata Kochi University of Technology
Yasunobu Miyoshi
Yasunobu Miyoshi Kyushu University
Akio Arakawa
Akio Arakawa University of California, Los Angeles
Manabu D. Yamanaka
Manabu D. Yamanaka National Institutes for the Humanities

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