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46
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107

Overview

Kouji Adachi is affiliated with the Japan Meteorological Agency in Japan and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on atmospheric and environmental sciences. Their work spans key fields such as Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with specializations particularly in Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements

Adachi's frequent co-authors include:

  • M. Koike
  • Nobuhiro Moteki
  • Sho Ohata
  • Naga Oshima
  • Yutaka Tobo

The scientist has published multiple papers in well-known venues such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Wintertime Airborne Measurements of Ice Nucleating Particles in the High Arctic: A Hint to a Marine, Biogenic Source for Ice Nucleating Particles, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Rapid evolution of aerosol particles and their optical properties downwind of wildfires in the western US, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Airborne hydrophilic microplastics in cloud water at high altitudes and their role in cloud formation, 2023, Environmental Chemistry Letters
  • Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • The Ny-Ålesund Aerosol Cloud Experiment (NASCENT): Overview and First Results, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Best Publications

  • Characterization of heavy metal particles embedded in tire dust.

    Kouji Adachi;Yoshiaki Tainosho

  • Emissions from biomass burning in the Yucatan

    R. J. Yokelson;J. D. Crounse;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;T. Karl

  • Shapes of soot aerosol particles and implications for their effects on climate

    Kouji Adachi;Serena H. Chung;Peter R. Buseck

  • Emission of spherical cesium-bearing particles from an early stage of the Fukushima nuclear accident

    Kouji Adachi;Mizuo Kajino;Yuji Zaizen;Yasuhito Igarashi

  • Internally mixed soot, sulfates, and organic matter in aerosol particles from Mexico City

    K. Adachi;P. R. Buseck

  • Emissions from forest fires near Mexico City

    Robert J. Yokelson;S. P. Urbanski;E. L. Atlas;D. W. Toohey

  • Detection of uranium and chemical state analysis of individual radioactive microparticles emitted from the Fukushima nuclear accident using multiple synchrotron radiation X-ray analyses.

    Yoshinari Abe;Yushin Iizawa;Yasuko Terada;Kouji Adachi

  • Nanoparticles in the Atmosphere

    Peter R. Buseck;Kouji Adachi

  • Glacially sourced dust as a potentially significant source of ice nucleating particles

    Yutaka Tobo;Yutaka Tobo;Kouji Adachi;Paul J. DeMott;Thomas C. J. Hill

  • Fractal parameters of individual soot particles determined using electron tomography: Implications for optical properties

    Kouji Adachi;Serena H. Chung;Serena H. Chung;Heiner Friedrich;Heiner Friedrich;Peter R. Buseck

  • The Green Ocean Amazon Experiment (GoAmazon2014/5) Observes Pollution Affecting Gases, Aerosols, Clouds, and Rainfall over the Rain Forest

    S. T. Martin;P. Artaxo;L. Machado;A. O. Manzi

  • Trace gas and particle emissions from open biomass burning in Mexico

    Robert J. Yokelson;I. R. Burling;S. P. Urbanski;E. Atlas

  • Atmospheric tar balls from biomass burning in Mexico

    Kouji Adachi;Peter R. Buseck

  • Wintertime Airborne Measurements of Ice Nucleating Particles in the High Arctic: A Hint to a Marine, Biogenic Source for Ice Nucleating Particles

    M. Hartmann;K. Adachi;O. Eppers;O. Eppers;C. Haas

  • Spherical tarball particles form through rapid chemical and physical changes of organic matter in biomass-burning smoke

    Kouji Adachi;Arthur J. Sedlacek;Lawrence Kleinman;Stephen R. Springston

  • Airborne hydrophilic microplastics in cloud water at high altitudes and their role in cloud formation

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  • Single particle characterization of size-fractionated road sediments

    Kouji Adachi;Yoshiaki Tainosho

  • Anthropogenic iron oxide aerosols enhance atmospheric heating

    Nobuhiro Moteki;Kouji Adachi;Sho Ohata;Atsushi Yoshida

  • Global climate change driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the mass extinction

    Kunio Kaiho;Naga Oshima;Kouji Adachi;Yukimasa Adachi

  • Internal structure of cesium-bearing radioactive microparticles released from Fukushima nuclear power plant

    Noriko Yamaguchi;Masanori Mitome;Akiyama-Hasegawa Kotone;Maki Asano

  • Ns-Soot: A Material-Based Term for Strongly Light-Absorbing Carbonaceous Particles

    Peter R. Buseck;Kouji Adachi;András Gelencsér;Éva Tompa

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasuhito Igarashi
Yasuhito Igarashi Kyoto University
Mizuo Kajino
Mizuo Kajino Japan Meteorological Agency
Peter R. Buseck
Peter R. Buseck Arizona State University
Kazuyuki Kita
Kazuyuki Kita Ibaraki University
Yutaka Kondo
Yutaka Kondo National Institute of Polar Research
Robert J. Yokelson
Robert J. Yokelson University of Montana
Makoto Koike
Makoto Koike University of Tokyo
Lawrence I. Kleinman
Lawrence I. Kleinman Brookhaven National Laboratory
Yuichi Onda
Yuichi Onda University of Tsukuba
Timothy B. Onasch
Timothy B. Onasch Boston College

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