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Masahide Kimoto

Masahide Kimoto

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
66
Citations
21872
World Ranking
2043
National Ranking
22

Overview

Masahide Kimoto is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on climate variability and models as well as meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Their work covers important topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Kimoto has published research extensively in several frequent venues, such as:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Nature Climate Change
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Nature
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Recent notable papers include:

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply, 2020, Nature
  • Seasonal to Decadal Predictions With MIROC6: Description and Basic Evaluation, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change: A World Climate Research Programme Call to Action, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change: addressing an urgent global need, 2024, Sustainability Science
  • Reply to: Eurasian cooling in response to Arctic sea-ice loss is not proved by maximum covariance analysis, 2021, Nature Climate Change

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Doug Smith
  • Masahiro Watanabe
  • Takashi Mochizuki
  • Hisashi Nakamura
  • Adam A. Scaife

Kimoto's subfield contributions are particularly prominent in:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Best Publications

  • Improved Climate Simulation by MIROC5: Mean States, Variability, and Climate Sensitivity

    Masahiro Watanabe;Tatsuo Suzuki;Ryouta O'Ishi;Yoshiki Komuro

  • Near-term climate change: Projections and predictability

    Ben Kirtman;Scott B. Power;Akintayo John Adedoyin;George J. Boer

  • Impact of El Niño on the East Asian Monsoon A Diagnostic Study of the '86/87 and '91/92 Events

    Renhe Zhang;Renhe Zhang;Akimasa Sumi;Masahide Kimoto

  • Description and basic evaluation of simulated mean state, internal variability, and climate sensitivity in MIROC6

    Hiroaki Tatebe;Tomoo Ogura;Tomoko Nitta;Yoshiki Komuro

  • Robust Arctic sea-ice influence on the frequent Eurasian cold winters in past decades

    Masato Mori;Masahiro Watanabe;Hideo Shiogama;Jun Inoue

  • Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa M. Goddard;James Murphy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • A diagnostic study of the impact of El Niño on the precipitation in China

    Renhe Zhang;Akimasa Sumi;Masahide Kimoto

  • Reevaluation of historical ocean heat content variations with time-varying XBT and MBT depth bias corrections

    Masayoshi Ishii;Masahide Kimoto

  • Decadal Climate Prediction: An Update from the Trenches

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa Goddard;George Boer;Robert Burgman

  • Global projections of changing risks of floods and droughts in a changing climate

    Yukiko Hirabayashi;Shinjiro Kanae;Seita Emori;Taikan Oki

  • Atmosphere-ocean thermal coupling in the North Atlantic: A positive feedback

    M. Watanabe;M. Kimoto

  • Over 5,000 years of ensemble future climate simulations by 60-km global and 20-km regional atmospheric models

    Ryo Mizuta;Akihiko Murata;Masayoshi Ishii;Hideo Shiogama

  • Steric sea level changes estimated from historical ocean subsurface temperature and salinity analyses

    Masayoshi Ishii;Masahide Kimoto;Kenji Sakamoto;Sin-Iti Iwasaki

  • STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions

    M. K. Davey;M. Huddleston;K. R. Sperber;P. Braconnot

  • The Decadal Climate Prediction Project (DCPP) contribution to CMIP6

    George J. Boer;Douglas M. Smith;Christophe Cassou;Francisco Doblas-Reyes

  • Multiple Flow Regimes in the Northern Hemisphere Winter. Part I: Methodology and Hemispheric Regimes

    Masahide Kimoto;Michael Ghil

  • ENSIP: The El Niño simulation intercomparison project

    Mojib Latif;K. Sperber;J. Arblaster;P. Braconnot

  • Initialized near-term regional climate change prediction

    F. J. Doblas-Reyes;I. Andreu-Burillo;Y. Chikamoto;J. García-Serrano

  • A reconciled estimate of the influence of Arctic sea-ice loss on recent Eurasian cooling

    Masato Mori;Yu Kosaka;Masahiro Watanabe;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Future climate change: Implications for Indian summer monsoon and its variability

    Lal Murari;T. Nozawa;S. Emori;H. Harasawa

  • Robust skill of decadal climate predictions

    D. M. Smith;R. Eade;A. A. Scaife;A. A. Scaife;L.-P. Caron

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

Frequent Co-Authors

Masayoshi Ishii
Masayoshi Ishii Japan Meteorological Agency
Hideo Shiogama
Hideo Shiogama National Institute for Environmental Studies
Seita Emori
Seita Emori University of Tokyo
Toru Nozawa
Toru Nozawa Okayama University
Youichi Kamae
Youichi Kamae University of Tsukuba
Masahiro Watanabe
Masahiro Watanabe University of Yamanashi
Hisashi Nakamura
Hisashi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office

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