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Masakazu Yoshimori

Masakazu Yoshimori

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
32
Citations
4470
World Ranking
9620
National Ranking
199

Overview

Masakazu Yoshimori is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research is primarily focused on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional interests in Ecology, Geology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including climate variability and models, geology and paleoclimatology research, cryospheric studies and observations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, geological studies and exploration, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Yoshimori has published in various respected journals with notable frequency in the Journal of Climate, Climate of the Past, and Geophysical Research Letters. Other venues include Climate Dynamics and SOLA.

List of recent papers includes:

  • "PMIP4/CMIP6 last interglacial simulations using three different versions of MIROC: importance of vegetation" (2021, Climate of the Past)
  • "Southern Ocean Surface Temperatures and Cloud Biases in Climate Models Connected to the Representation of Glacial Deep Ocean Circulation" (2023, Journal of Climate)
  • "Temporal variations of surface mass balance over the last 5000 years around Dome Fuji, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica" (2023, Climate of the Past)
  • "An energy budget framework to understand mechanisms of land-ocean warming contrast induced by increasing greenhouse gases Part I: Near-equilibrium state" (2021, Journal of Climate)
  • "Changing Role of Horizontal Moisture Advection in the Lower Troposphere Under Extreme Arctic Amplification" (2024, Geophysical Research Letters)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yoshimori are:

  • Ayako Abe-Ouchi
  • Wing-Le Chan
  • M. Hori
  • Ryouta O'ishi
  • Sam Sherriff-Tadano

Best Publications

  • The UVic earth system climate model: Model description, climatology, and applications to past, present and future climates

    Andrew J. Weaver;Michael Eby;Edward C. Wiebe;Cecilia M. Bitz

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;K. Alexander;K. Zickfeld

  • Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: A model intercomparison

    Andrew J. Weaver;Jan Sedláček;Michael Eby;Kaitlin Alexander

  • 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

  • Equilibrium Response of an Atmosphere–Mixed Layer Ocean Model to Different Radiative Forcing Agents: Global and Zonal Mean Response

    Masakazu Yoshimori;Anthony J. Broccoli

  • Instability of Glacial Climate in a Model of the Ocean- Atmosphere-Cryosphere System

    Andreas Schmittner;Masakazu Yoshimori;Andrew J. Weaver

  • Strengthening of Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency Associated with the Recent Climate Hiatus

    Masahiro Watanabe;Youichi Kamae;Masakazu Yoshimori;Akira Oka

  • Extreme midlatitude cyclones and their implications for precipitation and wind speed extremes in simulations of the Maunder Minimum versus present day conditions

    Christoph Raible;Masakazu Yoshimori;Masakazu Yoshimori;Thomas Stocker;Carlo Casty

  • Can the Last Glacial Maximum constrain climate sensitivity

    J. C. Hargreaves;J. D. Annan;M. Yoshimori;A. Abe-Ouchi

  • A Comparison of Climate Feedback Strength between CO2 Doubling and LGM Experiments

    Masakazu Yoshimori;Tokuta Yokohata;Ayako Abe-Ouchi

  • Set-up of the PMIP3 paleoclimate experiments conducted using an Earth system model, MIROC-ESM

    T. Sueyoshi;R. Ohgaito;A. Yamamoto;M. O. Chikamoto

  • Externally Forced and Internal Variability in Ensemble Climate Simulations of the Maunder Minimum

    Masakazu Yoshimori;Thomas F. Stocker;Christoph C. Raible;Manuel Renold

  • Dependency of Feedbacks on Forcing and Climate State in Physics Parameter Ensembles

    Masakazu Yoshimori;Julia C. Hargreaves;James D. Annan;Tokuta Yokohata

  • Structural similarities and differences in climate responses to CO2 increase between two perturbed physics ensembles.

    Tokuta Yokohata;Mark J. Webb;Matthew Collins;Keith D. Williams

  • Northern Hemispheric Trends of Pressure Indices and Atmospheric Circulation Patterns in Observations, Reconstructions, and Coupled GCM Simulations

    Christoph Raible;Thomas Stocker;Masakazu Yoshimori;Manuel Renold

  • Perturbed physics ensemble using the MIROC5 coupled atmosphere–ocean GCM without flux corrections: experimental design and results

    Hideo Shiogama;Masahiro Watanabe;Masakazu Yoshimori;Tokuta Yokohata

  • The tropical rain belts with an annual cycle and a continent model intercomparison project: TRACMIP

    Aiko Voigt;Michela Biasutti;Jacob S. Scheff;Jürgen Bader

  • Influence of glacial ice sheets on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation through surface wind change

    Sam Sherriff-Tadano;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Masakazu Yoshimori;Akira Oka

  • Challenges posed by and approaches to the study of seasonal-to-decadal climate variability

    Cornelia Schwierz;Christof Appenzeller;Huw C. Davies;Mark A. Liniger

  • The role of atmospheric heat transport and regional feedbacks in the Arctic warming at equilibrium

    Masakazu Yoshimori;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Alexandre Laîné;Alexandre Laîné

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Hideo Shiogama
Hideo Shiogama National Institute for Environmental Studies
Seita Emori
Seita Emori University of Tokyo
Masahiro Watanabe
Masahiro Watanabe University of Tokyo
Kenji Kawamura
Kenji Kawamura National Institute of Polar Research
Kiyoshi Takahashi
Kiyoshi Takahashi National Institute for Environmental Studies
Andrew J. Weaver
Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern

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