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Masanobu Yamamoto

Masanobu Yamamoto

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
4813
World Ranking
6918
National Ranking
198

Overview

Masanobu Yamamoto is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and conducts research across several interdisciplinary fields primarily related to Earth sciences. Their body of work spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with notable subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Geophysics.

The scientist's research topics emphasize geology and paleoclimatology, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, as well as methane hydrates and related phenomena. Other focal areas include isotope analysis in ecology, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, drilling and well engineering, and studies of the cryosphere.

Masanobu Yamamoto has contributed to a number of scientific publications, with recent papers demonstrating a focus on climate variability, monsoon behavior, and isotope geochemistry. Selected papers include:

  • Remote and local drivers of Pleistocene South Asian summer monsoon precipitation: A test for future predictions, 2021, Science Advances
  • Greenhouse Gas and Ice Volume Drive Pleistocene Indian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Isotope Variability, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Increased interglacial atmospheric CO2 levels followed the mid-Pleistocene Transition, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Beppu Bay, Japan, as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series, 2022, The Anthropocene Review
  • Seabird reproductive responses to changing climate and prey communities are mediated by prey packaging, 2021, Marine Ecology Progress Series

Their frequent coauthors demonstrate collaborative research efforts across various topics and projects. Notable collaborators include Akira Hayashida, Ryuji Tada, Itaru Koizumi, Mitchell W Lyle, and Carl Richter.

Publications featuring their work appear regularly in several venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.

    Kathryn Moran;Jan Backman;Henk Brinkhuis;Steven C. Clemens

  • Larval survivorship, competency periods and settlement of two brooding corals, Heliopora coerulea and Pocillopora damicornis

    S. Harii;H. Kayanne;H. Takigawa;T. Hayashibara

  • Out of the Tropics: The Pacific, Great Basin Lakes, and Late Pleistocene Water Cycle in the Western United States

    Mitchell Lyle;Linda Heusser;Christina Ravelo;Masanobu Yamamoto

  • Temporal changes in settlement, lipid content and lipid composition of larvae of the spawning hermatypic coral Acropora tenuis

    Saki Harii;Kazuo Nadaoka;Masanobu Yamamoto;Kenji Iwao

  • Fractionation of azaarenes during oil migration

    Masanobu Yamamoto

  • Paleoceanographic change off central Japan since the last 144,000 years based on high-resolution oxygen and carbon isotope records

    Tadamichi Oba;Tomohisa Irino;Masanobu Yamamoto;Masafumi Murayama

  • The 1500-year climate oscillation in the midlatitude North Pacific during the Holocene

    Dai Isono;Masanobu Yamamoto;Tomohisa Irino;Tadamichi Oba

  • Remote and local drivers of Pleistocene South Asian summer monsoon precipitation: A test for future predictions.

    Steven C. Clemens;Masanobu Yamamoto;Kaustubh Thirumalai;Liviu Giosan

  • The relative contribution of dinoflagellate photosynthesis and stored lipids to the survivorship of symbiotic larvae of the reef-building corals

    Saki Harii;Saki Harii;Masanobu Yamamoto;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

  • An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Ann Pearson

  • Distribution and sources of organic matter in surficial sediments on the shelf and slope off Tokachi, western North Pacific, inferred from C and N stable isotopes and C/N ratios

    Toshihiro Usui;Seiya Nagao;Masanobu Yamamoto;Koji Suzuki

  • Sites M0001-M0004

    J. Backman;K. Moran;D. McInroy;H.K. Brinkhuis

  • Paleoenvironmental changes in the northern South China Sea over the past 28,000years: A study of TEX86-derived sea surface temperatures and terrestrial biomarkers

    Tomoya Shintani;Masanobu Yamamoto;Min-Te Chen

  • Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers and TEX86 index in sinking particles in the western North Pacific

    Masanobu Yamamoto;Akifumi Shimamoto;Tatsuo Fukuhara;Yuichiro Tanaka

  • An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis using high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jaap van der Meer;Anchelique Mets

  • Physiological responses of lipids in Emiliania huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa oceanica (Haptophyceae) to growth status and their implications for alkenone paleothermometry

    Masanobu Yamamoto;Yoshihiro Shiraiwa;Isao Inouye

  • Changes in terrestrial organic matter input to the Mendeleev Ridge, western Arctic Ocean, during the Late Quaternary

    Masanobu Yamamoto;Leonid Polyak

  • Equatorward shift of the subarctic boundary in the northwestern Pacific during the last deglaciation

    Masanobu Yamamoto;Ryutaro Suemune;Tadamichi Oba

  • Orbital‐scale anti‐phase variation of sea surface temperature in mid‐latitude North Pacific margins during the last 145,000 years

    Masanobu Yamamoto;Tadamichi Oba;Junko Shimamune;Toshinori Ueshima

  • Late Pleistocene changes in terrestrial biomarkers in sediments from the central Arctic Ocean

    Masanobu Yamamoto;Tatsufumi Okino;Saiko Sugisaki;Saiko Sugisaki;Tatsuhiko Sakamoto

  • Monsoon related changes in sea surface productivity and water column denitrification in the Eastern Arabian Sea during the last glacial cycle

    V.K. Banakar;T. Oba;A.R. Chodankar;T. Kuramoto

  • Erratum: Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum (Nature (2006) 442 (671-675))

    Mark Pagani;Nikolai Pedentchouk;Matthew Huber;Appy Sluijs

Frequent Co-Authors

Tadamichi Oba
Tadamichi Oba Hokkaido University
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Linda E. Heusser
Linda E. Heusser Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Karin F. Helmens
Karin F. Helmens Stockholm University
R. Scott Anderson
R. Scott Anderson Northern Arizona University
Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Cathy Whitlock
Cathy Whitlock Montana State University

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