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Masao Ishii is affiliated with the Japan Meteorological Agency in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Oceanography and related subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their work spans a broad range of topics, with significant emphasis on marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean acidification effects and responses, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, as well as blood pressure and hypertension studies.

Masao Ishii has published research in various scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Journal of Oceanography
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Earth system science data
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • The Lancet

Some of the recent papers associated with this scientist include:

  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis (2021, The Lancet)
  • Age-stratified and blood-pressure-stratified effects of blood-pressure-lowering pharmacotherapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis (2021, The Lancet)
  • Global trends of ocean CO2 sink and ocean acidification: an observation-based reconstruction of surface ocean inorganic carbon variables (2020, Journal of Oceanography)
  • An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020 (2020, Earth system science data)
  • GLODAPv2.2022: the latest version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product (2022, Earth system science data)

Masao Ishii's research collaborations include a number of frequent coauthors, such as:

  • Naohiro Kosugi (10 publications)
  • Katsuya Toyama (9 publications)
  • Richard A. Feely (8 publications)
  • Daisuke Sasano (8 publications)
  • Brendan R. Carter (7 publications)

The scientist's work demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach that integrates oceanographic data with environmental and atmospheric sciences. This includes the use of observation-based reconstructions and updated biogeochemical data products to better understand global oceanic processes and their wider environmental implications.

Additionally, Masao Ishii has published research intersecting with cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, with studies examining pharmacological interventions for blood pressure management and their effects on cardiovascular outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global oceans

    Taro Takahashi;Stewart C. Sutherland;Rik H. Wanninkhof;Colm Sweeney

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007

    Nicolas Gruber;Dominic Clement;Brendan Carter;Brendan Carter;Richard A. Feely

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2 (GLODAPv2) – an internally consistent data product for the world ocean

    Are Olsen;Robert M. Key;Steven van Heuven;Siv K. Lauvset;Siv K. Lauvset

  • A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change

    J. P. Abraham;M. Baringer;N. L. Bindoff;N. L. Bindoff;N. L. Bindoff;T. Boyer

  • A new global interior ocean mapped climatology: the 1° × 1° GLODAP version 2

    Siv Kari Lauvset;Siv Kari Lauvset;Robert M. Key;Are Olsen;Are Olsen;Steven van Heuven

  • Corrigendum to "Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans" Deep Sea Res. II 56 (2009) 554-577 (DOI:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.009)

    T Takahashi;SC Sutherland;R Wanninkhof;C Sweeney

  • Corrigendum to "Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans" [Deep Sea Res. II 56 (2009) 554-577]

    Taro Takahashi;Stewart C. Sutherland;Rik H. Wanninkhof;Colm Sweeney

  • Seasonal and interannual variability of CO2 in the equatorial Pacific

    Richard A Feely;Jacqueline Boutin;Catherine E Cosca;Yves Dandonneau

  • A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;A. Olsen;D.C.E. Bakker;S. Hankin

  • Sea–air CO 2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean for the period 1990–2009

    Andrew Lenton;Bronte Tilbrook;Bronte Tilbrook;R. M. Law;Dorothee C. E. Bakker

  • Global trends of ocean CO 2 sink and ocean acidification: an observation-based reconstruction of surface ocean inorganic carbon variables

    Yosuke Iida;Yusuke Takatani;Atsushi Kojima;Masao Ishii

  • GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ANALYSIS PROJECT, VERSION 2 (GLODAPv2)

    R. M. Key;A. Olsen;S. van Heuven;S. K. Lauvset

  • GLODAPv2.2019 – an update of GLODAPv2

    Are Olsen;Nico Lange;Robert M. Key;Toste Tanhua

  • Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products

    C.L. Sabine;S. Hankin;H. Koyuk;H. Koyuk;D.C.E. Bakker

  • A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean

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  • Climatological Mean and Decadal Change in Surface Ocean Pco(2), and Net Sea-Air Co2 Flux Over the Global Oceans (Vol 56, Pg 554, 2009)

    T. Takahashi;S. C. Sutherland;R. Wanninkhof;C. Sweeney

  • An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020

    Are Olsen;Nico Lange;Robert M. Key;Toste Tanhua

  • The Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP): A Platform for Integrated Multidisciplinary Ocean Science

    Bernadette M. Sloyan;Rik Wanninkhof;Martin Kramp;Gregory C. Johnson

  • Long‐term trend of the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) in surface waters of the western North Pacific, 1984–1993

    Hisayuki Yoshikawa Inoue;Hidekazu Matsueda;Masao Ishii;Katsuhiko Fushimi

  • Aircraft observation of carbon dioxide at 8–13 km altitude over the western Pacific from 1993 to 1999

    Hidekazu Matsueda;Hisayuki Yoshikawa Inoue;Masao Ishii

  • An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2021

    Siv K. Lauvset;Nico Lange;Toste Tanhua;Henry C. Bittig

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Key
Robert M. Key Princeton University
Mario Hoppema
Mario Hoppema Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Bronte Tilbrook
Bronte Tilbrook CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Fiz F. Pérez
Fiz F. Pérez Spanish National Research Council
Are Olsen
Are Olsen University of Bergen
Akihiko Murata
Akihiko Murata Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Toste Tanhua
Toste Tanhua GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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