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Overview

Nobuo Sugimoto is affiliated with the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. The scientist's work contributes notably to the study of atmospheric aerosols and clouds as well as atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Nobuo Sugimoto has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Applied Optics
  • Optics Express
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Recent papers by Nobuo Sugimoto demonstrate a focus on lidar technology and atmospheric measurements, featuring:

  • Development of a 355-nm high-spectral-resolution lidar using a scanning Michelson interferometer for aerosol profile measurement, 2020, Optics Express
  • Observing Mineral Dust in Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe: Current Capabilities and Challenges ahead for the Development of Dust Services, 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Demonstration of aerosol profile measurement with a dual-wavelength high-spectral-resolution lidar using a scanning interferometer, 2022, Applied Optics
  • 355-nm direct-detection Doppler wind lidar for vertical atmospheric motion measurement, 2022, Applied Optics
  • Observation of clouds, aerosols, and precipitation by multiple-field-of-view multiple-scattering polarization lidar at 355 nm, 2021, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

The scientist collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors, including:

  • Yoshitaka Jin
  • Tomoaki Nishizawa
  • Shoken Ishii
  • Hajime Okamoto
  • Makoto Aoki

Best Publications

  • Recommendations for reporting "black carbon" measurements

    Andreas Petzold;John A. Ogren;Markus Fiebig;Pablo Laj

  • Asian Dust Events of April 1998

    Rudolf B. Husar;D. M. Tratt;B. A. Schichtel;S. R. Falke

  • Asian dust transported one full circuit around the globe

    Itsushi Uno;Kenta Eguchi;Keiya Yumimoto;Toshihiko Takemura

  • Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;W. K.M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;G. Wu

  • Continuous observations of Asian dust and other aerosols by polarization lidars in China and Japan during ACE-Asia

    Atsushi Shimizu;Nobuo Sugimoto;Ichiro Matsui;Kimio Arao

  • Ground-based network observation of Asian dust events of April 1998 in east Asia

    Toshiyuki Murayama;Nobuo Sugimoto;Itsushi Uno;Kisei Kinoshita

  • Airborne dust distributions over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas derived from the first year of CALIPSO lidar observations

    Zhaoyan Liu;Dong Liu;Jianping Huang;M. Vaughan

  • Trans‐Pacific yellow sand transport observed in April 1998: A numerical simulation

    Itsushi Uno;Hiroyasu Amano;Seita Emori;Kisei Kinoshita

  • Overview of the Atmospheric Brown Cloud East Asian Regional Experiment 2005 and a study of the aerosol direct radiative forcing in east Asia

    Teruyuki Nakajima;Soon Chang Yoon;Veerabhadran Ramanathan;Guang Yu Shi

  • Record heavy Asian dust in Beijing in 2002: Observations and model analysis of recent events

    Nobuo Sugimoto;Itsushi Uno;Masataka Nishikawa;Atsushi Shimizu

  • Random modulation cw lidar

    N. Takeuchi;N. Sugimoto;H. Baba;K. Sakurai

  • Dust model intercomparison (DMIP) study over Asia: Overview

    Itsushi Uno;Zifa Wang;M. Chiba;Y. S. Chun

  • Extinction-to-backscatter ratio of Asian dust observed with high-spectral-resolution lidar and Raman lidar

    Zhaoyan Liu;Nobuo Sugimoto;Toshiyuki Murayama

  • Influences of relative humidity and particle chemical composition on aerosol scattering properties during the 2006 PRD campaign

    Xingang Liu;Yafang Cheng;Yuanhang Zhang;Jinsang Jung

  • Seasonal and diurnal variations of organic carbon in PM2.5 in Beijing and the estimation of secondary organic carbon

    Peng Lin;Peng Lin;Min Hu;Z. Deng;J. Slanina

  • Characteristics of dust aerosols inferred from lidar depolarization measurements at two wavelengths.

    Nobuo Sugimoto;Choo Hie Lee

  • Adjoint inversion modeling of Asian dust emission using lidar observations

    Keiya Yumimoto;Itsushi Uno;N. Sugimoto;A. Shimizu

  • A high-resolution numerical study of the Asian dust storms of April 2001

    Ming Liu;Douglas L. Westphal;Shigong Wang;Atsushi Shimizu

  • Observation of dust and anthropogenic aerosol plumes in the Northwest Pacific with a two-wavelength polarization lidar on board the research vessel Mirai

    Nobuo Sugimoto;Ichiro Matsui;Atsushi Shimizu;Itsushi Uno

  • 3D structure of Asian dust transport revealed by CALIPSO lidar and a 4DVAR dust model

    I. Uno;K. Yumimoto;A. Shimizu;Y. Hara

  • Temporal variations of elemental carbon in Beijing

    S. Han;Y. Kondo;N. Oshima;N. Takegawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsushi Shimizu
Atsushi Shimizu National Institute for Environmental Studies
Itsushi Uno
Itsushi Uno Kyushu University
Yasuhiro Sasano
Yasuhiro Sasano National Institute for Environmental Studies
Keiya Yumimoto
Keiya Yumimoto Kyushu University
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Zhaoyan Liu
Zhaoyan Liu Langley Research Center
Zifa Wang
Zifa Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Teruyuki Nakajima
Teruyuki Nakajima University of Tokyo
Nobuyuki Takegawa
Nobuyuki Takegawa Tokyo Metropolitan University
Yutaka Kondo
Yutaka Kondo National Institute of Polar Research

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