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Overview

Seiji Kato is affiliated with the Langley Research Center in the United States and specializes in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particularly strong focus on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science. Their research contributions span over 50 publications in environmental science and a similar number in earth and planetary sciences.

Their work covers various subfields, including atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, and climate variability and models. Other areas of expertise involve atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, meteorological phenomena and simulations, calibration and measurement techniques, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, aerospace engineering, and plant science.

Seiji Kato has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Fred G. Rose, Norman G. Loeb, Tyler J. Thorsen, Seung-Hee Ham, and David A. Rutan. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships that have resulted in multiple scientific contributions to climate and atmospheric sciences.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth's Heating Rate" (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect Sensitivity Analysis" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "Evaluating Twenty-Year Trends in Earth's Energy Flows From Observations and Reanalyses" (2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • "Toward a Better Surface Radiation Budget Analysis Over Sea Ice in the High Arctic Ocean: A Comparative Study Between Satellite, Reanalysis, and Local-Scale Observations" (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • "The Changing Nature of Earth's Reflected Sunlight" (2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)

The primary venues for their publications include the Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Surveys in Geophysics, and Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. The Journal of Climate and the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres are among the most common platforms where their research is disseminated.

Best Publications

  • Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Edition-4.0 Data Product

    Norman G. Loeb;David R. Doelling;Hailan Wang;Wenying Su

  • Toward Optimal Closure of the Earth's Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation Budget

    Norman G. Loeb;Bruce A. Wielicki;David R. Doelling;G. Louis Smith

  • An update on Earth's energy balance in light of the latest global observations

    Graeme L. Stephens;Juilin Li;Martin Wild;Carol Anne Clayson

  • Surface Irradiances of Edition 4.0 Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Data Product

    Seiji Kato;Fred G. Rose;David A. Rutan;Tyler J. Thorsen

  • Surface Irradiances Consistent With CERES-Derived Top-of-Atmosphere Shortwave and Longwave Irradiances

    Seiji Kato;Norman G. Loeb;Fred G. Rose;David R. Doelling

  • Angular Distribution Models for Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Flux Estimation from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System Instrument on the Terra Satellite. Part II: Validation

    Norman G. Loeb;Seiji Kato;Konstantin Loukachine;Natividad Manalo-Smith

  • The k-distribution method and correlated-k approximation for a shortwave radiative transfer model.

    Seiji Kato;Thomas P Ackerman;James H Mather;Eugene E Clothiaux

  • The energy balance over land and oceans: An assessment based on direct observations and CMIP5 climate models

    Martin Wild;Doris Folini;Maria Z. Hakuba;Christoph Schär

  • CERES Synoptic Product: Methodology and Validation of Surface Radiant Flux

    David A. Rutan;Seiji Kato;David R. Doelling;Fred G. Rose

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Improvements of top-of-atmosphere and surface irradiance computations with CALIPSO-, CloudSat-, and MODIS-derived cloud and aerosol properties

    Seiji Kato;Fred G. Rose;Sunny Sun-Mack;Walter F. Miller

  • Angular Distribution Models for Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Flux Estimation from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System Instrument on the Terra Satellite. Part I: Methodology

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  • The albedo of Earth

    Graeme L. Stephens;Graeme L. Stephens;Graeme L. Stephens;Denis O'Brien;Peter J. Webster;Peter Pilewski

  • Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit

    Bruce A. Wielicki;D. F. Young;M. G. Mlynczak;K. J. Thome

  • Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth's Heating Rate

    Norman G. Loeb;Gregory C. Johnson;Tyler J. Thorsen;John M. Lyman;John M. Lyman

  • Measuring Global Ocean Heat Content to Estimate the Earth Energy Imbalance

    Benoit Meyssignac;Tim Boyer;Zhongxiang Zhao;Maria Z. Hakuba;Maria Z. Hakuba

  • Large contribution of supercooled liquid clouds to the solar radiation budget of the Southern Ocean

    A. Bodas-Salcedo;P. G. Hill;K. Furtado;K. D. Williams

  • The Observed State of the Energy Budget in the Early Twenty-First Century

    Tristan S. L'Ecuyer;H. K. Beaudoing;H. K. Beaudoing;M. Rodell;W. Olson

  • Relationships among cloud occurrence frequency, overlap, and effective thickness derived from CALIPSO and CloudSat merged cloud vertical profiles

    Seiji Kato;Sunny Sun-Mack;Walter F. Miller;Fred G. Rose

  • Uncertainties in modeled and measured clear‐sky surface shortwave irradiances

    Seiji Kato;Thomas P. Ackerman;Eugene E. Clothiaux;James H. Mather

  • Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum

    Meghan F. Cronin;Chelle Leigh Gentemann;James B Edson;Iwao Ueki

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman G. Loeb
Norman G. Loeb Langley Research Center
Patrick Minnis
Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center
Paul W. Stackhouse
Paul W. Stackhouse Langley Research Center
Bruce A. Wielicki
Bruce A. Wielicki Langley Research Center
Graeme L. Stephens
Graeme L. Stephens Jet Propulsion Lab
Kuan-Man Xu
Kuan-Man Xu Langley Research Center
William L. Smith
William L. Smith Langley Research Center
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Catia M. Domingues
Catia M. Domingues National Oceanography Centre
Gerald G. Mace
Gerald G. Mace University of Utah

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