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Shamil Maksyutov is affiliated with the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a substantial body of work spanning 55 publications in environmental science and 35 in earth and planetary sciences.

Their scientific contributions include work across several subfields, notably global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, mechanics of materials, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. This broad range includes extensive research in global and planetary change and atmospheric science, where they have published 43 and 34 papers respectively.

Maksyutov's research covers multiple scientific topics with a strong emphasis on atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and atmospheric ozone and climate. Other thematic areas of their work include methane hydrates and related phenomena, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, climate variability and models, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth system science data
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Maksyutov has collaborated extensively with co-authors such as Rajesh Janardanan, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Prabir K. Patra, Yukio Yoshida, and Frédéric Chevallier, reflecting a network of scientific partnerships that have produced multiple studies in their field.

Selected recent papers provide insight into their research focus on atmospheric gases and climate systems:

  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, 2020, NOAA Institutional Repository
  • Global Carbon Budget 2024, 2025, Earth system science data
  • National CO 2 budgets (2015-2020) inferred from atmospheric CO 2 observations in support of the global stocktake, 2023, Earth system science data
  • Country-Scale Analysis of Methane Emissions with a High-Resolution Inverse Model Using GOSAT and Surface Observations, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Global and Regional CH4 Emissions for 1995-2013 Derived From Atmospheric CH4, δ13C-CH4, and δD-CH4 Observations and a Chemical Transport Model, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Towards robust regional estimates of CO2 sources and sinks using atmospheric transport models.

    K. R. Gurney;R. M. Law;A. S. Denning;P. J. Rayner

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Global Concentrations of CO2 and CH4 Retrieved from GOSAT: First Preliminary Results

    T. Yokota;Y. Yoshida;Nawo Eguchi;Y. Ota

  • The Open-source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO 2 , version 2016 (ODIAC2016): a global monthly fossil fuel CO 2 gridded emissions data product for tracer transport simulations and surface flux inversions

    Tomohiro Oda;Tomohiro Oda;Shamil Maksyutov;Robert J. Andres

  • A very high-resolution (1 km×1 km) global fossil fuel CO 2 emission inventory derived using a point source database and satellite observations of nighttime lights

    T. Oda;S. Maksyutov

  • TransCom 3 inversion intercomparison: Impact of transport model errors on the interannual variability of regional CO2 fluxes, 1988–2003

    D. F. Baker;D. F. Baker;Rachel M. Law;Kevin R. Gurney;Kevin R. Gurney;Peter Rayner

  • Transcom 3 inversion intercomparison: Model mean results for the estimation of seasonal carbon sources and sinks

    Kevin Robert Gurney;Rachel M. Law;A. Scott Denning;Peter J. Rayner

  • TransCom 3 CO2 inversion intercomparison: 1. Annual mean control results and sensitivity to transport and prior flux information

    Kevin Robert Gurney;Rachel M. Law;A. Scott Denning;Peter J. Rayner

  • TransCom model simulations of CH4 and related species: linking transport, surface flux and chemical loss with CH4 variability in the troposphere and lower stratosphere

    P. K. Patra;S. Houweling;Maarten Krol;Maarten Krol;P. Bousquet

  • TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2 : Analysis of synoptic-scale variations for the period 2002-2003

    P. K. Patra;R. M. Law;Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters;C. RöDenbeck

  • An estimate of the terrestrial carbon budget of Russia using inventory based, eddy covariance and inversion methods

    A. J. Dolman;A. Shvidenko;D. Schepaschenko;P. Ciais

  • 16‐year simulation of Arctic black carbon: Transport, source contribution, and sensitivity analysis on deposition

    S. Sharma;M. Ishizawa;D. Chan;D. Lavoué

  • Regional CO 2 flux estimates for 2009–2010 based on GOSAT and ground-based CO 2 observations

    S. Maksyutov;H. Takagi;V. K. Valsala;V. K. Valsala;M. Saito

  • An intercomparison of inverse models for estimating sources and sinks of CO2 using GOSAT measurements

    S. Houweling;D. Baker;S. Basu;Hartmut Boesch

  • Regional methane emission from West Siberia mire landscapes

    M. Glagolev;M. Glagolev;I. Kleptsova;I. Filippov;S. Maksyutov

  • TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2: Experimental overview and diurnal cycle results for 2002

    R. M. Law;W. Peters;W. Peters;C. Rödenbeck;C. Aulagnier

  • Role of biomass burning and climate anomalies for land‐atmosphere carbon fluxes based on inverse modeling of atmospheric CO2

    Prabir K. Patra;Misa Ishizawa;Shamil Maksyutov;Takakiyo Nakazawa

  • Continuous measurements of methane from a tower network over Siberia

    M. Sasakawa;K. Shimoyama;T. Machida;N. Tsuda

  • Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000-2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomohiro Oda
Tomohiro Oda Universities Space Research Association
Isamu Morino
Isamu Morino National Institute for Environmental Studies
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Toshinobu Machida
Toshinobu Machida National Institute for Environmental Studies
Tatsuya Yokota
Tatsuya Yokota National Institute for Environmental Studies
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Tsuneo Matsunaga
Tsuneo Matsunaga National Institute for Environmental Studies
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research

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