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Shuji Aoki is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their main research topics cover Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Notable recent publications by Shuji Aoki include:

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum, 2021, Science
  • Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sectors, Coal Mining and Ruminant Farming Drive Methane Growth over the Past Three Decades, 2020, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • 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
  • New technique for high-precision, simultaneous measurements of CH4, N2O and CO2 concentrations; isotopic and elemental ratios of N2, O2 and Ar; and total air content in ice cores by wet extraction, 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Fractionation of O2/N2 and Ar/N2 in the Antarctic ice sheet during bubble formation and bubble-clathrate hydrate transition from precise gas measurements of the Dome Fuji ice core, 2021, The Cryosphere

Frequent collaborators include Takakiyo Nakazawa, Shinji Morimoto, Kenji Kawamura, Ikumi Oyabu, and Jeffrey P. Severinghaus. Shuji Aoki has published multiple papers with these co-authors, reflecting sustained research partnerships.

The venues where Shuji Aoki's research has appeared multiple times include Polar Science and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, with additional publications in Science, the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Best Publications

  • Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2

    Britton B. Stephens;Kevin R. Gurney;Pieter P. Tans;Colm Sweeney

  • Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years

    Kenji Kawamura;Frédéric Parrenin;Lorraine Lisiecki;Ryu Uemura

  • Age of stratospheric air unchanged within uncertainties over the past 30 years

    A. Engel;T. Möbius;H. Bönisch;U. Schmidt

  • State dependence of climatic instability over the past 720,000 years from Antarctic ice cores and climate modeling

    Kenji Kawamura;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Hideaki Motoyama;Yutaka Ageta

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Christo Buizert;T. J. Fudge;William H. G. Roberts;Eric J. Steig

  • A strong source of methyl chloride to the atmosphere from tropical coastal land.

    Y. Yokouchi;Y. Noijiri;L. A. Barrie;D. Toom-Sauntry

  • Variations in global methane sources and sinks during 1910-2010

    A. Ghosh;P. K. Patra;P. K. Patra;K. Ishijima;T. Umezawa;T. Umezawa

  • Isoprene in the marine boundary layer (southeast Asian Sea, eastern Indian Ocean, and Southern Ocean): Comparison with dimethyl sulfide and bromoform

    Yoko Yokouchi;Hong Jun Li;Hong Jun Li;Toshinobu Machida;Shuji Aoki

  • Global and regional emissions estimates for N 2 O

    E. Saikawa;E. Saikawa;R. G. Prinn;E. Dlugokencky;K. Ishijima

  • Tropospheric ozone depletion in polar regions A comparison of observations in the Arctic and Antarctic

    S. Wessel;S. Aoki;P. Winkler;Rolf Weller

  • Effects of molecular diffusion on trapped gas composition in polar ice cores

    Tomoko Ikeda-Fukazawa;Kenji Fukumizu;Kenji Kawamura;Shuji Aoki

  • Regional Methane Emission Estimation Based on Observed Atmospheric Concentrations (2002-2012)

    Prabir K. Patra;Prabir K. Patra;Tazu Saeki;Edward J. Dlugokencky;Kentaro Ishijima

  • Nitrous oxide emissions 1999 to 2009 from a global atmospheric inversion

    Rona Louise Thompson;Frédéric Chevallier;Andrew M. Crotwell;Andrew M. Crotwell;Geoffrey S. Dutton

  • Long‐term changes of methane and hydrogen in the stratosphere in the period 1978–2003 and their impact on the abundance of stratospheric water vapor

    S. Rohs;C. Schiller;M. Riese;A. Engel

  • Convective mixing of air in firn at four polar sites

    Kenji Kawamura;Kenji Kawamura;Kenji Kawamura;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Shigeyuki Ishidoya;Satoshi Sugawara

  • Temporal and spatial variations of the carbon isotopic ratio of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the western Pacific region

    Takakiyo Nakazawa;Shinji Morimoto;Shuhji Aoki;Masayuki Tanaka

  • Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sectors, Coal Mining and Ruminant Farming Drive Methane Growth over the Past Three Decades

    Naveen Chandra;Naveen Chandra;Prabir K. Patra;Prabir K. Patra;Jagat S. H. Bisht;Akihiko Ito

  • Improving stratospheric transport trend analysis based on SF6 and CO2 measurements

    Eric A. Ray;Eric A. Ray;Fred L. Moore;Fred L. Moore;Karen H. Rosenlof;Sean M. Davis;Sean M. Davis

  • Time and space variations of tropospheric carbon dioxide over Japan

    M. Tanaka;T. Nakazawa;Shuji Aoki

  • Temporal variations of the atmospheric nitrous oxide concentration and its δ15N and δ18O for the latter half of the 20th century reconstructed from firn air analyses

    Kentaro Ishijima;Kentaro Ishijima;Satoshi Sugawara;Kenji Kawamura;Kenji Kawamura;Gen Hashida

  • Fractionation of N2O isotopomers in the stratosphere

    Sakae Toyoda;Naohiro Yoshida;Taichiro Urabe;Shuji Aoki

Frequent Co-Authors

Takakiyo Nakazawa
Takakiyo Nakazawa Tohoku University
Kenji Kawamura
Kenji Kawamura National Institute of Polar Research
Toshinobu Machida
Toshinobu Machida National Institute for Environmental Studies
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hidekazu Matsueda
Hidekazu Matsueda Japan Meteorological Agency
Shamil Maksyutov
Shamil Maksyutov National Institute for Environmental Studies
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Hideaki Motoyama
Hideaki Motoyama National Institute of Polar Research
Ray L. Langenfelds
Ray L. Langenfelds Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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