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Takashi Nakajima

Takashi Nakajima

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
17209
World Ranking
1596
National Ranking
19

Overview

Takashi Nakajima is affiliated with Tokai University in Japan and specializes in research within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics related to the atmosphere and climate, with a focus on:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Solar radiation and photovoltaics
  • Urban heat island mitigation

Nakajima has contributed to a number of recent publications, including:

  • "A New Benchmark for Surface Radiation Products over the East Asia-Pacific Region Retrieved from the Himawari-8/AHI Next-Generation Geostationary Satellite," 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite 2 (GOSAT-2): mission overview," 2023, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • "Surface Solar Radiation Compositions Observed from Himawari-8/9 and Fengyun-4 Series," 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Investigation of ice cloud modeling capabilities for the irregularly shaped Voronoi ice scattering models in climate simulations," 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "A hybrid cloud detection and cloud phase classification algorithm using classic threshold-based tests and extra randomized tree model," 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Nakajima include:

  • Husi Letu
  • Chong Shi
  • Huazhe Shang
  • Jiancheng Shi
  • Minrui Wang

Nakajima's work has been published in several well-known scientific venues, with repeated contributions in:

  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • SOLA
  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Best Publications

  • The EarthCARE Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation

    A. J. Illingworth;H. W. Barker;A. Beljaars;Marie Ceccaldi

  • Simulation of climate response to aerosol direct and indirect effects with aerosol transport‐radiation model

    Toshihiko Takemura;Toru Nozawa;Seita Emori;Takashi Y. Nakajima

  • Passive remote sensing of tropospheric aerosol and atmospheric correction for the aerosol effect

    Y. J. Kaufman;D. Tanré;H. R. Gordon;T. Nakajima

  • Uncertainties in satellite remote sensing of aerosols and impact on monitoring its long-term trend: a review and perspective

    Z. Li;Z. Li;X. Zhao;R. Kahn;M. Mishchenko

  • A k-distribution-based radiation code and its computational optimization for an atmospheric general circulation model

    Miho Sekiguchi;Teruyuki Nakajima

  • Size distribution and scattering phase function of aerosol particles retrieved from sky brightness measurements

    Y. J. Kaufman;A. A. Gitelson;A. Karnieli;E. Ganor

  • A study of the direct and indirect effects of aerosols using global satellite data sets of aerosol and cloud parameters

    Miho Sekiguchi;Teruyuki Nakajima;Kentaroh Suzuki;Kazuaki Kawamoto

  • 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

  • Development of a Two-Channel Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm on a Global Scale Using NOAA AVHRR

    Akiko Higurashi;Teruyuki Nakajima

  • A Global Determination of Cloud Microphysics with AVHRR Remote Sensing

    Kazuaki Kawamoto;Teruyuki Nakajima;Takashi Y. Nakajima

  • Aerosol optical properties over east Asia determined from ground‐based sky radiation measurements

    Do Hyeong Kim;Byung Ju Sohn;Teruyuki Nakajima;Tamio Takamura

  • Ice Cloud Properties From Himawari-8/AHI Next-Generation Geostationary Satellite: Capability of the AHI to Monitor the DC Cloud Generation Process

    Husi Letu;Takashi M. Nagao;Takashi Y. Nakajima;Jerome Riedi

  • High-resolution retrieval of cloud microphysical properties and surface solar radiation using Himawari-8/AHI next-generation geostationary satellite

    Husi Letu;Husi Letu;Kun Yang;Takashi Y. Nakajima;Hiroshi Ishimoto

  • Significance of direct and indirect radiative forcings of aerosols in the East China Sea region

    Teruyuki Nakajima;Miho Sekiguchi;Toshihiko Takemura;Itsushi Uno

  • Detection of aerosol types over the East China Sea near Japan from four-channel satellite data

    Akiko Higurashi;Teruyuki Nakajima

  • Development of an unbiased cloud detection algorithm for a spaceborne multispectral imager

    Haruma Ishida;Takashi Y. Nakajima

  • Benchmark results in vector atmospheric radiative transfer

    Alexander A. Kokhanovsky;Vladimir P. Budak;Celine Cornet;Minzheng Duan

  • 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

  • Aerosol Effects of the Condensation Process on a Convective Cloud Simulation

    Tatsuya Seiki;Teruyuki Nakajima

  • Modeling study of long-range transport of Asian dust and anthropogenic aerosols from East Asia

    Toshihiko Takemura;Itsushi Uno;Teruyuki Nakajima;Akiko Higurashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Teruyuki Nakajima
Teruyuki Nakajima University of Tokyo
Kentaroh Suzuki
Kentaroh Suzuki University of Tokyo
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Akiko Higurashi
Akiko Higurashi National Institute for Environmental Studies
Graeme L. Stephens
Graeme L. Stephens Jet Propulsion Lab
Hitoshi Irie
Hitoshi Irie Chiba University
Tsuneo Matsunaga
Tsuneo Matsunaga National Institute for Environmental Studies
Isamu Morino
Isamu Morino National Institute for Environmental Studies
Teruo Aoki
Teruo Aoki Okayama University
Peter Pilewskie
Peter Pilewskie University of Colorado Boulder

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