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Takeshi Nakatsuka

Takeshi Nakatsuka

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Earth Science

D-Index
49
Citations
10499
World Ranking
3549
National Ranking
76

Overview

Takeshi Nakatsuka is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Environmental Chemistry, and Geography, Planning and Development.

The scientist's work engages deeply with several main topics, including:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Nakatsuka has contributed extensively to the field through publications in recognized venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Radiocarbon
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Climate of the past
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Some recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Nakatsuka are:

  • A 2600-year summer climate reconstruction in central Japan by integrating tree-ring stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopes (2020) published in Climate of the past
  • Asian-Australian summer monsoons linkage to ENSO strengthened by global warming (2023) published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Tree-ring oxygen isotope across monsoon Asia: Common signal and local influence (2021) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The modulation of Pacific Decadal Oscillation on ENSO-East Asian summer monsoon relationship over the past half-millennium (2022) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • An assessment of diatom assemblages in the Sea of Okhotsk as a proxy for sea-ice cover (2020) published in Journal of Micropalaeontology

Nakatsuka frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Masaki Sano
  • Chenxi Xu
  • Minoru Sakamoto
  • Masataka Hakozaki
  • Shih-Yu Wang

Best Publications

  • Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation

    C. M. Moore;M. M. Mills;K. R. Arrigo;I. Berman-Frank

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Tree-ring reconstructed summer temperature anomalies for temperate East Asia since 800 C.E

    Edward R. Cook;Paul J. Krusic;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Brendan M. Buckley

  • Iron supply to the western subarctic Pacific: Importance of iron export from the Sea of Okhotsk

    Jun Nishioka;Jun Nishioka;Tsuneo Ono;Hiroaki Saito;Takeshi Nakatsuka

  • Recent enhancement of central Pacific El Niño variability relative to last eight centuries.

    Yu Liu;Kim M. Cobb;Huiming Song;Qiang Li

  • The dynamic changes of stable isotopic ratios of carbon and nitrogen in suspended and sedimented particulate organic matter during a phytoplankton bloom

    Takeshi Nakatsuka;Nobuhiko Handa;Eitaro Wada;Chi Shing Wong

  • Reconstruction of paleoproductivity in the Sea of Okhotsk over the last 30 kyr

    O. Seki;M. Ikehara;M. Ikehara;K. Kawamura;T. Nakatsuka

  • Seasonal phytodetritus deposition and responses of bathyal benthic foraminiferal populations in Sagami Bay, Japan: preliminary results from “Project Sagami 1996–1999”

    H. Kitazato;Y. Shirayama;T. Nakatsuka;S. Fujiwara

  • Species-specific ingestion of organic carbon by deep-sea benthic foraminifera and meiobenthos: In situ tracer experiments

    Hidetaka Nomaki;Petra Heinz;Takeshi Nakatsuka;Motohiro Shimanaga

  • Different ingestion patterns of 13C-labeled bacteria and algae by deep-sea benthic foraminifera

    Hidetaka Nomaki;Petra Heinz;Takeshi Nakatsuka;Motohiro Shimanaga

  • Origin and decomposition of sinking particulate organic matter in the deep water column inferred from the vertical distributions of its δ15N, δ13 and δ14

    Takeshi Nakatsuka;Takeshi Nakatsuka;Nobuhiko Handa;Nobuhiko Handa;Naomi Harada;Tatsuhiro Sugimoto;Tatsuhiro Sugimoto

  • Ice-rafted debris (IRD)-based sea-ice expansion events during the past 100 kyrs in the Okhotsk Sea

    Tatsuhiko Sakamoto;M. Ikehara;K. Aoki;K. Iijima

  • Tree ring cellulose δ18O of Fokienia hodginsii in northern Laos: A promising proxy to reconstruct ENSO?

    Chenxi Xu;Masaki Sano;Takeshi Nakatsuka

  • A biomarker approach for assessing marine and terrigenous inputs to the sediments of Sea of Okhotsk for the last 27,000 years

    Y Ternois;K Kawamura;L Keigwin;N Ohkouchi

  • May–September precipitation in the Bhutan Himalaya since 1743 as reconstructed from tree ring cellulose δ18O

    Masaki Sano;Phuntsho Tshering;Jiro Komori;Koji Fujita

  • An optimized method for stable isotope analysis of tree rings by extracting cellulose directly from cross-sectional laths

    Akira Kagawa;Masaki Sano;Takeshi Nakatsuka;Tsutomu Ikeda

  • A 300-year Vietnam hydroclimate and ENSO variability record reconstructed from tree ringδ18O

    Masaki Sano;Chenxi Xu;Takeshi Nakatsuka

  • Dissolved and particulate organic carbon in the Sea of Okhotsk: Transport from continental shelf to ocean interior

    Takeshi Nakatsuka;Mari Toda;Kimitaka Kawamura;Masaaki Wakatsuchi

  • Benthic foraminifera as trophic links between phytodetritus and benthic metazoans: carbon and nitrogen isotopic evidence

    Hidetaka Nomaki;Nanako O. Ogawa;Naohiko Ohkouchi;Hisami Suga

  • Glacial to interglacial surface nutrient variations of Bering Deep Basins recorded by δ13C and δ15N of sedimentary organic matter

    Takeshi Nakatsuka;Kazuki Watanabe;Nobuhiko Handa;Eiji Matsumoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Jun Nishioka
Jun Nishioka Hokkaido University
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University
Zhengtang Guo
Zhengtang Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Masaaki Wakatsuchi
Masaaki Wakatsuchi Hokkaido University
Hiroshi Kitazato
Hiroshi Kitazato Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Takahiro Tagami
Takahiro Tagami Kyoto University
Toshitaka Tsuda
Toshitaka Tsuda Kyoto University
Junji Sugiyama
Junji Sugiyama Kyoto University

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