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Teruyuki Nakajima

Teruyuki Nakajima

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
33214
World Ranking
1541
National Ranking
18

Overview

Teruyuki Nakajima is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as key subfields.

Their research contributions cover a range of topics related to the atmosphere, particularly emphasizing Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate. Other notable topics include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Calibration and Measurement Techniques, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics.

Nakajima has published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nakajima include:

  • An overview of and issues with sky radiometer technology and SKYNET, 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Geolocation Correction for Geostationary Satellite Observations by a Phase-Only Correlation Method Using a Visible Channel, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • 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
  • Development of an Algorithm to Retrieve Aerosol Optical Properties Over Water Using an Artificial Neural Network Radiative Transfer Scheme: First Result From GOSAT-2/CAI-2, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Collaborations have featured several frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Daisuke Goto (13 publications)
  • Tie Dai (8 publications)
  • Makiko Hashimoto (7 publications)
  • Chong Shi (7 publications)
  • Rei Kudo (6 publications)

Best Publications

  • AERONET-a federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol Characterization

    B.N. Holben;T.F. Eck;I. Slutsker;D. Tanré

  • Determination of the Optical Thickness and Effective Particle Radius of Clouds from Reflected Solar Radiation Measurements. Part I: Theory

    Teruyuki Nakajima;Michael D. King

  • Tropospheric Aerosol Optical Thickness from the GOCART Model and Comparisons with Satellite and Sun Photometer Measurements

    Mian Chin;Paul Ginoux;Stefan Kinne;Stefan Kinne;Omar Torres;Omar Torres

  • An overview of ACE-Asia: Strategies for quantifying the relationships between Asian aerosols and their climatic impacts

    Barry J. Huebert;Timothy Bates;Philip B. Russell;Guangyu Shi

  • Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Aerosols from Space: Past, Present, and Future.

    Michael D. King;Yoram J. Kaufman;Didier Tanré;Teruyuki Nakajima

  • 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

  • Algorithms for radiative intensity calculations in moderately thick atmospheres using a truncation approximation

    T. Nakajima;M. Tanaka

  • Single-Scattering Albedo and Radiative Forcing of Various Aerosol Species with a Global Three-Dimensional Model

    Toshihiko Takemura;Teruyuki Nakajima;Oleg Dubovik;Brent N. Holben

  • Global three-dimensional simulation of aerosol optical thickness distribution of various origins

    Toshihiko Takemura;Hajime Okamoto;Yoshihiro Maruyama;Atusi Numaguti

  • A possible correlation between satellite-derived cloud and aerosol microphysical parameters

    Teruyuki Nakajima;Akiko Higurashi;Kazuaki Kawamoto;Joyce E. Penner

  • 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

  • Effect of Amazon Smoke on Cloud Microphysics and Albedo-Analysis from Satellite Imagery

    Yoram J. Kaufman;Teruyuki Nakajima

  • Determination of the Optical Thickness and Effective Particle Radius of Clouds from Reflected Solar Radiation Measurements. Part II: Marine Stratocumulus Observations

    Teruyuki Nakajima;Michael D. King;James D. Spinhirne;Lawrence F. Radke

  • 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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Nakajima
Takashi Nakajima Tokai University
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Akiko Higurashi
Akiko Higurashi National Institute for Environmental Studies
Kentaroh Suzuki
Kentaroh Suzuki University of Tokyo
Haruo Tsuruta
Haruo Tsuruta University of Tokyo
Guangyu Shi
Guangyu Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Toshimasa Ohara
Toshimasa Ohara Asia Center for Air Pollution Research
Nobuo Sugimoto
Nobuo Sugimoto National Institute for Environmental Studies
Mitsuru Ebihara
Mitsuru Ebihara Tokyo Metropolitan University
Masaki Satoh
Masaki Satoh University of Tokyo

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