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Overview

Toru Nozawa is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan and focuses on research in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans subfields such as Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science.

Their research addresses various topics, including

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Nozawa has contributed to academic publications in venues such as

  • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • Current Pollution Reports

Recent papers include

  • Global Historical Reanalysis with a 60-km AGCM and Surface Pressure Observations: OCADA, 2024, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • Recent Advances in the Observation and Modeling of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions, Cloud Feedbacks, and Earth's Energy Imbalance: A Review, 2025, Current Pollution Reports

Frequent collaborators in their research are

  • Masayoshi ISHII
  • Hirotaka Kamahori
  • Hisayuki Kubota
  • Masumi Zaiki
  • Ryo Mizuta

Best Publications

  • Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Hugo G. Hidalgo;Celine Bonfils

  • Improved Climate Simulation by MIROC5: Mean States, Variability, and Climate Sensitivity

    Masahiro Watanabe;Tatsuo Suzuki;Ryouta O'Ishi;Yoshiki Komuro

  • Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends

    Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Gabriele C. Hegerl;F. Hugo Lambert

  • MIROC-ESM 2010: model description and basic results of CMIP5-20c3m experiments

    S. Watanabe;T. Hajima;K. Sudo;T. Nagashima

  • Anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution to flood risk in England and Wales in autumn 2000

    Pardeep Pall;Tolu Aina;Dáithí A. Stone;Peter A. Stott

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

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

  • Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content

    B. D. Santer;C. Mears;F. J. Wentz;K. E. Taylor

  • An emission pathway for stabilization at 6 Wm−2 radiative forcing

    Toshihiko Masui;Kenichi Matsumoto;Yasuaki Hijioka;Tsuguki Kinoshita

  • Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States

    H.G. Hidalgo;T. Das;M.D. Dettinger;M.D. Dettinger;D.R. Cayan;D.R. Cayan

  • Attribution of declining Western U.S. Snowpack to human effects

    David W. Pierce;Tim P. Barnett;Hugo G. Hidalgo;Tapash Das

  • Attribution of polar warming to human influence

    Nathan P. Gillett;Dáithí A. Stone;Dáithí A. Stone;Peter A. Stott;Toru Nozawa

  • Future climate change: Implications for Indian summer monsoon and its variability

    Lal Murari;T. Nozawa;S. Emori;H. Harasawa

  • Coupled ocean-atmosphere model experiments of future climate change with an explicit representation of sulfate aerosol scattering

    Seita Emori;Toru Nozawa;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Atusi Numaguti;Atusi Numaguti

  • Pacific decadal oscillation hindcasts relevant to near-term climate prediction

    Takashi Mochizuki;Masayoshi Ishii;Masahide Kimoto;Yoshimitsu Chikamoto

  • MIROC4h—A New High-Resolution Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled General Circulation Model

    Takashi T. Sakamoto;Yoshiki Komuro;Teruyuki Nishimura;Masayoshi Ishii;Masayoshi Ishii

  • Detection and attribution of temperature changes in the mountainous Western United States

    Céline Bonfils;Benjamin D. Santer;David W. Pierce;Hugo G. Hidalgo

  • Detecting natural influence on surface air temperature change in the early twentieth century

    Toru Nozawa;Tatsuya Nagashima;Hideo Shiogama;Simon A. Crooks

  • Importance of Cumulus Parameterization for Precipitation Simulation over East Asia in June

    Seita Emori;Toru Nozawa;Atusi Numaguti;Itsushi Uno

  • Future changes in tropospheric ozone under Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)

    Hiroaki Kawase;Tatsuya Nagashima;Kengo Sudo;Toru Nozawa;Toru Nozawa

  • The Detection and Attribution of Human Influence on Climate

    Dáithí A. Stone;Myles R. Allen;Peter A. Stott;Pardeep Pall

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideo Shiogama
Hideo Shiogama National Institute for Environmental Studies
Seita Emori
Seita Emori University of Tokyo
Masahide Kimoto
Masahide Kimoto University of Tokyo
Masayoshi Ishii
Masayoshi Ishii Japan Meteorological Agency
Tatsuya Nagashima
Tatsuya Nagashima National Institute for Environmental Studies
Kiyoshi Takahashi
Kiyoshi Takahashi National Institute for Environmental Studies
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Masahiro Watanabe
Masahiro Watanabe University of Tokyo
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Daniel R. Cayan
Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego

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