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Yohei Shinozuka is affiliated with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science within the broader fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Shinozuka's work covers a range of topics centered on atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and atmospheric ozone and climate. Additional topics include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, air quality and health impacts, remote sensing in agriculture, and urban heat island mitigation.

The main subfields for Shinozuka's research are Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with further contributions in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)

Collaborations have been common in Shinozuka's research, with frequent co-authors including Jens Redemann, Paquita Zuidema, Kristina Pistone, S. P. Burton, and Samuel LeBlanc.

Representative recent publications demonstrate the focus and scope of Shinozuka's work:

  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin (2021) published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Modeling the smoky troposphere of the southeast Atlantic: a comparison to ORACLES airborne observations from September of 2016 (2020) published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Above-cloud aerosol optical depth from airborne observations in the southeast Atlantic (2020) published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Modeled and observed properties related to the direct aerosol radiative effect of biomass burning aerosol over the southeastern Atlantic (2022) published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Exploring the elevated water vapor signal associated with the free tropospheric biomass burning plume over the southeast Atlantic Ocean (2021) published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Best Publications

  • The MERRA-2 Aerosol Reanalysis, 1980 Onward. Part I: System Description and Data Assimilation Evaluation

    C. A. Randles;A. M. da Silva;V. Buchard;V. Buchard;P. R. Colarco

  • Absorption Angstrom Exponent in AERONET and related data as an indicator of aerosol composition

    P. B. Russell;R. W. Bergstrom;Y. Shinozuka;A. D. Clarke

  • Emissions from biomass burning in the Yucatan

    R. J. Yokelson;J. D. Crounse;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;T. Karl

  • Size distributions and mixtures of dust and black carbon aerosol in Asian outflow: Physiochemistry and optical properties

    A. D. Clarke;Y. Shinozuka;V. N. Kapustin;S. Howell

  • ACE-ASIA Regional Climatic and Atmospheric Chemical Effects of Asian Dust and Pollution

    John H. Seinfeld;Gregory R. Carmichael;Richard Arimoto;William C. Conant

  • Fast airborne aerosol size and chemistry measurements above Mexico City and Central Mexico during the MILAGRO campaign

    P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;E. J. Dunlea;J. R. Kimmel;A. C. Aiken

  • Biomass burning and pollution aerosol over North America: Organic components and their influence on spectral optical properties and humidification response

    A. Clarke;C. McNaughton;V. Kapustin;Y. Shinozuka

  • Characterization of Asian Dust during ACE-Asia

    R. Arimoto;Y.J. Kim;Y.P. Kim;P.K. Quinn

  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin

    Jens Redemann;Robert Wood;Paquita Zuidema;Sarah J. Doherty

  • Synthesis of satellite (MODIS), aircraft (ICARTT), and surface (IMPROVE, EPA-AQS, AERONET) aerosol observations over eastern North America to improve MODIS aerosol retrievals and constrain surface aerosol concentrations and sources

    Easan Drury;Easan Drury;Daniel James Jacob;Robert J. D. Spurr;Jun Wang

  • Aerosol direct radiative effects over the northwest Atlantic, northwest Pacific, and North Indian Oceans: estimates based on in-situ chemical and optical measurements and chemical transport modeling

    T. S. Bates;T. L. Anderson;T. Baynard;Tami C Bond

  • Evolution of Asian aerosols during transpacific transport in INTEX-B

    E. J. Dunlea;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;A. C. Aiken;A. C. Aiken;J. R. Kimmel

  • Black carbon over Mexico: the effect of atmospheric transport on mixing state, mass absorption cross-section, and BC/CO ratios

    R. Subramanian;G. L. Kok;Darrel Baumgardner;A. D. Clarke

  • Intercomparison of biomass burning aerosol optical properties from in situ and remote-sensing instruments in ORACLES-2016

    Kristina Pistone;Jens Redemann;Sarah Doherty;Paquita Zuidema

  • The comparison of MODIS-Aqua (C5) and CALIOP (V2 & V3) aerosol optical depth

    J. Redemann;M. A. Vaughan;Q. Zhang;Y. Shinozuka

  • NASA LaRC airborne high spectral resolution lidar aerosol measurements during MILAGRO: observations and validation

    R. R. Rogers;J. W. Hair;C. A. Hostetler;R. A. Ferrare

  • Aerosol optical properties relevant to regional remote sensing of CCN activity and links to their organic mass fraction: airborne observations over Central Mexico and the US West Coast during MILAGRO/INTEX-B

    Y. Shinozuka;Y. Shinozuka;A. D. Clarke;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;J. L. Jimenez

  • Observations of heterogeneous reactions between Asian pollution and mineral dust over the Eastern North Pacific during INTEX-B

    C. S. McNaughton;A. D. Clarke;V. Kapustin;Y. Shinozuka;Y. Shinozuka

  • Revealing important nocturnal and day-to-day variations in fire smoke emissions through a multiplatform inversion

    Pablo E Saide;David A Peterson;Arlindo da Silva;Bruce Anderson

  • Influence of relative humidity upon pollution and dust during ACE‐Asia: Size distributions and implications for optical properties

    S. G. Howell;A. D. Clarke;Y. Shinozuka;V. Kapustin

  • The relationship between cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentration and light extinction of dried particles: indications of underlying aerosol processes and implications for satellite-based CCN estimates

    Y. Shinozuka;A. D. Clarke;A. Nenes;A. Jefferson;A. Jefferson

  • Modeling the smoky troposphere of the southeast Atlantic: a comparison to ORACLES airborne observations from September of 2016

    Yohei Shinozuka;Yohei Shinozuka;Pablo E. Saide;Gonzalo A. Ferrada;Sharon P. Burton

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Redemann
Jens Redemann University of Oklahoma
Antony D. Clarke
Antony D. Clarke University of Hawaii at Manoa
John M. Livingston
John M. Livingston SRI International
Steven G. Howell
Steven G. Howell University of Hawaii at Manoa
Sharon Burton
Sharon Burton Langley Research Center
Beat Schmid
Beat Schmid Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chris A. Hostetler
Chris A. Hostetler Langley Research Center
Jason M. Tomlinson
Jason M. Tomlinson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Vladimir N. Kapustin
Vladimir N. Kapustin University of Hawaii at Manoa
Richard A. Ferrare
Richard A. Ferrare Langley Research Center

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