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Yoshinobu Harazono is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with key subfields including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, ecology, plant science, and ecological modeling.

The main topics explored in their work encompass plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, plant responses to elevated CO2, and atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Harazono has contributed articles to several scientific venues, notably:

  • Polar Science
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Water Resources Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Fluctuations of CO2 in Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) depress plant photosynthesis, growth, and yield (2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
  • Lessons learned from more than a decade of greenhouse gas flux measurements at boreal forests in eastern Siberia and interior Alaska (2020, Polar Science)
  • Cooling and Moistening of the Planetary Boundary Layer in Interior Alaska Due to a Postfire Change in Surface Energy Exchange (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • Methane and carbon dioxide emissions from the forest floor of a black spruce forest on permafrost in interior Alaska (2022, Polar Science)
  • Interannual Variations in Spring Snowmelt Timing of Alaskan Black Spruce Forests Using a Bulk-Surface Energy Balance Approach (2024, Water Resources Research)

Frequent collaborators in Harazono's research include Masahito Ueyama, Hiroki Iwata, Hideki Kobayashi, T. Nakai, and Hirohiko Nagano, with repeated coauthorship reflecting ongoing partnerships across multiple projects.

Best Publications

  • Grassland desertification by grazing and the resulting micrometeorological changes in Inner Mongolia

    Sheng Gong Li;Yoshinobu Harazono;Takehisa Oikawa;Ha Lin Zhao

  • Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from an intermittently flooded paddy field

    Akira Miyata;Ray Leuning;Owen Thomas Denmead;Joon Kim

  • Nonlinear controls on evapotranspiration in arctic coastal wetlands

    A K Liljedahl;L D Hinzman;Y Harazono;Y Harazono;D Zona;D Zona

  • Autumn warming reduces the CO2 sink of a black spruce forest in interior Alaska based on a nine-year eddy covariance measurement.

    Masahito Ueyama;Hiroki Iwata;Yoshinobu Harazono;Yoshinobu Harazono

  • Inter-annual carbon dioxide uptake of a wet sedge tundra ecosystem in the Arctic

    Yoshinobu Harazono;Masayoshi Mano;Akira Miyata;Rommel C. Zulueta

  • CO2 and water vapor exchange of a larch forest in northern Japan

    Takashi Hirano;Ryuichi Hirata;Yasumi Fujinuma;Nobuko Saigusa

  • Influences of various calculation options on heat, water and carbon fluxes determined by open- and closed-path eddy covariance methods

    Masahito Ueyama;Ryuichi Hirata;Masayoshi Mano;Ken Hamotani

  • Growing season and spatial variations of carbon fluxes of Arctic and boreal ecosystems in Alaska (USA).

    Masahito Ueyama;Hiroki Iwata;Yoshinobu Harazono;Yoshinobu Harazono;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • Remote sensing of tundra gross ecosystem productivity and light use efficiency under varying temperature and moisture conditions

    K F Huemmrich;J A Gamon;J A Gamon;C E Tweedie;S F Oberbauer

  • Fluctuations of CO2 in Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) depress plant photosynthesis, growth, and yield

    L.H. Allen;B.A. Kimball;J.A. Bunce;M. Yoshimoto

  • Upscaling terrestrial carbon dioxide fluxes in Alaska with satellite remote sensing and support vector regression

    Masahito Ueyama;Kazuhito Ichii;Hiroki Iwata;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • CO2 and water vapor exchange of a larch forest in northern Japan

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  • Assessment of winter fluxes of CO2 and CH4 in boreal forest soils of central Alaska estimated by the profile method and the chamber method: a diagnosis of methane emission and implications for the regional carbon budget

    Yongwon Kim;Masahito Ueyama;Fumiko Nakagawa;Urumu Tsunogai

  • Micrometeorological changes following establishment of artificially established artemisia vegetation on desertified sandy land in the Horqin sandy land, China and their implication on regional environmental change

    Sheng Gong Li;Yoshinobu Harazono;Ha Lin Zhao;Zong Ying He

  • Spatial and temporal variations in hectare‐scale net CO2 flux, respiration and gross primary production of Arctic tundra ecosystems

    G. L. Vourlitis;G. L. Vourlitis;Y. Harazono;W. C. Oechel;M. Yoshimoto

  • Micrometeorological Characteristics of a Sand Dune in the Eastern Part of Inner Mongolia, China in Autumn

    Yoshinobu Harazono;Jianyou Shen;Shinming Liu;Shenggong Li

  • Response of the carbon cycle in sub-arctic black spruce forests to climate change: Reduction of a carbon sink related to the sensitivity of heterotrophic respiration

    Masahito Ueyama;Yoshinobu Harazono;Yongwon Kim;Noriyuki Tanaka

  • Measurement of energy budget components during the International Rice Experiment (IREX) in Japan

    Y. Harazono;J. Kim;A. Miyata;T. Choi

  • Modeling evapotranspiration in Arctic coastal plain ecosystems using a modified BIOME-BGC model

    Ryan Engstrom;Allen Hope;Hyojung Kwon;Yoshinobu Harazono

  • Latitudinal gradient of spruce forest understory and tundra phenology in Alaska as observed from satellite and ground-based data

    Hideki Kobayashi;Ali P. Yunus;Ali P. Yunus;Shin Nagai;Konosuke Sugiura;Konosuke Sugiura

  • Carbon dioxide balance in early-successional forests after forest fires in interior Alaska

    Masahito Ueyama;Hiroki Iwata;Hirohiko Nagano;Narumi Tahara

  • The role of permafrost in water exchange of a black spruce forest in Interior Alaska

    Hiroki Iwata;Yoshinobu Harazono;Yoshinobu Harazono;Masahito Ueyama

  • Permafrost thaw affects boreal deciduous plant transpiration through increased soil water, deeper thaw, and warmer soils

    Jessica M. Cable;Kiona Ogle;W. Robert Bolton;Lisa P. Bentley

  • Seasonal variation of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes at single cropping paddy fields in central and western Japan

    A. Miyata;T. Iwata;H. Nagai;T. Yamada

  • A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane emissions in northern wetlands

    Xiyan Xu;William J. Riley;Charles D. Koven;Dave P. Billesbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Takashi Hirano
Takashi Hirano Hokkaido University
Hideki Kobayashi
Hideki Kobayashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kentaro Takagi
Kentaro Takagi Hokkaido University
Adrian V. Rocha
Adrian V. Rocha University of Notre Dame
Yoshiko Kosugi
Yoshiko Kosugi Kyoto University

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