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Yukio Masumoto

Yukio Masumoto

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Earth Science

D-Index
51
Citations
10105
World Ranking
3202
National Ranking
70

Overview

Yukio Masumoto is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Environmental Science. Their research primarily centers on Oceanography and related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Geology. The scientist has also contributed to areas intersecting with Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

The primary topics of Masumoto's research involve Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate Variability and Models, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, as well as Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing.

Recent papers showcasing the scope of their work include:

  • Reviews and syntheses: Physical and biogeochemical processes associated with upwelling in the Indian Ocean, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • A Road Map to IndOOS-2: Better Observations of the Rapidly Warming Indian Ocean, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • A global eddying hindcast ocean simulation with OFES2, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • What did determine the warming trend in the Indonesian sea?, 2020, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • The Indonesian Throughflow and its Impact on Biogeochemistry in the Indonesian Seas, 2020, ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers, including Iskhaq Iskandar, Raleigh R. Hood, Toshiaki Shinoda, Jérôme Vialard, and Mathew Koll Roxy, reflecting a collaborative approach in their research activities.

Masumoto has published multiple works in several key scientific venues, which include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Journal of Oceanography
  • Human Reproduction
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Their body of work encompasses the integration of physical oceanography with biogeochemical processes, climate model assessments, and the evaluation of environmental variability in ocean systems, particularly focused on the Indian Ocean region.

Best Publications

  • RAMA: The Research Moored Array for African–Asian–Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction*

    Michael J. Mcphaden;Gary Meyers;K. Ando;Y. Masumoto

  • A fifty-year eddy-resolving simulation of the world ocean : Preliminary outcomes of OFES (OGCM for the Earth Simulator)

    Y. Masumoto

  • Indian Ocean warming modulates Pacific climate change

    Jing-Jia Luo;Wataru Sasaki;Yukio Masumoto

  • Interaction between El Niño and Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole

    Jing-Jia Luo;Ruochao Zhang;Swadhin K. Behera;Yukio Masumoto

  • Increased frequency of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events due to greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Guojian Wang;Evan Weller

  • Interannual subsurface variability in the tropical Indian Ocean with a special emphasis on the Indian Ocean Dipole

    Suryachandra A. Rao;Swadhin K. Behera;Yukio Masumoto;Toshio Yamagata

  • An Eddy-Resolving Hindcast Simulation of the Quasiglobal Ocean from 1950 to 2003 on the Earth Simulator

    Hideharu Sasaki;Masami Nonaka;Yukio Masumoto;Yoshikazu Sasai

  • Forced Rossby waves in the southern tropical Indian Ocean

    Yukio Masumoto;Gary Meyers

  • Indian Ocean Decadal Variability: A Review

    Weiqing Han;Jérôme Vialard;Michael J. McPhaden;Tong Lee

  • Intrusion of the Southwest Monsoon Current into the Bay of Bengal

    P. N. Vinayachandran;Yukio Masumoto;Tetsuya Mikawa;Toshio Yamagata

  • Equatorial Atlantic variability and its relation to mean state biases in CMIP5

    Ingo Richter;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Swadhin K. Behera;Takeshi Doi

  • Dispersion of artificial caesium-134 and -137 in the western North Pacific one month after the Fukushima accident

    Makio C. Honda;Tatsuo Aono;Michio Aoyama;Yasunori Hamajima

  • Successful prediction of the consecutive IOD in 2006 and 2007

    Jing-Jia Luo;Swadhin Behera;Yukio Masumoto;Yukio Masumoto;Hirofumi Sakuma

  • Response of the Western Tropical Pacific to the Asian Winter Monsoon: The Generation of the Mindanao Dome

    Y. Masumoto;T. Yamagata

  • The reversal of the multi-decadal trends of the equatorial Pacific easterly winds, and the Indonesian Throughflow and Leeuwin Current transports

    Ming Feng;Claus Boning;Arne Biastoch;Erik Behrens

  • Tropical Atlantic biases and their relation to surface wind stress and terrestrial precipitation

    Ingo Richter;Ingo Richter;Shang-Ping Xie;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Yukio Masumoto

  • Intraseasonal variability in the upper layer currents observed in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean

    Yukio Masumoto;Yukio Masumoto;Hideaki Hase;Yoshifumi Kuroda;Hiroshi Matsuura

  • Seasonal heat budget in the mixed layer of the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean in a high-resolution ocean general circulation model

    Yan Du;Tangdong Qu;Gary Meyers;Yukio Masumoto

  • On the triggering of Benguela Niños: Remote equatorial versus local influences

    Ingo Richter;Swadhin K. Behera;Yukio Masumoto;Bunmei Taguchi

  • Multiple causes of interannual sea surface temperature variability in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    Ingo Richter;Swadhin K. Behera;Yukio Masumoto;Bunmei Taguchi

  • Oceanic precondition and evolution of the 2006 Indian Ocean dipole

    Takanori Horii;Hideaki Hase;Iwao Ueki;Yukio Masumoto;Yukio Masumoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Yamagata
Toshio Yamagata Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Swadhin K. Behera
Swadhin K. Behera Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hideharu Sasaki
Hideharu Sasaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Jing-Jia Luo
Jing-Jia Luo Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Tomoki Tozuka
Tomoki Tozuka University of Tokyo
Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Jérôme Vialard
Jérôme Vialard Université Paris Cité
Michael J. McPhaden
Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Weiqing Han
Weiqing Han University of Colorado Boulder
Gary Meyers
Gary Meyers University of Tasmania

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