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Environmental Sciences
Japan
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
82
Citations
36281
World Ranking
863
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Yutaka Kondo is a researcher affiliated with the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan. Their work spans various aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a particular focus on Environmental Science and Atmospheric Science.

Their research covers main topics including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU

Kondo has contributed extensively to the literature, publishing a total of 41 works in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 31 in Environmental Science. Their subfields of study extend into Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, and Epidemiology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kondo include:

  • Sho Ohata (17 publications)
  • M. Koike (15 publications)
  • Tatsuhiro Mori (13 publications)
  • Nobuhiro Moteki (12 publications)
  • Naga Oshima (8 publications)

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics (6 publications)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (4 publications)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques (4 publications)
  • Polar Science (3 publications)
  • Remote Sensing (2 publications)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Kondo are:

  • How emissions uncertainty influences the distribution and radiative impacts of smoke from fires in North America, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Rapid reduction in black carbon emissions from China: evidence from 2009-2019 observations on Fukue Island, Japan, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The Ny-Ålesund Aerosol Cloud Experiment (NASCENT): Overview and First Results, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Seasonal Variation of Wet Deposition of Black Carbon in Arctic Alaska, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Estimates of mass absorption cross sections of black carbon for filter-based absorption photometers in the Arctic, 2021, Atmospheric measurement techniques

Yutaka Kondo was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

    Tami C. Bond;Sarah J. Doherty;D. W. Fahey;Piers Forster

  • Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere

    J. L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;N. M. Donahue;A. S. H. Prevot

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    Olivier Boucher;David Randall;Paulo Artaxo;Christopher Bretherton

  • Ubiquity and dominance of oxygenated species in organic aerosols in anthropogenically-influenced Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes

    Q. Zhang;Jose L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;J. D. Allan

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    O. Boucher;D. Randall;P. Artaxo;C. Bretherton

  • Amplified trace gas removal in the troposphere.

    Andreas Hofzumahaus;Franz Rohrer;Keding Lu;Keding Lu;Birger Bohn

  • Evaluation of black carbon estimations in global aerosol models

    D. Koch;D. Koch;M. Schulz;S. Kinne;C. McNaughton

  • Sources of carbonaceous aerosols and deposited black carbon in the Arctic in winter-spring: implications for radiative forcing

    Qiaoqiao Wang;Daniel James Jacob;Jenny Allison Fisher;Jialin Mao;Jialin Mao

  • Effects of Mixing State on Black Carbon Measurements by Laser-Induced Incandescence

    Nobuhiro Moteki;Yutaka Kondo

  • Oxygenated and water-soluble organic aerosols in Tokyo

    Y. Kondo;Y. Miyazaki;N. Takegawa;T. Miyakawa

  • Dependence of Laser-Induced Incandescence on Physical Properties of Black Carbon Aerosols: Measurements and Theoretical Interpretation

    Nobuhiro Moteki;Yutaka Kondo

  • Atmospheric hydrogen cyanide (HCN): Biomass burning source, ocean sink?

    Qinbin Li;Daniel James Jacob;Isabelle Bey;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Urban photochemistry in central Tokyo 1. Observed and modeled OH and HO2 radical concentrations during the winter and summer of 2004

    Yugo Kanaya;Renqiu Cao;Hajime Akimoto;Masato Fukuda

  • Emissions of Black Carbon, Organic, and Inorganic Aerosols From Biomass Burning in North America and Asia in 2008

    Y. Kondo;H. Matsui;N. Moteki;L. Sahu;L. Sahu

  • Ozone production in transpacific Asian pollution plumes and implications for ozone air quality in California

    R. C. Hudman;Daniel James Jacob;O. R. Cooper;O. R. Cooper;M. J. Evans

  • Time‐resolved measurements of water‐soluble organic carbon in Tokyo

    Y. Miyazaki;Y. Kondo;N. Takegawa;Y. Komazaki

  • Amplification of Light Absorption of Black Carbon by Organic Coating

    M. Shiraiwa;Y. Kondo;T. Iwamoto;K. Kita

  • Photochemistry of HOx in the upper troposphere at northern midlatitudes

    L. Jaeglé;Daniel James Jacob;W. H. Brune;I. Faloona

  • Evolution of mixing state of black carbon particles: Aircraft measurements over the western Pacific in March 2004

    N. Moteki;Y. Kondo;Y. Miyazaki;N. Takegawa

  • Consistency and Traceability of Black Carbon Measurements Made by Laser-Induced Incandescence, Thermal-Optical Transmittance, and Filter-Based Photo-Absorption Techniques

    Y. Kondo;L. Sahu;N. Moteki;Firoz Khan

  • Validation of daily erythemal doses from Ozone Monitoring Instrument with ground‐based UV measurement data

    Aapo Tanskanen;Anders Lindfors;Anu Määttä;Nickolay Krotkov

  • Modelled black carbon radiative forcing and atmospheric lifetime in AeroCom Phase II constrained by aircraft observations

    B. H. Samset;G. Myhre;Andreas Herber;Yutaka Kondo

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuyuki Takegawa
Nobuyuki Takegawa Tokyo Metropolitan University
Makoto Koike
Makoto Koike University of Tokyo
Kazuyuki Kita
Kazuyuki Kita Ibaraki University
Yuzo Miyazaki
Yuzo Miyazaki Hokkaido University
Donald R. Blake
Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine
Lokesh K. Sahu
Lokesh K. Sahu Physical Research Laboratory
Yugo Kanaya
Yugo Kanaya Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Min Shao
Min Shao Peking University
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Tong Zhu
Tong Zhu Peking University

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