JpGU Fellowship

Takakiyo Nakazawa

Commendation

for outstanding contributions to global warming research, in particular to the understanding of the temporal and spatial distribution and circulation of greenhouse gases.

A list of five major papers

  1. C. Le Quéré, C. Rodenbeck, E.T. Buitenhuis, T.J. Conway, R. Langenfelds, A. Gomez, C. Labuschagne, R. Ramonet, T. Nakazawa, N. Metzl. N. Gillet and M. Heimann, Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change, Science, 316, 1735-1738, DOI: 10.1126/science.1136188, 2007.
  2. K. Kawamura, F. Parrenin, L. Lisiecki, R. Uemura, F. Vimeux, J.P. Severinghaus, M. Hutterli, T. Nakazawa, S. Aoki, J. Jouzel, M. Raymo, K. Matsumoto, H. Nakata, H. Motoyama, S. Fujita, K. Goto-Azuma, Y. Fujii and O. Watanabe, Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles over the past 360,000, Nature, 448, 912-916, doi:10.1038/nature06015, 2007.
  3. T. Nakazawa, S. Morimoto, S. Aoki and M. Tanaka, Time and space variations of the carbon isotopic ratio of tropospheric carbon dioxide over Japan, 258-274, Tellus, 45B, 1993.
  4. T. Nakazawa, K. Miyashita, S. Aoki and M. Tanaka, Temporal and spatial variations of upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric carbon dioxide, Tellus, 43B, 106-117, 1991.
  5. P.P. Tans, T.J. Conway and T. Nakazawa, Latitudinal distribution of the sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide derived from surface observations and an atmospheric transport model, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 5151-5172, 1989.

Nominator

Shuji Aoki