Nishida Prize

Hiroshi Tanimoto

・Commendation

Studies on the formation of tropospheric ozone and marine sulfate aerosol

・A list of five major papers

Tanimoto, H., N. Aoki, S. Inomata, J. Hirokawa, Y. Sadanaga, Development of a PTR-TOFMS instrument for real-time measurements of volatile organic compounds in air, Intern. J. Mass Spectrom., 263, 1−11, 2007.

Tanimoto, H., Increase in springtime tropospheric ozone at a mountainous site in Japan for the period 1998–2006, Atmos. Environ., 43, 1358−1363, 2009.

Kameyama, S., H. Tanimoto, S. Inomata, U. Tsunogai, A. Ooki, S. Takeda, H. Obata, A. Tsuda, and M. Uematsu, High-resolution measurement of multiple volatile organic compounds dissolved in seawater using equilibrator inlet-proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (EI-PTR-MS), Marine Chem., 122, 59−73, 2010.

Nara, H., H. Tanimoto, Y. Tohjima, H. Mukai, Y. Nojiri, and T. Machida, Emissions of methane from offshore oil and gas platforms in Southeast Asia, Sci. Rep., 4, 6503, 2014.

Tanimoto, H., S. Kameyama, T. Iwata, S. Inomata, Y. Omori, Measurement of air-sea exchange of dimethyl sulfide and acetone by PTR-MS coupled with gradient flux technique, Environ. Sci. Technol., 48, 526−533, 2014.

・Nominator

Mitsuo Uematsu