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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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