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most citedCOVID-19 causes record decline in global CO2 emissions

825 citations

27 papers

astro-ph.IM2026★ 26 cited

Broad-band High-Energy Resolution Hard X-ray Spectroscopy using Transition Edge Sensors at SPring-8

Shinya Yamada, Yuto Ichinohe, Hideyuki Tatsuno +40

We have succeeded in operating a transition-edge sensor (TES) spectrometer and evaluating its performance at the SPring-8 synchrotron X-ray light source. The TES spectrometer consi…

physics.ao-ph2026★ 1 cited

Atmospheric Methane Removal as a Third Climate Intervention: Termination Risks and Air Pollutant Effects

Katsumasa Tanaka, Weiwei Xiong, Didier A. Hauglustaine +8

Atmospheric Methane Removal (AMR) is a third class of climate intervention, along with Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Management (SRM). We show that, unlike CDR,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Chern junctions in Moiré-Patterned Graphene/PbI2

Sun Yan, M. Monteverde, V. Derkach +5

Expanding the moire material library continues to unlock novel quantum phases and emergent electronic behaviors. Here, we introduce PbI2 into the moire family and investigate the m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

Bulk Nanostructured Zirconia Ceramics with High Hardness and Toughness via Integration of High-Pressure Torsion and Spark Plasma Sintering

Kaveh Edalati, Koji Morita, Shivam Dangwal +1

Developing nanostructured bulk ceramics is a major challenge when conventional high-temperature sintering is employed for consolidation. In the current investigation, yttria-stabil…

astro-ph.EP2024

Behaviors of Martian CO2-driven dry climate system and conditions for atmospheric collapses

Yasuto Watanabe, Eiichi Tajika, Arihiro Kamada

The present Martian climate is characterized by a cold and dry environment with a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxides (CO2). In such conditions, the planetary climate and habitabili…

physics.ao-ph2024

Aligning long-term climate mitigation with enhanced methane action

Katsumasa Tanaka, Kushal Tibrewal, Philippe Ciais +1

The Global Methane Pledge and other methane measures may potentially undermine CO2 mitigation in certain countries, unless they are considered as additional to the existing Nationa…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 5 cited

Direct Observation and Quantitative Measurement of OH Radical Desorption During the Ultraviolet Photolysis of Liquid Nonanoic Acid

Naoki Numadate, Shota Saito, Yuki Nojima +3

Ultraviolet (UV) photolysis of fatty acid surfactants which cover the surfaces of atmospheric liquid aerosols and are found in the oceans such as nonanoic acid (NA) has recently be…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

Rotational effect as the possible cause of the east-west asymmetric crater rims on Ryugu observed by LIDAR data

Naoyuki Hirata, Noriyuki Namiki, Fumi Yoshida +13

Asteroid 162173 Ryugu is a rubble-pile asteroid, whose top-shape is compatible with models of deformation by spin up. Rims of major craters on Ryugu have an east-west asymmetric pr…

econ.GN2021★ 11 cited

Assessment of waterfront office redevelopment plan on optimal building energy demand and rooftop photovoltaics for urban decarbonization

Younghun Choi, Takuro Kobashi, Yoshiki Yamagata +1

Designing waterfront redevelopment generally focuses on attractiveness, leisure, and beauty, resulting in various types of building and block shapes with limited considerations on…

econ.GN2021★ 60 cited

Deeply decarbonizing residential and urban central districts through photovoltaics plus electric vehicle applications

Takuro Kobashi, Younghun Choi, Yujiro Hirano +2

With the costs of renewable energy technologies declining, new forms of urban energy systems are emerging that can be established in a cost-effective way. The SolarEV City concept…

econ.GN2021★ 15 cited

Paris Agreement requires substantial, broad, and sustained engagements beyond COVID-19 public stimulus packages

Katsumasa Tanaka, Christian Azar, Olivier Boucher +3

It has been claimed that COVID-19 public stimulus packages could be sufficient to meet the short-term energy investment needs to leverage a shift toward a pathway consistent with t…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 127 cited

Global Daily CO emissions for the year 2020

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais +25

The diurnal cycle CO emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production reflect seasonality, weather conditions, working days, and more recently the impact of the COVI…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 18 cited

Local field effects in ultrafast light-matter interaction measured by pump-probe spectroscopy of monolayer MoSe

Aleksander Rodek, Thilo Hahn, Jacek Kasprzak +10

Using a novel approach to ultrafast resonant pump-probe spectroscopy we investigate the spectral shape and dynamics of absorption features related to the A exciton in an hBN/MoSe$_…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 14 cited

Carbon Monitor: a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO2 emission from fossil fuel and cement production

Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng +15

We constructed a near-real-time daily CO2 emission dataset, namely the Carbon Monitor, to monitor the variations of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 51 cited

Cost-effective implementation of the Paris Agreement using flexible greenhouse gas metrics

Katsumasa Tanaka, Olivier Boucher, Philippe Ciais +2

Greenhouse gas (GHG) metrics, that is, conversion factors to evaluate the emissions of non-CO2 climate forcers on a common scale with CO2, serve crucial functions upon the implemen…

econ.GN2020★ 825 cited

COVID-19 causes record decline in global CO2 emissions

Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng +37

The considerable cessation of human activities during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected global energy use and CO2 emissions. Here we show the unprecedented decrease in global foss…

stat.ME2019★ 9 cited

Scalable GWR: A linear-time algorithm for large-scale geographically weighted regression with polynomial kernels

Daisuke Murakami, Narumasa Tsutsumida, Takahiro Yoshida +2

Although a number of studies have developed fast geographically weighted regression (GWR) algorithms for large samples, none of them has achieved linear-time estimation, which is c…

stat.AP2018★ 1 cited

Which country epitomizes the world? A study from the perspective of demographic composition

Takahiro Yoshida, Rim Er-Rbib, Morito Tsutsumi

Demographic indicators are an essential element in considering various problems in the social economy, such as predicting economic fluctuations and establishing policies. The liter…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 24 cited

Interference induced enhancement of magneto-optical Kerr effect in ultrathin magnetic films

Satoshi Sumi, Hiroyuki Awano, Masamitsu Hayashi

We have studied the magneto-optical spectra of ultrathin magnetic films deposited on Si substrates coated with an oxide layer (SiOx). We find that the Kerr rotation angle and the e…

stat.AP2017★ 9 cited

A self-excited threshold autoregressive state-space model for menstrual cycles: forecasting menstruation and identifying ovarian phases based on basal body temperature

Ai Kawamori, Keiichi Fukaya, Masumi Kitazawa +1

The menstrual cycle is composed of the follicular phase and subsequent luteal phase based on events occurring in the ovary. Basal body temperature (BBT) reflects this biphasic aspe…

stat.ME2016★ 4 cited

A Moran coefficient-based mixed effects approach to investigate spatially varying relationships

Daisuke Murakami, Takahiro Yoshida, Hajime Seya +2

This study develops a spatially varying coefficient model by extending the random effects eigenvector spatial filtering model. The developed model has the following properties: its…

stat.AP2015

A spatiotemporal analysis of participatory sensing data "tweets" and extreme climate events toward real-time urban risk management

Yoshiki Yamagata, Daisuke Murakami, Gareth W. Peters +1

Real-time urban climate monitoring provides useful information that can be utilized to help monitor and adapt to extreme events, including urban heatwaves. Typical approaches to th…

physics.ao-ph2015

Transboundary Secondary Organic Aerosol in Western Japan: An Observed Limitation of the f44 Oxidation Indicator

Satoshi Irei, Akinori Takami, Yasuhiro Sadanaga +6

To obtain evidence for secondary organic aerosol formation during the long range transport of air masses over the East China Sea, we conducted field measurements in March 2012 at t…

physics.ao-ph2013★ 17 cited

Transboundary secondary organic aerosol in western Japan indicated by stable carbon isotope ratio of low volatile water-soluble organic carbon and signal at m/z 44 in organic aerosol mass spectra

Satoshi Irei, Akinori Takami, Masahiko Hayashi +9

Field studies were conducted in the winter of 2010 at two rural sites and an urban site in western Japan, and filter samples of total suspended particulate matter were collected ev…