Hirofumi Tomita

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Hirofumi Tomita is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hirofumi Tomita has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Atmospheric Science, 74 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hirofumi Tomita's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (68 papers), Climate variability and models (62 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (30 papers). Hirofumi Tomita is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (68 papers), Climate variability and models (62 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (30 papers). Hirofumi Tomita collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Hirofumi Tomita's co-authors include Masaki Satoh, Shin‐ichi Iga, Hiroaki Miura, Tomoe Nasuno, Hisashi Yashiro, Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Seiya Nishizawa, Taisuke Matsuno, Akira Noda and Yousuke Sato and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hirofumi Tomita

96 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Nonhydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model (NICAM) for global cloud resolving simulations

2007 501 citations Masaki Satoh, Hirofumi Tomita et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hirofumi Tomita Japan	34	3.8k	3.5k	513	257	201	99	4.3k
Nils Wedi United Kingdom	33	2.6k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	557 1.1×	220 0.9×	258 1.3×	72	3.3k
David Williamson United States	35	5.0k 1.3×	4.4k 1.2×	1.1k 2.1×	807 3.1×	197 1.0×	78	6.0k
Robert B. Wilhelmson United States	25	3.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	275 0.5×	488 1.9×	778 3.9×	50	3.5k
Takemasa Miyoshi Japan	40	4.6k 1.2×	4.3k 1.2×	713 1.4×	75 0.3×	687 3.4×	185	5.5k
Kelvin K. Droegemeier United States	34	4.7k 1.2×	3.7k 1.0×	469 0.9×	493 1.9×	1.2k 6.0×	88	5.6k
Paul Ullrich United States	35	2.6k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	409 0.8×	456 1.8×	255 1.3×	127	3.4k
Tomoe Nasuno Japan	29	2.7k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	706 1.4×	96 0.4×	66 0.3×	83	2.9k
Ralf Giering Germany	23	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.6×	1.1k 2.1×	154 0.6×	285 1.4×	45	3.0k
Mathew Maltrud United States	36	2.7k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	3.5k 6.9×	198 0.8×	82 0.4×	89	4.7k
Todd D. Ringler United States	28	2.0k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	773 1.5×	445 1.7×	136 0.7×	60	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hirofumi Tomita

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Yashiro, Hisashi, Koji Terasaki, Takemasa Miyoshi, et al.. (2021). The NICAM 3.5km-1024 ensemble simulation: Performance optimization and scalability of NICAM-LETKF on supercomputer Fugaku. 1 indexed citations

Miyamoto, Yoshiaki, Seiya Nishizawa, & Hirofumi Tomita. (2020). Impacts of Number of Cloud Condensation Nuclei on Two-Dimensional Moist Rayleigh Convection. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 98(2). 437–453. 2 indexed citations

Sato, Yousuke, Daisuke Goto, Takuro Michibata, et al.. (2018). Aerosol effects on cloud water amounts were successfully simulated by a global cloud-system resolving model. Nature Communications. 9(1). 985–985. 81 indexed citations

Kotsuki, Shunji, Koji Terasaki, Hisashi Yashiro, et al.. (2018). Online Model Parameter Estimation With Ensemble Data Assimilation in the Real Global Atmosphere: A Case With the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM) and the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(14). 7375–7392. 20 indexed citations

Sato, Yousuke, Shin‐ichiro Shima, & Hirofumi Tomita. (2018). Numerical Convergence of Shallow Convection Cloud Field Simulations: Comparison Between Double‐Moment Eulerian and Particle‐Based Lagrangian Microphysics Coupled to the Same Dynamical Core. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(7). 1495–1512. 26 indexed citations

Niwa, Yosuke, Hirofumi Tomita, Masaki Satoh, et al.. (2017). A 4D-Var inversion system based on the icosahedral grid model (NICAM-TM 4D-Var v1.0) – Part 1: Offline forward and adjoint transport models. Geoscientific model development. 10(3). 1157–1174. 19 indexed citations

Lien, Guo‐Yuan, Takemasa Miyoshi, Seiya Nishizawa, et al.. (2017). The Near-Real-Time SCALE-LETKF System: A Case of the September 2015 Kanto-Tohoku Heavy Rainfall. SOLA. 13(0). 1–6. 44 indexed citations

Yashiro, Hisashi, Yoshiyuki Kajikawa, Yoshiaki Miyamoto, et al.. (2016). Resolution Dependence of the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation Simulated by a Global Cloud-System Resolving Model. SOLA. 12(0). 272–276. 25 indexed citations

Yashiro, Hisashi, Koji Terasaki, Takemasa Miyoshi, & Hirofumi Tomita. (2016). Performance evaluation of a throughput-aware framework for ensemble dataassimilation: the case of NICAM-LETKF. Geoscientific model development. 9(7). 2293–2300. 17 indexed citations

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Goto, Daisuke, Masaki Satoh, Hirofumi Tomita, et al.. (2015). Application of a global nonhydrostatic model with a stretched-grid system to regional aerosol simulations around Japan. Geoscientific model development. 8(2). 235–259. 33 indexed citations

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Kajikawa, Yoshiyuki, Tsuyoshi Yamaura, Hirofumi Tomita, & Masaki Satoh. (2015). Impact of Tropical Disturbance on the Indian Summer Monsoon Onset Simulated by a Global Cloud-System-Resolving Model. SOLA. 11(0). 80–84. 3 indexed citations

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Sato, Yousuke, Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Seiya Nishizawa, et al.. (2015). Horizontal Distance of Each Cumulus and Cloud Broadening Distance Determine Cloud Cover. SOLA. 11(0). 75–79. 6 indexed citations

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Sato, Yousuke, Seiya Nishizawa, Hisashi Yashiro, Yoshiaki Miyamoto, & Hirofumi Tomita. (2014). Potential of Retrieving Shallow-Cloud Life Cycle from Future Generation Satellite Observations through Cloud Evolution Diagrams: A Suggestion from a Large Eddy Simulation. SOLA. 10(0). 10–14. 12 indexed citations

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Yamaura, Tsuyoshi, Yoshiyuki Kajikawa, Hirofumi Tomita, & Masaki Satoh. (2013). Possible Impact of a Tropical Cyclone on the Northward Migration of the Baiu Frontal Zone. SOLA. 9(0). 89–93. 5 indexed citations

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Yoshizaki, Masanori, Kazuaki Yasunaga, Shin‐ichi Iga, et al.. (2012). Why do Super Clusters and Madden Julian Oscillation Exist over the Equatorial Region?. SOLA. 8(0). 33–36. 7 indexed citations

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Niwa, Yosuke, Hirofumi Tomita, Masaki Satoh, & Ryoichi Imasu. (2011). A Three-Dimensional Icosahedral Grid Advection Scheme Preserving Monotonicity and Consistency with Continuity for Atmospheric Tracer Transport. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 89(3). 255–268. 46 indexed citations

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Oouchi, Kazuyoshi, Akira Noda, Masaki Satoh, et al.. (2009). A Simulated Preconditioning of Typhoon Genesis Controlled by a Boreal Summer Madden-Julian Oscillation Event in a Global Cloud-system-resolving Model. SOLA. 5. 65–68. 33 indexed citations

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Tomita, Hirofumi. (2008). A Stretched Icosahedral Grid by a New Grid Transformation( The International Workshop on High-Resolution and Cloud Modeling, 2006). Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 86. 107–119. 4 indexed citations

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Tomita, Hirofumi. (2008). New Microphysical Schemes with Five and Six Categories by Diagnostic Generation of Cloud Ice. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 86A. 121–142. 184 indexed citations

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Tomita, Hirofumi. (2008). A Stretched Icosahedral Grid by a New Grid Transformation. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 86A(0). 107–119. 60 indexed citations

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