M. Yanai

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

M. Yanai is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Yanai has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Atmospheric Science, 7 papers in Oceanography and 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in M. Yanai's work include Climate variability and models (6 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (6 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (5 papers). M. Yanai is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (6 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (6 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (5 papers). M. Yanai collaborates with scholars based in Slovakia, United States and Japan. M. Yanai's co-authors include Peter J. Webster, Víctor Magaña, T. N. Palmer, J. Shukla, Tetsuzo Yasunari, Robert A. Tomas, Taketo Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Nitta, Yoshikazu Hayashi and Masato Murakami and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

In The Last Decade

M. Yanai

18 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Monsoons: Processes, predictability, and the prospects for prediction

1998 2.4k citations Peter J. Webster, Víctor Magaña et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. Yanai Slovakia	13	2.6k	2.5k	1.0k	185	140	20	3.1k
Dennis J. Shea United States	19	2.2k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	138 0.7×	85 0.6×	27	3.0k
Jerome Namias United States	30	2.1k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	147 0.8×	51 0.4×	90	2.9k
Hermann Flohn Germany	22	1.3k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	361 0.4×	141 0.8×	153 1.1×	65	1.7k
Michio Yanai United States	27	5.1k 2.0×	5.0k 2.0×	1.5k 1.4×	85 0.5×	59 0.4×	37	5.5k
Atusi Numaguti Japan	22	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	498 0.5×	94 0.5×	81 0.6×	36	2.2k
Julie M. Caron United States	20	3.4k 1.3×	3.6k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	119 0.6×	80 0.6×	31	4.1k
David Webb United Kingdom	23	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	2.1k 2.0×	265 1.4×	367 2.6×	63	2.8k
David P. Stepaniak United States	12	2.1k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	965 0.9×	76 0.4×	37 0.3×	12	2.6k
R. C. Pacanowski United States	30	3.3k 1.3×	3.7k 1.5×	4.1k 4.0×	298 1.6×	271 1.9×	36	5.2k
Chih-Pei Chang United States	20	2.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	86 0.5×	48 0.3×	38	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by M. Yanai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Yanai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of M. Yanai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of M. Yanai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with M. Yanai. M. Yanai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xue, Yan & M. Yanai. (2005). Climate of South Asia. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29 indexed citations

Webster, Peter J., Víctor Magaña, T. N. Palmer, et al.. (1998). Monsoons: Processes, predictability, and the prospects for prediction. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(C7). 14451–14510. 2375 indexed citations breakdown →

Yanai, M., et al.. (1988). Resonance effects for different states of a circulating bubble. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 24(6). 3054–3056.

Yanai, M., et al.. (1976). Response of Deep and Shallow Tropical Maritime Cumuli to Large-scale Processes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 33(6). 976–991. 55 indexed citations

Satō, Takashi, et al.. (1972). Study of heat transfer in boiling two-phase channel flow. Part II. Heat transfer in the nucleate boiling region.. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

Satō, Takashi, et al.. (1971). Studies on the Two-Phase Annular Dispersed Flow with Heating : 1st Report, On the Flow Construction. Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. 37(300). 1569–1577. 1 indexed citations

Kawata, Y., et al.. (1970). Precipitation Bands of Typhoon Vera in 1959 (Part II). Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 48(2). 103–117. 8 indexed citations

Yanai, M. & Masato Murakami. (1970). A Further Study of Tropical Wave Disturbances by the Use of Spectrum Analysis. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 48(3). 185–197. 23 indexed citations

Yanai, M. & Masato Murakami. (1970). Spectrum Analysis of Symmetric and Antisymmetric Equatorial Waves. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 48(4). 331–347. 55 indexed citations

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Yanai, M. & Tatsushi Tokioka. (1969). Axially Symmetric Meridional Motions in the Baroclinic Circular Vortex: a Numerical Experiment. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 47(3). 183–198. 17 indexed citations

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Nitta, Tsuyoshi & M. Yanai. (1969). A Note on the Barotropic Instability of the Tropical Easterly Current. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 47(2). 127–131. 58 indexed citations

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Kawata, Y., et al.. (1969). Precipitation Bands of Typhoon Vera in 1959 (Part I). Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 47(4). 298–309. 26 indexed citations

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Yanai, M. & Yoshikazu Hayashi. (1969). Large-Scale Equatorial Waves Penetrating from the Upper Troposphere into the. Lower Stratosphere. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 47(3). 167–182. 37 indexed citations

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Yanai, M. & Tsuyoshi Nitta. (1968). Finite Difference Approximation for the Barotropic Instability Problem. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 46(5). 389–403. 30 indexed citations

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Yanai, M., Taketo Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Nitta, & Yoshikazu Hayashi. (1968). Power Spectra of Large-Scale Disturbances over the Tropical Pacific. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 46(4). 308–323. 109 indexed citations

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Maruyama, Taketo & M. Yanai. (1967). Evidence of Large-Scale Wave Disturbances in the Equatorial Lower Stratosphere. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 45(2). 196–199. 32 indexed citations

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Yanai, M. & Taketo Maruyama. (1966). Stratospheric Wave Disturbances Propagating over the Equatorial Pacific. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 44(5). 291–294. 223 indexed citations

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Yanai, M.. (1963). A Comment on the Creation of Warm Core in Incipient Tropical Cyclone. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 41(3). 183–187. 7 indexed citations

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Yanai, M.. (1958). On the Changes in Thermal and. Wind Structure in a Decaying Typhoon. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 36(4). 141–155. 6 indexed citations

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Yanai, M., et al.. (1957). Relationship between the Pressure Pattern and the Wind. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 35(1). 19–25.

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