Tomoki Tozuka

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Tomoki Tozuka is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomoki Tozuka has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Oceanography, 83 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 55 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Tomoki Tozuka's work include Climate variability and models (83 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (82 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (27 papers). Tomoki Tozuka is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (83 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (82 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (27 papers). Tomoki Tozuka collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Tomoki Tozuka's co-authors include Toshio Yamagata, Tangdong Qu, Takahito Kataoka, Yushi Morioka, Yukio Masumoto, Akio Ishida, Meghan F. Cronin, Sébastien Masson, Jing‐Jia Luo and Max Yaremchuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Tomoki Tozuka

92 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

2011 450 citations Lisa M. Beal, Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Tomoki Tozuka

OCEAN

GPC

GEOLO

ECOLO

Sophie Cravatte France

Lisa M. Beal United States

Chau‐Ron Wu Taiwan

Silvia L. Garzoli United States

P. Delécluse France

Chung‐Ru Ho Taiwan

Bernadette M. Sloyan Australia

Sébastien Masson France

Johann R. E. Lütjeharms South Africa

Sabrina Speich France

Sophie Cravatte France

Tomoki Tozuka

2.4k ×0.9

OCEAN

2.0k ×0.8

GPC

1.4k ×0.8

102 ×0.5

GEOLO

342 ×1.7

ECOLO

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Countries citing papers authored by Tomoki Tozuka

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tomoki Tozuka

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomoki Tozuka

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tomoki Tozuka. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tomoki Tozuka 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 Tomoki Tozuka. Tomoki Tozuka 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

Tozuka, Tomoki. (2025). Importance of the vertical mixing process in the development of El Niño Modoki. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1).

Richter, Ingo, Noel Keenlyside, Tomoki Tozuka, et al.. (2024). Comment on “Resolving the Tropical Pacific/Atlantic Interaction Conundrum” by Feng Jiang et al. (2023). Geophysical Research Letters. 51(23). 4 indexed citations

Tozuka, Tomoki, et al.. (2023). Dominant Forcing Regions of Decadal Variations in the Kuroshio Extension Revealed by a Linear Rossby Wave Model. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(13). 4 indexed citations

Hassim, Muhammad E. E., et al.. (2023). Atmospheric impacts of local sea surface temperatures versus remote drivers during strong South China Sea winter cold tongue events. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 149(751). 556–572. 1 indexed citations

Tozuka, Tomoki, Takahiro Toyoda, & Meghan F. Cronin. (2023). Role of Mixed Layer Depth in Kuroshio Extension Decadal Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(12). 5 indexed citations

Han, Weiqing, Lei Zhang, Gerald A. Meehl, et al.. (2022). Sea level extremes and compounding marine heatwaves in coastal Indonesia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6410–6410. 24 indexed citations

Kido, Shoichiro, Ingo Richter, Tomoki Tozuka, & Ping Chang. (2022). Understanding the interplay between ENSO and related tropical SST variability using linear inverse models. Climate Dynamics. 61(3-4). 1029–1048. 21 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, Weiqing Han, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Yuanlong Li, & Tomoki Tozuka. (2021). Eastward Shift of Interannual Climate Variability in the South Indian Ocean since 1950. Journal of Climate. 35(2). 561–575. 3 indexed citations

Kido, Shoichiro, et al.. (2021). Mechanisms of asymmetry in sea surface temperature anomalies associated with the Indian Ocean Dipole revealed by closed heat budget. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 22546–22546. 9 indexed citations

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Tozuka, Tomoki, Meghan F. Cronin, & Hiroyuki Tomita. (2017). Surface frontogenesis by surface heat fluxes in the upstream Kuroshio Extension region. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10258–10258. 19 indexed citations

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Cronin, Meghan F. & Tomoki Tozuka. (2016). Steady State Ocean Response to Wind Forcing in Extratropical Frontal Regions. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 28842–28842. 15 indexed citations

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Tozuka, Tomoki, et al.. (2016). Frontolysis by surface heat flux in the Agulhas Return Current region with a focus on mixed layer processes: observation and a high-resolution CGCM. Climate Dynamics. 47(12). 3993–4007. 9 indexed citations

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Tozuka, Tomoki, et al.. (2014). Influences of the MJO on intraseasonal rainfall variability over southern Iran. Atmospheric Science Letters. 16(2). 110–118. 15 indexed citations

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Tozuka, Tomoki & Meghan F. Cronin. (2014). Role of mixed layer depth in surface frontogenesis: The Agulhas Return Current front. Geophysical Research Letters. 41(7). 2447–2453. 20 indexed citations

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Cronin, Meghan F., Tomoki Tozuka, Arne Biastoch, Jonathan V. Durgadoo, & Lisa M. Beal. (2013). Prevalence of strong bottom currents in the greater Agulhas system. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(9). 1772–1776. 15 indexed citations

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Tozuka, Tomoki, Babatunde J. Abiodun, & François Engelbrecht. (2013). Impacts of convection schemes on simulating tropical-temperate troughs over southern Africa. Climate Dynamics. 42(1-2). 433–451. 17 indexed citations

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Prodhomme, Chloé, et al.. (2012). Impacts of Indian Ocean SST biases on the Indo-Pacific climate as simulated in a global coupled model. EGUGA. 10020. 1 indexed citations

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Nagura, Motoki, Wataru Sasaki, Tomoki Tozuka, et al.. (2012). Longitudinal biases in the Seychelles Dome simulated by 35 ocean‐atmosphere coupled general circulation models. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 118(2). 831–846. 21 indexed citations

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Beal, Lisa M., Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter, Arne Biastoch, et al.. (2011). On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate. Nature. 472(7344). 429–436. 450 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tozuka, Tomoki, Jing‐Jia Luo, Sébastien Masson, & Toshio Yamagata. (2007). Decadal Modulations of the Indian Ocean Dipole in the SINTEX-F1 Coupled GCM. Journal of Climate. 20(13). 2881–2894. 89 indexed citations

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