Tomoo Ushio

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
207 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Tomoo Ushio is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomoo Ushio has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Atmospheric Science, 91 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 61 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tomoo Ushio's work include Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (94 papers), Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena (91 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (76 papers). Tomoo Ushio is often cited by papers focused on Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (94 papers), Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena (91 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (76 papers). Tomoo Ushio collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Egypt. Tomoo Ushio's co-authors include Takuji Kubota, Satoru Yoshida, Takeshi Morimoto, Zen‐Ichiro Kawasaki, Misako Kachi, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Shoichi Shige, Ken‐ichi Okamoto, Zen Kawasaki and Kazumasa Aonashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Proceedings of the IEEE and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Tomoo Ushio

188 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Global Precipitation Map Using Satellite-Borne Microwave Radiometers by the GSMaP Project: Production and Validation

2007 678 citations Tomoo Ushio et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
A Kalman Filter Approach to the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) from Combined Passive Microwave and Infrared Radiometric Data

2009 491 citations Tomoo Ushio, Toshio Iguchi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tomoo Ushio Japan	34	2.7k	2.3k	1.4k	784	494	207	4.4k
Steven J. Goodman United States	36	3.4k 1.2×	5.0k 2.1×	4.4k 3.2×	368 0.5×	452 0.9×	122	7.0k
W. David Rust United States	41	1.3k 0.5×	3.1k 1.3×	4.0k 2.9×	250 0.3×	699 1.4×	100	4.6k
Kenneth V. Beard United States	32	2.8k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	470 0.3×	932 1.2×	534 1.1×	69	4.1k
David M. Le Vine United States	32	2.7k 1.0×	438 0.2×	652 0.5×	3.4k 4.4×	558 1.1×	200	4.7k
Richard J. Blakeslee United States	39	2.5k 0.9×	4.4k 1.9×	4.3k 3.2×	216 0.3×	416 0.8×	130	6.0k
Takuji Kubota Japan	32	3.5k 1.3×	2.2k 0.9×	811 0.6×	906 1.2×	35 0.1×	208	4.9k
Donald R. MacGorman United States	46	2.8k 1.0×	4.6k 2.0×	4.4k 3.2×	425 0.5×	306 0.6×	103	5.7k
Dennis E. Buechler United States	24	1.9k 0.7×	3.1k 1.3×	2.8k 2.1×	150 0.2×	180 0.4×	59	4.0k
C.T. Swift United States	33	3.1k 1.1×	634 0.3×	357 0.3×	2.8k 3.5×	760 1.5×	132	5.3k
Andrea Mazzino Italy	35	1.1k 0.4×	838 0.4×	221 0.2×	580 0.7×	146 0.3×	149	3.8k

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Wada, Yuuki, Takeshi Morimoto, Ting Wu, et al.. (2025). Downward terrestrial gamma-ray flash associated with collision of lightning leaders. Science Advances. 11(21). eads6906–eads6906.

Wada, Yuuki, et al.. (2024). Electrical Alignment Signatures of Ice Particles Before Intracloud Lightning Activity Detected by Dual‐Polarized Phased Array Weather Radar. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(7). 1 indexed citations

Wada, Yuuki, et al.. (2024). Observation of Electrical Alignment Signatures in an Isolated Thunderstorm by Dual‐Polarized Phased Array Weather Radar and the Relationship With Intracloud Lightning Flash Rate. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(19). 1 indexed citations

Wada, Yuuki, et al.. (2024). Phase and Amplitude Correction for Adaptive Beamforming of Phased Array Weather Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–11. 2 indexed citations

Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Y. Hobara, & Tomoo Ushio. (2024). Time-Altitude Variation of 30-Second-Update Full Volume Scan Data for Summer Convective Storms Observed With X-Band Dual Polarized Phased Array Weather Radar. IEEE Access. 12. 104333–104343.

Wada, Yuuki, et al.. (2024). Mitigation of Ground-Clutter Effects by Digital Beamforming With Precomputed Weighting Matrix for Phased Array Weather Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–14. 7 indexed citations

Yoshikawa, Eiichi, et al.. (2023). Convex Estimation of Sparse-Smooth Power Spectral Densities From Mixtures of Realizations With Application to Weather Radar. IEEE Access. 11. 128859–128874. 4 indexed citations

Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Y. Hobara, & Tomoo Ushio. (2022). Compressive Sensing to Reduce the Number of Elements in a Linear Antenna Array With a Phased Array Weather Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–10. 5 indexed citations

Wada, Yuuki, Takeshi Morimoto, Yoshitaka Nakamura, et al.. (2022). Characteristics of Low‐Frequency Pulses Associated With Downward Terrestrial Gamma‐Ray Flashes. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(5). 14 indexed citations

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Hirabayashi, Akira, et al.. (2022). Nonlinear Beamforming Based on Group-Sparsities of Periodograms for Phased Array Weather Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–19. 10 indexed citations

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Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, & Y. Hobara. (2021). Adaptive Beamforming Using Steering Vector Correction for Phased-Array Weather Radar. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 8419–8426. 5 indexed citations

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Wada, Yuuki, Teruaki Enoto, Mamoru Kubo, et al.. (2021). Meteorological Aspects of Gamma‐Ray Glows in Winter Thunderstorms. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 24 indexed citations

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Yoshikawa, Eiichi, et al.. (2021). An Estimator for Weather Radar Doppler Power Spectrum via Minimum Mean Square Error. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–16. 11 indexed citations

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Yoshikawa, Eiichi, Tomoo Ushio, & Hiroshi Kikuchi. (2020). A Study of Comb Beam Transmission on Phased Array Weather Radars. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(8). 6346–6356. 11 indexed citations

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Mizutani, Fumihiko, Tomoo Ushio, Eiichi Yoshikawa, et al.. (2018). Fast-Scanning Phased-Array Weather Radar With Angular Imaging Technique. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 56(5). 2664–2673. 42 indexed citations

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Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Mitsuteru Sato, Tomoo Ushio, et al.. (2017). Simultaneous observations of optical lightning from space and LF band lightning waveforms from the ground. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(2). 1123–1131. 3 indexed citations

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Yoshida, Satoru, Toru Adachi, Kenichi Kusunoki, et al.. (2017). Relationship between thunderstorm electrification and storm kinetics revealed by phased array weather radar. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(7). 3821–3836. 20 indexed citations

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Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, Fumihiko Mizutani, & Masaru Wada. (2017). Adaptive Pulse Compression Technique for X-Band Phased Array Weather Radar. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 14(10). 1810–1814. 8 indexed citations

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Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Ting Wu, Eiichi Yoshikawa, et al.. (2017). Performance of Minimum Mean-Square Error Beam Forming for Polarimetric Phased Array Weather Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(5). 2757–2770. 11 indexed citations

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Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, Fumihiko Mizutani, & Masakazu Wada. (2017). Application of Adaptive Digital Beamforming to Osaka University Phased Array Weather Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(7). 3875–3884. 16 indexed citations

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