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Atmospheric Environmental Change (AM) Lab
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A lab that explores climate change through atmospheric particles and gases.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading Earth's climate through particles and the atmosphere.
The Atmospheric Environmental Change Lab studies changes in Earth's climate and atmospheric environment, focusing on atmospheric particles (aerosols, cloud droplets, and precipitation particles) and trace gas components.
Based on the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere from the troposphere to the mesosphere, the lab also takes into account links with Earth's surface environment and the space environment.
Through numerical simulations and observations, it works to elucidate the mechanisms of climate and atmospheric environmental change and to improve future predictions.
The lab belongs to the Division for Meteorology and Atmospheric Research at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University.
Key terms
- Aerosol
- Fine particles suspended in the atmosphere. Together with cloud droplets and precipitation particles, they are treated as factors that influence climate and the atmospheric environment
- Trace gas components
- Gaseous components present in small amounts in the atmosphere. Together with aerosols, they are subjects related to climate and the atmospheric environment
- Radiation budget
- The balance between the solar radiation entering Earth and the radiation leaving it. Atmospheric particles affect climate through it
NewsLab news
A paper evaluating combustion-derived particles in Greenland ice cores has been published in Atmospheric Environment
A paper evaluating the global distribution of ice-nucleating particles and their cloud radiative effects has been published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
A paper evaluating low-level clouds and surface radiation over the Southern Ocean has been published in Geophysical Research Letters
Project Assistant Professor Kei Kawai and Professor Hitoshi Matsui received the paper award of the Japan Society for Atmospheric Chemistry
The lab clarified that the increase in Arctic dust due to global warming promotes ice formation in clouds (press release)
ResearchResearch themes
Atmospheric particles (aerosols, cloud droplets, and precipitation particles) and trace gas components influence climate and the atmospheric environment through the radiation budget and the processes of clouds and precipitation. Based on the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere from the troposphere to the mesosphere, and also taking into account links with Earth's surface environment and the space environment, the lab works to elucidate the mechanisms of climate and atmospheric environmental change and to improve future predictions.
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The members of the Atmospheric Environmental Change Lab are faculty, researchers, PhD and master's students, technical assistants, administrative assistants, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorHitoshi Matsui
- Associate ProfessorTomoo Nagahama
- Project Assistant ProfessorKei Kawai
- Project Assistant ProfessorMYAT Yin Nyein
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