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4 April 2024 : Most Accessed Articles, February 2024

11 March 2024: New issue was published in February 2024: Vol.102 issue 1

29 February 2024 : Most Accessed Articles, January 2024

30 January 2024 : Most Accessed Articles, December 2023

4 January 2024: New issue was published in December 2023: Vol.101 issue 6

27 Dec. 2023 : JMSJ Awards 2023: Hirahara et al. (2023) and Kawabata, et al. (2023)

24 Dec. 2023 : Most Accessed Articles, November 2023

21 Nov. 2023 : Most Accessed Articles, October 2023

17 Nov. 2023 : New Highlight paper: Kosaka et al.(2024)

31 Oct. 2023 : Most Accessed Articles, September 2023

2 Oct. 2023 : Most Accessed Articles, August 2023

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28 June 2023 : Most Accessed Articles, May 2023

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26 April 2023 : Most Accessed Articles, March 2023

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Special Edition on Research on Extreme Weather Events that occurred around East Asia in 2017-2021: Deadline of submission is extended : 31 March 2023.

2 Feb. 2023 : Most Accessed Articles, December 2022

20 Jan. 2023 :Vol.100 No.6 in December 2022.

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JMSJ, 2024, Vol. 102, No. 4 (August)

Article Wei-Chen KUO, Katsuya YAMASHITA, Masataka MURAKAMI, Takuya TAJIRI, and Narihiro ORIKASA, 2024: Numerical simulation on feasibility of rain enhancement by hygroscopic seeding over Kochi Area, Shikoku, Japan, in Early Summer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-021 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract New GA
Article Takuya INOUE, Tsuyoshi Thomas SEKIYAMA, and Atsushi KUDO, 2024: Development of a temperature prediction method combining deep neural networks and a Kalman filter. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-020 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract New GA

JMSJ, 2024, Vol. 102, No. 3 (June)

Article Yilun Chen, Aoqi Zhang, Tianao Liu, and Weibiao Li, 2024: Diurnally propagating precipitation features caused by MCS activities during the pre-summer rainy season in South China. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-019 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract New GA
Article Masataka AIZAWA, Kosuke ITO, and UdaiSHIMADA, 2024: Revisiting Koba’s relationship to improve minimum sea-level pressure estimates of western North Pacific tropical cyclones. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-018 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract New GA
Article Masataka MURAKAMI, Yoshinori YAMADA, and Koyuru IWANAMI, 2024: Precipitation mechanisms in stratiform snow clouds associated with a mid-level trough over the Sea of Japan. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-017 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract New GA
Article Katsuya YAMASHITA, Wei-Chen KUO, Masataka MURAKAMI,Takuya TAJIRI, Atsushi SAITO, Narihiro ORIKASA, and Hideaki OHTAKE, 2024: City in June2010 and its implication for planned and inadvertent cloud modification. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-016 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract New GA
Article Ying Wang, 2024: Meiyu-Baiu rainstorm associated diurnal variation and kinetic energy source analyzed by multiscale window transform–based energetics analysis. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-015 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract New GA

JMSJ, 2024, Vol. 102, No. 2 (April)

Article Murata, F., T. Terao, Y. Yamane, A. Fukushima, M. Kiguchi, M. Tanoue, H. Kamimera, H. J. Syiemlieh, L. Cajee, S. Ahmed, S. A. Choudhury, P. Bhattacharya, A. K. Bhagabati, S. Dutta, and T. Hayashi, 2024: Validation of spaceborne precipitation radar data by rain gauges and disdrometers over the complex topography of the northeastern Indian subcontinent. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 309-329. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-014 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published
Article Kusunoki, S., T. Nakaegawa, and R. Mizuta, 2024: Evaluation of precipitation simulated by the atmospheric global model MRI-AGCM3.2. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 285-308. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-013 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published
Article Ose T., H. Endo, and T. Nakaegawa, 2024: Emergence of future sea-level pressure patterns in recent summertime East Asia. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 265-283. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-012 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published
Article Wang, G., W. Han, S. Yuan, J. Wang, R. Y. Yin, S. Ye, and F. Xie, 2024: Retrieval of high-frequency temperature profiles by FY-4A/GIIRS based on generalized ensemble learning. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 241-264. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-011 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published
Article Ishii, M., H. Kamahori, H. Kubota, M. Zaiki, R. Mizuta, H. Kawase, M. Nosaka, H. Yoshimura, N. Oshima, E. Shindo, H. Koyama, M. Mori, S. Hirahara, Y. Imada, K. Yoshida, T. Nozawa, T. Takemi, T. Maki and A. Nishimura, 2024: Global historical reanalysis with a 60-km AGCM and surface pressure observations: OCADA. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 209-240. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-010 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published Special Edition on Research on "Heavy rainfall and snowfall, and moisture transport" Editor's Highlight
Article Ito, J., H. Niino and E. Tochimoto, 2024: Numerical simulation of tornadoes in a mini-supercell associated with Typhoon Tapah on 22 September 2019. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 185-208. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-009 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published Special Edition: Research on Extreme Weather Events that occurred around East Asia in 2017-2021
Article Toyooka, D., T. Kawabata and H.L. Tanaka, 2024: Windward region sensitivity and its effects on heavy rainfall prediction investigated with ensemble systems. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 167-183. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-008 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published Special Edition: Research on Extreme Weather Events that occurred around East Asia in 2017-2021
Article Otsubo, A. and A. Adachi, 2024: Short-term predictability of extreme rainfall using dual-polarization radar measurements. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 151-165. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-007 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published
Article Yokota, S., T. Banno, M. Oigawa, G. Akimoto, K. Kawano and Y. Ikuta, 2024: JMA operational hourly hybrid 3DVar with singular 3Vector-based Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction System. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 129-150. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-006 Early Online Release Graphical Abstract Published Special Edition : the Frontier of Atmospheric Science with High Performance Computing Editor's Highlight

JMSJ, 2024, Vol. 102, No. 1 (February)

Article Takahashi, Y. O., Y.-Y. Hayashi, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Kuramoto, M. Ishiwatari, H. Kashimura, 2024: Dependence of the radiative-convective equilibrium structure of the lower atmosphere of Venus on the thermodynamic model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 5-16. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-001 Graphical Abstract Published
Article Koga, S., 2024: Optical Properties of Aerosol Particles in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Northwestern Pacific: High Refractive Index for Coarse Particles in Pristine Air. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 17-33. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-002 Graphical Abstract Published
Article Duc, L. and Y. Sawada, 2024: Geometry of rainfall ensemble means: from arithmetic averages to Gaussian-Hellinger barycenters in unbalanced optimal transport. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-003 Graphical Abstract Published Editor's Highlight
Article Kosaka Y., S. Kobayashi, Y. Harada, C. Kobayashi, H. Naoe, K. Yoshimoto, M. Harada, N. Goto, J. Chiba, K. Miyaoka, R. Sekiguchi, M. Deushi, H. Kamahori, T. Nakaegawa; T. Y.Tanaka, T. Tokuhiro, Y. Sato, Y. Matsushita and K. Onogi, 2024: The JRA-3Q Reanalysis. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 49-109. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-004 Graphical Abstract Published Editor's Highlight
Article Geng Y., H.-L Ren and J. Li, 2024: Roles of August Kuroshio SST anomaly in precipitation variation during September over Central China. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 111-123. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-005 Graphical Abstract Published

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Kosaka Y., Y. Matsuda, 2005: Roles of Rossby and gravity waves on circulation associated with tropical and subtropical heating. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.83.481.

Times Accessed : 910
Kobayashi, S., Y. Ota, Y. Harada, A. Ebita, M. Moriya, H. Onoda, K. Onogi, H. Kamahori, C. Kobayashi, H. Endo, K. Miyaoka, and K. Takahashi, 2015: The JRA-55 Reanalysis: General specifications and basic characteristics.J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 93, 5-48.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2015-001
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 499
Kosaka Y., S. Kobayashi, Y. Harada, C. Kobayashi, H. Naoe, K. Yoshimoto, M. Harada, N. Goto, J. Chiba, K. Miyaoka, R. Sekiguchi, M. Deushi, H. Kamahori, T. Nakaegawa; T. Y.Tanaka, T. Tokuhiro, Y. Sato, Y. Matsushita, K. Onogi, 2024: The JRA-3Q Reanalysis. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 49-109.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-004.
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 230
Yukimoto, S., H. Kawai, T. Koshiro, N. Oshima, K. Yoshida, S. Urakawa, H. Tsujino, M. Deushi, T. Tanaka, M. Hosaka, S. Yabu, H. Yoshimura, E. Shindo, R. Mizuta, A. Obata, Y. Adachi, and M. Ishii, 2019: The Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model version 2.0, MRI-ESM2.0: Description and basic evaluation of the physical component. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 97, 931-965.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2019-051
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 126
Kikuchi, K., 2021: The Boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO): A review. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 99, 933-972.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2021-045 Graphical Abstract

Times Accessed : 111
Bessho, K., K. Date, M. Hayashi, A. Ikeda, T. Imai, H. Inoue, Y. Kumagai, T. Miyakawa, H. Murata, T. Ohno, A. Okuyama, R. Oyama, Y. Sasaki, Y. Shimazu, K. Shimoji, Y. Sumida, M. Suzuki, H. Taniguchi, H. Tsuchiyama, D. Uesawa, H. Yokota, and R. Yoshida, 2016: An introduction to Himawari-8/9 - Japan's new-generation geostationary meteorological satellites. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 94, 151-183.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2016-009
Graphical Abstract

Times Accessed : 100

Duc, L. and Y. Sawada, 2024: Geometry of rainfall ensemble means: from arithmetic averages to Gaussian-Hellinger barycenters in unbalanced optimal transport. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 35-47
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-003.
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 98
Otsubo, A. and A. Adachi, 2024: Short-term predictability of extreme rainfall using dual-polarization radar measurements. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 151-165.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-007.
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 81
Ito, J., H. Niino and E. Tochimoto, 2024: Numerical simulation of tornadoes in a mini-supercell associated with Typhoon Tapah on 22 September 2019. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 185-208.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-009.
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 77
Koga, S., 2024: Optical Properties of Aerosol Particles in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Northwestern Pacific: High Refractive Index for Coarse Particles in Pristine Air. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102, 17-33.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-002.
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 64
Ishioka, K., 2018: A new recurrence formula for efficient computation of spherial harmonic transform. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 98, 241-249.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2018-019.
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 63
Takahashi, Y. O., Y.-Y. Hayashi, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Kuramoto, M. Ishiwatari and H. Kashimura, 2024: Dependence of the radiative-convective equilibrium structure of the lower atmosphere of Venus on the thermodynamic model. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-001.
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 62
Geng Y., H.-L Ren and J. Li, 2024: Roles of August Kuroshio SST anomaly in precipitation variation during September overCentral China. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 102,111-123.
https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2024-005.
Graphical Abstract
Times Accessed : 57

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