Climate Change and Atmospheric Environment

Matsui-Nagahama Laboratory

News

29 May 2026
Kei Kawai and Hitoshi Matsui have been awarded the Outstanding Paper Award of the Japan Society of Atmospheric Chemistry. (JpSAC Outstanding Paper Award (Japanese))
22 May 2026
A paper on global model estimates of atmospheric elements from dust and other aerosol sources has been published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles. (Mahowald et al., 2026)
06 May 2026
A paper on the model intercomparison of upper-tropospheric aerosols over the Asian summer monsoon region has been published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. (Chin et al., 2026)
18 Apr 2026
A paper on the radiative absorption and climate impacts of brown carbon from household coal and biofuel combustion has been published in Geophysical Research Letters. (Gao et al., 2026)
01 Apr 2026
ASAI Shuna, SAITO Hiroka, TSUNODA Shoot, MIYANO Genki, YOSHIMURA Shun, WAKAMATSU Aya, GUO Jiaao, and LAI I Chieh joined our group as master course students.
01 Apr 2026
MATSUI Hitoshi joined the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) as a professor. Together with NAGAHAMA Tomoo, we have formed the Atmospheric and Environment Science (AM) Laboratory and launched research activities under this new framework.

Comment

We are seeking graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to work in our group. For graduate and postdoctoral research opportunities, please contact matsui (at) nagoya-u.jp.

Research

Our research aims to improve the accuracy of predictions of climate change (e.g., global warming) and air pollution through numerical simulations of the Earth's climate and atmospheric environment.

Keywords:
Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, Climate Change, Arctic Warming, Atmospheric Chemistry, Earth System Modeling, Global Climate Modeling, Ice Nucleating Particles, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Climate Feedback, Air Pollution, Desert Dust, PM2.5, Ecosystem

(1) Development of a Climate-Aerosol Model
(2) Aerosol-Radiation Interactions
(3) Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
(4) Aerosol-Snow/Ice Interactions
(5) Aerosol-Biogeochemistry Interactions
(6) Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Feedback and Earth System Science
(7) Air Pollution/Air Quality and Aerosol Impacts on Human Health

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Atmospheric and Environmental Science Laboratory

F3-3, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601
(Research Institutes Building I, Nagoya University)

matsui (at) nagoya-u.jp