Taro Nakai

Taro Nakai
Post-Doctoral Fellow
affiliations: IARC
location: 408 C Akasofu Building
email: tnakai attsymbol for nospam iarc [dot] uaf [dot] edu
phone: 907-474-7254
website: http://sites.google.com/site/micrometeorologist/

 

Professional Interests

  • Micrometeorology
  • Plant-atmosphere interactions in boreal forest
  • Characteristics of energy, water and carbon cycling in boreal forest

Selected Publications

For more publications, please see my personal website.

Nakai, T., K. Shimoyama (2012) Ultrasonic anemometer angle of attack errors under turbulent conditions, Agric. For. Meteorol., 162–163, 14–26, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.04.004

Burba, G., A. Schmidt, R.L. Scott, T. Nakai, J. Kathilankal, G. Fratini, C. Hanson, B. Law, D. McDermitt, R. Eckles, M. Furtaw, M. Velgersdyk (2012) Calculating CO2 and H2O eddy covariance fluxes from an enclosed gas analyzer using an instantaneous mixing ratio, Glob. Change Biol., 18, 385–399, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02536.x.

Nakai, T., H. Iwata, Y. Harazono (2011) Importance of mixing ratio for a long-term CO2 flux measurement with a closed-path system, Tellus B, 63, 302-308, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2011.00538.x.

Suzuki, K., Y. Kodama, T. Nakai, G.E. Liston, K. Yamamoto, T. Ohata, Y. Ishii, A. Sumida, T. Hara, T. Ohta (2011) Impact of land-use changes in a forested region with heavy snowfall in Hokkaido, Japan. Hydrol. Sci. J., 56, 443-467, doi: 10.1080/02626667.2011.565008.

Toda, M., P. Kolari, T. Nakai, Y. Kodama, H. Shibata, T. Yoshida, S. Uemura, A. Sumida, K. Kato, K. Ono, T. Hara (2011)  Photosynthetic recovery of foliage after wind disturbance activates ecosystem CO2 uptake in cool-temperate forests of northern Japan, J. Geophys. Res., 116, G02006, doi: 10.1029/2010JG001611.

Sugiura, K., R. Suzuki, T. Nakai, B. Busey, L. Hinzman, H. Park, Y. Kim, S. Nagai, K. Saito, J. Cherry, A. Ito, T. Ohata, J. Walsh (2011) Supersite as a common platform for multi-observations in Alaska for a collaborative framework between JAMSTEC and IARC, JAMSTEC Rep. Res. Dev., 12, 61-69.

Xue, B.-L., T. Kumagai, S. Iida, T. Nakai, K. Matsumoto, H. Komatsu, K. Otsuki, T. Ohta (2011) Influences of canopy structure and physiological traits on flux partitioning between understory and overstory in an eastern Siberian boreal larch forest, Ecol. Mod., 222, 1479-1490, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.01.021.

Toda, M., K. Takata, N. Nishimura M. Yamada N. Miki, T. Nakai, Y. Kodama, S. Uemura, T. Watanabe, A. Sumida T. Hara (2011) Simulating seasonal and inter-annual variations in energy and carbon exchanges and forest dynamics using a process-based atmosphere-vegetation dynamics model, Ecol. Res., 21, 105-121, doi: 10.1007/s11284-010-0763-6.

Nakai, T., A. Sumida, Y. Kodama, T. Hara, T. Ohta (2010) A comparison between various definitions of forest stand height and aerodynamic canopy height, Agric. For. Meteorol., 150, 1225-1233, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.05.005.

Sumida, A., T. Nakai, M. Yamada, K. Ono, S. Uemura, T. Hara (2009) Ground-based estimation of leaf area index and vertical distribution of leaf area density in Betula ermanii forest, Silva Fennica, 43, 799-816.