Name: Hiroshi YOSHIKADO

Doctoral: Doctor of Science

Research themes:

1) Analysis of air pollution mechanism influenced by local meteorology
2) Long-term assessment of air pollution
3) Assessment of urban thermal environment

Field of Research:

 Local meteorology, Air-pollution meteorology, 
Atmospheric boundary layer, Urban environment

Major papers:

　1. Yoshikado, H., 1990: Vertical structure of the sea breeze penetrating
through a large urban complex, J. Applied Meteor., 29, 878-891.
　2. Yoshikado, H., 1992: Numerical study of the daytime urban effect and its
interaction with the sea breeze, J. Applied Meteor., 31, 1146-1164.
　3. Yoshikado, H., T. Mizuno and S. Simogata, 1994: Terrain-induced air stag-
nation over the southern Kanto Plain in early winter, Boundary-Layer
Meteor. 68, 159-172.
　4. Yoshikado, H., 1994: Interaction of the sea breeze and urban heat islands
of different sizes and locations, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan. 72, 139-143.
　5. Yoshikado, H., and M. Tsuchida, 1996: High levels of winter air pollution
under the influence of the urban heat island along the shore of Tokyo Bay,
J. Applied Meteor., 35, 1804-1813.
　6. Yoshikado, H., 1998: Mass and heat balances of the local front over the 
Kanto plain in early winter, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan. 76, 641-648.
　7. Yoshikado, H., Y. Yonezawa and H. Shinozaki, 2003: Estimation of annual 
average NO2 concentrations from seasonal short-term measurements, J. 
Japan Soc. Atmos. Environ., 38, 172-178 (in Japanese).
8. Yoshikado, H., 2004: One possible factor coasing recent trend of photo-
chemical oxidants, J. Japan Soc. Atmos. Environ., 39, 188-199 (in Japanese).
9. Yoshikado, H., et al., 2006: Feasibility of a method simulating long-term 
average concentration of pollutants based on a mesoscale meteorological 
model (I) Classification of weather patterns and application to NOx in the 
Kanto plain, (II) Application to assessment of high-level ozone, J. Japan 
Soc. Atmos. Environ., 41, 1-26 (in Japanese).
10. Yoshikado, H., et al., 2006: Model analysis of the hazardous air pollutants 
in major industrial areas, J. Japan Soc. Atmos. Environ., 41，164-174 (in 
Japanese).

Social contribution:

Committees in the Meteorological Society of Japan and the Japan Society for
Atmospheric Environment.
Technical committees for environmental management under local governments.