list of papers

  • K. A. Arnaud, R. F. Mushotzky, H. Ezawa, Y. Fukazawa, T. Ohashi, M. W. Bautz, G. B. Crewe, K. C. Gendreau, K. Yamashita, Y. Kamata, F. Akimoto,
    Astrophys. J. 436. L67 (1994),
    "Temperature and iron abundance variation of the gas in the Perseus cluster" Abstract, PDF

  • F. Akimoto, Y. Tawara, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tsusaka,
    1994, Proc. Int'l. Conf. "New Horizon of X-Ray Astronomy", pp.645-646
    "Image Analysis of Cluster of Galaxies with Ray Tracing Program" Abstract

  • F. Akimoto, Y. Tawara, A. Furuzawa, A. Kumada and K. Yamashita,
    UV and X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (eds. K. Yam ashita and T. Watanabe, Universal Academy Press Inc., Tokyo, 1996), pp. 399-402.
    "Spatial Resolved Spectra from M87 and Perseus Cluster" Abstract

  • A. Kumada, Y. Tawara, M. Watanabe, A. Furuzawa, F. Akimoto and K. Yamashita,
    UV and X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (eds. K. Yamashita and T. Watanabe, Universal Academy Press Inc., Tokyo, 1996), pp. 407-410.
    "Effect of Resonance Scattering to Iron Emission Lines from A2319"

  • Y. Tawara, K. Yamashita, F. Akimoto, A. Kumada, A. Furuzawa and M. Watanabe,
    X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cosmic Hot Plasmas (eds. F. Makino and K. Mitsuda, Universal Academy Press, Inc., Tokyo, 1997), pp. 87-90
    "Resonant Scattering of the Iron K Emission Line in an Intracluster Medium"

  • F. Akimoto, Y. Tawara, A. Furuzawa, A. Kumada and K. Yamashita,
    X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cosmic Hot Plasmas (eds. F. Makino and K. Mitsuda, Universal Academy Press, Inc., Tokyo, 1997), pp. 95-96
    "Iron Line Mapping of Cluster of Galaxies and the Effect of Resonance Scattering" Abstract

  • F. Akimoto, M. Watanabe, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tawara, H. Kumai, S, Satoh and K. Yamashita,
    Proc. ASCA/ROSAT Workshop on Clusters of Galaxies (ed. T. Ohashi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1997), pp. 179-184
    "Statistical Approach to X-ray Properties of Hot Gas in Cluster of Galaxies" Abstract

  • F. Akimoto, M. Watanabe, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tawara, Y. Kumai, S. Satoh , K. Yamashita,
    IAU Symposium No. 188 "The Hot Universe", eds, K. Koyama, S. Kitamoto and M. Itoh(Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998), pp. 295 (1998)
    "X-Ray Properties of ASCA Observed 43 Clusters of Galaxies" Abstract

  • F. Akimoto, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tawara, Y. Kamata and K. Yamashita,
    Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, 51, (1999) 677-681
    "ASCA Observation of a Radio-Loud Quasar and a New Candidate for a Cluster of Galaxies" Abstract, PDF

  • K. Yamashita, H. Kunieda, F. Akimoto, A. Furuzawa, M. Watanabe and Y. Tawara,
    Proc. First XMM Workshop on Science with XMM (1999)
    http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/news/ws1_top.html
    "Determination of Iron Abundance of an Intracluster Medium with Resonance Scattering Effect"

  • F. Akimoto, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tawara and K. Yamashita,
    Astron. Nachr., 320, No.4/5, (1999) 283
    "Iron K-Line mapping of clusters of galaxies with the resonance scattering effect" Abstract

  • Y. Ogasaka, K. Yamashita, F. Akimoto and A. Furuzawa,
    Astron. Nachr., 320, No.4/5, 299 (1999)
    "ASCA observation of 3C129 cluster of galaxies"

  • F. Akimoto, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tawara and K. Yamashita,
    Advances in Space Research (AdSpR), 25, No.3/4, (2000) 603
    "Iron K-line Analysis of Clusters of Galaxies with the Resonance Scattering Effect" Abstract

  • S. Sato, F. Akimoto, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tawara, M. Watanabe, Y. Kumai,
    Astrophys. J. 537, L73-76.(2000)
    "THE OBSERVED MASS PROFILES OF DARK HALOS AND THE FORMATION EPOCH OF GALAXIES" Abstract, PDF

  • F. Akimoto, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tawara, K. Yamashita,
    X-ray Astronomy 2000, Astronomical Society of Pacific (ASP) Conference Series, Vol. 234, 2001, R. Giacconi, S. Serio and L. Stella, eds.
    "The iron K line analysis of clusters of galaxies observed with ASCA " Abstract, PDF

  • Akimoto F., Kondou K., Furuzawa A., Yamashita K., Tawara Y.
    X-ray Astronomy 2001, Astronomical Society of Pacific (ASP) Conference Series, vol. 251, p. 438, 2001, H. Inoue and H. Kunieda, eds.
    "Temperature Map of Clusters in Core Region of Shapley Supercluster " Abstract, PDF

  • Akimoto F., Furuzawa A., Yamashita K., Tawara Y.
    X-ray Astronomy 2001, Astronomical Society of Pacific (ASP) Conference Series, vol. 251, p. 436, 2001, H. Inoue and H. Kunieda, eds.
    "Relations of X-ray properties of 150 galaxy clusters observed with ASCA " Abstract, PDF

  • Akimoto F., Kondou K., Furuzawa A., Tawara Y. and Yamashita K.
    Astrophys. J., 596, 170-180, 2003
    "Spatial Distributions of A3558 in the Core Region of the Shapley Supercluster" Abstract, PDF, PS

  • Tago Y., Akimoto F., Kitagawa K., Arai N., Churchill S.W., Gupta A.K.
    Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, vol. 127, Issues 3, p. 472-477, JULY 2005
    "Spectroscopic Measurements of High Emissivity Materials Using Two-Dimensional Two-Color Thermometry"

  • Tago Y., Akimoto F., Kitagawa K., Arai N.
    Energy, vol. 30, Issues 2-4, p. 485-495, February-March 2005
    "Measurements of surface temperature and emissivity by two-dimensional four-color thermometry with narrow bandwidth"

  • Akimoto F., Matsunami A., Kamata Y., Kodama I., Kitagawa K., Arai N., Higuchi T., Itoh A., Haraguchi H.
    Energy, vol. 30, Issues 2-4, p. 299-311, February-March 2005
    "Cross-correlation Analysis of Atmospheric Trace Concentrations of N2O, CH4 and CO2 Determined by Continuous Gas-chromatographic Monitoring"

  • 松原卓美、樋口篤志、中村健治、秋元文江,
    水文・水資源学会誌, 18(2), 116-131, 2005
    "熱帯降雨観測衛星データを用いたイラワジ川,メコン川流域における降水量分布の特性"


    From here, my name was changed Furuzawa Akimoto Fumie due to marriage.
  • Furuzawa A. F., Nakamura K.,
    Journal of Applied Meteorology, vol. 44, No. 3, 367-383, 2005.
    "Differences of Rainfall Estimates over Land by Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) - Dependence on Storm Height"

  • 古澤(秋元)文江
    Proceedings of the Internal Workshop in LAPS, 34-37, 2007 (査読なし)
    "熱帯降雨観測衛星TRMMの結果と今後"

  • Minda H., Furuzawa F. A., Satoh S., Nakamura K.,
    IEICE, E91-B, No. 6, 2085-2089, 2008
    "Bird migration echoes observed by polarimetric radar"

  • Yamamoto K. M., Furuzawa A. F., Higuchi A., Nakamura K.,
    Journal of Climate, vol. 21, 4011-4028, 2008
    "Comparison of Diurnal Variations in Precipitation Systems Observed by TRMM PR, TMI, and VIRS"

  • Pham, N. T., Nakamura K., Furuzawa A. F., Satoh S.
    Journal Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86, 699-717, October 2008
    "Characteristices of Low Level Jets over Okinawa in the Baiu and post-Baiu Seasons revealed by Wind Profiler Observations"

  • Minda, H., F. A. Furuzawa, S. Satoh, and K. Nakamura,
    Journal Meteor. Soc. Japan, 88, 3, 285-312, 2010
    "Convective Boundary Layer above a Subtropical Island Observed by C-band Radar and Interpretation using a Cloud Resolving Model"

  • Fumie A. Furuzawa, Hirohiko Masunaga, Kenji Nakamura,
    Proc. SPIE 8523, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Clouds, and Precipitation IV, 8523, W1-12, 8 November 2012; doi: 10.1117/12.977237 (査読なし)
    "Development of a land surface emissivity algorithm for use by microwave rain retrieval algorithms"

  • Fumie A. Furuzawa, Hirohiko Masunaga, Kenji Nakamura,
    Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS) 2013-n-56, 2013 (査読なし)
    "EOF analysis of a microwave land surface emissivity using TRMM TMI and NOAA AMSU to improve emissivity estimation for rain retrieval algorithms."

  • Ferraro, R. R., Peters-Lidard, C. D., Hernandez, C., Turk, F. J., Aires, F., Prigent, C., Lin, X., Boukabara, S.-A., Furuzawa, F. A., Gopalan, K., Harrison, K. W., Karbou, F., Li, L., Liu, C., Masunaga, H., Moy, L., Ringerud, S., Skofronick-Jackson, G. M., Tian, Y., and Wang, N.-Y.,
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, VOL. 51, NO. 1, 378-398, JANUARY 2013
    "An evaluation of microwave land surface emissivities over the continental united states to benefit GPM-era precipitation algorithms"

  • Tian, Y., Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Kenneth W. Harrison, Catherine Prigent, Hamidreza Norouzi, Filipe Aires, Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, Fumie A. Furuzawa, and Hirohiko Masunaga,
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, VOL. 52, NO. 2, 829-840, FEBRUARY 2014
    "Quantifying Uncertainties in Land-Surface Microwave Emissivity Retrievals"

  • Koichi Toyoshima, Hirohiko Masunaga, Fumie A. Furuzawa,
    SOLA, Vol. 11, p. 14-17, 2015
    "Early Evaluation of Ku- and Ka-Band Sensitivities for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR)"

  • Norouzi, H., M. TemimI, C. Prigent, J. Turk, R. Khanbilvardi, Y. Tian, F. A. Furuzawa, and H. Masunaga,
    Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 8, 1197-1205, 2015
    doi:10.5194/amt-8-1197-2015
    "Assessment of the consistency among Global Microwave Land Surface Emissivity Products"

  • Masunaga, H., M. Schroder, F. A. Furuzawa, C. Kummerow, E. Rustemeier, and U. Schneider,
    Environ. Res. Lett., 14, 125016, 2019
    doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab5da9
    "Inter-product biases in global precipitation extremes"

  • Hirose Masafumi, Shoichi Shige, Takuji Kubota, Fumie A. Furuzawa, Haruya Minda, Hirohiko Masunaga
    Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 99, 1231-1252, 2021
    doI:10.2151/jmsj.2021-060
    "Refinement of Surface Precipitation Estimates for the Dual-frequency Prec ipitation Radar on the GPM Core Observatory Using Near-Nadir Measurements"






    報告等

  • Ji Li・秋元文江・中村健治
    TRMM PI 2002年度報告書.(2003)
    "熱帯降雨観測衛星(TRMM) 降雨レーダ (PR)によるMirror Image (MI)を用いた降雨減衰量(PIA)導出法の検討とTRMM PRとマイクロ波放射計(TMI)による海上・陸上・沿岸上における推定降雨強度(RR)の比較について"

  • 秋元文江・山本宗尚・中村健治
    TRMM PI 2003年度上半期報告書.(2003)
    "熱帯降雨観測衛星(TRMM) 降雨レーダ (PR)とマイクロ波放射計(TMI)による陸上の推定降雨強度(RR)の比較について"

  • 秋元文江・中村健治
    TRMM PI 2003年度下半期報告書.(2004)
    "熱帯降雨観測衛星(TRMM) 降雨レーダ (PR)とマイクロ波放射計(TMI)による陸上・海上・沿岸上における推定降雨強度(RR)の比較について"

  • 秋元文江・中村健治
    TRMM PI 2004年度報告書.(2005)
    "熱帯降雨観測衛星(TRMM) 降雨レーダ (PR)から推定される雨滴粒径分布に関連するパラメータの地域/季節特性と日周変化とマイクロ波放射計(TMI)による推定降雨強度(RR)の検証"


    From here, my name was changed Furuzawa Akimoto Fumie due to marriage.
  • 古澤(秋元)文江・山本宗尚・中村健治
    TRMM PI 2005年度報告書.(2006)
    "熱帯降雨観測衛星(TRMM) 塔載降雨レーダ (PR)とマイクロ波放射計(TMI)、可視赤外観測装置(VIRS)により観測された降水システムの日周変化"

  • 増田耕一、藤吉康志、木口雅司、谷田貝亜紀代、古澤(秋元)文江、陽クン、平林由希子、鼎信次郎,
    天気, 53, 53-62, 2006.
    "第5回GEWEX国際会議報告"

  • 中村健治・古澤(秋元)文江・山本宗尚
    TRMM PI 2006年度報告書.(2007)
    "熱帯降雨観測衛星TRMMにより得られた降水システムの特性 ー 北西太平洋域における中緯度降水システムのマイクロ波放射特性と鉛直構造との関係と降雨レーダ(PR)とマイクロ波放射計(TMI)、可視赤外観測装置(VIRS)により観測された降水システムの日周変化"

  • 宇野 伸一郎 , 亀山 哲也 , 堀畑 昌希 , 浅野 仙久 , 海老沢 研 , 田村 隆幸 , 笠羽 康正 , 篠原 育 , 宮下 幸長 , 三浦 昭 , 松崎 恵一 , 村上 弘志 , 古澤 文江
    日本福祉大学情報社会科学論集 10, 1-9, 2007-03-30
    "科学データ可聴化プロジェクト : プロジェクト立ち上げと初期データ公開; The Astronomical Data Sonification Project : An overview of the project and its initial data output"

  • Roca, Remy; Haddad, Ziad S.; Akimoto, Fumie F.; Alexander, Lisa; Behrangi, Ali; Huffman, George; Kato, Seiji; Kidd, Chris; Kirstetter, Pierre-Emmanuel; Kubota, Takuji; Kummerow, Chris; L' Ecuyer, Tristan; Levizzani, Vincenzo; Maggioni, Viviana; Massari, Christian; Masunaga, Hirohiko; Schroder, Marc; Tapiador, Francisco J.; Turk, Francis J.; Utsumi, Nobuyuki
    WCRP Publication No.: 2/2021
    DOI: 10.13021/gewex.precip
    "The Joint IPWG/GEWEX Precipitation Assessment"






    Doctor thesis (2000)

    "Iron Line Analysis of Clusters of Galaxies and the Effect of Resonance Scattering" Abstract, PDF