List of articles by the National Institute of Polar Research

National Institute of Polar Research and National Mountaineering Training Institute conclude comprehensive collaboration agreement

 Interuniversity Research Institute National Institute of Polar Research (Polar Research Institute), Research Organization of Information and Systems, and National Mountaineering Training Institute, Japan Sports Center […]

Highly-concentrated radioactive cesium-containing microparticles flowed into and remained inside buildings in difficult-to-return zones

 Twelve years have passed since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident that occurred in March 2011, and people are returning to difficult-to-return zones where radioactivity has been reduced by decontamination […]

Antarctic snow cover has experienced a long-term decline over the last 5000 years and has increased since the Industrial Revolution

 A research group centered on Ikumi Oyabu, a specially appointed researcher at the National Institute of Polar Research,* is working on a large amount of ice excavated at and around the Dome Fuji Station in inland Antarctica […]

Elucidation of the mechanism of photosynthesis in Antarctic algae using infrared rays;

 Astrobiology Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tohoku University, Akita Prefectural University, Tokyo University of Agriculture, National Institute for Basic Biology, Hyogo […]

Capturing the transformation of the deep ocean circulation, the subduction of the weakening Antarctic bottom water

 In the waters south of the Antarctic Ocean to the south of Australia, the tendency of high temperature and low oxygen concentration to spread to the bottom layer and the tendency of low temperature and high oxygen concentration to spread to the mesopelagic zone […]

Black carbon from China, the main source is found by home observation data analysis

Research teams such as Kobe University, National Institute for Environmental Studies, National Institute of Polar Research, etc.

"Climate change canary" Noctilucent cloud develops new observation method by Himawari-8

 Research groups such as the University of Electro-Communications, Information and Communication Research Organization, Meiji University, National Institute of Polar Research, and Kyushu University have launched the geostationary meteorological satellite "Himawari 8" […].

The 62nd Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition departs for Syowa Station for the first time in 42 years

 The 62nd Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition departed for Syowa Station on November 2020, 11.Due to the worldwide epidemic of new coronavirus infections […]

When the aurora blinks, killer electrons from space destroy the ozone layer

 Nagoya University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Kyoto University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), University of Electro-Communications, Tohoku University, National Polar […]

Kyushu University etc. succeeded in analyzing particulate plutonium released from Fukushima nuclear power plant

 An international collaborative research group (Note) by Associate Professor Satoshi Utsunomiya of Kyushu University has found that particles containing plutonium (Pu) -containing fuel particles are soil in Fukushima Prefecture […].