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NAME
RYUHO KATAOKA
CONTACT
ryuho.kataoka@gmail.com

News

2022.7.18: Japanese aurora scientist wrote Extreme Space Weather textbook for graduate students and researchers (EurekAlert)
2021.10.14: Twelfth century literature and space-age data help map 3,000 years of auroras (EurekAlert)
2020.04.02: 1,400-year-old mystery of strange 'red sign' in Japan's sky solved (space.com).

Profile

Ryuho Kataoka is challenging the space weather forecast of energetic particles such as aurora, radiation belt, magnetic storm, solar protons, and cosmic rays. His research interests also include the atmospheric response and radiation dose to the energetic particles.
Recent works were introduced by SCIENCE REPORT.
CV (updated: 2021/10/15)

Publications

New Book: Extreme Space Weather (2022, Elsevier)

More than 150 peer-reviewed papers were published.

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Projects

CR for SWx
Cosmic rays has been measured at Syowa Station for space weather forecast since February 2018 (Kihara+2021; Kato+2021).
Data: Syowa Station
WASAVIES
Space weather forecast of aircrew's exposure to solar proton events, WASAVIES, has been operated by NICT since November 2019 (Kataoka+2014; Kataoka+2018; Sato+2018).
ISSI WS
ISSI Workshop of Auroral Physics was held at Bern in Augutst 2018 (Knudsen+2021; Kataoka+2021)
HAI
High-speed auroral imagers, HAI, have been developed and installed at Arctic and Antarctic stations (Kataoka+2011a; Kataoka+2011b; Kataoka+2015; Uchida+2020).
Data: Athabasca | Tjornes | Syowa
AURORA 4D
Aurora 4D project (2015-2019) is a collaboration between literature and science to identify extreme events (Kataoka+2017; Kataoka&Iwahashi2017; Kataoka+2019; Kataoka&Kazama2019).
News: Gizmodo | AGU's Journal Highlights
AURORA 3D
Aurora 3D project (2011-2013) realized the first all-sky stereoscopic visualization of auroras (Kataoka+2013; Mori+2013).
News: YAHOO! News | EGU News
Data: Aurora images during solar cycle 24