Original Papers in Journals (Peer-Reviewed)

1. Wen-Chien Lee, Yange Deng, Ruichen Zhou, Masayuki Itoh, Michihiro Mochida, and Mikinori Kuwata: Water Solubility Distribution of Organic Matter Accounts for the Discrepancy in Hygroscopicity among Sub- and Supersaturated Humidity Regimes, accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology. [link]
2. Kaori Kawana, Yuzo Miyazaki, Yuko Omori, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Sara Kagami, Koji Suzuki, Youhei Yamashita, Jun Nishioka, Yange Deng, Hikari Yai, and Michihiro Mochida: Number-size distribution and CCN activity of atmospheric aerosols in the western North Pacific during spring pre-bloom period: Influences of terrestrial and marine sources, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD036690, 2022. [link]
3. Afsana, S., Zhou, R., Miyazaki, Y., Tachibana, E., Deshmukh, D. K., Kawamura, K., and Mochida, M.: Abundance, chemical structure, and light absorption properties of humic‑like substances (HULIS) and other organic fractions of forest aerosols in Hokkaido, Scientific Reports,14379, 2022. [link]
4. Deng, Y., Fujinari, H., Yai, H., Shimada, K., Miyazaki, Y., Tachibana, E., Deshmukh, D., Kawamura, K., Nakayama, T., Tatsuta, S., Cai, M., Xu, H., Li, F., Tan, H., Ohata, S., Kondo, Y., Takami, A., Hatakeyama, S., and Mochida, M.: Offline analysis of the chemical composition and hygroscopicity of sub-micrometer aerosol at an Asian outflow receptor site and comparison with online measurements, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 5515–5533, 2022. [link]
5. Ruichen Zhou, Qingcai Chen, Jing Chen, Lujie Ren, Yange Deng, Petr Vodička, Dhananjay K. Deshmukh, Kimitaka Kawamura, Pingqing Fu, and Michihiro Mochida: Distinctive sources govern organic aerosol fractions with different degrees of oxygenation in the urban atmosphere, Environmental Science & Technology, 55, 4494–4503, 2021. [link]
6. Maho Nakagawa, Tomoki Nakayama, Hiroshi Sasago, Yuki Kuruma, Hikari Yai, Shuhei Ogawa, Yange Deng, Michihiro Mochida, and Yutaka Matsumi: Assessment of the Sphericity Characteristics of Submicron Particles Using a Single-particle Polar Nephelometer at an Urban Site in Japan, Aerosol Air Qual. Res., 20, 2474–2484, 2020. [link]
7. Yange Deng, Hikari Yai, Hiroaki Fujinari, Kaori Kawana, Tomoki Nakayama, and Michihiro Mochida: Diurnal variation and size dependence of the hygroscopicity of organic aerosol at a forest site in Wakayama, Japan: their relationship to CCN concentrations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 5889-5903, 2019. [link]
8. Yuzo Miyazaki, Youhei Yamashita, Kaori Kawana, Eri Tachibana, Sara Kagami, Michihiro Mochida, Koji Suzuki, and Jun Nishioka: Chemical transfer of dissolved organic matter from surface seawater to sea spray water-soluble organic aerosol in the marine atmosphere, Scientific Reports, 8, 14861, 2018. [link]
9. Yange Deng, Sara Kagami, Shuhei Ogawa, Kaori Kawana, Tomoki Nakayama, Ryo Kubodera, Kouji Adachi, Tareq Hussein, Yuzo Miyazaki, and Michihiro Mochida: Hygroscopicity of organic aerosols and their contributions to CCN concentrations over a midlatitude forest in Japan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 9703-9723, doi:10.1029/2017JD027292, 2018. [link]
10. Mingfu Cai, Haobo Tan, Chak K. Chan, Michihiro Mochida, Shiro Hatakeyama, Yutaka Kondo, Misha I. Schurman, Hanbing Xu, Fei Li, Kojiro Shimada, Liu Li, Yange Deng, Hikari Yai, Atsushi Matsuki, Yiming Qin, and Jun Zhao: Comparison of aerosol hygroscopcity, volatility, and chemical composition between a suburban site in the Pearl River Delta region and a marine site in Okinawa, Aerosol and Air Quality Reserach, 17, 3194-3208, 2017. [link]
11. Qingcai Chen, Fumikazu Ikemori, Yuua Nakamura, Petr Vodicka, Kimitaka Kawamura, and Michihiro Mochida: Structural and light-absorption characteristics of complex water-insoluble organic mixtures in urban submicrometer aerosols, Environmental Science & Technology, 51, 8293–8303, 2017. [link]
12. Kaori Kawana, Tomoki Nakayama, Naomi Kuba, and *Michihiro Mochida: Hygroscopicity and cloud condensation nucleus activity of forest aerosol particles during summer in Wakayama, Japan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 3042-3064, doi:10.1002/2016JD025660, 2017. [link]
13. Qingcai Chen, Fumikazu Ikemori, and *Michihiro Mochida: Light absorption and excitation-emission fluorescence of urban organic aerosol components and their relationship to chemical structure, Environmental Science & Technology, 50, 10,859-10,868, 2016. [link]
14. Qingcai Chen, Yuzo Miyazaki, Kimitaka Kawamura, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, Sean C. Coburn, Rainer Volkamer, Yoko Iwamoto, Sara Kagami, Yange Deng, Shuhei Ogawa, Sathiyamurthi Ramasamy, Shungo Kato, Akira Ida, Yoshizumi Kajii, and *Michihiro Mochida: Characterization of chromophoric water-soluble organic matter in urban, forest and marine aerosols by HR-ToF-AMS analysis and excitation emission matrix spectroscopy, Environmental Science & Technology, 50, 10,351-10,360, 2016. [link]
15. Shuhei Ogawa, Yoshitaka Setoguchi, Kaori Kawana, Tomoki Nakayama, Yuka Ikeda, Yuuki Sawada, Yutaka Matsumi, and *Michihiro Mochida: Hygroscopicity of aerosol particles and CCN activity of nearly-hydrophobic particles in the urban atmosphere over Japan during summer, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 7215-7234, doi:10.1002/2015JD024636, 2016. [link]
16. *Chunmao Zhu, *Kimitaka Kawamura, Yasuro Fukuda, Michihiro Mochida, and Yoko Iwamoto: Fungal spores overwhelm biogenic organic aerosols in a midlatitudinal forest, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 7497-7506, doi:10.5194/acp-16-7497-2016, 2016. [link]
17. Kaori Kawana, Tokoki Nakayama, and *Michihiro Mochida: Hygroscopicity and CCN activity of atmospheric aerosol particles and their relation to organics: Characteristics of urban aerosols in Nagoya, Japan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 4100-4121, doi:10.1002/2015JD023213, 2016. [link] [link (NU repository)]
18. Qingcai Chen, Fumikazu Ikemori, Hayato Higo, Daichi Asakawa, and *Michihiro Mochida: Chemical structural characteristics of HULIS and other fractionated organic matter in urban aerosols: Results from mass spectral and FT-IR analysis, Environmental Science & Technology, 50, 1721-1730, 2016. [link]
19. *Sathiyamurthi Ramasamy, Akira Ida, Charlotte Jones, Shungo Kato, Hiroshi Tsurumaru, Iori Kishimoto, Shio Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Sadanaga, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Tomoki Nakayama, Yutaka Matsumi, Michihiro Mochida, Sara Kagami, Yange Deng, Shuhei Ogawa, Kaori Kawana, and Yoshizumi Kajii: Total OH reactivity measurement in a BVOC dominated temperate forest during a summer campaign, 2014, Atmospheric Environment, 131, 41-54, 2016. [link]
20. Yuemei Han, Kimitaka Kawamura, Qingcai Chen, and *Michihiro Mochida:Formation of high-molecular-weight compounds via the heterogeneous reactions of gaseous C₈-C₁₀ n-aldehydes in the presence of atmospheric aerosol components, Atmospheric Environment, 126, 290-297, 2016. [link]
21. Toshiyuki Mihara and *Michihiro Mochida: Characterization of single particles in urban atmospheric aerosols over Nagoya based on mass spectral analysis, Aerosol Science and Technology, 49, 1078-1089, 2015. [link]
22. *Tomoki Nakayama,Yuka Ikeda, Yuuki Sawada, Yoshitaka Setoguchi, Shuhei Ogawa, Kaori Kawana, Michihiro Mochida, Fumikazu Ikemori, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, and Yutaka Matsumi: Properties of light-absorbing aerosols in the Nagoya urban area, Japan, in August 2011 and January 2012: Contributions of brown carbon and lensing effect, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 119, 12,721-12,739, 2014. [link]
23. Kaori Kawana, Naomi Kuba, and *Michihiro Mochida: Assessment of cloud condensation nucleus activation of urban aerosol particles with different hygroscopicity and the application to the cloud parcel model, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 119, 3352-3371, doi:10.1002/2013JD020827, 2014. [link]
24. Yuemei Han, Yoko Iwamoto, Tomoki Nakayama, Kimitaka Kawamura, and *Michihiro Mochida: Formation and evolution of biogenic secondary organic aerosol over a forest site in Japan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 119, 259-273, doi:10.1002/2013JD020390, 2014. [link]
25. Yuemei Han, Yoko Iwamoto, Tomoki Nakayama, Kimitaka Kawamura, Tareq Hussein, and *Michihiro Mochida: Observation of new particle formation over a mid-latitude forest facing the North Pacific, Atmospheric Environment, 64, 77-84, 2013. [link]
26. *Kimitaka Kawamura, Yusuke Izawa, Michihiro Mochida, and Takayuki Shiraiwa: Ice core records of biomass burning tracers (levoglucosan and dehydroabietic, vanillic and p-hydroxybenzoic acids) and total organic carbon for past 300 years in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Northeast Asia, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 99, 317-329, 2012. [link]
27. Toshiyuki Mihara and *Michihiro Mochida: Characterization of solvent-extractable organics in urban aerosols based on mass spectrum analysis and hygroscopic growth measurement, Environmental Science & Technology, 45, 9168-9174, 2011. [link (complimentary downloads)]
28. Michihiro Mochida, Chiharu Nishita-Hara, Hiroshi Furutani, Yuzo Miyazaki, Jinyoung Jung, Kimitaka Kawamura, and Mitsuo Uematsu: Hygroscopicity and cloud condensation nucleus activity of marine aerosol particles over the western North Pacific, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D06204, doi:10.1029/2010JD014759, 2011.[link]
29. Michihiro Mochida, Chiharu Nishita-Hara, Yasuyuki Kitamori, Shankar G. Aggarwal, Kimitaka Kawamura, Kazuhiko Miura, and Akinori Takami: Size-segregated measurements of cloud condensation nucleus activity and hygroscopic growth for aerosols at Cape Hedo, Japan, in spring 2008, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D21207, doi:10.1029/2009JD013216, 2010.[link]
30. *Michihiro Mochida, Kimitaka Kawamura, Pingqing Fu, and Toshihiko Takemura: Seasonal variation of levoglucosan in aerosols over the western North Pacific and its assessment as a biomass-burning tracer, Atmospheric Environment, 44, 3511-3518, 2010.[link]
31. *Yasuyuki Kitamori, Michihiro Mochida, and Kimitaka Kawamura: Assessment of the aerosol water content in urban atmospheric particles by the hygroscopic growth measurements in Sapporo, Japan, Atmospheric Environment, 43, 3416-3423, 2009.[link]
32. Michihiro Mochida, Takuma Miyakawa, Nobuyuki Takegawa, Yu Morino, Kimitaka Kawamura, and Yutaka Kondo: Significant alteration in the hygroscopic properties of urban aerosol particles by the secondary formation of organics," Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L02804, doi:10.1029/2007GL031310, 2008.
33. Kazuhiro Okuzawa, Michihiro Mochida, James Bendle, Haobo Wang, and Kimitaka Kawamura: Diurnal variation of semi-volatile dicarbonyls and hydroxycarbonyls in the urban atmosphere, Chikyukagaku (Geochemistry), 41, 125-134, 2007 (in Japanese).
34. *Shankar. G. Aggarwal, Michihiro Mochida, Yasuyuki Kitamori, and Kimitaka Kawamura: Chemical closure study on hygroscopic properties of urban aerosol particles in Sapporo, Japan, Environmental Science & Technology, 41, 6920-6925, 2007.
35. Michihiro Mochida, Nobuhiko Umemoto, Kimitaka Kawamura, Ho-Jin Lim, and Barbara J. Turpin: Bimodal size distributions of various organic acids and fatty acids in the marine atmosphere: Influence of anthropogenic aerosols, Asian dusts, and sea spray off the coast of East Asia, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D15209, doi:10.1029/2006JD007773, 2007.
36. Yugo Kanaya, Renqiu Cao, Shungo Kato, Yuko Miyakawa, Yoshizumi Kajii, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Yoko Yokouchi, Michihiro Mochida, Kimitaka Kawamura, and Hajime Akimoto: Chemistry of OH and HO₂ radicals observed at Rishiri Island, Japan, in September 2003: Missing daytime sink of HO₂ and positive nighttime correlations with monoterpenes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D11308, doi:10.1029/2006JD007987, 2007.
37. Mikinori Kuwata, Yutaka Kondo, Michihiro Mochida, Nobuyuki Takegawa, and Kimitaka Kawamura: Dependence of CCN activity of less-volatile particles on the amount of coating observed in Tokyo, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D11207, doi:10.1029/2006JD007758, 2007.
38. J. E. Shilling, S. M. King, M. Mochida, D. R. Worsnop, and *S. T. Martin, "Mass spectral evidence that small changes in composition caused by oxidative aging processes alter aerosol CCN properties, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111, 3358-3368, 2007.
39. Michihiro Mochida, Yasmine Katrib, John T. Jayne, Douglas R. Worsnop, and *Scot T. Martin: The relative importance of competing pathways for the formation of high-molecular-weight peroxides in the ozonolysis of organic aerosol particles, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 6, 4851-4866, 2006.
40. Y. Miyazaki, Y. Kondo, N. Takegawa, Y. Komazaki, M. Fukuda, K. Kawamura, M. Mochida, K. Okuzawa, and R. J. Weber, Time-resolved measurements of water-soluble organic carbon in Tokyo, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D23206, doi:10.1029/2006JD007125, 2006.
41. Michihiro Mochida, Mikinori Kuwata, Takuma Miyakawa, Nobuyuki Takegawa, Kimitaka Kawamura, and Yutaka Kondo: Relationship between hygroscopicity and CCN activity for urban aerosols in Tokyo, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D23204, doi:10.1029/2005JD006980, 2006.
42. Teruyo Ieda, Yasuyuki Kitamori, *Michihiro Mochida, Ryuichi Hirata, Takashi Hirano, Kou Inukai, Yasumi Fujinuma, and Kimitaka Kawamura: Diurnal variations and vertical gradients of biogenic volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds at theTomakomai larch forest station in Japan, Tellus B, 58, 177-186, 2006.
43. Y. Katrib, G. Biskos, P. R. Buseck, P. Davidovits, J. T. Jayne, M. Mochida, M. E. Wise, D. R. Worsnop, and *S. T. Martin: Ozonolysis of mixed oleic-acid/stearic acid particles: Reaction kinetics and chemical morphology, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109, 10,910-10,919, 2005.
44. Michihiro Mochida and Kimitaka Kawamura: Hygroscopic properties of levoglucosan and related organic compounds characteristic to biomass burning aerosol particles, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D21202, doi:10.1029/2004JD004962, 2004.
45. Bernd R. T. Simoneit, Minoru Kobayashi, Michihiro Mochida, Kimitaka Kawamura, and Barry J. Huebert: Aerosol particles collected on air craft flights over the northwestern Pacific region during the ACE-Asia campaign: Composition and major sources of the organic compounds, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D19S09, doi:10.1029/2004JD004565, 2004.
46. Bernd R. T. Simoneit, Minoru Kobayashi, Michihiro Mochida, Kimitaka Kawamura, Meehye Lee, Ho-Jin Lim, Barbara J. Turpin, and Yuichi Komazaki: Composition and major sources of organic compounds of aerosol particulate matter sampled during the ACE-Asia campaign, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D19S10, doi:10.1029/2004JD004598, 2004.
47. *Sou Matsunaga, Michihiro Mochida, and Kimitaka Kawamura: High abundance of gaseous and particulate 4-oxopentanal in the forestal atmosphere, Chemosphere, 55 (2004) 1143-1147.
48. Sou Matsunaga, Michihiro Mochida, and Kimitaka Kawamura: Variation on the atmospheric concentrations of biogenic carbonyl compounds and their removal processes in the northern forest at Moshiri, Hokkaido Island in Japan, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D04302, doi:10.1029/2003JD004100, 2004.
49. Kimitaka Kawamura, Nobuhiko Umemoto, Michihiro Mochida, T. Bertram, S. Howell and B. J. Huebert: Water-soluble dicarboxylic acids in the tropospheric aerosols collected over east Asia and western North Pacific by ACE-Asia C-130 aircraft, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D23), 8639, doi:10.1029/2002JD003256, 2003.
50. Michihiro Mochida, Kimitaka Kawamura, Nobuhiko Umemoto, Minoru Kobayashi, Sou Matsunaga, Ho-Jin Lim, Barbara J. Turpin, Timothy S. Bates, and Bernd. R. T. Simoneit: Spatial distributions of oxygenated organic compounds (dicarboxylic acids, fatty acids, and levoglucosan) in marine aerosols over the western Pacific and off the coast of East Asia: Continental outflow of organic aerosols during the ACE-Asia campaign, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D23), 8638, doi:10.1029/2002JD003249, 2003.
51. Michihiro Mochida, Nobuhiko Umemoto, Kimitaka Kawamura, and Mitsuo Uematsu:Bimodal size distribution of C₂-C₄ dicarboxylic acids in the marine aerosols, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(13), 1672, doi:10.1029/2003GL017451, 2003.
52. *Sou Matsunaga, Michihiro Mochida, and Kimitaka Kawamura: Growth of organic aerosols by biogenic semi-volatile carbonyls in the forestal atmosphere,Atmospheric Environment, 37, 2045-2050, 2003.
53. *Michihiro Mochida, Sou Matsunaga, and Kimitaka Kawamura: A model evaluation of the NO titration technique to remove atmospheric oxidants for the determination of atmospheric organic compounds, Environmental Science & Technology, 37, 1589-1597, 2003.
54. Michihiro Mochida, Aki Kawabata, Kimitaka Kawamura, Hiroaki Hatsushika, and Koji Yamazaki: Seasonal variation and origins of dicarboxylic acids in the marine atmosphere over the western North Pacific, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D6), 4193, doi:10.1029/2002JD002355, 2003.
55. *Sou Matsunaga, Michihiro Mochida, Takuya Saito, and Kimitaka Kawamura: In situ measurement of isoprene in the marine air and surface seawater from the western North Pacific, Atmospheric Environment, 36 (2002) 6051-6057.
56. Michihiro Mochida, Yasukuki Kitamori, Kimitaka Kawamura, Yukihiro Nojiri, and Keisuke Suzuki: Fatty acids in the marine atmosphere: Factors governing their concentrations and evaluation of organic films on sea-salt particles,Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(D17), 4325, doi:10.1029/2001JD001278, 2002.
57. Michihiro Mochida and *Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts: FTIR studies of the reaction of gaseous NO with HNO₃ on porous glass: Implications for conversion of HNO₃ to photochemically active NOx in the atmosphere,The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 104, 9705-9711, 2000.
58. Najat A. Saliba, Michihiro Mochida and *Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts:Laboratory studies of sources of HONO in polluted urban atmospheres,Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 3229-3232, 2000.
59. Michihiro Mochida and *Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts: FTIR study of N₂O₃ on porous glass at room temperature, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 104, 8038-8044, 2000.
60. Michihiro Mochida, Jun Hirokawa and Hajime Akimoto: Unexpected large uptake of O₃ on sea salts and the observed Br₂ formation,Geophysical Research Letters, 27(17), 2629-2632, 2000.
61. Michihiro Mochida, Jun Hirokawa, Yoshizumi Kajii and Hajime Akimoto: Heterogeneous reactions of Cl₂ with sea salts at ambient temperature: Implications for halogen exchange in the atmosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 3927-3930, 1998.
62. Michihiro Mochida, Hajime Akimoto, Hubert van den Bergh and *Michel J. Rossi: Heterogeneous kinetics of the uptake of HOBr on solid alkali metal halides at ambient temperature, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 102, 4819-4828, 1998.
63. Michihiro Mochida, *Toshihiro Shimada and Atsushi Koma: Electron energy spectroscopy of (DMe-DCNQI)₂Cu, The Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 15, 2119-2121, 1997.