Takeshi Ohta

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the state of the art of the understanding of the relation between soil moisture drought and the interactions with the carbon cycle of the terrestrial ecosystems is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured air temperature in an urban green area that includes forest and grassland and in the surrounding urban area for a full year in Nagoya, central Japan, to elucidate seasonal variations of the difference in air temperature between urban and green areas.

TL;DR: In this article, the coupling between large-scale atmospheric patterns and modifications of regional precipitation regimes at seasonal and annual time scales in different terrain of mid-latitudes in Asia, including western Siberia, Tien Shan and Pamir mountains, and plains of middle Asia and Japanese Islands, were examined based on data from 57 and 88 hydro-climatic stations with 100 and 60 year records, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, a trend analysis of phenological phases and the relationship between phenology and air temperatures was conducted to understand the effects of climate change on the growing season of plants in Japan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of the energy and water budgets in an eastern Siberian larch forest were investigated from the snowmelt season to the leaf-fall season, and the mean evapotranspiration rate from 21 April 1998 to 7 September 1998 was 1·16 mm day−1.