査読付き論文

  1. Imamura, T., K. Kita, N. Iwagami and T. Ogawa, Gravity wave characteristics derived from structured atomic oxygen profile and multiple Es layers, J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 47, 961-972, 1995.
  2. Imamura, T., and T. Ogawa, A sensitivity study to infer tropospheric ozone from atmospheric thermal emission at 9.6 micrometer wavelength measured with a nadir view from a satellite, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 73, 255-258, 1995.
  3. Imamura, T., and T. Ogawa, Radiative damping of gravity waves in the terrestrial planetary atmospheres, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 267-270, 1995.
  4. Kita, K., T. Imamura, N. Iwagami, W.H. Morrow and T. Ogawa, Rocket observation of oxygen atom and night airglow 1. Measurement of oxygen atom concentration with an improved resonance fluorescence technique, Ann. Geophys., 14, 227-237, 1996.
  5. Kita, K., T. Imamura, N. Iwagami, W.H. Morrow and T. Ogawa, Variability of oxygen atom concentration in the lower thermosphere observed by rocket experiments, Adv. Space Res., 17, 85-88, 1996.
  6. Imamura, T., and T. Ogawa, Parameterization of surface brightness temperature to retrieve trace gases from radiance spectra measured with a nadir view, J. Atmos. and Ocean Tech., 14, 988-993, 1997.
  7. Imamura, T., Momentum balance of the Venusian midlatitude mesosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 6615-6620, 1997.
  8. Imamura, T., K. Kita, N. Iwagami and T. Ogawa, Gravity wave signature simultaneously observed in the oxygen atom and electron density profiles in the lower thermosphere, Adv. Space Res., 19, 145-148, 1997.
  9. Imamura, T., and G. L. Hashimoto, Venus cloud formation in the meridional circulation, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 31349-31366, 1998.
  10. Mukai, T., T. Akabane, T. Hashimoto, H. Ishimoto, S. Sasaki, A. Inada, A. Toigo, M. Nakamura, Y. Abe, K. Kurita, T. Imamura, Observation of Mars and its satellites by the Mars Imaging Camera (MIC) on Planet-B, Earth Planets Space, 50, 183-188, 1998.
  11. Imamura, T., and G. L. Hashimoto, Microphysics of Venusian clouds in rising tropical air, J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3597-3612, 2001.
  12. Hashimoto, G. L., and T. Imamura, Elucidating the rate of volcanism on Venus: Detection of lava eruptions using near-infrared observations, Icarus, 154, 239-243, 2001.
  13. Noguchi, K., T. Imamura, K.-I. Oyama, and A. Saito, Application of the GPS network to estimate the effect of the terrestrial ionosphere on the radio occultation measurements of planetary ionospheres, Radio Sci., 36, 1607-1614, 2001.
  14. Oyama, K. -I., A. Nabatov, N. Savich, Z. Yamamoto, T. Imamura, T. Ichikawa, and K. Noguchi, First test of the Nozomi radio science system in actual space flight, Adv. Space Res., 27(11), 1847-1850, 2001.
  15. Imamura, T., and G. L. Hashimoto, H2SO4 cycle in the Venusian tropical atmosphere as constrained by a microphysical cloud model, Adv. Space Res., 29(2), 249-254, 2002.
  16. Oyama, K. -I., A. Nabatov, N. Savich, T. Imamura, Z. Yamamoto, and K. Noguchi, Cislunar plasma exploration with the Selene radio science system, Adv. Space Res., 30(8), 1915-1919, 2002.
  17. Oyama, K. -I., T. Imamura, and T. Abe, Feasibility study for Venus atmosphere mission, Adv. Space Res., 29(2), 265-271, 2002.
  18. Noguchi, K., T. Imamura, K.-I. Oyama, and A. S. Nabatov, Radio-occultation projects in space programs of Japan, Radio Science Bulletin, 303, 27-31, 2002.
  19. Nabatov, A.S., T. Imamura, N.A. Savich, K.-I. Oyama, and K. Noguchi, Detectability of lunar plasma clouds from Selene radio occultations, Adv. Space Res., 31(11), 2369-2375, 2003.
  20. Imamura, T., T. Horinouchi, and T. Dunkerton, The lateral transport of zonal momentum due to Kelvin waves in a meridional circulation, J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1966-1975, 2004.
  21. Ishii, N., H. Ymakawa, S. Sawai, M. Shida, T. Hashimoto, M. Nakamura, T. Imamura, T. Abe, K. Oyama, I. Nakatani, Current status of the PLANET-C Venus orbiter design, Adv. Space Res., 34, 1668-1672, 2004.
  22. Izutsu, N., N. Yajima, H. Honda, and T. Imamura, Venus Balloon using Water Vapor, Adv. Space Res., 33(10), 1831-1835, 2004.
  23. Imamura, T., K. Noguchi, A. Nabatov, K.-I. Oyama, Z. Yamamoto, and M. Tokumaru, Phase scintillation observation during coronal sounding experiments with NOZOMI spacecraft, Astron. Astrophys., 439, 1165-1169, 2005.
  24. Fukuhara, T., and T. Imamura, Waves encircling the summer southern pole of Mars observed by MGS TES, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L18811, doi:10.1029/2005GL023819, 2005.
  25. Ohtsuki, S., N. Iwagami, H. Sagawa, Y. Kasaba, M. Ueno, and T. Imamura, Ground-based observation of the Venus 1.27-micrometer O2 airglow, Adv. Space Res., 36(11), 2038-2042, 2005.
  26. Imamura, T., Meridional propagation of planetary-scale waves in vertical shear: implication for the Venus atmosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 1623-1636, 2006.
  27. Noguchi, K., T. Imamura, K.-I. Oyama, and G. E. Bodeker, A global statistical study on the origin of small-scale ozone vertical structures in the lower stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2006JD007232, 2006.
  28. Haeusler, B., M. Paetzold, G.L. Tyler, R.A. Simpson, M.K. Bird, V. Dehant, J.-P. Barriot, W. Eidel, R. Mattei, S. Remus, J. Selle, S. Tellmann, and T. Imamura, Radio Science Investigations by VeRa onboard the Venus Express Spacecraft, Planet. Space Sci., 54, 1315-1335, 2006.
  29. Imamura, T., Y. Kawasaki, and T. Fukuhara, Mesoscale spectra of Mars’ atmosphere derived from MGS TES infrared radiances, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1717-1726, 2007.
  30. Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, M. Ueno, N. Iwagami, T. Satoh, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, Y. Takahashi, M. Suzuki, T. Abe, G. L.. Hashimoto, T. Sakanoi, S. Okano, Y. Kasaba, J. Yoshida, M. Yamada, N. Ishii, T. Yamada, K.-I. Oyama, PLANET-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan, Planet. Space Sci., 55, 1831-1842, 2007.
  31. Fukuhara, T., and T. Imamura, Diurnally varying structure of stationary waves encircling the summer southern pole of Mars observed by MGS TES, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L09809, doi:10.1029/2006GL028498, 2007.
  32. Taguchi, M., T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, N. Iwagami, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Mitsuyama, Longwave infrared camera onboard the Venus Climate Orbiter, Adv. Space Res., 40, 861-868, 2007.
  33. Patzold, M., B. Haeusler, M. K. Bird, S. Tellmann, R. Mattei, S. W. Asmar, V. Dehant, W. Eidel, T. Imamura, R. A. Simpson, and G. L. Tyler, The structure of Venus’ middle atmosphere and ionosphere, Nature, 450, 657-660, 2007.
  34. Makoto Suzuki, Takeshi Imamura, Takahiro Yamada, Masato Nakamura, Hiroki Hihara, Masahiro Hamai, Jun Takada, Shuji Senda, NEC, Munetaka Ueno, Satoshi Ichikawa, Observation sequences and onboard data processing unit of Japanese Venus observation program, Planet-C, 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422834, 2007.
  35. Imamura, T., K.-I. Oyama, T. Iwata, Y. Kono, K. Matsumoto, Q. Liu, H. Noda, Y. Futaana, A. Nabatov, Possibility of studying the lunar ionosphere with SELENE radio science experiment, Earth, Planets and Space, 60, 387-390, 2008.
  36. Ohtsuki, S., N. Iwagami, H. Sagawa, M. Ueno, Y. Kasaba, T. Imamura and E. Nishihara, Imaging spectroscopy of the Venus 1.27-micrometer O2 airglow with ground-based telescopes, Adv. Space Res., 41(9), 1375-1380, 2008.
  37. Iwagami, N., S. Ohtsuki, K. Tokuda, N. Ohira, Y. Kasaba, T. Imamura, H. Sagawa, G.L. Hashimoto, S. Takeuchi, M. Ueno, S. Okumura, Hemispheric distributions of HCl above and below the Venus’ clouds by ground-based 1.7 micrometer spectroscopy, Planet. Space Sci. 56, 1424-1434, 2008.
  38. Chassefiere E., O. Korablev, T. Imamura, et al., European Venus Explorer (EVE): an in-situ mission to Venus, Experimental Astronomy, DOI 10.1007/s10686-008-9093-x, 2008.
  39. Fukuhara, T., and T. Imamura, Hemispheric difference in the momentum transport by waves encircling the summer polar region of Mars observed by MGS TES, J. Geophys. Res., 113, E05006, doi:10.1029/2007JE002999, 2008.
  40. Takahashi, Y., J. Yoshida, Y. Yair, T. Imamura, and M. Nakamura, Lightning detection by LAC onboard the Japanese Venus climate orbiter, Planet-C, Space Sci. Rev., 137, 317–334, doi:10.1007/s11214-008-9400-x., 2008. 
  41. Imamura, T., and H. Kobayashi, Wavenumber spectra of planetary-scale disturbances in the Mars atmosphere, Icarus, 199, 286-294, 2009.
  42. Imamura, T., T. Iwata, Z. Yamamoto, N. Mochizuki, Y. Kono, K. Matsumoto, Q. Liu, H. Noda, H. Hanada, K.-I. Oyama, A. Nabatov, Y. Futaana, A. Saito, and H. Ando, Studying the Lunar Ionosphere with SELENE Radio Science Experiment, Space Science Reviews, 154, 305-316, 2010.
  43. Efimov, I., T. Imamura, K.-I. Oyama, K. Noguchi, L. N. Samoznaev, A. S. Nabatov, M. K. Bird, and I. V. Chashei, Properties of the turbulence of the solar wind from radio-eclipse experiments with the NOZOMI spacecraft, Astronomy Reports, 54, 1031-1041, 2010.
  44. Imamura, T., and Y. Ito, Quasi-periodic dust events in the summertime south polar region of Mars, Icarus, 211, 498–503, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.08.014, 2011.
  45. Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, A. Yamazaki, N. Iwagami, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, Y. Takahashi, M. Yamada, N. Hoshino, S. Ohtsuki, K. Uemizu, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, K. Ogohara, N. Sato, Y. Kasaba, T. Kouyama, N. Hirata, R. Nakamura, Y. Yamamoto, N. Okada, T. Horinouchi, M. Yamamoto, and Y. Hayashi, Overview of Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, 443-457, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.02.009, 2011.
  46. Imamura, T., T. Toda, A. Tomiki, D. Hirahara, T. Hayashiyama, N. Mochizuki, Z. Yamamoto, T. Abe, T. Iwata, H. Noda, Y. Futaana, H. Ando, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, Radio occultation experiment of the Venus atmosphere and ionosphere with the Venus orbiter Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, 493-501, https://doi.org/10.5047/eps.2011.03.009, 2011.
  47. Tetsuya Fukuhara, Makoto Taguchi, Takeshi Imamura, Masato Nakamura, Munetaka Ueno, Makoto Suzuki, Naomoto Iwagami,  Mitsuteru Sato, Kazuaki Mitsuyama, George Hashimoto, Ryo Ohshima, Toru Kouyama, Hiroki Ando, and Masahiko Futaguchi, LIR: Longwave Infrared Camera onboard the Venus orbiter Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.06.019, 1009-1018, 2011.
  48. Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Satoh and Y. Futaana, Horizontal structure of planetary-scale waves at the cloud top of Venus deduced from Galileo SSI images with an improved cloud-tracking technique, Planet Space Sci. 60, doi:10.1016/j.pss/2011.08.008, 207-216, 2012.
  49. Ogohara, K., T. Kouyama, H. Yamamoto, N. Sato, M. Takagi, and T. Imamura, A newly developed cloud tracking system for the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki and preliminary results using Venus Express data, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Japan, 60, 195-204, 2012.
  50. Ogohara, K., T. Kouyama, H. Yamamoto, N. Sato, M. Takagi, T. Imamura, Automated cloud tracking system for the Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter data, Icarus, 217, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.017, 2661–2668, 2012
  51. Taguchi, M. T. Fukuhara, M. Futaguchi, M. Sato, T. Imamura, K. Mitsuyama, M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, N. Iwagami, and G. L. Hashimoto, Characteristic features in Venus’ nightside cloud-top temperature obtained by Akatsuki/LIR, Icarus, 219, 502-509, 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.01.024, 2012.
  52. Ando, H., T. Imamura, and T. Tsuda, Vertical wavenumber spectra of gravity waves in the Martian atmosphere obtained from Mars Global Surveyor radio occultation data, J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 2906-2912, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0339.1, 2012.
  53. Imamura, T., A. Nabatov, N. Mochizuki, T. Iwata, H. Hanada, K. Matsumoto, H. Noda, Y. Kono, Q. Liu, Y. Futaana, H. Ando, Z. Yamamoto, K.-I. Oyama, and A. Saito, Radio occultation measurement of the electron density near the lunar surface using a subsatellite on the SELENE mission, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A06303, doi:10.1029/2011JA017293, 2012.
  54. Ando, H., T. Imamura, A. Nabatov, Y. Futaana, T. Iwata, H. Hanada, K. Matsumoto, N. Mochizuki, Y. Kono, H. Noda, Q. Liu, K. -I. Oyama, Z. Yamamoto, and A. Saito, Dual-spacecraft radio occultation measurement of the electron density near the lunar surface by the SELENE mission, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A08313, doi:10.1029/2011JA017141, 2012.
  55. Tellmann, S., B. Haeusler, D. P. Hinson, G. L. Tyler, T. P. Andert, M. K. Bird, T. Imamura, M. Patzold, and S. Remus, Small-scale temperature fluctuations seen by the VeRa Radio Science Experiment on Venus Express, Icarus, 221, 471–480, 2012.
  56. Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Satoh, and Y. Futaana, Long-term variation in the cloud-tracked zonal velocities at the cloud top of Venus deduced from Venus Express VMC images, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 37–46, DOI:10.1029/2011JE004013, 2013.
  57. Kouyama, T., A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, T. Imamura, A method to estimate optical distortion using planetary images, Planet. Space Sci., 86, 86-90, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2013.06.027, 2013.
  58. Imamura, T., T. Higuchi, Y. Maejima, M. Takagi, N. Sugimoto, K. Ikeda, and H. Ando, Inverse insolation dependence of Venus’ cloud-level convection, Icarus, 228, 181–188, 2014.
  59. Imamura, T., M. Tokumaru, H. Isobe, D. Shiota, H. Ando, M. Miyamoto, T. Toda, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, A. Asai, K. Yaji, M. Yamada, M. Nakamura, Outflow structure of the quiet Sun corona probed by spacecraft radio scintillations in strong scattering, Astrophys. J., 788, 117(10pp), doi:10.1088/0004-637X/788/2/117, 2014.
  60. Peralta, J., T. Imamura, P. Read, D. Luz, A. Piccialli, and M. Angel López-Valverde, Analytical solution for waves in planets with atmospheric superrotation. part 1: acoustic and inertia-gravity waves, Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 213:17, doi:10.1088/0067-0049/213/1/17, 2014a.
  61. Peralta, J., T. Imamura, P. Read, D. Luz, A. Piccialli, and M. Angel López-Valverde, Analytical solution for waves in planets with atmospheric superrotation. part 2: lamb, surface, and centrifugal waves, Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 213:18, doi: 10.1088/0067-0049/213/1/18, 2014b.
  62. Sato, T.M., H. Sagawa, T. Kouyama, K. Mitsuyama, T. Satoh, S. Ohtsuki, M. Ueno, Y. Kasaba, M. Nakamura, T. Imamura, Cloud top structure of Venus revealed by Subaru/COMICS mid-infrared images, Icarus, 243, 386–399, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.004, 2014.
  63. Miyamoto, M., T. Imamura, M. Tokumaru, H. Ando, H. Isobe, A. Asai, D. Shiota, T. Toda, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, M. Nakamura, Radial distribution of compressive waves in the solar corona revealed by Akatsuki radio occultation observations, Astrophys. J., 797, 51(7pp), doi:10.1088/0004-637X/797/1/51, 2014
  64. Nakamura, M., Y. Kawakatsu, C. Hirose, T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, K. Ogohara, K. Uemizu, T. Fukuhara, S. Ohtsuki, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, J. Nakatsuka, N. Iwagami, M. Taguchi, S. Watanabe, Y. Takahashi, G. L. Hashimoto, H. Yamamoto, Return to Venus of the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter AKATSUKI, Acta Astronautica, 93, 384-389, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.07.027, 2014.
  65. Satoh, T., Ohtsuki, S., Iwagami, N., Ueno, M., Uemizu, K., Suzuki, M., Hashimoto, G. L., Sakanoi, T., Kasaba, Y., Nakamura, R., Imamura, T., Nakamura, M., Fukuhara, T., Yamazaki, A., Yamada, M., Venus’ clouds as inferred from the phase curves acquired by IR1 and IR2 on board Akatsuki, Icarus, 248, 213–220, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.10.030, 2015
  66. Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Satoh, Y. Futaana, Vertical propagation of planetary-scale waves in variable background winds in the upper cloud region of Venus, Icarus, 248, 560–568, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.07.011, 2015
  67. Kanao, M., T. Shimizu, T. Imamura, and M. Nakamura, Hinode SOT plate scale reinvestigated by G-band images on the 2012 transit of Venus, Solar Phys., 290, 1491-1506, 2015.
  68. Lee, Y. J., T. Imamura, S. E. Schroder, and E. Marcq, Long-term variations of the UV contrast on Venus observed by the Venus Monitoring Camera onboard Venus Express, Icarus, 253, 1-15, 2015.
  69. Ando, H., T. Imamura, T. Tsuda, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold and B. Häusler, Vertical wavenumber spectra of gravity waves in the Venus atmosphere obtained from Venus Express radio occultation data: evidence for saturation, J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 2318-2329, 2015. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-14-0315.1
  70. Ando, H., D. Shiota, T. Imamura, M. Tokumaru, A. Asai, H. Isobe, M. Pazold, B. Hausler, and M. Nakamura, Internal structure of a coronal mass ejection revealed by Akatsuki radio occultation observations, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 5318–5328, doi:0.1002/2015JA021076, 2015.
  71. Imamura, T., A. Watanabe, Y. Maejima, Convective generation and vertical propagation of fast gravity waves on Mars: one- and two-dimensional modeling, Icarus, 267, 51-63, 2016.
  72. Ando, H., N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, T. Imamura, and Y. Matsuda, The puzzling Venusian polar atmospheric structure reproduced by a general circulation model, Nature Communications, 7, 10398, doi:10.1038/ncomms10398, 2016.
  73. Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Hirose, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, A. Yamazaki, N. Iwagami, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, Y. Takahashi, M. Yamada, M. Imai, S. Ohtsuki, K. Uemizu, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, K. Ogohara, N. Sato, Y. Kasaba, T. Kouyama, N. Hirata, R. Nakamura, Y. Yamamoto, T. Horinouchi, M. Yamamoto, Y.-Y. Hayashi, H. Kashimura, K. Sugiyama, T. Sakanoi, H. Ando, S. Murakami, T. M. Sato, S. Takagi, K. Nakajima, J. Peralta, Y. J. Lee, J. Nakatsuka, T. Ichikawa, K. Inoue, T. Toda, H. Toyota, S. Tachikawa, S. Narita, T. Hayashiyama, A. Hasegawa, Y. Kamata, AKATSUKI returns to Venus, Earth, Planets and Space, 68:75, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-016-0457-6, 2016.
  74. Satoh, T. M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, K. Uemizu, M. Suzuki, T. Imamura, Y. Kasaba, S. Yoshida, M. Kimata, Development and in-flight calibration of IR2: 2-μm camera onboard Japan’s Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 68:74, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-016-0451-z, 2016.
  75. Satoh, T., Sato, T.M., Nakamura, M., Yasumasa Kasaba, Munetaka Ueno, Makoto Suzuki, George L. Hashimoto, Takeshi Horinouchi, Takeshi Imamura, Atsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Enomoto, Yuri Sakurai, Kosuke Takami, Kenta Sawai, Takashi Nakakushi, Takumi Abe. Performance of Akatsuki/IR2 in Venus orbit: the first year. Earth Planets Space (2017) 69: 154. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-017-0736-x
  76. Fukuhara, T., Futaguchi, T., Hashimoto, G. L., Horinouchi, T., Imamura, T., Iwagami, N., Kouyama, T., Murakami, S., Nakamura, M., Ogohara, K., Sato, M., Sato, T. M., Suzuki, M., Tguchi, M.,
Takagi, S., Ueno, M., Watanabe, S., Yamada, M., & Yamazaki, A. (2017). Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus. Nature Geo., 10(2), 85–88. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2873
  77. Muto, K. and T. Imamura, Morphology and temporal variation of the polar oval of Venus revealed by VMC/Venus express visible and UV images, Icarus 295, 110-118, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.06.014, 2017.
  78. Peralta, J., Y. J. Lee, R. Hueso, R. T. Clancy, B. J. Sandor, A. Sanchez-Lavega, E. Lellouch, M. Rengel, P. Machado, M. Omino, A. Piccialli, T. Imamura, T. Horinouchi, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, D. Luz and D. Peach, Venus’s Winds and Temperatures during the Messenger’s flyby: an approximation to a three-dimensional instantaneous state of the atmosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072900, 2017.
  79. Lee, Y. J., A. Yamazaki, T. Imamura, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, T. M. Sato, K. Ogohara, G. L. Hashimoto, and S. Murakami, Scattering Properties of the Venusian Clouds Observed by the UV Imager on board Akatsuki, Astronom. J. 154, 44, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa78a5, 2017.
  80. Peralta, J., Y. J. Lee, K. McGouldrick, H. Sagawa, A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. Imamura, T. Widemann, M. Nakamura, Overview of useful spectral regions for Venus: An update to encourage observations complementary to the Akatsuki mission, Icarus, 288, 235-239, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.01.027, 2017.
  81. Peralta, J., R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega, Y. J. Lee, A. García Muñoz, T. Kouyama, H. Sagawa, T. M. Sato, G. Piccioni, S. Tellmann, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, Stationary waves and slowly moving features in the night upper clouds of Venus, Nature Astronomy 1, 0187, doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0187, 2017.
  82. Ando, H., T. Imamura, N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold, B. Häusler, and Y. Matsuda, Vertical structure of the axi-asymmetric temperature disturbance in the Venusian polar atmosphere: comparison between radio occultation measurements and GCM results, J. Geophys. Res. 122, doi:10.1002/2016JE005213, 2017.
  83. Takeshi Imamura, Hiroki Ando, Silvia Tellmann, Martin Pätzold, Bernd Häusler, Atsushi Yamazaki, Takao M. Sato, Katsuyuki Noguchi, Yoshifumi Futaana, Janusz Oschlisniok, Sanjay Limaye, R. K. Choudhary, Yasuhiro Murata, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Chikako Hirose, Tsutomu Ichikawa, Tomoaki Toda, Atsushi Tomiki, Takumi Abe, Zen-ichi Yamamoto, Hirotomo Noda, Takahiro Iwata, Shin-ya Murakami, Takehiko Satoh, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Kazunori Ogohara, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Hiroki Kashimura, Shoko Ohtsuki, Seiko Takagi, Yukio Yamamoto, Naru Hirata, George L. Hashimoto, Manabu Yamada, Makoto Suzuki, Nobuaki Ishii, Tomoko Hayashiyama, Yeon Joo Lee and Masato Nakamura, Initial performance of the radio occultation experiment in the Venus orbiter mission Akatsuki, Earth Planet Space 69:137, doi.org/10.1186/s40623-017-0722-3, 2017.
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  151. Hiroyuki Koyama, Takeshi Imamura, Takao M. Sato, Toru Kouyama, Makoto Taguchi, Venusian planetary-scale waves observed by Akatsuki longwave infrared camera: Coupled Rossby-Kelvin waves and long-term variation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130, e2025JE009108, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009108, 2025. (Open Access) Available online 2025-09-11
  152. Hiroki Ando, Katsuyuki Noguchi, Takeshi Imamura, Masahiro Takagi, Norihiko Sugimoto, Yoshihisa Matsuda, Silvia Tellmann, Martin Pätzold, Bernd Häusler, Raj Kumar Choudhary, Maria Antonita, Vertical Propagation of Venusian Thermal Tides Above and Below Clouds Revealed by Akatsuki Radio Occultation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130, e2025JE009165, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009165, 2025. Available online 2025-09-08
  153. Keshav Aggarwal, R. K. Choudhary, Abhirup Datta, Takeshi Imamura, On the estimation of solar wind velocity under varying solar activity conditions using Akatsuki measurements, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 542, 1509 – 1517, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1305, 2025. (Open Access) Available online 2025-08-11
  154. Kazama, A., Aoki, S., Leseigneur, Y., Vincendon, M., Kasaba, Y., Nakagawa, H., et al. (2025). A statistical study of local dust storm occurrences on Mars using the 2.77 μm CO2 band observed by OMEGA/Mars express. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130, e2025JE008987.

著書

  1. 矢島信之,井筒直樹,今村剛,阿部豊雄 (2004),「気球工学―成層圏および惑星大気に浮かぶ科学気球の技術―」,宇宙工学シリーズ 6,コロナ社
  2. Yajima, N., Izutsu, N., Imamura, T., Abe, T. (2008). Scientific Ballooning – Technology and Applications of Exploration, Balloons Floating in the Stratosphere and the Atmospheres of Other Planets, Springer.
  3. 今村剛:「地球型惑星の環境のエネルギーバランス」、物質環境科学 2「 宇宙・自然システムと人類」(海部・杉山・佐々木 編)、放送大学、286pp.
  4. “Understanding the Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres”, François Forget, Oleg Korablev, Julia Venturini, Takeshi Imamura, Helmut Lammer, Michel Blanc, Eds., Space Sciences Series of ISSI, 81, Springer, 597pp., 2021.

報文

  1. Noguchi, K., Imamura, T., and Oyama, K.-I. (2000). A feasibility study for observing small lunar and Martian ionospheres by radio occultation technique, ISAS Report, 678, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan,
  2. 今村剛 (1998), 「地球型惑星の大気循環に大気微量成分の観測から迫る」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),7 (No.2), 102-108,
  3. 吉村玲子,今村剛,阿部琢美 (1999), 「S-310-27号機によるDCプローブ測定-Es層中の電子温度について-」, 宇宙研報告,106,
  4. 吉村玲子,今村剛,小山孝一郎 (1999), 「WAVE2000キャンペーンにおける電子温度・電子密度のロケット観測」, 宇宙研報告,42,23-36,
  5. 今村剛,松田佳久,中村正人,山中大学 (2001), 金星探査計画ワーキンググループ,「金星大気探査計画について」, 天気(日本気象学会誌),48 (No.7),59-64,
  6. 松田佳久,今村剛 (2001), 「金星大気の謎にせまる日本の金星探査計画」, 科学(岩波書店),71,1162-1164,
  7. 中村正人,今村剛 (2001), 「日本の金星大気探査ミッション」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),10 (No.3), 120-125,
  8. 今村剛, 高橋幸弘 (2002), 「始動した日本の金星探査ミッション」,月刊天文,68(No.3), 59-64,
  9. 矢野創,今村剛,岡田達明 (2003), 「日本の太陽系探査ロードマップにおける陸空海ローバの役割」,日本ロボット学会誌, 21 (No.5), 462-467,
  10. 今村剛, 下山学,堀之内武 (2003), 「金星の雲の形態学」, 遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌), 12 (No.4),  254-260,
  11. 今村剛 (2005), 「日本の金星探査計画」, 天文月報,  98 (No.1),  22-27,
  12. 今村剛 (2006), 「金星の大気の謎をさぐる」, 総研大ジャーナル,  9号,  34-39,
  13. 今村剛 (2007), 「金星の気候の謎」,科学(岩波書店),77 (No.2), 188-191,
  14. 今村剛 (2007), 「金星の雲システム」,エアロゾル研究(日本エアロゾル学会),22 (No.2), 95-100,
  15. 今村 剛,佐藤 毅彦,上野 宗孝,寺田 直樹 (2008), 「わが国の惑星大気探査の展望」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),17(No.1),54−57,
  16. 山田 学,山崎 敦,今村 剛,渡部 重十 (2008), 「一番星へ行こう! 日本の金星探査機の挑戦 その5 〜紫外イメージャUVI 〜」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),17(No.3),189−192,
  17. 今村剛, 岩田隆浩, 山本善一, 望月奈々子, 河野裕介, 松本晃治, 劉慶会, 野田寛大, 花田英夫, 小山孝一郎, Alexander Nabatov, 二穴喜文, 齊藤昭則, 安藤紘基 (2009), 「月電離層の電波掩蔽観測」, 測地学会誌, 第55巻第2号, 307-314,
  18. Imamura, T. (2010). Akatsuki: Toward the Morning Star, The Planetary Report, Vol. XXX (No.5), September/October,
  19. 山田学, 小郷原一智, 神山徹, はしもとじょーじ, 高木征弘, 山崎敦, 山本幸生, 今村剛 (2010), 「一番星へ行こう! 日本の金星探査機の挑戦その 11 〜科学データ地上処理系〜」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),19(No.2),157-160,
  20. 今村剛,安藤 紘基,戸田 知朗,岩田 隆浩 ,あかつき電波科学チーム (2010), 「一番星へ行こう! 日本の金星探査機の挑戦 その13 〜古くて新しい電波掩蔽〜」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),19(No.4), 347−349,
  21. 山田 学,山﨑 敦,今村 剛,あかつきカメラチーム (2011), 「一番星へ行こう!日本の金星探査機の挑戦 その16 ~ 満金星をねらえ!! 金星測光観測 ~」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),20(No.3), 222-224,
  22. 今村剛 (2011), 「一番星へ行こう! 日本の金星探査機の挑戦 その17 〜太陽コロナの電波掩蔽観測〜」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),20(No.4),367-368,
  23. 大谷 栄治, 倉本 圭, 今村 剛, 寺田 直樹, 渡部 重十, 荒川 政彦, 伊藤 孝士, 圦本 尚義, 渡部 潤一, 木村 淳, 高橋 幸弘, 中島 健介, 中本 泰史, 三好 由純, 小林 憲正, 山岸 明彦, 並木 則行, 小林 直樹, 出村 裕英, 大槻 圭史 (2011), 「『月惑星探査の来たる10年』 検討・第一段階報告」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),20(No.4),349-365,
  24. 河野宣之, 荒木博志, 石原吉明, 今村 剛, 岩田隆浩, 菊池冬彦, 佐々木 晶, Sander Goossens, 野田寛大, 花田英夫, 松本晃治 (2011), 「かぐや(SELENE)の測月ミッションと得られた成果」, 測地学会誌, 第57巻, 15-33,
  25. 今村剛,「金星の気象衛星」,計測と制御(計測自動制御学会),第50巻,第10号,854-860,
  26. 岩田隆浩、前島弘則、米倉克英、並木則行、花田英夫、今村 剛、野田寛大、浅利一善、山本善一、田中孝治、飯島祐一、高野 忠 (2011), 「月周回衛星「かぐや」「おきな」「おうな」における臼田局運用」, 信学技報(電子情報通信学会),
  27. 今村剛 (2013), 「一番星へ行こう! 日本の金星探査機の挑戦 その20 〜惑星間空間クルーズの道中にて〜」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),22(No.1),32-33,
  28. 中村 正人,山﨑 敦,田口 真,岩上 直幹,佐藤 毅彦,高橋 幸弘,今村 剛 (2016), 「一番星へ行こう! 日本の金星探査機の挑戦 その26 〜金星到着〜」,遊星人(日本惑星科学会誌),25(No.1),4-7,
  29. 今村剛, 金星の雲物理の諸問題, エアロゾル研究 (日本エアロゾル学会), 40巻3号, 2025年.

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