*Nobuko Saigusa¹, Toshinobu Machida¹, Tsuneo Matsunaga¹, Hiroshi Tanimoto¹, Yosuke Niwa¹, Yukio Terao¹, Akihiko Ito¹ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies)

*Tomoko Shirai¹, Misa Ishizawa², Motoki Sasakawa¹, Akihiko Ito¹, Toshinobu Machida¹, Shamil Maksyutov¹ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies, 2.Environment and Climate Change Canada)

*Yasunori Tohjima¹, Jiye Zeng¹, Akihiko Ito¹, Naveen Chandra², Yosuke Niwa¹, Hitoshi Mukai¹, Tomoko Shirai¹, Motoki Sasakawa¹, Prabir Patra², Toshinobu Machida¹ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

*Taku Umezawa¹, Takuya Saito¹, Yasunori Tohjima¹, Yukio Terao¹, Akihiko Ito¹ (1.National Institute of Environmental Studies)

*Prabir Patra^1,2, Tomohiro Hajima¹, Ryu Saito³, Naveen Chandra¹, Yukio Yoshida⁴, Michio Kawamiya¹, Masayuki Kondo², Kazuhito Ichii², Akihiko Ito⁴, Dave Crisp⁵ (1.Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, 2.Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan, 3.Disaster Risk Reduction and Environ. SBU, Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 183-0057, Japan, 4.Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES, Tsukuba, 305-8506, Japan, 5.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA)

*Fenjuan Wang^1,2, Shamil S Maksyutov¹, Rajesh Janardanan¹, Aki Tsuruta³, Akihiko Ito¹, Isamu Morino¹, Yukio Yoshida¹, Johannes W. Kaiser⁴, Greet Janssens Maenhout⁵, Ed Dlugokencky⁶, Ivan Mammarella⁷, Jost V. Lavric⁸, Tsuneo Matsunaga¹ (1.NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, 2.Department of Climate Change, National Climate Center, 3.Finnish Meteorological Institute, 4.Deutscher Wetterdienst, 5.European Commission Joint Research Centre, 6.Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, 7.University of Helsinki, 8.Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)

*Tomohiro Hajima¹, Akihiko Ito², Prabir Patra¹, Kaoru Tachiiri¹, Kazuhito Ichii³, Manabu Abe¹ (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2.National Institute for Environmental Studies, 3.Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University)

*Tokuta Yokohata¹, Tsuguki Kinoshita², Gen Sakurai³, Akihiko Ito¹, Yusuke Satoh¹, Yadu Pokhrel⁴, Masashi Okada¹, Etsushi Kato⁵, KIYOSHI TAKAHASHI¹, Naota Hanasaki¹, Shinichiro Fujimori⁶, Seita Emori¹ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies, 2.Ibaraki University, 3.National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, 4.Michigan State University, 5.The Institute of Applied Energy, 6.Kyoto University)

*Kentaro Hayashi¹, Hideaki Shibata², Sadao Eguchi¹, Azusa Oita¹, Kazuya Nishina³, Akihiko Ito³, Kiwamu Katagiri⁴, Junko Shindo⁵, Baojing Gu⁶, Wilfried Winiwarter⁷ (1.Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, 2.Hokkaido University, 3.National Institute for Environmental Sciences, 4.Tohoku University, 5.Emeritus, University of Yamanashi, 6.Zhejiang University, 7.International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

*Akihiko Ito¹ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies)