Two new papers are recently published in the Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 (Hydraulic Engineering). The lead authors are Master’s students, Mr. Do Ngoc Khanh (a.k.a. Satoru) and Ms. Hinana Seki.
Satoru conducted multiple simulations over various cities of different backgrounds. The aims are to understand the combined and separate effects of background climate change and local urbanization levels. The current work targets the month of Augusts and he affirms former research done in Jakarta and a previous multi-city observational study. He will continue his work by expanding to other months and combining the current findings with that of a historical simulation study by Ms. Yuri Narita (former lab member). Satoru’s publication can be accessed here.
Seki-san’s study deals with micro-climate simulations over the downtown area of Tokyo. Using a micro-scale model and big data, she introduces a new method of mapping out mobility-induced heat risks. At its early stages, the work contributes to the application of big data (for this case, popular times of establishments through Google) in climate studies. Future direction of the work would be on the improvement of her heat risk metric, further analyses of the modeled outputs considering ensemble climate and heat wave event, and application to other cities. Seki-san’s publication be downloaded here (Japanese language).
Well done, Seki-san and Satoru! For further summary of their work, click the “Research” page.
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