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Participation at the most prestigious urban climate conference (ICUC11)


 

The most prestigious conference focusing on the field of urban climate is the International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC) organized by the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC). It is held once in three years and is participated by academics concerned with the city-weather interaction, city planners, policy-makers, and other specialists or enthusiasts in the field. Conferences focusing on urban climate have started since the 1960s.

This year, our laboratory participated in the 11th ICUC held at Sydney, Australia, held from August 28 to September 1, 2023. Together with the faculty of GUC lab and Kanda laboratory (c/o Dr. Atsushi Inagaki), doctoral students (Do Ngoc Khanh, Hiroki Ryoga, Alexandros Makedonos, and I Dewa Gede Agung Junnaedhi) arrived on the August 27 and flew back on September 2 while spending a layover at Singapore, where we met Li Qin, a former exchange student to our group. During the conference, we actively participated by sharing our works, building connections, and being updating with the advancements in the knowledge and research of urban climate through the keynote presentations, panel discussions, and sessions. The ICUC was a grand reunion of IAUC members after the delays of holding such gatherings owing to the pandemic.

Delegates from Japan

It was extra busy for our group because of the panel discussions and numerous meetings with on-going collaborators. Despite this, we were all able to enjoy the sceneries of Sydney thanks to the well-organized ICUC 11 led by Dr. Negin Nazarian and Dr. Melissa Hart of the University of New South Wales (Sydney) and the rest of the team and volunteers. We were able to enjoy a cruise along Sydney bay overlooking the Sydney skyline and a quick cold sea water swim with the leading scientists in the field.

We were able to present and engage in the following topics and discussions. Clicking the titles will provide further details of the talks. The poster used in one of the presentations that details how an anthropogenic heat emission dataset (AH4GUC) was loaded into the Community Earth System Model (CESM) can be downloaded here.

Mr. Do Ngoc Khanh, Assoc. Prof. Alvin C. G. Varquez, Prof. Manabu Kanda
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
Acknowledgement
 
This study was funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 21H04573, the Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists 21K14249 of MEXT (Japan).
Mr Ryoga Hiroki1, Prof Alvin Varquez1, Mr Do Ngoc Khanh1, Mr I Dewa Gede Agung Junnaedhi1, Prof Manabu Kanda1, Prof Florent Renard2, Dr Lucille Alonso3, Mr Ryza Rynazal1
1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. 2 University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France. 3 Acterra, Ingérop, Marseille, France
 
Acknowledgement
 

This study was funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 21H04573, the Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists 21K14249 of MEXT (Japan).

Dr. Alvin Christopher Varquez, Unubold Erdenebeleg, Prof. Manabu Kanda
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
Acknowledgement

This study was funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 21H04573, the Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists 21K14249 of MEXT (Japan).
Dr. Alvin Christopher Varquez1, Mr. Janat Taerakul1, Dr. Florent Renard2, Dr. Lucille Alonso3, Mr. Ryoga Hiroki1, Dr. Yasunobu Ashie4, Dr. Atsushi Inagaki1, Prof. Manabu Kanda1, Dr. Sunkyung Choi1, Prof. Makoto Okumura5, Prof. Shinya Hanaoka1
1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. 2 University of Lyon, University Lyon 3, UMR 5600 CNRS Environment City Society, Lyon, France. 3 Acterra, Ingérop, Marseille, France. 4 Building Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan. 5 International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku, Japan

Acknowledgement

 

This study was funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 21H04573, the Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists 21K14249 of MEXT (Japan), the JSPS Bilateral Program Grant (JPJSBP120213207), and the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (JPMEERF20212006) of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency provided by the Ministry of the Environment (Japan). The Mobile Spatial Statistics of DOCOMO Insight Marketing,INC. was granted by the Project for Co-creation of Disaster Resilience, IRIDeS, Tohoku University.e

Mr Alexandros Makedonas, Dr Atsushi Inagaki, Professor Manabu Kanda, Dr Alvin C.G. Varquez, Mr I Dewa Gede Agung Junnaedhi, Mr Do Ngoc Khanh
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Ass. Pro. Florent Renard1, Dr. Lucille Alonso2, Ass.Pro. Alvin CG Varquez3, Mr. Ryoga Hiroki3, Mr. Janat Taerakul3
1 University of Lyon, University Lyon 3, UMR 5600 CNRS Environment City Society, Lyon, France. 2 Acterra, Ingérop, Marseille, France. 3 Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Sachiho A. Adachi1, Mr. Do Ngoc Khanh2, Dr. Seiya Nishizawa1, Dr. Alvin Christopher Varquez2, Prof. Manabu Kanda2, Dr. Hirofumi Tomita1
1 RIKEN, Kobe, Japan. 2 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Acknowledgments:

This work was supported by FOCUS Establishing Supercomputing Center of Excellence. It was also partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number, JP21H04573, JP21K14249, and JP22K01039.


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