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A recent paper has been published in the prestigious journal of “Sustainable Cities and Society”. The paper, entitled “High-resolution outdoor heat-risk modeling for city central areas with applications to Tokyo and Lyon”, was conducted in… Read More »Paper on heat-risk mapping of two distant cities

Last March 26, 2025, 7 of our members have obtained their Master’s and Bachelors degrees at Institute of Science Tokyo. It was a pleasure a working with them. They have contributed a lot in the… Read More »Graduation ceremony and a fresh Spring 2025

Last March 17, 2025, former student, Dr. Do Ngoc Khanh, received the Seiichi Tejima Research Award 2024 from President Naoto Ohtake of the Institute of Science Tokyo. A tribute to the founder of the former… Read More »Dr. Do Ngoc Khanh received the Seiichi Tejima Research Award 2024

We often focus on only changes in air temperature when discussing climate change. However, air temperature alone is not sufficient to understand human thermal sensation. To effectively address both climate change risks and comfort, it… Read More »Longterm trends of UTCI over Japan

Akira Real Trinidad (a.k.a. Aki) was an exchange student in our laboratory from April to August 2024 under the Young Science and Engineering Researchers Program (YSEP) of the Institute of Science Tokyo. He has recently… Read More »Aki dropped by the lab!

In the recent years, hourly-varying population datasets of high spatial-resolution have become available with the advancement of remote sensing. Through a collaborative project (Institute of Science and Tohoku University) aimed at disaster management, we were… Read More »A new index for daytime human mobility in cities

From December 9th to 13th, 2024, our research group presented several key works at the prestigious American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in Washington D.C., USA. Maria Deandra Crisostomo Andal (Dea), a second-year Master’s student,… Read More »AGU Fall Meeting 2024 Conference

The Japan Society of Civil Engineers hosted the 69th Conference on Hydraulic Engineering in Toyama Prefecture from December 2nd to 4th, 2024. This annual conference brings together researchers and practitioners in hydrology, atmospheric sciences, and… Read More »JSCE Conference in hydraulic engineering 2024

On November 1 and 7, 2024, we briefly welcomed and discussed with Dr. Paul Griffiths (Paul) and 3rd year students of the Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, respectively. Paul, an expert in atmospheric chemistry and… Read More »Visits of Dr. Paul and undergraduate students