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… 続きを読む »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… 続きを読む »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… 続きを読む »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… 続きを読む »Longterm trends of UTCI over Japan
Published works of Master’s students, Mitsuna Sekiya and Ying Liu, are now available in the Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers website (linked below). Their works are intertwined with Mitsuna mainly focusing on the… 続きを読む »Anthropogenic heating scenarios, urban agglomerations, and heatwaves
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… 続きを読む »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… 続きを読む »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,… 続きを読む »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… 続きを読む »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… 続きを読む »Visits of Dr. Paul and undergraduate students
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