Yuki Kita

The University of Tokyo | Todai · Institute of Industrial Science

Annual probability-scale inundation maps produced by riverine inundation models are used widely as flood hazard maps in many countries and regions for evacuation planning and real estate risk management, even though producing individual flood hazard maps for each water system is costly and time-consuming. For this study, a global riverine inundatio...

The international community has agreed through the Paris Agreement to limit the global temperature rise to less than 2 °C above the pre-industrial level. In recent years, many targets with carbon-neutrality as the keyword have been announced. The realization of carbon-neutrality is much more ambitious than the Kyoto Protocol-based climate change co...

Crowdsourcing using low-cost measurement sensors is becoming a possible option for environmental sciences. This study describes the development and demonstration experiment of a prototype of the low-cost observation system for wind over the ocean. A validation experiment of the low-cost anemometer showed calibration is necessary to use the sensor f...

The development of ocean waves under explosive cyclones (ECs) is investigated in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean using a hindcast wave simulation around Japan during the period 1994 through 2014. A composite analysis of the ocean wave fields under ECs is used to investigate how the spatial patterns of the spectral wave parameters develop over time....

Interest in climate engineering research has grown rapidly owing to the slow progress of international climate negotiations. As some scientists are proposing to expand research and conduct field tests, there is an emerging debate about whether and how it should proceed. It is widely accepted both by the supporters and critics that public engagement...

The distorted coordination structures and luminescence properties of novel lanthanide complexes with oxo-linked bidentate phosphane oxide ligands--4,5-bis(diphenylphosphoryl)-9,9-dimethylxanthene (xantpo), 4,5-bis(di-tert-butylphosphoryl)-9,9-dimethylxanthene (tBu-xantpo), and bis[(2-diphenylphosphoryl)phenyl] ether (dpepo)--and low-vibrational fre...