[HTML][HTML] Recent nationwide climate change impact assessments of natural hazards in Japan and East Asia

N Mori, T Takemi, Y Tachikawa, H Tatano… - Weather and Climate …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Climate change due to global warming is expected to have major impacts on phenomena
such as tropical cyclones (TCs), Baiu, precipitation, and seasonal storms. Many natural …

Quasi-stationary band-shaped precipitation systems, named “Senjo-Kousuitai”, causing localized heavy rainfall in Japan

T Kato - Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 2020‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
In Japan, localized heavy rainfall events producing accumulated three-hour precipitation
amounts larger than 200 mm are often observed to cause severe landslides and floods …

Characteristics of an extreme rainfall event in Kyushu district, southwestern Japan in early July 2020

Y Hirockawa, T Kato, K Araki, W Mashiko - SOLA, 2020‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
An extreme rainfall event brought precipitation amounts exceeding 1000 mm in Kyushu
district, southwestern Japan, in early July 2020. Especially, an elongated and stagnated …

Characteristics of atmospheric environments of quasi-stationary convective bands in Kyushu, Japan during the July 2020 heavy rainfall event

K Araki, T Kato, Y Hirockawa, W Mashiko - SOLA, 2021‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
This study investigated characteristics of atmospheric environmental fields in the occurrence
of quasi-stationary convective bands (QSCBs) in Kyushu, western Japan during the July …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrological evaluation of radar and satellite gauge-merged precipitation datasets using the SWAT model: Case of the Terauchi catchment in Japan

S Mtibaa, S Asano - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Study region The Terauchi catchment, southwestern Japan Study focus This paper
evaluates two gauge-merged precipitation datasets derived from weather radars (R/A) and …

Spatiotemporal Variability of Current and Future Sub‐Daily Rainfall in Japan Using State‐Of‐The‐Art High‐Quality Data Sets

W Zhao, Abhishek, BS Takhellambam… - Water Resources …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Using potentially best available rainfall data sets for the entire country of Japan (spatial
scales of 1‐and 20‐km), we analyze the 1–24 hr and city‐scale (1–400 km2) extreme …

Identifying Robust Changes of Extreme Precipitation in Japan From Large Ensemble 5‐km‐Grid Regional Experiments for 4K Warming Scenario

H Kawase, M Nosaka, SI Watanabe… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
To evaluate the impacts of global warming on local‐scale extreme precipitation in Japan,
720‐year ensemble dynamical downscaling is conducted by a regional climate model with a …

Can global rainfall estimates (satellite and reanalysis) aid landslide hindcasting?

U Ozturk, H Saito, Y Matsushi, I Crisologo… - Landslides, 2021‏ - Springer
Predicting rainfall-induced landslides hinges on the quality of the rainfall product. Satellite
rainfall estimates or rainfall reanalyses aid in studying landslide occurrences especially in …

Moisture sources of the Tohoku heavy rainfalls in August 2022 and the influences of tropical storms

N Zhao, P Wu, A Manda, X Guo… - Geophysical Research …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In August 2022, the Tohoku region of Japan suffered three major heavy rainfall
events, while one was related to an anticyclone, and the others were induced by a “Baiu …

Improvement of two-hour-ahead QPF using blending technique with spatial maximum filter for tolerating forecast displacement errors and water vapor lidar …

R Kato, S Shimizu, KI Shimose, K Hirano… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
Disasters caused by heavy rainfall associated with quasi-stationary line-shaped mesoscale
convective systems (MCSs) frequently occur in Japan. Thus, highly accurate quantitative …