Professor TANIGUCHI Kenji
Faculty, Affiliation
Faculty of Geosciences and civil Engineering,Institute of Science and Engineering Course in Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention
College and School Educational Field
Division of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
Division of Environmental Design, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
Course in Civil Engineering and Disaster Prevention, School of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, College of Science and Engineering
Laboratory
Academic Background
【Academic background(Doctoral/Master's Degree)】
The University of Tokyo Doctor Graduate School, Division of Engineering 200503 Completed
【Academic background(Bachelor's Degree)】
The University of Tokyo 200003
【Degree】
Dr. Eng.
Career
2005-2007 Research Associate, The University of Tokyo
2007-2008 Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
2008- Assistant Professor, Kanazawa University
Year & Month of Birth
1976/07
Academic Society
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
Meteorological Society of Japan
American Geophysical Union
Award
Specialities
Hydraulic engineering
Speciality Keywords
Meteorology,Water Cycle,River Engineering
Research Themes
Satellite Data Assimilation for Prediction of Precipitation
For ideal river and water resources management, the accurate weather prediction is indispensable. A weather prediction system consists of numerical models, observation data, and data assimilation techniques bridging the model and observation data. We develop and improve a data assimilation system for the satellite data observed by a microwave radiometer (AMSR-E) onboard an earth observation satellite, Aqua. The AMSR-E data are used to estimate sea surface temperature, soil moisture, etc, and we focus on water vapor and cloud water in the atmosphere. We have improved the assimilation result utilizing various kind of observation information.
Water Cycle under the Climate Change
In these days, we are facing recordable heavy rainfall events, decreasing snowfall, droughts, which are thought to be caused by "Climate Change" driven by the global warming. Lots of research works have been done using outputs from climate models. However, the huge amount of climate model outputs is not fully investigated yet and lots of questions of water cycle in future remain to be answered. In our research activity, the variability of summer heavy rainfall around Japan under the condition of climate change. We also work on a downscaling technique using numerical weather prediction model, and apply those results to assess future water resources in Asia.
Asian monsoon system
Understanding the mechanism of heavy rainfall/snowfall and the cause of regional climate conditions are necessary for better flood control and water resources management. For that purpose, we implement data analysis and numerical simulations. In data analysis, we use various and huge amount of data such as reanalysis data, satellite observation products, radar and in-situ observation data. Regional weather prediction model is also used for verifying hypothesis obtained from data analysis. Currently weather and climate in East Asia, especially the frontal heavy rainfall in summer and the heavy snowfall in winter around Japan, are focused on.
Books
Papers
- URBAN RECONSTRUCTION AND VARIATIONS IN POTENTIAL FLOOD ECONOMIC LOSS DUE TO A MEASURE TO PROPOTE RESIDENCE RELOCATION UNDER POPULATION DECLINE Kenji TANIGUCHI, Kaito KOTONE, Yuki TAKAYAMA Japanese Journal of JSCE 79 2 2023/02/20
- ESTIMATION OF EVACUEES IN A SEVERE FLOOD BY CONSIDERING DIFFERENT POPULATION DISTRIBUTION AND FUTURE DEPOPULATION Keitaro YAMAGUCHI, Kenji TANIGUCHI Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 78 2 I_7-I_12 2022/10/19
- INFLUENCE OF FLOODING FROM A TRIBUTARY ON INUNDATION CONDITIONS IN A CASE OF LARGE-SCLAE FLOOD IN KAKEHASHI RIVER Kenji TANIGUCHI, Shinya TANAKA Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 78 2 I_1-I_6 2022/10/19
- Simulation-based assessment of inundation risk potential considering the nonstationarity of extreme flood events under climate change Taniguchi, K., Kotone, K., Shibuo, Y. Journal of Hydrology 613 2022/09/14
- Spatiotemporal dispersion of local-scale dust from the Erdenet mine in Mongolia detected by Himawari-8 geostationary satellite Batbold, C., Yumimoto, K., Chonokhuu, S., Byambaa, B., Avirmed, B., Ganbat, S., Kaneyasu, N., Matsumi, Y., Yasunari, T.J., Taniguchi, K., Hasebe, N., Fukushi, K., Matsuki, A. SOLA 18 225-230 2022/09/06
- Evaluation of makeshift flood protection walls for inundation control in rapid stream basin 77 2 I_415-I_420 2021/12/01
- EVACUATION IN THE SEVERE FLOOD EVENT UNDER THE CONDITION OF URBAN STRUCTURAL CHANGES ALONG POPULATION DECLINE Keitaro YAMAGUCHI, Kenji TANIGUCHI Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 77 2 I_1507-I_1512 2021/12/01
- Estimation of Potential Economic Losses Due to Flooding Considering Variations of Spatial Distribution of Houses and Firms in a City Kaito Kotone, Kenji Taniguchi, Koichi Nakamura, Yuki Takayama Journal of Disaster Research 16 3 329-342 2021/04/01
- Impact of Climate Change on Flood Hazard at Airports on Pacific Islands: A Case Study of Faleolo International Airport, Samoa Lianhui Wu, Kenji Taniguchi, Yoshimitsu Tajima Journal of Disaster Research 16 3 351-362 2021/04/01
- INUNDATION RISK EVALUATION BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION OF SIMULTANEOUS FLLOD IN MULTIPLE RIVERS YOSHIDA Toshiki, SHIBUO Yoshihiro, TANIGUCHI Kenji Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 77 1 12-23 2021/01/20
- Study on Probabilistic Inundation Hazard along the coast of South Pacific Islands: Case study at Lakeba Island in Fiji TAJIMA Yoshimitsu, SHOJI Takumi, TANIGUCHI Kenji Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 76 2 I_1231-I_1236 2020/11/04
- EVALUATION OF ECONOMIC LOSS FROM FLOODING BY CONSIDERING FUTURE DEPOPULATION AND VARIATIONS IN URBAN STRUCTURE KOTONE Kaito, TANIGUCHI Kenji Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 76 2 I_517-I_522 2020/10/01
- INUNDATION CONTROL AND REDUCTION OF FLOOD ECONOMIC LOSS BY MAKESHIFT PROTECTION WALL INSTALLED ON EXISTING ROAD TANIGUCHI Kenji, KITAGUCHI Tsuyuka Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 76 2 I_763-I_768 2020/10/01
- Study on the estimation of microwave land surface emissivity over East Asia HIROSE Nozomu, TANIGUCHI Kenji, KAIHOTSU Ichirow International Journal of GEOMATE 18 180-186 2020/04/01
- Variations in Extreme Wave Events near a South Pacific island under Global Warming: Case study of Tropical Cyclone Tomas TANIGUCHI Kenji, TAJIMA Yoshimitsu Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 7 2020/02/01
- Impact of global warming on extreme heavy rainfall in the present climate: Case study of heavy rainfall in Kinugawa, Japan (2015) TANIGUCHI Kenji, MINOBE Yuto Atmosphere 11 2020/02/01
- Evaluation of Flood Evacuation Possibility under the Global Warming Condition in Kakehashi River Basin based on Inundation Simulation NAKADE Noriyasu, TANIGUCHI Kenji Internet Journal of Society for Social Management Systems 12 1 1-11 2019/12/01
- FLOOD RISK RANK EVALUATION AND POSSIBLE EVACUATION TIME ESTIMATION BASED ON FLOOD SIMULATION YOSHIDA Toshiki, TANIGUCHI Kenji, SHIBUO Yoshihiro Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 75 2 I_1351-I_1356 2019/11/01
- GENERATION OF ENSEMBLE SHORT-RANGE RAINFALL FORECAST FROM A SINGLE RAINFALL FORECAST USING ERROR STATISTICS INFORMATION TANIGUCHI Kenji, ITOH Tatsuru Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 75 2 I_1147-I_1152 2019/11/01
- Variations in Winter Ocean Wave Climate in the Japan Sea under the Global Warming Condition Taniguchi Kenji Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 7 5 2019/05/01
- Storm surge simulation in the Tokyo Bay under future climate conditions using global warming method Kenji Taniguchi, Hiroshi Sanuki, Yoshihiro Shibuo, Yoshimitsu Tajima Journal of Japan Societiy of Civil Engineers B2 (Coastal engineering) 74 2 I_613-I618 2018/11/01
- RECONSTRUCTION OF ENSEMBLE RAINFALL FORECAST BY THE APPLICATION OF SEQUENTIAL DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUE Shoki KATSUYAMA, Kenji TANIGUCHI, Kazuyuki NAKAMURA Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser.B1 (Hydraulic Enginnering) 74 5 I_253-I_258 2018/11/01
- ESTIMATION OF EXPECTATION OF FLOODING WATER DEPTH BASED ON HEAVY RAINFALLS WITH DIFFERENT RETURN PERIODS SIMULATED BY PSEUDO GLOBAL WARMING METHOD Kenji TANIGUCHI, Yoshihiro SHIBUO Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser.B1 (Hydraulic Enginnering) 74 5 I_1405-I_1410 2018/11/01
- Coupling dynamical and statistical downscaling for high-resolution rainfall forecasting: case study of the Red River Delta, Vietnam Quan Tran Anh, Kenji Taniguchi Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018/05/03
- A Simple Ensemble Simulation Technique for Assessment of Future Variations in Specific High‐Impact Weather Events Kenji Taniguchi Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere 2018/03/23
- DIFFERENCE OF FLOOD AND INUNDATION CHARACTERISTICS UNDER VARIOUS TYPES OF PRECIPITATION PATTERNS Kenji TANIGUCHI, Yoshihiro SHIBUO Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser.B1 (Hydraulic Enginnering) 74 4 I_1489-I_1494 2018/03
- RAINFALL RUNOFF AND INUNDATION IN CAU-THUONG-LUC NAM WATERSHED IN VIETNAM UNDER GLOBAL WARMING Quan Anh TRAN, Kenji TANIGUCHI Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser.B1 (Hydraulic Engineering) 74 4 I_163-I_168 2018/03
- IMPACT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON A TROPICAL CYCLONE LOSSES IN VIETNAM TRAN Lap Quoc, TANIGUCHI Kenji Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 73 4 I_97-I_102 2017/03
- FUTURE VARIATIONS OF PRECIPITATION AND RIVER DISCHARGE BASED ON A PARTICULAR HEAVY RAINFALL IN TSURUMI-GAWA BASIN TANIGUCHI Kenji, SHIBUO Yoshihiro, YOSHIMURA Kouhei Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 72 4 I_181-I_186 2017/03
- ANALYSIS OF RIVER FLOOD AND URBAN INUNDATION CAUSED BY PSEUDO GLOBAL WARMING TYPHOONS AND THE EFFECT OF FLOOD CONTROL MEASURES IN THE TSURUMI RIVER BASIN SHIBUO Yoshihiro, TANIGUCHI Kenji, SANUKI Hiroshi, YOSHIMURA Kohei, LEE Sungae, TAJIMA Yoshimitsu, KOIKE Toshio, FURUMAI Hiroaki, SATO Shinji Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 73 4 I_1381-I_1386 2017/03
- Future changes in precipitation and water resources for Kanto Region in Japan after application of pseudo global warming method and dynamical downscaling Kenji Taniguchi Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 8 287-303 2016/11
- Simulations of Heavy Rainfall from a Tropical Cyclone in Coastal Regions of Vietnam under the Global Warming TRAN Lap Quoc, TANIGUCHI Kenji Journal of Climate Change 2 2 25-34 2016/07
- EVALUATION OF FUTURE VARIATIONS OF A PARTICULAR WEATHER EVENT BY ENSEMBLE-PSEUDO GLOBAL WARMING SIMULATION TANIGUCHI Kenji Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 72 4 I_43-I_48 2016/03
- Applications of the pseudo global warming dynamic downscaling method for the Tokai heavy rain in 2000 TANIGUCHI Kenji, SHO Kenjiro Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 93 5 551-570 2015/10
- Variations of precipitation and water resources in the northern part of Vietnam under climate change TRAN Quan Anh, TANIGUCHI Kenji Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 70 4 I_211-I_216 2014/03
- PREDICTION OF FUTURE WATER QUALITY UNDER LONG-TERM CLIMATE CHANGE IN URAYAMA RESERVOIR CHOI Jungkyo, YAJIMA Hiroshi, TANIGUCHI Kenji, MAGOME Jun 70 4 I_1633-I_1638 2014/03
- CHARACTERISTICS OF RAINFALL AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALLS IN NAGOYA SEEN IN 10-MINUTE AND XRAIN PRECIPITATION DATA SHO Kenjiro, TANIGUCHI Kenji, TOMINAGA Akihiro Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 70 4 I_487-I_492 2014/03
- APPLICATION OF A DYNAMIC DOWNSCALING METHOD FOR THE ARA RIVER BASIN AND CHANGES IN THE PRECIPITATION AND WATER RESOURCES UNDER THE GLOBAL WARMING TANIGUCHI Kenji Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 70 4 I_457-I_462 2014/03
- FORECASTING OF THE WATER QUALITY IN A RESERVOIR USING PSEUDO GLOBAL WARMING MODEL CHOI Jungkyo, YAJIMA Hiroshi, TANIGUCHI Kenji, MAGOME Jun 69 4 I_1495-I_1500 2013/03
- EFFECT OF UNCERTAINTIES IN DOWNSCALING RESULTS USING WRF MODEL ON WATER QUALITY PREDICTION IN A RESERVOIR YAJIMA Hiroshi, CHOI Jungkyo, TANIGUCHI Kenji 69 4 I_1489-I_1494 2013/03
- SENSITIVITY EXPERIMETNS FOR CLOUD BOTTOM HEIGHT IN CLOUD MICROPHYSICS SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUE TANIGUCHI Kenji, KOIKE Toshio 69 4 I_313-I_318 2013/03
- Role of Patchy Snow Cover on the Planetary Boundary Layer Structure during Late Winter Observed in the Central Tibetan Plateau Ueno, K., S. Sugimoto, H. Tsutsui, K. Taniguchi, Z. Hu and S. Wu Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 90C 145-155 2012/08
- Atmospheric Conditions and Increasing Temperature over the Tibetan Plateau during Early Spring and the Pre-Monsoon Season in 2008 K. Taniguchi, T. Tamura, T. Koike, K. Ueno and X. Xu Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 90C 17-32 2012/08
- PRECIPITATION ANALYSIS OF HEAVY RAINFALLS IN AICHI PREFECTURE USING 10-MINUTE PRECIPITATION DATA K. Sho, K. Taniguchi and A. Tominaga Journal of JCSE, Division B1 67 4 I_499-I-504 2012/03
- IMPROVING A CLOUD MICROPHYSICS DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUE USING CLOUD TOP HEIGHT INFORMATION ESTIMATED FROM THE OBSERVATION BY MULTI-FUNCTIONAL TRANSPORT SATELLITE K. Taniguchi, C. R. Mirza and T. Koike Journal of JCSE, Division B1 67 4 I_439-I_444 2012/03
- Effect of the Variation in the Lower Tropospheric Temperature on the Wind Onset of the Indian Summer Monsoon K. Taniguchi, D. Rajan and T. Koike METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS 106 1-2 75-94 2010/02
- SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR AMSR-E SEA SURFACE PRODUCTS AND CLOUD TOP HEIGHT IN CLOUD MICROPHYSICS DATA ASSIMILATION K. Taniguchi, Y. Araki, C. R. Mirza and T. Koike Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 54 361-366 2010/02
- Mechanism of Upper Tropospheric Warming around the Tibetan Plateau at the Onset Phase of the Asian Summer Monsoon T. Tamura, K. Taniguchi and T. Koike JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH 115 2010/01
- Seasonal Variation of Cloud Activity and Atmospheric Profiles over the Eastern Part of the Tibetan Plateau JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH doi:10.1029 2007JD009321 2008/05
- THE JOINT AEROSOL-MONSOON EXPERIMENT - A New Challenge for Monsoon Climate Research - BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 89 3 369-383 2008/03
- PVES: Powered Visualizer for Earth Environmental Science IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL 2 3 390-400 2008/02
- Display Wall Empowered Visual Mining for CEOP Data Archive JOURNAL OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 85A 545-559 2007
- Increasing Atmospheric Temperature in the Upper Troposphere and Cumulus Convection over the Eastern Part of the Tibetan Plateau in the Pre-Monsoon Season of 2004 JOURNAL OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 85A 271-294 2007
- Initial CEOP-based Review of the Prediction Skill of Operational General Circulation Models and Land Surface Models JOURNAL OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 85A 99-116 2007
- Development of a data mining application for huge scale earth environmental data archives International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 2 5-6 262-270 2006
- Comparison of definitions of Indian summer monsoon onset: Better representation of rapid transitions of atmospheric conditions GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS doi:10.1029 2005GL024526 2006/01
- FLOOD RISK REDUCTION EFFECTS OF URBAN STRUCTURAL CHANGES DUE TO REARRANGEMENT OF PUBLIC FACILITIES Shinichiro IWASAKI, Kenji TANIGUCHI Japanese Journal of JSCE 80 16 2024/02/29
- EFFECTIVENESS OF THE OPEN LEVEES IN THE TEDORI RIVER BASIN IN REDUCING FLOOD DAMAGE IN THE CASES OF MAJOR RAINFALLS Yuki HARA, Kenji TANIGUCHI Japanese Journal of JSCE 80 16 2024/02/29
Conference Presentations
Others
Arts and Fieldwork
Patent
Theme to the desired joint research
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
○「気象センサーネットワークを用いた地球水循環データ統融合技術の開発」(2006-2007)
○「地球水循環変動の極端事象メカニズムの解明」(2006-)
○「複数の衛星観測データの統合的活用による雲微物理データ同化手法の開発」(2008-)
Competitive research funding,Contribution
Collaborative research,Consignment study
Classes (Bachelors)
○River Engineering A(2021)
○River Engineering B(2021)
○Pipe Flow Hydraulics A(2021)
○Pipe Flow Hydraulics B(2021)
○Surveying and Practice 1(2021)
○Surveying and Practice 2(2021)
○Presentation and Debate(2021)
○Academic Skills(2021)
○Civil Engineering Design Practice 2(2021)
Classes (Graduate Schools)
○Exercise on Regional and Global Environment(2021)
○Data Analysis in Hydrology and Hydrodynamics B(2021)
○Fundamentals of Numerical Simulation(2021)
○Water Cycle and Global Environment(2021)
○Theme Project(2021)