International Workshop

International workshop on climate changes assessed by high-resolution global and regional climate models and applications for national hazard assessments

Venue :
 Kihada Hall, in Kyoto University Uji-Obaku Plaza, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
 https://www.uji.kyoto-u.ac.jp/campus/obaku.html (in Japanese)
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Dates :
 March 5(Thu) - 6(Fri), 2026

Oral presentation abstract (participants only)
Poster presentation abstract (participants only)

Program

Day1 : Mar. 5, 2026
   Oral presentation:15min. including questions (except for keynote talk)
   *:20min, **:25min
9:10-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:45 Session 1(Opening): Welcome and Introduction of Sentan program

• Welcome speech
  
  Masahide Kimoto (National Institute for Environmental Studies)
  Hiroyuki Tsujino (Meteorological Research Institute)
• Overview of Area Theme 3 and 4 of SENTAN: Increasing the sophistication of climate change projections and impact assessment around Japan
  
  Hiroyuki Tsujino * (Meteorological Research Institute) and Nobuhito Mori * (Kyoto University)
• Global large ensemble climate simulations with a 60 km atmosphere and data-assimilated ocean (d4PDFv2_glb)
  
  Ryo Mizuta (Meteorological Research Institute)
• Regional Climate Prediction of Japan Using the Non-hydrostatic Regional Climate Model (NHRCM) in d4PDFv2
  
  Masaya Nosaka (Meteorological Research Institute)
• Ocean large ensemble climate simulations around Japan (d4PDFv2_ocn)
  
  Hideyuki Nakano (Meteorological Research Institute)

10:45-11:05 Break
11:05-12:50 Session 2: Activities on regional climate projections

• Global ongoing CORDEX activities in regional climate projection
  
  Jesus Fernandez ** (University of Cantabria Home)
• Learning the local: perspectives on integrating ML with advances in convection permitting modeling
  
  Stefan Pieter Sobolowski ** (Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research)
• Future tropical cyclone projections in CORDEX East Asia experiments under AR5 and AR6 frameworks
  
  Dong-Hyun Cha **(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Techonology)
• Recent activities of CORDEX-SEA towards supporting urban resilience in Southeast Asia
  
  Faye Cruz ** (Manilla observatory)

12:50-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:25 Session 3: Tropical cyclone and extreme precipitation

• Global Spatial Distribution of Tropical Cyclones
  
  Hiroyuki Murakami * (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)
• Carbon Neutrality Timing Controls Future Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Precipitation over the Western North Pacific
  
  Seung-Ki Min (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
• Assessing the Possible Worst Heavy Rainfall Events in Mid-latitude Associated with Tropical Cyclones under Warming Climates
  
  Sachie Kanada (Nagoya University)
• A comprehensive evaluation of proposed physical hypotheses for tropical cyclone reduction in a large ensemble simulation
  
  Yohei Yamada (Japan Meteorological Business Support Center)
• Relationship between Typhoon Track and Orographic Rainfall over the Two Bains in Honshu Island of Japan with 5-km Large Ensemble of Climate Projection Dataset
  
  Hiroki Okachi (Hokkaido University)

15:25-16:25 Break and Poster
16:25-18:05 Session 4: Regional and global extreme events 1

• Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP6 Climate projection for Taiwan
  
  Chao-Tzuen Cheng *(National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction)
• Observed and d4PDF-simulated impacts of different El Niño transition types on summer precipitation and tropical cyclone-associated precipitation around Japan
  
  Yasuko Okada (Japan Meteorological Business Support Center)
• Changes of rainfall extremes in Japan from event perspectives: Observations, Simulations and Future Projections
  
  Cheng-Ta Chen (National Taiwan Normal University)
• Impacts of Local and Remote SST Warming on Tropical Cyclone, Precipitation and Circulation Changes in the Western North Pacific
  
  Chao-An Chen (National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction)
• Summer Drying and Declining Relative humidity in Mongolia with Implications for Crop Agriculture
  
  Batjargal Gankhuyag (Information and Research Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment)
• Predicting the spatial-temporal evolution of Baiu fronts under climate change by machine learning
  
  Yiwen Mao (Hokkaido University)

18:15-20:15 Reception + Poster (Uji campus)

Day2: Mar 6. 2026
9:00-9:15 Registration
9:15-10:40 Session 5: Regional and global extreme events 2

• Human and natural contribution to the widespread exceptional global warmth in 2023-2024
  
  Seung-Ki Min * (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
• Operational event attribution in Japan
  
  Yukiko Imada (University of Tokyo)
• Evaluating the impact of historical global warming on extreme rainfall and snowfall events in Japan using an analogue-based event attribution method
  
  Tomonori Sato (Hokkaido University)
• Impacts of Climate Change on Heavy Rainfall and Associated Flooding in Japan in September 2024
  
  Hiroaki Kawase (Meteorological Research Institute)
• Introduction of the Post-event Understanding system using Large-ensemble Simulations for Extremes (PULSE) for rapid diagnosis of extreme precipitation
  
  Shiori Sugimoto (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:45 Session 6: Impact and hazard studies

• Human–Disaster Feedbacks in an Intensifying Flood–Fire Cycle Under Climate Change
  
  Eva Yamamoto * (Kyoto University)
• Making high resolution maps of future population for multiple socio-economic scenarios
  
  Laurence Hawker * (University of Bristol)
• Climate Change Risk Assessment and Implementation: Collaboration Agreement with the Taiwan Ministry of Environment
  
  Chia-Fa Chi (National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction)
• Scale challenges the assessment of the impact of extreme events on Costa Rican coffee yield
  
  Ana María Durán-Quesada (University of Costa Rica)
• Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Strong Wind Hazards over Major Cities in Japan
  
  Tetsuya Takemi (Kyoto University)
• Investigating the effects of irrigation on global climate simulations using the MRI-AGCM coupled with the SiBUC land surface model
  
  Kazuaki Yorozu (Kyoto University)

12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session 7: Collaboration with GPEX

• Advances, challenges and opportunities in limited area km-scale modelling: perspectives from the CORDEX community
  
  Stefan Pieter Sobolowski * (Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research)
• Overview of EA studies in Japan
  
  Hiroaki Kawase * (Meteorological Research Institute)
• Challenge for Quantitative Assessment of the Possible Worst Heavy Rainfall Events in Mid-latitude Associated with Tropical Cyclones under Warming Climates
  
  Sachie Kanada * (Nagoya University)
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  Hayley Fowler * (Newcastle University)
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  Jakob Steiner * (University of Graz)
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  Akiyo Yatagai * (Hirosaki University)

16:00-16:30 Discussion and Closing