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Kanda Lab
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The lab studies urban weather, including heat islands and sudden localized torrential downpours.
AboutAbout the lab
Leading urban meteorology worldwide with cutting-edge technology.
The Kanda Lab studies the weather phenomena specific to cities.
It deals with problems of the urban atmospheric environment, such as heat islands, heatstroke, torrential downpours, and air pollution.
The lab combines supercomputer-based prediction of urban weather, an outdoor urban experimental facility, and advanced environmental measurement technologies.
The lab takes a multifaceted approach that is not bound by existing disciplinary boundaries, spanning meteorology, hydrology, civil engineering, and architecture.
Key terms
- Heat island
- A phenomenon in which temperatures in a city become higher than in the surrounding suburbs
- Turbulence
- A state in which the flow of air or water is irregular and disordered, with large and small eddies mixed together
- Boundary layer
- The layer of the atmosphere just above the ground surface, strongly influenced by surface roughness and heat
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the Tejima Seiichi Memorial Research Award (Doctoral Dissertation Award)
A master's student and an undergraduate student received Best Presentation Awards
A master's student's paper received the Hydraulic Engineering Paper Award
ResearchResearch themes
Using supercomputer-based urban weather prediction techniques, an outdoor urban experimental facility, and advanced environmental measurement technologies, the lab unravels the weather specific to cities. It investigates heat islands, heatstroke, torrential downpours, air pollution, and more on a global scale using general-purpose methods.
*Illustrative imageOutdoor Scale Model Experiments
To understand the causal relationships between urban structure and the exchange of water and energy, well-controlled model experiments are essential. The lab builds a near-full-scale model city outdoors and, under natural weather conditions, changes the urban geometry and the arrangement of vegetation to clarify their effects.
*Illustrative imageUrban Turbulence Simulation
The lab has developed LES-CITY, a detailed numerical simulation method, to uncover the structure of the turbulence that forms in the urban boundary layer. Through joint research with a German research group, it now supports massively parallel computing and can calculate over wide areas.
*Illustrative imageReproducing Urban Torrential Downpours
Using a state-of-the-art urban weather model, the lab simulates the sudden torrential downpours that hit Tokyo. It has built three factors into the model: drag from buildings, artificial waste heat such as that from air conditioning, and the effective raising of the terrain by densely packed buildings.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kanda Lab consist of faculty members and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKanda ManabuPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorAtsushi InagakiPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Tokyo Tower, Minato City” David Kernan / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Outdoor Scale Model Experiments: “Aerial panorama of Venetian rooftops toward the lagoon at sunset (2023)” Paul Colin Hennig firstdorsal.eu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban Turbulence Simulation: “DNS Velocity Field” Charlesreid1 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Reproducing Urban Torrential Downpours: “Thunderstorm over Tartu” Hall Wild / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Inaba Lab): “Schlieren image of supersonic nitrogen flow” Jan Pavelka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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