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Coastal Disaster Prevention Engineering Lab
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The lab assesses long-term hazards to protect the country from storm surges, high waves, and tsunamis.
AboutAbout the lab
Preparing for massive coastal disasters with a long-term view
The Coastal Disaster Prevention Engineering Lab conducts interdisciplinary research, from fundamentals to applications, on coastal disaster prevention and mitigation in coastal areas and the sea.
Drawing on coastal engineering, physical oceanography, and meteorology, the lab studies high waves and storm surges generated by typhoons and low-pressure systems, and tsunamis generated by subduction-zone earthquakes.
Preventing and mitigating natural disasters is a problem shared by the whole world, not just Japan, so the lab pursues universal research whose results can be used in many countries.
The lab also focuses on research that predicts how coastal disasters will change over the long term under global warming scenarios.
Key terms
- Storm surge
- An abnormal rise in sea level caused by the suction effect of a typhoon or low-pressure system together with wind setup from strong winds
- Hazard assessment
- Estimating how large the force that causes a disaster can be and how often it occurs
- Probabilistic tsunami model
- A model that treats the diversity of fault slip patterns in subduction-zone earthquakes probabilistically and evaluates tsunami size over the long term
NewsLab news
A research team of faculty members assesses future extreme sea levels along Southeast Asian coasts
Professor Nobuhito Mori and colleagues assess the variability of typhoon intensity caused by rising sea surface temperatures
Professor Nobuhito Mori and colleagues quantify the tsunami and wave reduction effect of mangroves
A master's student and faculty members receive the Coastal Engineering Paper Award from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Professor Nobuhito Mori and colleagues receive the Coastal Engineering Journal Citation Award
ResearchResearch themes
To protect the country from massive coastal disasters, the lab evaluates long-term hazards. Under global warming scenarios, waves and storm surges are expected to change in addition to sea level rise, and the lab predicts how they will change.
*Illustrative imageHazard assessment of storm surges, waves, and tsunamis
Storm surges are caused by the pressure-driven rise of the sea surface (inverse barometer effect) and wind setup from strong winds associated with large traveling low-pressure systems. The lab develops techniques to estimate the magnitude and frequency of these events accurately, including tsunamis, which can be described by the same governing equations, as well as methods to calculate how the flow transforms as it floods over land.
*Illustrative imageHow climate change will alter coastal disasters
Japan's coasts are likely to experience waves and storm surges beyond what previous knowledge has covered, and the lab makes long-term predictions in collaboration with modeling research.
*Illustrative imageLong-term assessment of giant tsunamis
Giant tsunamis occur only once every several hundred to several thousand years, which makes them difficult to assess over the long term. The lab is developing a probabilistic tsunami model that takes into account, in a probabilistic way, the diversity of fault ruptures in subduction-zone earthquakes.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Coastal Disaster Prevention Engineering Lab are faculty members, researchers, administrative secretaries, and graduate and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorNobuhito Mori
- Specially Appointed Professor (Part-time)Tomoo Inoue
- Associate ProfessorTomoya Shimura
- Associate ProfessorYasuyuki Baba
- Assistant ProfessorTakuya Miyashita
- Assistant ProfessorYuki Imai
- Project Assistant ProfessorLYU Zuorui
- Project Assistant ProfessorHO Tung-Cheng
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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: “Storm surge Wilhelmshaven” Jacek Rużyczka / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Hazard assessment of storm surges, waves, and tsunamis: “2004-tsunami” David Rydevik ( david.rydevikgmail.com), Stockholm, Sweden. / Public domain (cropped)
- How climate change will alter coastal disasters: “Typhoon Krathon Churns off Taiwan Coast (CIRA )” Himawari imagery: CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA / Public domain (cropped)
- Long-term assessment of giant tsunamis: “2011 tsunami wave height” NOAA / Public domain (cropped)
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