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Atmospheric and Thermal Environment Engineering Lab
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The lab uses simulation to map out pathways to solving global environmental problems.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring solutions to global environmental problems through models
The Atmospheric and Thermal Environment Engineering Lab evaluates global-scale environmental problems and their solutions using simulation models.
The lab develops and uses integrated assessment models that treat energy, the economy, agriculture, land use, and water use together.
It quantifies future greenhouse gas emissions, the costs of reducing them, and the effects of climate change on people's lives.
The scope ranges from individual countries in Asia to the entire world, and the time horizon covers the short, medium, and long term, from the present to 2100.
Key terms
- Integrated assessment model
- A model that links energy, the economy, agriculture, land use, and water use into one framework to calculate the future
- Greenhouse gases
- Gases such as carbon dioxide and methane that accumulate in the atmosphere and warm the Earth
- Co-benefits
- An additional positive effect that a measure brings apart from its original purpose
NewsLab news
A student received the Excellent Poster Award at the Kyoto University Environmental Sanitation Engineering Research Forum
A student received the FY2026 (Reiwa 8) Graduate School of Engineering Mazume Research Encouragement Award
A paper evaluating the energy transition to zero fossil fuels was published in Nature Communications
A paper on climate change mitigation and hunger risk was published in Nature Food
A paper on the economic impacts of net-zero emissions targets was published in Communications Earth & Environment
ResearchResearch themes
Global environmental problems such as global warming, air pollution, food issues, and water resource issues cannot be assessed without combining knowledge of the social sciences and humanities with engineering. The lab organizes information from a broad perspective, models the mechanisms at work, and applies the results to future projections and the planning of countermeasures.
*Illustrative imageGreenhouse gas outlook and mitigation costs
The lab studies global greenhouse gas reduction over the short, medium, and long term, from 2030 to 2100.
*Illustrative imageRecommendations for the Sustainable Development Goals
The lab takes up the SDGs most closely related to the environment and examines targets that look beyond 2030 to 2050 and 2100.
*Illustrative imageEstimating the costs of warming impacts
The lab uses economic models to estimate the costs of impacts caused by warming in areas such as agriculture, water resources, floods, health, and sea level rise. Calculations proceed by feeding climate model outputs into sector-specific models and linking the results to an economic model.
*Illustrative imageClimate change measures and air pollution
Decarbonizing social systems is said to reduce air pollution and bring various co-benefits to human society and ecosystems. The lab calculates the dispersion of air pollutants and estimates the effects on health and agriculture, contributing to the design of greenhouse gas reduction policies.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Atmospheric and Thermal Environment Engineering Lab are faculty, research assistants, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and non-degree research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShinichiro Fujimori
- Assistant ProfessorShotaro Mori
- Program-Specific Associate ProfessorTomoko Hasegawa
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorVISHWANATHAN Saritha Sudharmma
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorZhao Zhao
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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: “72,000 panel solar field at Nellis AFB” U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Robert Valenca / Public domain (cropped)
- Greenhouse gas outlook and mitigation costs: “Electricity pylons, sunset 02” Novoklimov / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Recommendations for the Sustainable Development Goals: “Kudat-District Sabah Rice-paddy-of-a-smallholder-06” CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Estimating the costs of warming impacts: “Lowell Glacier north” Jeffrey Bond / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Climate change measures and air pollution: “Salt Lake City smog haze skyline 02” Eltiempo10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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