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Manabu Kanda is a researcher affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with a substantial number of publications in related subfields such as environmental engineering, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, as well as building and construction.

The researcher's recent publications include studies on urban heat dynamics, climate impacts, and geospatial modeling. Notable papers include:

  • "Global 1-km present and future hourly anthropogenic heat flux" (2021) published in Scientific Data
  • "Future increase in elderly heat-related mortality of a rapidly growing Asian megacity" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Impact of urbanization on exposure to extreme warming in megacities" (2023) published in Heliyon
  • "Evaluating future railway-induced urban growth of twelve cities using multiple SLEUTH models with open-source geospatial inputs" (2023) published in Sustainable Cities and Society
  • "Detection of sea-breeze inland penetration in the coastal-urban region using geostationary satellite images" (2020) published in Urban Climate

Kanda frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Alvin C. G. Varquez, Atsushi Inagaki, Do Ngoc Khanh, Shinya Hanaoka, and I Dewa Gede Agung Junnaedhi.

Their work has been published repeatedly in specific venues, among them:

  • Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B1 (Hydraulic Engineering)
  • Japanese Journal of JSCE
  • Journal of JSCE
  • Sustainable Cities and Society
  • International Journal of Climatology

Research topics addressed by Kanda include:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Noise Effects and Management

This comprehensive research portfolio reflects an interdisciplinary approach, integrating climate science, urban environmental studies, and engineering to address challenges related to urbanization and climate impacts.

Best Publications

  • Initial results from Phase 2 of the international urban energy balance model comparison

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J.J. Baik

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Organized Structures within and above Explicitly Resolved Cube Arrays

    Manabu Kanda;Ryo Moriwaki;Fumi Kasamatsu

  • LES Study of the Energy Imbalance Problem with Eddy Covariance Fluxes

    Manabu Kanda;Atsushi Inagaki;Marcus Oliver Letzel;Siegfried Raasch

  • A New Aerodynamic Parametrization for Real Urban Surfaces

    Manabu Kanda;Atsushi Inagaki;Takashi Miyamoto;Micha Gryschka

  • Large-Eddy Simulations on the Effects of Surface Geometry of Building Arrays on Turbulent Organized Structures

    Manabu Kanda

  • Roughness Lengths for Momentum and Heat Derived from Outdoor Urban Scale Models

    M. Kanda;M. Kanega;T. Kawai;R. Moriwaki

  • A simple energy balance model for regular building arrays

    M. Kanda;T. Kawai;M. Kanega;R. Moriwaki

  • Progress in the scale modeling of urban climate: Review

    M. Kanda

  • Organized structures in developing turbulent flow within and above a plant canopy, using a large eddy simulation

    Manabu Kanda;Mikio Hino

  • High-resolution global urban growth projection based on multiple applications of the SLEUTH urban growth model.

    Yuerong Zhou;Alvin Christopher Galang Varquez;Manabu Kanda

  • Global anthropogenic heat flux database with high spatial resolution

    Y. Dong;A.C.G. Varquez;M. Kanda

  • Progress in Urban Meteorology :A Review

    Manabu Kanda

  • A Simple Theoretical Radiation Scheme for Regular Building Arrays

    Manabu Kanda;Toru Kawai;Kiyotaka Nakagawa

  • Large-Eddy Simulation for the Mechanism of Pollutant Removal from a Two-Dimensional Street Canyon

    Takenobu Michioka;Ayumu Sato;Hiroshi Takimoto;Manabu Kanda

  • Organized Structure of Active Turbulence Over an Array of Cubes within the Logarithmic Layer of Atmospheric Flow

    Atsushi Inagaki;Manabu Kanda

  • Spatial representativeness of single tower measurements and the imbalance problem with eddy-covariance fluxes: results of a large-eddy simulation study

    Gerald Steinfeld;Marcus Oliver Letzel;Siegfried Raasch;Manabu Kanda

  • Impact of surface heterogeneity on energy imbalance : A study using LES

    Atsushi Inagaki;Marcus Oliver Letzel;Siegfried Raasch;Manabu Kanda

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of Coherent Flow Structures within a Cubical Canopy

    Atsushi Inagaki;Marieta Cristina L. Castillo;Yoshimi Yamashita;Manabu Kanda

  • Turbulent flow similarity over an array of cubes in near-neutrally stratified atmospheric flow

    A. Inagaki;M. Kanda

  • Area-Averaged Sensible Heat Flux and a New Method to Determine Zero-Plane Displacement Length over an Urban Surface using Scintillometry

    Manabu Kanda;Ryo Moriwaki;Matthias Roth;Tim Oke

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegfried Raasch
Siegfried Raasch University of Hannover
Itsushi Uno
Itsushi Uno Kyushu University
Alberto Martilli
Alberto Martilli Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Janet F. Barlow
Janet F. Barlow University of Reading
C. S. B. Grimmond
C. S. B. Grimmond University of Reading
Jong-Jin Baik
Jong-Jin Baik Seoul National University
Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Matthias Roth
Matthias Roth National University of Singapore
Keith W. Oleson
Keith W. Oleson National Center for Atmospheric Research

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