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Toshio Koike

Toshio Koike

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
11992
World Ranking
3110
National Ranking
43

Overview

Toshio Koike is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work is primarily focused on hydrology, flood risk assessment, and precipitation analysis within the broader context of atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and water science and technology.

Their recent publications include studies addressing hydrologic simulation efficiency, flood discharge simulations, climate change impacts, and flood control policies in Japan. Notable papers are:

  • "A study on availability of ground observations and its impacts on bias correction of satellite precipitation products and hydrologic simulation efficiency" (2022), published in the Journal of Hydrology
  • "Adequacy of Near Real-Time Satellite Precipitation Products in Driving Flood Discharge Simulation in the Fuji River Basin, Japan" (2021), published in Applied Sciences
  • "A holistic approach for using global climate model (GCM) outputs in decision making" (2023), published in the Journal of Hydrology
  • "Evolution of Japan's flood control planning and policy in response to climate change risks and social changes" (2021), published in Water Policy
  • "Development of an Integrated Approach for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on the Hydro-Meteorological Characteristics of the Mahaweli River Basin, Sri Lanka" (2021), published in Water

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Toshio Koike include Mohamed Rasmy, Katsunori Tamakawa, Hemakanth Selvarajah, Tomoki Ushiyama, and Li Zhou.

The main publication venues for Toshio Koike feature:

  • Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
  • Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B1 (Hydraulic Engineering)
  • Water
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Their scientific work covers several interdisciplinary fields and subfields including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering

The topics they have explored throughout their research include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Best Publications

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • Global potential soil erosion with reference to land use and climate changes

    Dawen Yang;Shinjiro Kanae;Taikan Oki;Toshio Koike

  • Improving estimation of hourly, daily, and monthly solar radiation by importing global data sets

    Kun Yang;Toshio Koike;Baisheng Ye

  • Analysis of water resources variability in the Yellow River of China during the last half century using historical data

    Dawen Yang;Chong Li;Heping Hu;Zhidong Lei

  • Turbulent flux transfer over bare-soil surfaces: Characteristics and parameterization

    Kun Yang;Kun Yang;Toshio Koike;Hirohiko Ishikawa;Joon Kim

  • Auto-calibration system developed to assimilate AMSR-E data into a land surface model for estimating soil moisture and the surface energy budget

    Kun Yang;Takahiro Watanabe;Toshio Koike;Xin Li

  • A multifrequency algorithm for the retrieval of soil moisture on a large scale using microwave data from SMMR and SSM/I satellites

    S. Paloscia;G. Macelloni;E. Santi;T. Koike

  • A Bias-Corrected Precipitation Climatology for China

    Baisheng Ye;Daqing Yang;Yongjian Ding;Tianding Han

  • DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER (AMSR-E) ALGORITHM FOR SOIL MOISTURE AND VEGETATION WATER CONTENT

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  • Assessment of a distributed biosphere hydrological model against streamflow and MODIS land surface temperature in the upper Tone River Basin

    Lei Wang;Toshio Koike;Kun Yang;Pat Jen Feng Yeh

  • Simultaneous estimation of both soil moisture and model parameters using particle filtering method through the assimilation of microwave signal

    Jun Qin;Shunlin Liang;Kun Yang;Ichiro Kaihotsu

  • The soil moisture distribution, thawing–freezing processes and their effects on the seasonal transition on the Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) plateau

    Meixue Yang;Tandong Yao;Xiaohua Gou;Toshio Koike

  • Inverse analysis of the role of soil vertical heterogeneity in controlling surface soil state and energy partition

    Kun Yang;Toshio Koike;Baisheng Ye;Luis Bastidas

  • Integrated simulation of snow and glacier melt in water and energy balance-based, distributed hydrological modeling framework at hunza river basin of Pakistan Karakoram region

    Maheswor Shrestha;Toshio Koike;Yukiko Hirabayashi;Yongkang Xue

  • Improvement of the AMSR-E Algorithm for Soil Moisture Estimation by Introducing a Fractional Vegetation Coverage Dataset Derived from MODIS Data

    Hideyuki Fujii;Toshio Koike;Keiji Imaoka

  • The Daytime Evolution of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Convection over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and Simulations

    Kun Yang;Toshio Koike;Hideyuki Fujii;Toru Tamura

  • Application of a distributed hydrological model and weather radar observations for flood management in the upper Tone River of Japan

    Dawen Yang;Toshio Koike;Hiroshi Tanizawa

  • Surface Flux Parameterization in the Tibetan Plateau

    Kun Yang;Toshio Koike;Dawen Yang

  • Diurnal and inter-monthly variation of land surface heat fluxes over the central Tibetan Plateau area

    Y. Ma;S. Fan;H. Ishikawa;O. Tsukamoto

  • On measuring and remote sensing surface energy partitioning over the Tibetan Plateau––from GAME/Tibet to CAMP/Tibet

    Yaoming Ma;Zhongbo Su;Toshio Koike;Tandong Yao

  • Improvement of surface flux parametrizations with a turbulence-related length

    K. Yang;T. Koike;H. Fujii;K. Tamagawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Kun Yang
Kun Yang Tsinghua University
Masaru Kitsuregawa
Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo
Hui Lu
Hui Lu Tsinghua University
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dawen Yang
Dawen Yang Tsinghua University
Zhongbo Su
Zhongbo Su University of Twente
Jun Qin
Jun Qin Baylor College of Medicine
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Hiroshi Ishidaira
Hiroshi Ishidaira University of Yamanashi

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