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Yukiko Hirabayashi is affiliated with the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular emphasis on flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and watershed management studies, and climate variability and models.

The main fields of study for Yukiko Hirabayashi include:

  • Environmental Science

The scientist's work also spans several specialized subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Ocean Engineering

Yukiko Hirabayashi's research covers a variety of topics such as:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate variability and models
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Their publication record features peer-reviewed papers in respected scientific journals. Recent notable papers include:

  • "Global exposure to flooding from the new CMIP6 climate model projections," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Enhancement of river flooding due to global warming," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Estimation of Direct and Indirect Economic Losses Caused by a Flood With Long-Lasting Inundation: Application to the 2011 Thailand Flood," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Residual flood damage under intensive adaptation," 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "Machine-learning classification of debris-covered glaciers using a combination of Sentinel-1/-2 (SAR/optical), Landsat 8 (thermal) and digital elevation data," 2020, Geomorphology

Frequent coauthors in Yukiko Hirabayashi's work include:

  • Masahiro Tanoue
  • Dai Yamazaki
  • Naota Hanasaki
  • Toshichika Iizumi
  • Haireti Alifu

Yukiko Hirabayashi has contributed multiple publications to several notable venues, including:

  • Hydrological Research Letters
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B1 (Hydraulic Engineering)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • Global flood risk under climate change

    Yukiko Hirabayashi;Roobavannan Mahendran;Sujan Koirala;Lisako Konoshima

  • Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions

    Camilo Mora;Daniele Spirandelli;Erik C. Franklin;John Lynham

  • Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming

    Francesco Dottori;Wojciech Szewczyk;Juan Carlos Ciscar;Fang Zhao

  • Global projections of changing risks of floods and droughts in a changing climate

    Yukiko Hirabayashi;Shinjiro Kanae;Seita Emori;Taikan Oki

  • Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

    Nick Rutter;Richard Essery;John Pomeroy;Nuria Altimir

  • Global-scale river flood vulnerability in the last 50 years.

    Masahiro Tanoue;Yukiko Hirabayashi;Hiroaki Ikeuchi

  • GlacierMIP - A model intercomparison of global-scale glacier mass-balance models and projections

    Regine Hock;Andrew Bliss;B. E.N. Marzeion;Rianne H. Giesen

  • High mountain areas

    Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

  • The credibility challenge for global fluvial flood risk analysis

    Mark Trigg;Cathryn Birch;Jeffrey Neal;Paul Bates

  • Differences in flood hazard projections in Europe–their causes and consequences for decision making

    Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;V. Krysanova;R. Dankers;Y. Hirabayashi

  • Intercomparison of bias-correction methods for monthly temperature and precipitation simulated by multiple climate models

    Satoshi Watanabe;Shinjiro Kanae;Shinta Seto;Pat J.-F. Yeh

  • Global exposure to flooding from the new CMIP6 climate model projections.

    Yukiko Hirabayashi;Masahiro Tanoue;Orie Sasaki;Xudong Zhou

  • Assessing River Flood Risk and Adaptation in Europe - Review of Projections for the Future

    Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nicola Lugeri;Rutger Dankers;Yukiko Hirabayashi

  • Assessment of global nitrogen pollution in rivers using an integrated biogeochemical modeling framework

    Bin He;Shinjiro Kanae;Taikan Oki;Yukiko Hirabayashi

  • Compound simulation of fluvial floods and storm surges in a global coupled river‐coast flood model: Model development and its application to 2007 Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh

    Hiroaki Ikeuchi;Hiroaki Ikeuchi;Yukiko Hirabayashi;Dai Yamazaki;Dai Yamazaki;Sanne Muis

  • River Floods in the Changing Climate—Observations and Projections

    Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Yukiko Hirabayashi;Shinjiro Kanae

  • Regional flood dynamics in a bifurcating mega delta simulated in a global river model

    Dai Yamazaki;Dai Yamazaki;Tomoko Sato;Shinjiro Kanae;Yukiko Hirabayashi

  • Global assessment of agreement among streamflow projections using CMIP5 model outputs

    Sujan Koirala;Yukiko Hirabayashi;Roobavannan Mahendran;Shinjiro Kanae

  • Enhancement of river flooding due to global warming

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  • 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

  • Contributions of different bias-correction methods and reference meteorological forcing data sets to uncertainty in projected temperature and precipitation extremes

    Toshichika Iizumi;Hiroki Takikawa;Yukiko Hirabayashi;Naota Hanasaki

  • GlacierMIP – A Model Intercomparison of Global-scale Glacier Mass-balance Models and Projections

    R. Hock;B. Marzeion;A. Bliss;R. H. Giesen

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinjiro Kanae
Shinjiro Kanae Tokyo Institute of Technology
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Dai Yamazaki
Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Naota Hanasaki
Naota Hanasaki National Institute for Environmental Studies
Shinichiro Fujimori
Shinichiro Fujimori Kyoto University
Hessel Winsemius
Hessel Winsemius Delft University of Technology
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
Philip J. Ward
Philip J. Ward Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter

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