This web page is managed by Coastal Disaster Research Laboratory (official name: Research Section of Coastal Disasters), Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. The Coastal Disaster Research Section studies research on coastal and ocean engineering, specially targeting storm waves, storm surge and tsunami hazards prevention and reduction.
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Latest major research publications
Paper published in Géotechnique
August 23ContentsOut new paper has been publish in Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentThis is a review paper summarizing recent research progress of tsunami monitoring, early […]
Paper published in Géotechnique
August 16 Contents Out new paper has been publish in Géotechnique. This is a collaborative research on failure of seawall due to wave pressure and […]
Paper published in Scientific Data
June 22 Contents USGS, CSIRO, Environment and Climate Change Canada等との共著論文がScientific Dataに掲載されました COWCLIP（Coordinated Ocean Wave Climate Project）フェーズ2によって作成され、1980年から2014年を対象に解析された過去の波浪データセットに関する論文です． Manuscript Morim, J., L.H. Erikson, M. Hemer, I. Young, […]
Paper published in Nature Climate Change
June 17 Contents Our new research has published from Nature Climate Change. We find a group of coastal locations around the world highly vulnerable to […]
Paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans
May 28 Contents We used 3D-printed mangrove models, 1:7 replicas of a typical mature Rhizophora apiculata, in laboratory experiments Empirical formulas for drag and inertia coefficients […]