Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Environmental Science
Professor Yusuke Satoh's research lab specializes in global and regional hydrological modeling, with a focus on understanding the impacts of climate change and human activities on water resources. The lab develops open-source hydrological models such as the Community Water Model (CWatM) to simulate streamflow, drought dynamics, and water supply-demand balances under various climate and socioeconomic scenarios. Key research directions include assessing drought frequency and emergence under climate change, evaluating the combined effects of climate variability and direct human impacts on river systems, and improving the accuracy of hydrological predictions through multi-model and multi-scenario analyses. The lab also contributes to large-scale assessments of water stress and sustainability in Asia and other regions.
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Droughts that exceed the magnitudes of historical variation ranges could occur increasingly frequently under future climate conditions. However, the time of the emergence of unprecedented drought conditions under climate change has rarely been examined. Here, using multimodel hydrological simulations, we investigate the changes in the frequency of hydrological drought (defined as abnormally low river discharge) under high and low greenhouse gas concentration scenarios and existing water resource
Abstract. We develop a new large-scale hydrological and water resources model, the Community Water Model (CWatM), which can simulate hydrology both globally and regionally at different resolutions from 30 arcmin to 30 arcsec at daily time steps. CWatM is open source in the Python programming environment and has a modular structure. It uses global, freely available data in the netCDF4 file format for reading, storage, and production of data in a compact way. CWatM includes general surface and gro
Abstract This paper presents one of the first quantitative scenario assessments for future water supply and demand in Asia to 2050. The assessment, developed by the Water Futures and Solutions ( WFaS ) initiative, uses the latest set of global climate change and socioeconomic scenarios and state‐of‐the‐art global hydrological models. In Asia, water demand for irrigation, industry, and households is projected to increase substantially in the coming decades (30–40% by 2050 compared to 2010). These
Abstract. Human activities, as well as climate variability, have had increasing impacts on natural hydrological systems, particularly streamflow. However, quantitative assessments of these impacts are lacking on large scales. In this study, we use the simulations from six global hydrological models driven by three meteorological forcings to investigate direct human impact (DHI) and climate impact on streamflow in China. Results show that, in the sub-periods of 1971–1990 and 1991–2010, one-fifth
Abstract Droughts are anticipated to intensify in many parts of the world due to climate change. However, the issue of drought definition, namely the diversity of drought indices, makes it difficult to compare drought assessments. This issue is widely known, but its relative importance has never been quantitatively evaluated in comparison to other sources of uncertainty. Here, encompassing three drought categories (meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological droughts) with four temporal scale
In this study, to obtain new substrates with the high coupling of electromechanical coefficients (k2) and near-zero temperature coefficients of frequency (TCFs), very thin periodic grooves and interdigital transducers (IDTs) are fabricated on high-coupling substrates. Simulation results show a high k2 (over 0.4) at H/λ=0.1 for rotated Y-cut, X-propagating LiNbO3 leaky surface acoustic wave substrates, and a high k2 (over 0.08) and a small TCF (-10 ppm/°C) at H/λ=0.1 for 36°Y-cut, X-propagating L
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