Predicting and managing flood risks from extreme rain events in Japan

Shakti P.C. uses flood inundation mapping, hydrological modelling, and other advanced techniques based on a near real-time approach to improve flood resilience and adaptation to extreme rain events.

Japan has seen an increase in extreme rain events in recent years, resulting in catastrophic flooding with substantial loss of human life and destruction of property. As climate change is likely to increase the severity and frequency of flooding, governments and other organisations are rightly becoming more concerned. Research conducted by Shakti P.C. and colleagues at Japan’s National Research Institute […]

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