ICHARM
Activity
Report
FY2016-2017
For the 3rd ICHARM Governing Board
On 14th February, 2018

International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management
under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM),
Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), Japan

Contents
１．Introduction
1.1

Research

1.2

Education and training

1.3

Information networking

２．Special topics

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2.1

Session at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit

2.2

Education by Integrating Policy & Community of Practice and Science & Technology

2.3

Emergency support for Sri Lanka after heavy rain disaster in May 2017

2.4

Field investigation and research on intensified flood and sediment disasters in recent
years

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3.1

Data collection, storage, sharing and statistics on water-related disasters

3.2

Risk assessment on water-related disasters

3.3

Monitoring and prediction of changes in water-related disaster risk

3.4

Proposal, evaluation and application of policy ideas for water-related disaster risk
reduction

3.5

Support in constructing the applicability of water-related disaster management

４．Training
4.1

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Master’s program: Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management
Policy Program

4.2

Doctoral program: Disaster Management

4.3

Short-term training

4.4

Follow-up Seminar

4.5

Internship５．Information networking

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5.1

International Flood Initiative

5.2

Contribution to the world community

5.3

Contribution to the Typhoon Committee

5.4

Leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)/Regional Cooperative
Agreement (RCA) RAS/7/030 Project on “Assessing Deep Groundwater Resources forSustainable Management through Utilization of Isotopic Techniques” in Japan
5.5

Visitors

６．Local practices
6.1

Field investigation and data collection

6.2

Research activities for disaster risk reduction

6.3

Capacity development and technology transfer

７．Public relations and other important activities
7.1

ICHARM 10th anniversary publication

7.2

Awards

7.3

ICHARM Open day

7.4

Newsletters and website

7.5

ICHARM R&D Seminars

7.6

Research Meeting

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ANNEX 1
Number of Alumni of ICHARM training program
ANNEX 2ICHARM Publication List (January 2016～December 2017)

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１．Introduction
1.1 Research
1.1.1 Data collection, storage, sharing and statistics on water-related disasters
Interview surveys were conducted for residents and businesses in flood-affected areas.
Data were collected and classified, and analysis was made to find out the inundation depth
and the degree of damage, including the period of business interruption. ICHARM also
assisted the Philippines in creating guidelines for effective data sharing of water-related
disaster data, including damage to humans, houses, agricultural products and social
infrastructure through the activities for developing a framework under the International Flood
Initiative (IFI). Discussions have also started about data collection, storage and sharing using
the Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS). In addition, ICHARM developed and run
an information delivery system on a trial basis for Sri Lanka in response to a recent flood
disaster. Designed to operate on DIAS, the system automatically collects rainfall and otherdata, simulates heavy rain and other processes, and deliver information ready to be used byrelevant organizations in Sri Lanka.
1.1.2 Risk assessment on water-related disasters
Research was conducted for holistic prediction and analysis of flood events including allprocesses from rainfall to runoff to flooding. For more reliable rainfall data, a method wasdeveloped to correct satellite rainfall using ground rainfall and to forecast heavy rainfall using
the limited area ensemble approach. For runoff, Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS) and
Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model were improved with more advanced functions, and
WEB-RRI was newly developed. For more accurate forecasting of floods and inundation, theacoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP) and satellites were introduced to observe sandwaves and water bodies on the ground, and flood simulation was improved to incorporate
observation results. More advanced inundation analysis became possible by considering thecomplex effect of water, sediment and driftwood. For drought analysis, Land data
assimilation system of the University of Tokyo (LDAS-UT) was introduced to estimate soil
moisture. For better water-related risk assessment, a damage function was proposed forSoutheast Asian countries to estimate flood or drought damage to agricultural products.
1.1.3 Monitoring and prediction of changes in water-related disaster risk
ICHARM has been involved in efforts to assess the future impact of climate change byparticipating in the SOUSEI project and ADB projects. In those projects, ICHARM predictedchanges in rainfall conditions by experimentally forecasting future climate using Global
Climate Model (GCM) for representative river basins in Southeast Asian countries, and1

evaluated flood and drought risks in the future.
1.1.4 Proposal, evaluation and application of policy ideas for water-related disaster risk
reduction
The ICHARM-led side event of the 8th HELP meeting in October 2016 adopted the Jakarta
Statement “Towards an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary partnership to consolidate
flood risk reduction and sustainable development”. The 3rd UN Special Thematic Session on
Water and Disasters in July 2017 discussed coordinated efforts based on international allianceon water and disasters and further promotion of the international initiative in the field.
According to these international consensuses, ICHARM assisted the Philippines, Sri Lanka,
Myanmar and Pakistan in establishing a Platform on Water and Disaster to prepare policies
for water-related disaster risk reduction. Furthermore, ICHARM provided technical assistancefor Pakistan and Sri Lanka to develop a flood forecasting system in collaboration with thegovernment of each country through UNESCO and other projects. ICHARM also supported
Calumpit Municipality of Bulacan Province in the Pampanga River basin, the Philippines, incommunity-level flood risk contingency planning with residents and municipal personnel.
1.1.5 Support in constructing the applicability of water-related disaster management
Some local municipalities in Japan do not have adequate information on their river basinsthat helps residents with safe evacuation in case of flood. ICHARM provided technicalassistance for such municipalities. For example, it developed a simple, effective method tovisualize flood risk on a community basis and a portal site designed to be a one-stop
information center for users to view all kinds of disaster-related information relevant for theircommunities. It also collected and categorized tense moments and lessons from past disastercases and created a flood response training program for municipal personnel in charge ofdisaster management. Assistance was also provided for overseas countries. In Myanmar,
ICHARM participated in an ADB project and conducted flood risk assessment for its threemajor cities and provided training on flood risk assessment for local experts of the
Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH).
1.2 Education and training
ICHARM provides educational and training programs that empower both individuals andorganizations in disaster management. The programs are designed to effectively collaborate withresearch and networking activities at ICHARM to increase the synergy effect between students
and ICHARM researchers, as well as their affiliations and ICHARM, in research and projects.
The main programs include: 1. One-year master's degree program, "Water-related Risk
Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program," conducted in collaboration with2

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and JICA; 2. Three-year doctoral degree
program, “Disaster Management,” jointly conducted with GRIPS; 3. Short-term training
programs held in Japan and overseas; 4. Follow-up Seminar held annually overseas forgraduates and trainees; and 5. Short- and long-term internship programs. Short-term training
programs conducted in the 2016-2017 period include the one-month ICHARM-JICA joint
training“Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS,”, and the International
Summer Program for international students jointly conducted with the University of Tokyo, as
well as other short-term training and workshops locally conducted in collaboration with JAXA,UNESCO and other international organizations.
The educational and training programs were also well managed in the 2016-2017 period.
However, we have decided to be more exact in the application process of the master’s program,recognizing that it should accept more applicants who are expected to play a vital role in policy
making and implementation in the future. We are also planning new training programs to meetincreasingly growing interests of many countries in the development of water-related disaster
policy in response to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and SDGs.
1.3 Information networking
ICHARM continues promoting information networking. As a UNESCO category 2 center, it
keeps close ties with each UNESCO-IHP (International Hydrological Programme) National
Committee, other UNESCO category 2 centers, and UNESCO Chair. It also maintains
cooperative relations with UN organizations such as UNISDR and WMO, and otherinternational and regional organizations such as HELP and the Typhoon Committee.
As the IFI secretariat, ICHARM proposed the basic action plan of IFI at the October 2016
workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia and the January 2017 workshop in Tokyo. The plan was adopted
as the Jakarta Statement by the member organizations. In July 2017, the Special Session on
Science and Technology was held in the occasion of the 3rd UN Special Thematic Session on
Water and Disasters in New York. The session discussed a broad range of issues including the
IFI framework for establishing a Platform on Water and Disaster, a mechanism to promoteinternational alliance on water and disasters, research foundation to promote investment andfinancing, and response efforts to water-related disasters. Many participants agreed the need forvitalizing the international initiative to tackle these challenges. In addition, ICHARM supported
the establishment of a Platform on Water and Disaster in the Philippines, Myanmar, Pakistan
and Sri Lanka.
During the 2016-2017 period, important international conferences were convened around theworld, such as ICFM7 (7th International Conference on Flood Management) and the 3rd
Asia-Pacific Water Summit. ICHARM participated in those conferences and hosted sessions andside events, which strengthened the relationships with other participants and organizations and3expanded the professional and organizational network.

２．Special topics
2.1 Session at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit
The Asia-Pacific Water Summit (APWS) targets top-level policy and decision makers, suchas heads of national governments in the region. The primary objective of APWS is to create
opportunity for the political leaders of the region to set out a course for sustainable developmentfrom a perspective of water and share concrete actions, solutions and innovations.
The 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit was held on December 11-12, 2017, in Yangon,
Myanmar. On the afternoon of the first day, ICHARM co-hosted a session entitled “Water andDisasters in the Context of Climate Change - From the Mountains to the Islands -” withICIMOD, SPC and HELP.
Asia-Pacific countries are closely related through water and its associated phenomena. Whilewater supports Asia-Pacific lives, economies and ecosystems, water also brings hazards such as
floods and droughts. Such hazards can be exacerbated by climate change, greatly affecting
mountains, coasts and small islands in the region. The commonality and inter-connection ofwater issues in the Asia-Pacific region necessitates a holistic approach that is applicable todifferent parts of the region from mountains to islands.
In this regard, the session was a unique platform for the high-level leaders and representativesof Asia-Pacific states to meet together in order to discuss water-related disasters andenvironmental risks intensified by climate change, explore common challenges and solutions,and collaborate on the development of effective frameworks for action. The session was
three-fold. The first part consisted of keynote speeches by high-level leaders including Dr. José
Ramos-Horta, the senior minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, who was theformer president of East Timor and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1996, and Mr. Keiichi
Ishii, the minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan. In the second part, therepresentatives from seven countries in the Asia-Pacific region delivered a country presentation
on water and disasters under the influence of climate change. The third part was dedicated to apanel discussion co-chaired by Director of ICHARM Toshio Koike and Dr. Kyaw Moe Oo, thedirector general of DMH, Myanmar.
On the afternoon of the second day, Chief Researcher of ICHARM Tetsuya Ikeda
reported the outcomes of this session in the plenary meeting along with those of the othersessions. Finally, the Yangon Declaration was adopted at the closing plenary.

4Prof. Koike, Director, ICHARM, the co-chair, and the panelists of Part 3

2.2 Education by Integrating Policy & Community of Practice and Science & Technology“Transdisciplinary” means co-design and co-production in cooperation between scientists
and stakeholders. This concept is proposed as a new approach of science & technology to socialand other issues, based on a reflection that the world has not been successful in demonstratingconcrete methodologies for solving earth environmental issues and reducing disaster damage
despite increase in scientific knowledge and technology. Although the term promotes the new
approach, it still connotes that scientists and stakeholders are different entities. Instead, the twoparties should be considered as a single unit and a better capacity for handling knowledge andexperience should be developed for both parties to closely help each other by moving back andforth between science & technology and policy & community of practice. In this effort,
education should play a central role, and ICHARM has been supporting the effort by providing
educational and training programs linking knowledge and experience.
Every year, over ten mid-career practitioners selected from various countries join the Disaster
Management Policy program offered by ICHARM and GRIPS with a strong financial support
from JICA.
There was a Malawian student who studied in this program from October 2016 to September
2017. Working at a national disaster management organization back home, he already had hadbasic knowledge and experience on socio-economic analysis and trans-boundary rivermanagement when he started the program. At GRIPS and ICHARM, he improved his
socio-economic understanding, and began to learn a methodology for assessing climate change
impact on floods. Then, he completed his research to incorporate assessment results in national
and transboundary flood management policy plans. Fortunately, he had an opportunity forpresenting his research at home just after his graduation. In response to his presentation, UNDP
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decided to launch a new project based on his idea.
A Brazilian student was in the same program at the same time as the Malawian student, and he
was from the National Department of Civil Protection and Defense. While studying at ICHARM,
he worked on research aiming to apply the seven Global Targets, defined in the Sendai
Framework, to disaster management in Brazil, proposing how to use these targets for achieving
local disaster risk reduction. By overlaying the 26 climate model outputs from the Coupled
Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) on the spatial distribution of affected people
by the floods and droughts during 2005-2015, he identified high risk area in both past and futureand set priority for future disaster risk reduction countermeasures successfully.
His method can also be used by other countries, showing a very practical way to incorporate
the Global Targets in planning local disaster risk reduction.
These two students are excellent examples of "skillful handlers of knowledge and experience”
bridging between science & technology and policy & community of practice. It is criticallyimportant to train political and community leaders who can create societal benefits by learningscience & technology and policy studies in one package. With a renewed commitment to thiseducational mission, ICHARM will step up our efforts to groom as many excellent social
leaders as possible in collaboration with our great partners, GRIPS and JICA.
2.3 Emergency support for Sri Lanka after heavy rain disaster in May 2017
The rain started on May 24, 2017, over the southern and western regions of Sri Lanka. The
rainfall exceeded 500mm in 12 hours between 9:00 p.m., May 25 and 9:00 a.m., May 26, which
was equivalent to the rainfall of about 200-year return period. Due to this heavy rainfall, severe
floods and landslides occurred in the Kalu and other river basins of the southern and westernregions, resulting in devastating damage to lives and properties. According to the government
report on June 3, the death toll reached 211 with 96 missing and 704,000 affected in some otherways.
In response to the request from the Sri Lanka government, the Japanese government
dispatched the Japan Disaster Relief Expert Team (the JDR Team) consisting of 10 technicalexperts in the fields of flood and sediment disaster to provide technical advice on effective
measures for short-, mid-, and long-term flood and landslide control. After the investigation ofaffected areas and meetings with relevant ministries, organizations, and stakeholders of the Sri
Lanka government, the JDR team compiled a report on the findings and future collaborations
between the two governments and submitted it to the relevant ministries and government
officials of Sri Lanka.
Since Sri Lanka anticipates more flood disasters in the future, Japan maximized its advanced
science and technology to provide useful information that Sri Lanka needs for preventing
recurrent disasters and implementing effective emergency response. In response to this disaster,6

Earth Observation Data Integration and Fusion Research Initiative (EDITORIA) of the
University of Tokyo and ICHARM cooperated to provide the following information for
effective flood management by coupling meteorological and hydrological models developed by
ICHARM with DIAS developed by EDITORIA.
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DIAS integrated ground and satellite precipitation data, rainfall forecasting data, resultsof flood inundation analysis and forecasting, and satellite observation data on clouddevelopment, as well as ongoing floods and inundations. This information was provided
in real time for the related organizations of the Sri Lanka government in time with thedispatch of the JDR Team, and has been provided since then.

-Hands-on-training and capacity development programs have been implemented for Sri
Lankan experts to utilize these data and information properly and practically.

Through this support, Sri Lanka has been provided with various types of flood-related
information based on the latest research findings. This information helps the governmentorganizations of Sri Lanka to disseminate effective flood forecasts and early evacuation alerts,
which should lead to human damage reduction and efficient emergency response efforts.

Outline of support for Sri Lanka

2.4 Field investigation and research on intensified flood and sediment disasters in recent years
In August 2016, heavy rainfall due to Typhoon No.10 (Lionrock) caused tremendous damage,
particularly to areas along the Omoto River in Iwate Prefecture and tributaries of the Tokachi
river in Hokkaido. In the Omoto River basin occurred landslides and debris flows, which carried7

a large volume of sediment and countless driftwoods downstream; flooding and inundation
occurred in low-lying areas along the valley. A total of 21 people were left missing or dead in
this flood disaster, and houses, road and other infrastructure, farmland, and forests sufferedsignificant damage from violent floodwaters. In July 2017, northern Kyusyu was hit by record
heavy rainfall due to training thunderstorms. The extreme rainfall triggered numerous landslides
and debris flows in the mountain areas of the Chikugo River’s right-side tributaries, resulting inflooding and inundation with sediment and driftwoods in the lower reaches of the tributaries.
This devastating disaster that occurred in Asakura city and its neighborhood was even worse
than the Omoto disaster, leaving 41 people either dead or missing. Flood and sediment disasters,such as these, attributed to hazards from mountain rivers have been growing in numbers inrecent years; heavy rain disaster in Kii Peninsula in 2011, heavy rain disaster in northern
Kyusyu in 2012, heavy rain disaster in Izuohshima Island in 2013, and debris flow in
Minamikiso and heavy rain disaster in Hiroshima both in 2014, just to name a few.
Mountain rivers are typically characterized by fast rainfall runoff because their basins areoften small and steep. In addition, once landslides and debris flows occur in mountains, flood
flow is affected by these events, very often accompanied by sediment, driftwoods, and channel
bed deformation, each of which can be a major hazard to communities in mountain areas. To
prevent or mitigate damage from disasters involving complex factors and build disaster resilient
communities, both hard and soft measures should be prepared and a system should be developed
to maximize the measures for their intended purposes. To this end, efforts have been made fromvarious sectors.
ICHARM has been part of the efforts, particularly focusing on the following topics thatshould be understood to take effective measures, based on field investigations, data analysis andnumerical models.
1. Characterization of settlements in formation, topography and disaster damage
2. Prediction and assessment of hazards- Mechanism and forecasting of heavy rainfall events- Flood forecasting, rainfall runoff- Supply conditions of sediment and driftwood to river channels- Flood flow with sediment, driftwoods and bed deformation
3. Forecasting/warning and evacuation behavior, structure of a settlement
Research has been conducted on the topics listed above, and findings have been obtained on
fundamental issues in disaster management such as: the relation of topographic characteristics
and disaster damage characteristics, supply conditions of sediment and driftwood to lower
reaches, assessment of flood flow with sediment, driftwoods and bed deformation, conditions ofrainfall that triggers a disaster, and the effect of forecasting and warning on evacuation behavior.
These findings are important to plan practical measures for proper land use in areas along8

mountain rivers, river channel planning, and forecasting and warning for safe evacuation, forexample. The findings are expected to contribute to not only disaster risk reduction in mountain
river basins in Japan and overseas but also future international efforts to reduce disaster risks

Debris flow fan formed in the upstream of Akatani riverworldwide. Part of our research has been submitted to academic journals and already acceptedfor publication.

３．Research
3.1 Data collection, storage, sharing and statistics on water-related disasters
EDITORIA and ICHARM started providing real-time flood forecasts and other informationfor Sri Lanka on a trial basis when the country suffered tremendous damage from record heavy
rainfall in May 2017. It was a joint effort by the two organizations taking advantage of theirstrengths; EDITORIA offered an advanced data processing system called DIAS while ICHARM
offered expertise in flood monitoring and forecasting. To support Sri Lanka, ICHARM

Sri Lanka

The real-time system to collect ground rainfall data
9 using the collected ground data.
and send the bias corrected GSMaPdeveloped a prototype online system on DIAS that collects hourly ground rainfall data from Sri
Lanka, performs rainfall forecasting using the collected data, and delivers the results
automatically.
3.2 Risk assessment on water-related disasters
3.2.1 Online release of RRI model
The RRI model, designed to perform rainfall-runoff analysis, runoff channel tracking, andflood and inundation analysis all at once, was released on the ICHARM website. This has
made it possible to analyze the process of inundation over a large-scale river basin such as a
low-lying delta. This model is also very user-friendly. Its graphical user interface allows theuser to operate the setting and execution of various conditions and the display of analysis
results very easily. All this can contribute to real-time flood and inundation forecasting,hazard mapping, evaluation of flood control measures such as dams and levees, and otherpurposes. RRI model has been applied to assess inundation risk in some Japanesemunicipalities, and as part of a flood inundation forecasting system.in Thailand, Pakistan andsome other overseas countries.
3.2.2 Development of a next-generation flood forecasting method using regional ensemble
forecasting
Since heavy rainfall is hard to predict quantitatively, ICHARM employs limited area
ensemble forecasting to predict heavy rainfall. This new approach predicts heavy rainfall
stochastically based on multiple simulation results. We have also developed uniquedata-processing techniques to improve forecasting accuracy; for example, we apply theensemble Kalman filter to process observed data before feeding them to a forecasting model.
Forecasted rainfall is then evaluated for accuracy using a hydrologic runoff model. We haveconfirmed that it is possible to predict a flood event two or more days prior to its actual
occurrence, from a study in which we conducted ensemble flood forecasting on several flood
events in the last five years. We have also found that it is possible to predict flood discharge
quantitatively at least a day before the actual event.
3.2.3 Analysis of flood flow with riverbed deformation in valley-bottom mountain rivers
In 2016, heavy rainfall due to Typhoon No.10 caused violent flood damage to areas along
the Omoto River, which overflowed the river capacity and run through Iwaizumi Town, Iwate
Prefecture, in northern Japan. ICHARM conducted field investigation, and the results
suggested that because the Omoto River is a valley-bottom stream surrounded closely by
mountains, a large volume of sediment and driftwood was easily supplied from thesurrounding mountains to the stream and consequently compounded the disaster. Based on
10this assumption, we conducted flood flow analysis considering a volume of sediment anddriftwood supply conditions, and presented key considerations for planning effective rivermanagement of valley streams in mountains.

Characteristics of flood flow with riverbed deformation in mountainous valley-bottom streams
the flood flow is concentrated on the bending parts of the valley, and is diverged toward thedownstream of the sand bars.
3.2.4 Dissemination and improvement of IFAS
Many developing countries are affected by flood disasters repeatedly and suffer serious
damage often with many victims either dead or missing. Despite this reality, they also facedifficulty in developing and operating flood forecasting and early warning systems due tolack of hydraulic and hydrologic technology, observed data, and financial resources. To breakthrough this situation, ICHARM launched a joint research project in 2004 with theInfrastructure Development Institute and nine other private consultant firms to develop aflood runoff analysis system, i.e., IFAS, that should be easy to operate and capable ofpractical flood forecasting. Even after the project ended, ICHARM has continued theimprovement of IFAS by developing additional functions and upgrading GUI. IFAS isavailable for download free of charge from the ICHARM homepage.
IFAS is free software that supports easy operation of hydrologic runoff analysis with auser-friendly interface. The system uses topographical and land-use data which can be easily
obtained free of charge from the Internet. It is also designed to acquire rainfall data needed
for runoff simulation from different sources of ground observation, radar, and satellites; inparticular, satellite data are obtainable worldwide. IFAS has been upgraded with additional
modules for snowmelt and evapotranspiration to be a flood analysis model capable ofincorporating a broad range of factors in calculation.
Because IFAS can perform flood forecasting and warning using satellite rainfall
information, it is possible to predict floods in poorly-gauged river basins and international
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rivers. It is now equipped with a function to correct satellite rainfall using ground rainfall. Itsversatility has also enhanced by selectively combining different modules for snowmelt,
evapotranspiration, and other factors to increase the applicability to different climate types.
IFAS is used as a flood forecasting and warning system in several Asian countries. It is also
used as a training tool, and more than 1,000 people in 50 countries have already taken somekind of training on IFAS. In Pakistan, in order to expand the coverage of the existing
IFAS-based flood forecasting and warning system, local engineers have been independently
working on the development of a local model of IFAS, which accelerates the localization of
the system.
3.3 Monitoring and prediction of changes in water-related disaster risk
3.3.1 Completion of the Program for Risk Information on Climate Change (SOUSEI) and
Report on Project Results
The SOUSEI program is a five-year research and development project conducted from2012 to 2016, aiming at generating basic information required for managing various risks
resulting from climate change. Assigned to “Development of Risk Assessment and Adaptation
Strategies for Water-related Disaster in Asia” of Research Area D “Accurate Impact
Assessment for Specific Tasks,” ICHARM conducted flood and drought risk assessment forthree Asian river basins of Pampanga, Mekong and Solo. We also held meetings andworkshops with government officials of Asian countries to promote the project and share theresults.
On March 9, 2017, the FY2016 research results presentation meeting was held for eachparticipating research group to present the results of their part of the project.

The example of the results of SOUSEI project
The comparison of flood damage assessment for a 100-year flood in the case of the worst
scenario, which causes the largest flood area for the river basins of Pampanga
123.4 Proposal, evaluation and application of policy ideas for water-related disaster risk reduction
3.4.1 Completion of ADB project “TA-8456 Republic of the Union of Myanmar:
Transformation of Urban Management”
An ADB project, “TA-8456 Republic of the Union of Myanmar: Transformation of Urban
Management: Part II Flood Management,” began in July 2014 and successfully ended in
November 2016. ICHARM provided supervision throughout this project and submitted thefinal report to ADB. The project was conducted for the three major cities of Myanmar(Yangon, Mandalay and Mawlamyine) to develop human resources who are able to conduct
flood risk assessment and flood management. The following activities were carried out in the
project:
・Development of a flood inundation simulation model using the RRI model and creation of
hazard maps for three cities
・Evaluation of flood damage risk using the flood inundation simulation (focusing on rice
crop damage)・Training on the development of a flood and storm-surge simulation model for local
engineers of Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) and the Irrigation andWater Utilization Management Department (IWUMD)
・Proposal of a business plan for enhancing the capacity of DMH
Throughout the project, we held a number of meetings and workshops with the three cities
and the government organizations in charge of water-related disaster risk management.
Opinions collected from those meetings on hazard maps and flood risk assessment werereflected in each stage of the project, and the results were disseminated to the governmentorganizations in Myanmar. The ICHARM project team also explained the project at themeetings with H.E. U Phyo Min Thein, the chief minister of the Yangon Region, on August17, 2016, and with H.E. U Maung Maung Soe, the mayor of the Yangon City Development
Committee, on August 19, 2016. When a flood disaster occurred in Myanmar by Cyclone
Komen in August 2015 during the project implementation period, ICHARM instructed thetrainees from the Myanmar government to independently prepare a flood inundation
simulation model, hoping that the experience would help them gain confidence in continuing
independent activities in the future. Since the project was also designed to produce future
trainers, the trainees planned and conducted a workshop on the RRI model for junior officials
at DMH after they finished all their training. This ADB project was specifically intended toassist Myanmar in the effort of water disaster risk reduction. However, as many Asian
countries share the common issues concerning water-related disasters, we are hoping that theapproach of this project will be widely used in Asia in the future.

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Flood Hazard Map of Yangon 100-year flood (green (0.1-0.5 m), yellow (0.5-1.0m))
created in the ADB project.
3.4.2 UNESCO Pakistan Project
UNESCO and Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika (BMKG) held the“International Partners Technical Meeting Year 2 Technical Assessment Workshop Strategic
Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity of Pakistan” in Jakarta, Indonesia,
on December 19-21, 2017, to report the progress of the Pakistan project, which consisted ofthe development of a flood prediction model for the Indus River and training on riverobservation using ADCP.
In response to the large flood in Pakistan in 2010, ICHARM participated in a UNESCO
technical cooperative project conducted from 2012 to 2014, mainly developing a flood
forecasting system for the Indus River basin (named Indus-IFAS), producing flood hazard
maps, and carrying out capacity development programs for relevant governmentorganizations in Pakistan. In the second phase starting in 2015, ICHARM has so far
conducted several tasks including: the improvement of Indus-IFAS by integrating simulation
for the Eastern Rivers, the development of a snowmelt module for the upper Indus River, theapplication of a new method for correcting satellite rainfall data, and the implementation of
the training on river observation using ADCP.
3.5 Support in constructing the applicability of water-related disaster management
3.5.1 Research on flood risk assessment for river basins in mountains and information sharing
ICHARM is conducting research for municipalities in mountainous areas where little
information is available to ensure residents’ safe evacuation. The research aims to study thedevelopment of new flood risk indicators based on inundation simulation by using RRI model
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and effective communication of information to residents. In this research, Aga Town of
Niigata Prefecture located in the middle reach of the Agano River was selected as the study
area. ICHARM proposed to the town an approach called “Flood Chart,” in which each
community of the town was evaluated for total flood vulnerability based on different types offlood hazards from multiple perspectives. The results were further processed using cluster
analysis for classifying the communities in several groups to find ones with high flood risk
named “flood hot spot.” The key direction for devising a disaster management plan for eachgroup of communities was also presented. In addition, ICHARM developed a portal site
designed to be a one-stop information center useful not only at emergency but also in normal
times for users to view all kinds of disaster-related information relevant for Aga residents.
Currently, ICHARM and Aga Town are discussing the effective use of this portal site.
3.5.2 Support for Evidence-based Flood Contingency Planning
ICHARM conducted a technical assistance project from 2014 to 2016 to support Calumpit
Municipality in community-level Evidence-Based Flood Contingency Planning based on the
results of flood inundation simulation using the RRI model. Calumpit Municipality is part of
Bulacan Province in the Pampanga River basin, one of the most flood-prone areas in Asia
located on Luzon Island of the Philippines. In the flood inundation simulation using the RRI
model, we created flood hazard maps and inundation progress charts for 29 communities ofCalumpit, which showed chronological development of inundation, in collaboration with
Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)
and National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA). The maps and charts
were provided to each community.

We then held several meetings with the local

communities to discuss how to ensure the user-friendliness of the maps and charts, andmodified them by using icons, marks and colors that are easy for residents to understand.
They were also translated into a local language, Tagalog. In February 2016, a workshop was

The Results of the research activity on community-level flood contingency planning in
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held, inviting officials in charge of disaster management from all communities, the city andthe province, to share the procedures for this flood contingency planning with them. As the
project had drawn a lot of local attention by then, the workshop was attended by over 100
participants. Mayor of Calumpit Jessie P. De Jesus specifically acknowledged ICHARM’scommitment to this project, and awarded ICHARM with a certificate of appreciation. Afterthe workshop in Calumpit, another workshop was held in Manila with state and provincial
officials to disseminate the approach of this project to other parts of the country.

４．Training
4.1 Master’s program: Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management Policy
Program
ICHARM provides a one-year M.Sc. program, “Water-related Risk Management Course ofDisaster Management Policy Program (JICA Training Program: Training for Expert on
Flood-Related Disaster Mitigation)”, as a joint effort with JICA and GRIPS. This program istargeted at officials of administrative organizations and designed for them to obtain master’s
degree within a single year. In the first half of the course from October to March, the classes
consist mostly of lectures; in the second half from April to the end, students work on researchand graduation theses. In addition, several study trips are conducted during the program forstudents to visit dam, river and other management offices around Japan, where they can learn
firsthand knowledge and experience in current flood management in Japan from experts of
MLIT.
Between 2007 and 2015, the master’s program of ICHARM graduated 97 students from 24
countries. In September 2016, the ninth batch of 13 students from 10 countries (Bangladesh,
Brazil, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, East Timor,
Zimbabwe), who entered the program in October 2015, graduated with a master’s degree. In thefollowing month, the tenth batch of 11 students from nine countries (Brazil, Malawi,
Mozambique, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippine, East Timor, Vietnam)
entered the program.
In September 2017, the tenth batch of 10 students from eight countries graduated, and in thefollowing month, the eleventh batch of 14 students entered the program from 10 countries(Bangladesh, Brazil, Fiji, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippine, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam).
In 2016, ICHARM in consultation with GRIPS and JICA started reviewing and finallyrevised the English language requirements and the application procedures, based on therealization that the program should accept more applicants who are expected to play a vital rolein the future in making national policy on water-related disaster risk management. After that,
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ICHARM informed of the revision relevant countries that are expected to send students to our
educational program, with help from MLIT, JICA local offices and experts, high-ranking
officials of government organizations who are familiar with ICHARM’s research andnetworking activities. Furthermore, because there were always some applicants, in the past, whowere late for submitting required documents, we strengthened communication between
applicants and ICHARM to make sure that all the documents would be prepared in time for thescreening process. Thanks to all these efforts, the number of applicants and the acceptance rateincreased, and all successful applicants met the English language requirements.

Activities of Master Course (Hydraulic Model Experiment, Lecture, Site Visiting)

4.2 Doctoral program: Disaster Management
ICHARM started a doctoral program, “Disaster Management,” in 2010 in collaboration withGRIPS to train experts who are capable of making policies on water-related disaster risk
management and taking the leadership in implementing them. As of 2017, seven students
completed the doctoral program.
In September 2016, the fourth batch of three students, Robin Kumar Biswas (Bangladesh),
Md. Nasif Ahsan (Bangladesh), and Andrea Mariel Juarez Lucas (Guatemala), graduated with adoctoral degree in disaster management. In October, the seventh batch of students, Gul Amad
Ali (Pakistan) and Islam Md Khairul (Bangladesh) entered the program. In October 2017, Amed
Tanjir Saif (Bangladesh) joined the others as the eighth batch. In total, five doctoral students(two third-year, two second-year and one first-year students) are studying in the program.
Among the doctoral graduates, some have started a great carrier in the field of disastermanagement. One assumed a professor position back in his home country immediately after thegraduation. Another continues research at a prominent national research institute in Japan(National Institute for Materials Science). Still another earned a position at the World Bank in17

the Young Professional Program. Our dedication to capacity development is gradually taking
shape as such individuals.

Diploma Awarded by GRIPS President

Graduated Ceremony in 2016 ( 3 Doctor Course Students, 13 Master Course Students)

4.3 Short-term training
4.3.1 JICA Short-term Training Program: Capacity Development for Flood Risk Managementwith IFAS
In the 2016-2017 period, ICHARM conducted the JICA training program, “Capacity
Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS,” twice from July 5 to July 29, 2016
and from July 4 to July 28, 2017. The training is targeted at three categories of experts inflood-vulnerable developing countries: meteorologists, river administrators, and disastermanagers who are particularly in charge of residents’ evacuation. It is designed for thoseexperts to learn about disaster management in general, including the outline of disasterprevention and evacuation plans, flood management technologies and past flood management
efforts in Japan. The participants are also required to develop an action plan for local flood
management of flood-vulnerable areas in their countries. These training activities aim toenhance individual flood-coping capacities and eventually to contribute to flood damage
mitigation in their countries.
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In the second year of this three-year training program starting in 2015, 18 people
participated from Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, thePhilippines, and Sri Lanka. In 2017, the final year of this program, 10 people participatedfrom Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Kenya, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
They mainly learned how to operate the IFAS system along with additional training on thecreation and use of disaster prevention maps (which was conducted in Tsuchiura City in 2016
and in Shimotsuma City in 2017) and a study trip to the Shinanogawa River, managed by the
Hokuriku Regional Development Bureau. Through the training, they made a great
improvement in operation of IFAS and RRI and also learned about disaster management
currently practiced in Japan.

JICA Short-term Training Course (RRI model Exercise, PCM Exercise)

4.3.2 International summer program co-hosted with the University of Tokyo
An international summer program, “Sustainable Water Management in an Era of Big Data,”
was held from July 25 to August 5, 2016. The summer program was jointly organized by
ICHARM and the University of Tokyo and attended by 17 undergraduate and graduate
students and junior experts from Japan, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Korea, Afghanistan,
Taiwan, the Philippine, India, and Vietnam.
The program was designed for participants to increase understanding of sustainable water
resources management and the importance of using big data while making the most of DIAS,
developed in Japan. During the program, the participants learned about water issues, global
water cycle, DIAS and GIS through lectures given by professors and researchers including
the director of ICHARM. They also took a study trip to Shimokubo Dam in Tokyo’sneighboring prefecture Gunma and the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge
Channel. On the last day, the participants were divided into groups to prepare a presentation.
They analyzed a selected basin using various types of data such as topography and rainfall,
and presented recommendations to solve problems.
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In 2016 and 2017, training and workshops on IFAS and RRI were conducted both in Japanand overseas at various occasions.
On April 6-8, 2017, a workshop on the development of locally adjusted IFAS and RRI witha snowmelt module was held in Lahore, Pakistan, and on April 10-11, the same workshop washeld in Islamabad. Both workshops were attended by local experts from Pakistan
Meteorological Department (PMD), Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources(PCRWR), governmental agencies in the agricultural sector, and universities in addition topersonnel from local offices of UNESCO and JICA. High-ranking officials, two each from
Pakistan and Afghanistan, were also invited to Japan from May 30 to June 6 in 2016 and fromMay 17 to 26 in 2017 to increase the understanding of flood forecasting using IFAS and othertechnologies and discuss the effective collaboration with Japan.
ICHARM has also been involved as a technical advisor in the SAFE project led by JAXA.
On May 19-20, 2016, ICHARM provided Mekong River Commission (MRC) with bias
correction training for GSMaP by means of IFAS as part of the SAFE project, “Deploying
GSMaP for Decision Support in Transboundary Catchments in the Lower Mekong Basin.” On
June 2, 2016, ICHARM organized another SAFE-related workshop and discussed flood
forecasting using satellite rainfall information and its possible application in the decision
making process, as well as issues arising while implementing the SAFE project. On August22-24, it held another workshop at Kothmale International Training Institute (KITI) at
Kothmale, Sri Lanka on RRI and a correction method for satellite rainfall data needed for theoperation of a flood forecasting system installed for the Calganga River.
4.3.4 Support for Malaysia’s disaster management course
The Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), an academic entity toprovide Japanese-style engineering education in Malaysia, was officially launched in
September 2011 as part of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). The institute opened its
fifth course on disaster risk management in September 2016, which is targeted at
middle-ranking government officials in charge of disaster management. Japanese universities
and research institutes formed a consortium to provide the institute with assistance ineducation, research, management and other areas, and ICHARM has been part of it, involvedin planning the course and sending teaching staff. ICHARM staff has so far lectured about thebasic concepts on flood flow and sediment transport.
4.4 Follow-up Seminar
ICHARM holds Follow-up Seminar once a year in a country of graduates from ICHARM
educational and training programs to provide additional assistance and visit rivers and other20

places with water-related problems. This annual meeting is a great opportunity for ICHARM to
see how graduates are using knowledge and skills they learned at ICHARM and to learn actualissues they face in their practice, which are later used to improve ICHARM’s training programsand enhance its research activities. From January 31 to February 2, 2017, the 2016 Follow-up
Seminar was held at Manila, the Philippine, with 24 participants including officials from the
Department of Public Works and Highways, the National Irrigation Administration, PAGASA,
and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and experts from ICHARM and
JICA. The seminar consisted of presentations and discussions and a field trip to flood-prone
areas in the Pampanga River basin. The 2017 Follow-up Seminar was held on December 12-13,
2017, in Yangon, Myanmar. A total of 28 people participated from DMH, Ministry of Transportand Communications; Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems,
Ministry of Transport and Communications; IWUMD, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and
Irrigation; Relief and Resettlement Department, Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief andResettlement; Yangon Institute of Technology; and JICA. The first day was spent for
presentations and discussions, and the second day for a field trip to river structures in the
Ayeyarwady River running through Yangon’s neighboring Nya Dun City.
4.5 Internship
ICHARM offers an internship program, accepting interns from both Japan and overseas. In
2016, we accepted 10 interns: three from Kyungpook, Seoul and Yonsei universities of Korea,
one from UNESCO-IHE, five from Jochi, Tsukuba, Nagoya, and Osaka City universities ofJapan, and one from Kunming University of China. The interns from Jochi and Nagoya
universities were overseas students from Kenya and Thailand. In 2017, seven interns studied at
ICHARM: one from Erfurt University of Germany, one from UNESCO-IHE, one from Busan
University of Korea, and four from Osaka Institute of Technology, Hiroshima, Nagoya, andKyoto universities of Japan. The interns from Kyoto and Nagoya universities were overseas
students from Afghanistan and the Philippines. The interns spent a week to several months at
ICHARM studying hydraulic and hydrologic analysis, disaster risk analysis, or other subjects
depending on their interest, with technical advice from ICHARM researchers.

５．Information networking
5.1 International Flood Initiative
5.1.1 Global activities
A new strategy and an action plan of IFI were approved at the UNESCO-IHP
Intergovernmental Council held at the UNESCO headquarters in June 2016. Five key actions
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were also identified by clearly defining supporting tools, focus areas and stakeholders. Basedon the agreement of the intergovernmental council, the Jakarta Statement towards aninterdisciplinary and transdisciplinary partnership to consolidate flood risk reduction andsustainable development was proposed at the side event of the 8th HELP meeting in Jakarta,
Indonesia, in October 2016, and agreed on by the member organizations of IFI. The Jakarta
Statement explains the current status of disaster risk reduction and sustainable development,
and presents the direction and actions to take for the promotion of those two ultimate goals.
This statement became the foundation of the project, based on which the global effort toestablish Platforms on Water and Disaster has gotten underway. In July 2017, the 3rd UN
Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters was held at the UN headquarters in New York,and the director of ICHARM co-chaired the Special Session on Science and Technology. The
session discussed a broad range of topics on water and disasters: a mechanism to promoteinternational alliance on water and disasters, sediment disaster research, research foundation topromote investment and financing, response to multi-hazard disaster risk, as well as Platforms on
Water and Disaster. Further promotion of the international initiatives was also proposed at thesession. ICFM7 was held at Leeds University in Britain in September 2017. During theconference, the Special Session on IFI was organized and discussed the needs and activities
for Platforms on Water and Disaster under the theme of “Towards Strengthening Flood
Resilience under the Three Key Global Agendas and the United Nations New Water Decade.” As

the session recognized common need for water-related disaster risk reduction in Africa, Latin
America, Asia and the world and agreed on the role of IFI for that purpose, it was aparticularly important occasion for IFI to confirm the potential of IFI’s Platform project,which is currently being implemented in Asian countries, to expand as a global effort
covering Africa and Latin America. During the conference, the ICFM special committee met
and proposed that the IFI special session be a plenary session at ICFM8 in 2020, though held

Special Session on Science and Technology in The 3rd UN Special Thematic Session on
Water and Disasters
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as a parallel session at ICFM7. This shows high expectations of the global community
towards IFI. In November 2017, The World Bosai Forum was held in Sendai, Japan.
ICHARM organized a technical session, and the participants discussed academic issues
related to Platforms on Water and Disaster from multiple perspectives of ICT, economy,
community and dynamics, while the invited panelists from the Philippines, Sri Lanka,
Pakistan and Brazil spoke about the present situation and efforts of their countries regarding
water-related disasters and their management. In conclusion, the session agreed on theimportance of science and technology in water-related disaster risk reduction, and contributed
to laying the groundwork for diverse, well-coordinated risk reduction efforts on a global
basis.
5.1.2 Regional activities in Asia
As the secretariat of IFI, ICHARM has been actively promoting disaster risk reduction in the
Asian region. It organized a side event, “Implementation Planning Workshop on IFI in
Asia-Pacific,” at the 9th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium in Tokyo, Japan, in January 2017,inviting participants from relevant national organizations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, thePhilippines, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The workshop was successful in forming a consensus on theimportance of establishing Platforms on Water and Disaster and was a great start to take concrete
actions for implementing the idea. ICHARM also hosted a session at the 10th GEOSS
Asia-Pacific Symposium in Hanoi, Vietnam, in September 2017. During this symposium, it also
arranged a separate meeting with the participants from the Philippines and Myanmar to accelerate
the process of establishing a Platform on Water and Disaster in each country. ICHARM promoted
IFI’s activities by taking advantage of other occasions including a UNESCO special session at
AOGS2017 in Singapore in August 2017 and APAN44 in Dalian, China, in 2017.

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Implementation Planning Workshop on International Flood Initiative (IFI) in
Asia-Pacific5.1.3 Activities in each country
After the IFI workshop in Tokyo in January 2017, the projects for establishing Platforms on
Water and Disaster started in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Pakistan. In thePhilippines, the Coordinating Meeting on establishing a Platform on Water and Disaster wasorganized twice in March and June 2017. Another meeting was arranged with Philippine
experts when they participated in the 10th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium in September
2017 to step up preparation for the establishment of a Platform on Water and Disaster. In thecase of Sri Lanka, ICHARM supported their emergency response efforts during the flood andsediment disaster in May 2017. In August, a meeting was arranged to coordinate relevantorganizations towards the establishment of a Platform on Water and Disaster. In Myanmar,
high-level meetings with bureau chief class officials were held twice in Nay Pyi Taw in May
and November 2017. Another meeting was arranged with Myanmar experts when they
participated in the 10th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium. In Pakistan, a meeting was held inMarch 2017 to discuss the establishment of a Platform on Water and Disaster, and the country
is now working towards the plan.
5.2 Contribution to the world community
ICHARM has committed to disseminate research findings and increase its internationalpresence at various occasions by hosting international conferences, organizing sessions atinternational conferences hosted by overseas institutions, and making presentations as invited
speakers. Since major activities related to IFI are described in section 5.1, the following outlines
other major activities.

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5.2.1 Contribution to UNESCO-IHP
As a UNESCO category 2 center, ICHARM has been contributing to UNESCO-IHP at
national, regional and international levels. On June 13-17, 2016, ICHARM sent a party of
researchers led by the director of ICHARM to the 22nd UNESCO-IHP Intergovernmental
Council. It also sent researchers to other IHP-related conferences to speak about its activities
and exchange views and ideas with other participants, including: a workshop, "Fostering
Collaboration between UNESCO in the Field and Networks towards the 2030 Agenda," on
July 21-24, 2016, in Bali, Indonesia, held jointly with the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere
Program and IHP; regional workshops held on July 10-11, 2017, in Langkawi, Malaysia, andon November 29-30 in Penang, Malaysia; and the UNESCO-IHP Southeast Asia-PacificRegional Steering Committee (UNESCO-IHP RSC-SEAP) and a joint symposium organized
by UNESCO-IHP RSC-SEAP and UNESCO JASTIP on November 13-16, 2017. In addition,
as a member of the IHP session of the Natural Science Subcommittee of the Japanese
National Commission for UNESCO, ICHARM reports on its activities on a regular basis andsupports the operation of the session.
5.2.2 Contribution to hydrology on a global basis
As its establishment is closely related to issues of hydrology, the field is one of theimportant research areas for ICHARM. For this reason, it continues participating in research
projects and international workshops on hydrology to exchange views and ideas with otherorganizations.
5.2.2.1 Contribution to Sentinel Asia
Sentinel Asia is an initiative underpinned by the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency
Forum (APRSAF) to support the application of GIS and satellite observation technology todisaster risk reduction in the Asia-Pacific region.
ICHARM contributes to this initiative by sending the chief researcher of the Water
Disaster Team to serve as a co-chair of the Flood Working Group (later renamed the Water
Disaster Working Group) and sharing research findings with member organizations. We
also join discussions on emergency satellite observation in case of flooding in the Asian
region and the use of satellite observation for disaster management purposes.
5.2.2.2 Participation in the 15th WMO Commission for Hydrology
The 15th WMO Commission for Hydrology (CHy-15) was held December 7-13, 2016,
and four ICHARM researchers including the director participated as the representatives ofJapan. At the meeting, they explained the activities of ICHARM ranging from thedevelopment of IFAS and RRI to educational and training programs. As a result,
ICHARM’s contribution to WMO CHy was officially recognized, and clearly included in25the committee report.
5.2.3 Contribution to disaster prevention in the world
ICHARM also contributes to disaster prevent worldwide through international conferences.
5.2.3.1 Participation in Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
Researchers of ICHARM including the director participated in the Global Platform forDisaster Risk Reduction, held in Cancun, Mexico, on May 22-26, 2017. The Global
Platform, held biennially since 2007, is a forum that is officially recognized by the United
Nations General Assembly to provide advice for global efforts in disaster risk reduction andmonitor the progress in the efforts. Since the meeting was the first one after the 3rd UN
World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai in 2015, the participants
engaged in active discussions based on outcomes of the 2015 conference, regarding theimplementation of the Global Targets for disaster risk reduction set according to the Sendai
Framework, for example.
5.2.3.2 Participation in the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on
indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction
Official and informal meetings of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working
Group (OIEWG) on the indicators and terminology of the Sendai Framework wereconvened by UNISDR, and the chief researcher of the Risk Management Team of
ICHARM was sent to join discussions as an expert from Japan. The meetings were held toform consensus on indicators and terminology for worldwide use to measure the progressin the achievement of the seven Global Targets defined in the Sendai Framework, before
submitting the proposal for adoption by the UN General Assembly. The indicators andterminology agreed by the OIEWG were reported to the UN General Assembly andadopted on February 2, 2017.
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The “International Conference on Science and Technology for Sustainability -Global
Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience 2017-” was held in Tokyo on
November 23-25, 2017. The purpose of the conference was to develop an action plan for
the implementation of the four Priority for Actions stated in the Sendai Framework by
integrating the fields of science and technology related to disaster risk reduction anduniting science and technology with other stakeholders such as politicians, administrators,
and private corporations. It was organized by six entities including the Science Council ofJapan and UNISDR, and ICHARM also participated in planning and operation.

Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience 2017

5.2.4 Global Earth Observation System of Systems Asian Water Cycle Symposium 2016
Based on recognition of the commonality in water-related issues and socio-economic needsin the Asia-Pacific region, a well-coordinated regional challenge, Global Earth Observation
System of Systems Asian Water Cycle Initiative (GEOSS/AWCI), has been organized incooperation among 18 countries in Asia since 2005. It focuses on convergence andharmonization of observation activities, interoperability arrangements for observed data andcollected information, effective and comprehensive data management, and capacity buildingof the participating countries as the most functional element. Demonstrative approaches incooperation between global observations and local applications, between researchcommunities and operational sectors, and/or among different socio benefit areas can solve
various problems and lead to realize societal benefits.

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ICHARM co-hosted the Asia Water Cycle Symposium 2016 with the University of Tokyo
with the support of MLIT on March 1-2, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. Part of the symposium washeld in commemoration of ICHARM’s 10th anniversary. Graduates of its educational
programs were invited to discuss issues on capacity development for further improvement of
the training programs. In addition, since ICHARM is the secretariat for IFI, the symposium
also included an event to discuss a new framework which IFI has been promoting recently forflood risk reduction. ICHARM also coordinated a sub-session on flood early warning systems
and flood disaster risk reduction. The symposium gathered roughly 170 participants including
about 40 from overseas organizations. The participants agreed on promoting a “spiral-up”
framework, in which disaster risk reduction efforts will be enhanced by maximizing thepower of science and technology coupled with practicing holistic disaster prevention,
mainstreaming disaster prevention, and encouraging sustainable development. The

Asian Water Cycle Symposium 2016
symposium was also a good opportunity for ICHARM to share research results and findings
with Japanese and international experts.
5.2.5 Invited lectures by overseas organizations and universities
ICHARM researchers, including the director, the research and training advisor, chief andsenior researchers and research specialists, were invited by overseas organizations anduniversities to give lectures and presentations or join discussions as a panelist on flood
forecasting technology, flood forecasting and warning, and hydrological models. Suchorganizations and universities include the World Bank, the Asia Institute of Technology,
Technische Universitat Berlin of Egypt, and the MJIIT, for example.
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5.3 Contribution to the Typhoon Committee
The Typhoon Committee is an intergovernmental community jointly organized in 1968 by
ESCAP and WMO to promote and coordinate the development and implementation of plans tominimize human and physical damage caused by typhoons in the Asia-Pacific region. The
member countries are composed of governmental organizations of 14 nations and territories in
East and Southeast Asia. The committee consists of four Working Groups of Meteorology,
Hydrology, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Training and Research, each of which works on its
projects independently. Integrated Workshops and Annual Sessions are also held periodically.
Currently, a chief researcher of ICHARM assumes the chair of the Working Group of Hydrology,
taking the initiative in the “Flash Flood Risk Information for Local Resilience” project startingin 2017 with the start-up team of member countries. The following lists the meetings related to
the Typhoon Committee held in the 2016-2017 period:
・ The 11th Annual Meeting of Working Group of Disaster Risk Reduction and the Advisory
Working Group (Ulsan, Korea; May 24-26, 2016)
・ The 5th Annual Meeting of Working Group of Hydrology (Seoul, Korea; September 5-7,
2016)
・ The 11th Annual Integrated Workshop (Cebu, Philippines; October 24-28, 2016)
・ The 49th Annual Session (Yokohama, Japan; February 21-24, 2017)
・ The 12th Annual Meeting of Working Group of Disaster Risk Reduction and the Advisory
Working Group (Ulsan, Korea; May 31-June 1, 2017)
・ The 6th Annual Meeting of Working Group of Hydrology (Seoul, Korea; September 25-27,
2017)
・ The 12th Annual Integrated Workshop (Cheju Island, Korea; October 29-November 3,
2017)
Among the meetings, the 49th Annual Session of the Typhoon Committee was convened inJapan, gathering about 100 participants from 13 countries and territories (Japan, United States,
Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand,Laos, and Cambodia) and international organizations (WMO, ESCAP, JICA, ADRC, etc.). The
session consisted of technical presentations, reports on activity and budget plans from theWorking Groups of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Disaster Risk Reduction, and discussions onother issues including the management of the Typhoon Committee. All those were compiled in
the final report and approved by the session. The items approved by the session include: 1)
MLIT of Japan will strengthens support for the Typhoon Committee through IFI and JICA; 2)
The chair for the Working Group of Hydrology will continue to be assumed by Chief
Researcher Tokunaga; 3) The “Flash Flood Risk Information for Local Resilience” project,
proposed by Japan, will be implemented during the 2017-2019 period. Other meetings took29

place outside the Annual Session. The members of the Working Group of Hydrology met with
its former chairs. Bilateral meetings were held between Korea and ICHARM and between
Thailand and ICHARM. In the meantime, the 12th Integrated Workshop proposed that the 7th
Annual Meeting of Working Group of Hydrology be held in Japan, which should be approved at
the Annual Session scheduled in late February 2018.
5.4 Leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)/Regional Cooperative Agreement(RCA) RAS/7/030 Project on “Assessing Deep Groundwater Resources for Sustainable
Management through Utilization of Isotopic Techniques” in Japan
Based upon the request from Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), ICHARM leads
the IAEA/RCA RAS/7/030 Project in Japan and contributes to the implementation of the
RAS/7/030 Project in other 19 Asia-Pacific region countries by assigning a research specialist
as one of the national project coordinators/representatives of Japan for the following purposes:- Conducting training to participants from the RCA member countries for the sustainable
management of groundwater resources on the basis of comprehensive assessment using

Presentation by Director Koike at ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee 49th Annual Session
integration of isotopic, hydrogeological and chemical techniques;- Providing expert advice for specific study areas of the RCA member countries by answering
questions of groundwater resource, recharge mechanism, age and volumes;- Promoting application of isotope techniques in Japan to characterize water cycle insubsurface and surface water components;- Contributing to the research development of new numerical modeling technology andpreparation of the next 3-year IAEA/RCA Projects for reducing water-related disasters ofdroughts and floods.
In 2016, the research specialist of ICHARM was given a role of lecturer and expert in the 1st30

Regional Training Course (RTC) of the IAEA/RCA RAS/7/030 project held in Xian, China, on
November 14-25, 2016, with 28 participants from 16 IAEA/RCA member countries of the
Asia-Pacific Region.
In 2017, the research specialist was again given a role of co-lecturer and expert in the 2nd
RTC of the IAEA/RCA RAS/7/030 project in Sydney, Australia, on August 14-18, 2017, with 25
participants from 16 IAEA/RCA member countries.
He also represented Japan in the IAEA/RCA Mid-Term Progress Review Meeting of the
project RAS/7/030 held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on November 6-10, 2017 and contributed to the
preparation of the next 3-year IAEA/RCA Project, which is planned to start from 2020 focusing
on groundwater pollution due to anthropogenic activities and climate change.
5.5 Visitors
ICHARM welcomed many visitors from around the world during the 2016-2017 period, anddiscussed various issues and shared information on our activities and theirs.
The following outlines some of the main visitors.
5.5.1 Minister of Water Resources of Bihar State, India
On December 20, 2016, H. E. Mr. Rajeev Ranjan Singh, the minister of Water Resourcesof Bihar State, India, visited ICHARM with four other officials to learn flood risk
management including early warning systems and flood forecasting for mitigating flood
damage in their state. They stressed the need for advanced technologies, particularly
advanced flood models, as well as real-time flood forecasting systems, using ensemble
rainfall and flood forecasts.
5.5.2 President of the 38th session of the UNESCO General Conference
Mr. Stanley Mutumba Simataa, the president of the 38th session of the UNESCO General
Conference, visited ICHARM on May 15, 2017, as part of his working visit upon theinvitation by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan. President Simataa is also the deputy
minister of Information and Communication Technology, the Republic of Namibia. After acourtesy call on PWRI President Kazuhiro Nishikawa, the president received presentations on
ICHARM’s activities by the director and other researchers. He had a brief meeting with
doctoral and master’s students of ICHARM, and delivered a speech, stressing that it isimportant to prepare for water-related disasters such as floods and the impact of climatechange, as the world has been seriously concerned about them.

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Visit by Mr. Stanley Mutumba Simataa,
President of the 38th session of the General Conference, UNESCO

Date

Visitors & Affiliations

April
11-12,
2016
May
2016

23,

July
2016

6,

July
2016

20,

July
2016

27,

Dr. Cecilia Tortajada, Senior Research
Fellow, National University ofSingapore (former President of
IWRA), JICA staff
Dr. Min Kyung Jin, Vice President
and Chief of the Research Office, etc.,
i-WSSM (Korea)
College students from Indonesia,
Malaysia, Taiwan and Oyama Collegeof the National Institute of Technology
Dr. Lal Samarakoon, Executive
Director, etc., GeoInformatics Centerof the Asian Institute of Technology

No. ofVisitors
3

3
Approx.
30
3

Mr. Song Dexiong, Executive Deputy
Director,
IKCEST,
Institute ofGeographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research (China)
Mr. Ericson A. Alcovendaz, City
Administrator, and officials from
Manila City, the Philippines

4

September
16, 2016

Experts from around the world
involved in the World Bank’s projects

12

October
24, 2016

Dr. Win Win Zin, Associate Professor,
Yangon Technological University(Myanmar), master’s course students
from the University of Tokyo
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Additional
Director General, etc., the Bangladesh

7

August29, 2016

November
7, 201632

93

PurposeSite visit and research meetingwith ICHARM researchersand students
Meeting on possible mutual
collaboration as UNESCO
centres
Receive lectures
Discussion on collaboration in
the development and effective
use of remote sensing
technologies and hydrologicalmodelsMeeting on possible mutual
collaboration as UNESCO
centres
Gather information on projects
and research achievements inprevention
anddisaster
mitigation
Presentation and discussion on
applications about IFAS andRRI model
Discussion on ICHARM’sactivities related to Myanmar
Meeting to strengthen mutual
research cooperation

November
9, 2016

December20, 2016
February
20, 2017

March 20,
2017
April 22,
2017
May
2017

15,

June
2017

27,

Water Development Board
Associate
Professor
Motoyoshi
Kobayashi and international graduate
students
studying
LifeandEnvironmental Sciences, University ofTsukuba
H. E. Mr. Rajeev Ranjan Singh,
Minister of Water Resources of Bihar
State, India, etc.
Dr. Hyo Seob CHO, Director of Water
Resources Information Center, etc.,
Han River Flood Control Office(Korean delegations to Typhoon
Committee)
Prof. Felino P. Lansigan, University of
the Philippines, Los Baños, etc.
Professor Ali Akbar, Vice Chancellor,etc.,
Bangladesh
Agricultural
University
Mr. Stanley Mutumba Simataa,
President of the 38th session of theGeneral Conference, UNESCO, MOFA

December20, 2017

Bereniz Castaneda Talavera, Director,
Innovation&
Competitiveness,
Agencia Espacial Mexicana (AEXA)
Dr. KE Seetha Ram, Senior Capacity
Building and Training Specialist,
Asian Development Bank Institute(ADBI)
Mohammad Reza MEMARIAN, Headof Geotechnical and Strength ofMaterial
Centerof
TehranMunicipality, Iran
Water Institution for Sustainability(WIS)(Thailand)

December22, 2017

Mr. Seok Kwan-Soo, ProgrammeManager, etc., i-WSSM (Korea)

August 9,
2017
August10, 2017

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Receive lectures and lab tour

5

To learn flood risk
management

3

Discussion on activities of
Typhoon Committee

4

Discussion on research andeducational activities
Meeting to explore possible
research collaborations

2
3

8
1

8

14

3

Courtesy call on PWRI, etc. asa working visit upon theinvitation by the Minister for
Foreign Affairs
Research on flood forecasting
using GSMaP, as a part of
JICA program
Meetingon
ICHARM's
training & capacity building
activities
Training and capacity building
byvisiting
importantinfrastructures in Japan andresearch institutes, etc.
Research on the analysis
methods and risk management
methods on water-related
disasters
Meeting on training andeducation

６．Local practices
ICHARM conducts various projects of local practices in rivers and floodplains of Japan andother countries such as Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Philippines. Those
projects can be categorized into three types: 1) field investigations and data collection mainly
for hazard research; 2) research activities for disaster risk reduction and the development ofresilient communities; 3) capacity development and technology transfer. The following three
sections outline each category with concrete examples.
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6.1 Field investigation and data collection
ICHARM conducted field investigation for the Omoto River of Iwate Prefecture and the
Akatani River of Fukuoka Prefecture, both in Japan, whose basins suffered damage from a flood
disaster during the 2016-2017 period. We investigated post-disaster conditions of the affectedareas for further progress in the study of hazards. We also collected data needed to test thevalidity of existing hazard forecasting and evaluation methods and make improvements asnecessary.
ICHARM also conducted field investigation in the West Rapti River of Nepal, and found thelongitudinal sediment sorting in a short river reach, which contributes to a rapid transition froma gravel bed river to a sand bed river. Since this type of longitudinal sediment sorting has beenrarely reported in Japan, the phenomenon has limited practical significance domestically.
However, theorizing the phenomenon is crucially important in sediment transport mechanics,
and the success in doing so will make enormous strides in sediment transport research.
ICHARM continues the investigation on the West Rapti River in this respect, collecting data
related to the longitudinal sediment sorting and working on the development of a numericalmodel for the assessment of this phenomenon.

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In Bangladesh, large rivers such as the Brahmaputra River pose a serious threat to thelivelihood of local communities, causing bank erosion and channel changes. The river banks

Changes in bank line around the estuary of the Sittaung River in Myanmar
consist of clay, silt and fine sand, and channel changes accompanying bank erosion result from
imbalance of suspended sediment transport. In Myanmar, too, the river banks around the estuaryof the Sittaung River are experiencing considerable erosion and local communities are in great
danger. The river banks in this area are composed of cohesive material, and parts of themundergo an erosion of about 2,000 m per year due to river flow, tidal flow and bore. The channelchanges and bank erosion in the two countries is very rare cases both in Japan and othercountries. In the face of immediate danger, both countries hope for technical assistance toprevent the phenomenon from worsening; however, it is also true that both countries are hardly
equipped with river engineering and methods for forecasting and evaluating sediment transportand channel changes. In these circumstances, ICHARM has conducted river erosion
investigation in the Brahmaputra and Sittaung rivers. In particular, river flow and suspended
sediment have also been observed in the Brahmaputra River. Based on the results of theseinvestigations and data collected on sediment transport, we are trying to characterize the channelchanges observed in the study areas and develop a numerical model to evaluate river changes.
6.2 Research activities for disaster risk reduction
A large part of Joso City in Ibaraki Prefecture was inundated when the Kinugawa Riverbreached the river bank in September 2015. As part of the effort to build a community that are
more resilient to disasters, ICHARM conducted an interview survey, asking businesses andresidents questions about preparation for floods and response in the face of inundation. Through35

this survey, we tried to find the city’s current level of disaster resilience by looking into therelationship between preparation and flood impact, the time needed to return to the business andlivelihood before the disaster, as well as other factors. Based on the results, we discussed actions
needed to strengthen the resilience of the community.
ICHARM also conducted an interview survey in Calumpit of Bulacan Province in thePhilippines. Calumpit is a small city with a population of about 100,000 in the Pampanga Riverbasin of Luson Island, lying to the northwest of Manila. Local residents were asked questions
about how they acted during a 2011 typhoon named Pedring, which caused the worst flood in
history. A workshop was also held to support the community in the development of a flood
contingency plan. In the workshop, they discussed how to prepare for and respond to future
floods as a community, based on RRI-based inundation simulations.

Workshop for flood contingency planning at Calumpit, Philippines

6.3 Capacity development and technology transfer
Data on flow discharge and sediment transport are extremely important for river management.
However, such data are not available in many developing countries; if available, they often lacktemporal and spatial continuity and their quality cannot necessarily be guaranteed. As an effort
to solve this problem, ICHARM provided on-site training in the Indus River for local engineersof Pakistan to learn how to collect basic data properly by instructing flow velocity measurement
using ultrasonic waves from a manned or unmanned boat, suspended sediment concentration
measurement, and river bed height measurement simultaneously.

36Since there are no rivers in Japan having river morphology similar to that of the Indus River,the data collected through the training are also very valuable for the progress in fine-sedimenttransport research.

A researcher of ICHARM (front, left) answers questions about ADCP
asked by a training participant.

７．Public relations and other important activities
7.1 ICHARM 10th anniversary publication“ICHARM

10th

Anniversary”

waspublished in March 2016 to celebrate theoccasion while reflecting on its decade ofachievements

andenvisaging

the

way

forward. The volume includes the forewords
from the director-general of UNESCO, theminister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport
and Tourism, and other important figures in
the field, messages from the chair of
UNESCO-IHP and others, as well as in-depth
descriptions of activities of ICHARM andrelated documents and lists of many kinds.

ICHARM 10th Anniversary

7.2 Awards
The following lists the awards received by researchers of ICHARM for their quality research,presentations and academic papers in the 2016-2017 period.

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7.2.1 Institute of Social Safety Science 2015 Best Paper Award
Recipients: Miho Ohara, Naoko Nagumo, Badri Bhakta Shrestha, and Hisaya Sawano
Paper: Study on Basic Flood Risk Assessment Method in Asian Flood Prone Area with
Limited Regional Data -Case Study in Pampanga River Basin, Philippines-, Journal ofSocial Safety Science, No.27, p.225-235, 2015. (in Japanese)
7.2.2 Institute of Social Safety Science 2015 Best Presentation Award
Recipient: Naoko Nagumo, Miho Ohara, Hisaya Sawano, Hiroko Koumoto, and Satoshi
TanakaPresentation: Geographical Characteristics of Flood Occurred in Joso City Ibaraki
Prefecture in September 2015, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Institute ofSocial Safety Science, No.37, p.69-72, 2015. (in Japanese)
7.2.3 Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau Director’s Award(for the presentation at the 60th annual conference on technological research for thedevelopment of the Hokkaido region on February 13-16, 2017)
Recipients: Tadashi Sato (River Management Section, Development and Construction
Department, Sapporo City), Atsuhiro Yorozuya (River and Dam Hydraulic Engineering
Research Team, Hydraulic Engineering Research Group), and Masahiro Hashiba (Fukuda
Hydrologic Center)
Presentation: Applicability of particle image velocimetry to the upper Sorachi River during
Typhoon No.10 in 2016 –Advanced discharge observation for large-scale flooding (part 2)– (in Japanese)
7.2.4 2016 Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering Paper Encouragement Award
Recipient: Shun Kudo (Hydrologic Engineering Research Team, Hydraulic Engineering
Research Group, PWRI)
Paper: Influence Analysis of Observed River Channel Conditions on Inundation Process in
Lower Mekong River Basin
Co-authors: Atsuhiro Yorozuya (Hydrologic Engineering Research Team, HydraulicEngineering Research Group, PWRI); E.D.P Perera, Hiroshi Koseki, Yoichi Iwami(ICHARM); Makoto Nakatsugawa (Division of Engineering, Muroran Institute ofTechnology)
7.2.5 Common MP Contribution Award
Recipient: Yoshito Kikumori
Reason: His long-term contribution to the Common Modeling Platform for water-material
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circulation analysis (Common MP)
7.2.6 The 19th Infrastructure Technology Development Award
Recipient: ICHARM
Technology: Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS)
7.2.7 Letter of appreciation from the President of JICA and the Minister for Foreign Affairs
Recipient: Mohamed Rasmy Abdul Wahid
Reason: His professional contribution as a member of the Japan Disaster Relief Expert
Team in Sri Lanka in response to extremely severe rainfall and flooding
ICHARM has its own prize, “ICHARM BEST PAPER AWARD,” mainly to encourage young
researchers at ICHARM. Every year, the selection committee selects and examines papers of
ICHARM researchers published in international journals for creativity and relevancy in terms ofwater-related disaster risk reduction, and finally decides the best paper for the prize.
7.3 ICHARM Open day
ICHARM held the annual “ICHARM Open Day” on April 22, 2016, and April 21, 2017, as apart of the open house event of PWRI during the Tsukuba Science & Technology Week every
April.
Foreign researchers and master’s and doctoral students of ICHARM cooperated in
preparation for this event. Students and teachers from local schools, the Ibaraki Prefectural
Takezono High School and the Ibaraki Prefectural Namiki Secondary School, were invited toenjoy this unique occasion.
The first half of the event consisted of a short lecture and presentation on water issues with a
Q&A session, while the second half contained poster presentations about countries of foreign
researchers and graduate students including topics on water-related disasters. All
communication took place in English.

39
ICHARM Open Day (April 21, 2017)

Date

Participants
April 22, ・69 students
TakezonoHigh
2016
School: 44
Namiki Secondary
School: 25
・5 teachers
April 21, ・57 students
TakezonoHigh
2017
School: 40
Namiki Secondary
School: 17
・6 teachers

Content
・Greetings by Advisor Kuniyoshi Takeuchi
・Short lecture by Mahtab Mohammad Hosain, a PhD
student, Bangladesh
・Poster presentation by ICHARM students from 12
countries
・Greetings by Director Toshio Koike
・Short lecture by Gul Ahamad Ali, a PhD student, on
Water Management and Flood Disasters in Pakistan
・ Poster presentation by ICHARM students from 9
countries

7.4 Newsletters and website
ICHARM Newsletter has been publishedfour times a year since March 2006 to
publicize its activities of research, educationand training, and local practice projects, aswell as a list of published papers. During the
2016-2017

period,thenewsletter

waspublished eight times from No. 40 to No. 47.
The number of subscribers has reached about
4,230.
ICHARM homepage has gone through agreat renewal. A new section, “What’s New,”has been added to show the progress inresearch and projects in addition to the latest

ICHARM Newsletter No. 46

information and notifications of upcoming
events.
7.5 ICHARM R&D Seminars

ICHARM R&D Seminars are held on an irregular basis as an opportunity to keep up with the40

Dr. Srikantha Herath at 58th ICHARM R&D Seminarlatest knowledge and information from domestic and international experts in the field ofhydrology and water-related disasters. In the 2016-2017 period, five seminars were held as
follows, inviting experts from Japan and overseas, and attracted many participants even outside
ICHARM.

No.
56

Date
July 21,2016

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Prof. Kelly M. Kibler

Assistant Professor, Water

Flow

Resources

Engineering,

signatures of diversion

Universityofhydropower: an analysis

CentralFloridaofalteration

32

riversinsouthwestern China
57

December
1, 2016

Yasutaka Wakatsuki

Associate

Professor,

Incremental

dynamical

College of Science, Ibaraki

downscaling

for

University

probabilistic

climatechange projection and a
dynamical approach for
precipitation nowcast
58

DecemberDr. Srikantha Herath

1, 2016

Senior Advisor, Ministry

Integrated Flood Controlof Megapolis and Westernand Water Management

Development, Governmentin Colombo, Sri Lanka

of Sri Lanka
59

FebruaryDr.

BlancaDirector, Division of Water

International

15, 2018

JIMENEZ-CISNEROS

Sciences and Secretary ofHydrological Programme

IHP, UNESCO

(IHP)

and

futurecollaboration

with

UNESCOII

category

centres60

FebruaryProf.

15, 2018

Szöllösi-Nagy

AndrasChairperson, International
Hydrological Programme(IHP)

Intergovernmental

Council, UNESCO

Water related issues in
the world and expectation
for ICHARM

7.6 Research Meeting
Research Meeting has been held roughly once a month since March 2008 for researchers to
upgrade their research skills and perspectives and stimulate interaction with other researchers.
During the 2016-2017 period, the meeting was held 21 times as of December 2017.
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Number of Alumni of ICHARM training program

ANNEX 1
(as of January 2018)

Ph.D. Program "Disaster Management"

1

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

Master's. Program "Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program"
2007-2008
2008-20092009-20102010-20112011-20122012-20132013-20142014-2015
2015-20162016-20172017-2018
Total

2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
2

3
2
1
2
2
1

2
0 19 0

0

1
1
1
3

1
1
1

0 11 3

1

1
1
1
1

1

1

1

2

0

1
3

3
1

1

1
4

4

4

2
2
2
3

2 2
2 2
2 2
2 2
1 2
9 10

2

1
7

1
1

1
1

1
3

2

JICA training program "Flood Hazard Mapping"
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Total

1
3
1
2

0

2

1

1

1

1
1

1

3
2
1

1
1
1
1
1

1

1

2
7 11 0

1
1
1
3

3 2
2 2
2 2
2 3
2 2
11 11

9

1
2
2
5

2
2
2
6

1
1
2
4

3

3
3

9

3
1
2
6

2
1
1
4

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

1
1
2

0

1
1
1
3

1

1
1
1
8

1

1

1

1

3
3
4
4
2
0 18 0

2
3
2

0

0

0

0

0 11 0

0

4

2

0

1

1

1
2
2
2
1
8

1
3
2
3
2
2
2
1
16

1
1
2
3
7

11
9
13
12
19
12
12
13
13
11
14
139

10
7
12
12
19
12
12
13
13
8
118

16
16
16
20
10
78
10
12
11
33

0 12 0

13
7
16
20
20
18
10
104

1

7

7
3
2

0 10 0

1

0

1

2

2
1
4

2

2
3
2
2

0

1

1

1
1

3
3
2
4
2
0 17 0

3

11

6
5
2
2
15

6
5
4
4
19

1 25 3Total

1 18 14 1 12 36 1 37 1

Zimbabwe3

Vietnam

8 29 5 21 15 13 1

Venezuela

3

Tunisia

3

Timor-Leste

1

Thailand3

Tanzania

1

Tajikistan

9 21 3

Sri Lanka

3

SerbiaRepublic of Albania

Philippines

MozambiquePapua New Guinea

Maldives

Pakistan

Malawei

Nigeria

India

Netherland

Guatemala

Nepal

Fiji

MyanmarDjibouti

Malaysia

Ethiopia

Laos

El Salvador

Kenya

Colombia

Japan

Cambodia

Indonesia

BrazilChina

Bosnia-BhutanBangladesh

4 38 11 4

Year

Total

1
1
1
3

3

2
2
2
6

2

2
1
2
3
1
9

2

2
2
4
Afghanistan

Country

3

2

4
2
2
8

1
1

1
1

3

UNESCO Pakistan Project workshop
2012
2013
2016
2017
Total

1
1

1

UN/ISDR Training course "Comprehensive Tsunami Disaster Prevention"
2

1

1

1
1
1
3

3

2008

1
1
2
2
2

2
1 12 01
1
1
3

1

JICA training program "Capacity Development for Adaptation to Climate Change"
2010

2

2

2
3
2
2
1
10

JICA training program "Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS"
2012(A)
2012(B)
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Total

1

1
2
2
2 1
2
1 16 1

JICA training program "Local Emergency Operation Plan with Flood Hazard Map"
2009
2010
2011
Total

1

1
6

2
1

(Number of students
conferred degree)

2

1

1
1

Total

0

Zimbabwe0

Vietnam0

Venezuela

0

Tunisia0

Timor-Leste0

Thailand0

Tanzania

1

Tajikistan0

Sri Lanka0Serbia2

Republic of Albania

0Philippines

0

1

Papua New Guinea

1
1

Pakistan

Netherland
1

Nigeria

Nepal

Myanmar

Mozambique

Maldives

1

Malawi0

Malaysia

0

Laos

0

Kenya

0

Japan

0

Indonesia

0

India

0

GuatemalaFijiDjibouti

0

1

1

1

1
2
1
1
1
6

Ethiopia

El Salvador

Colombia

China

Cambodia

2010-20132011-20142012-20152013-20162014-20172015-20182016-20192017-2020
Total

BrazilYear

Bosnia-Herzegovina

BhutanBangladesh

Afghanistan

Country

1 25 21

3 25 1407

ANNEX 2

ICHARM Publication List (January 2016 ~ December 2017)
A. Peer Reviewed Papers
Shun KUDO, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, E.D.P PERERA, Hiroshi KOSEKI, Yoichi IWAMI and
Makoto NAKATSUGAWA, Impact Analysis of Observed River Channel Condition on Inundation
Process in Lower Mekong River Basin, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1(Hydraulic Engineering), Vol.72, No.4, I_145-I_150, 2016 (in Japanese)

Tomoki Ushiyama, Takahiro Sayama, and Yoichi Iwami, ENSEMBLE FLOOD FORECASTINGOF AGANO RIVER FLOOD DURING NIIGATA-FUKUSHIMA TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
IN JULY 2011, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 (Hydraulic Engineering),
Vo.72, pp. I_157-I_162, Mar. 2016 (in Japanese)Kwak Y, A Yorozuya, Y Iwami, Disaster Risk Reduction using Image Fusion of Optical and SAR
Data Before and After Tsunami, IEEE Aerospace2016, IEEE, DOI: 978-1-4673-7676-1/16, March2016

Mamoru Miyamoto, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Morimasa Tsuda, Yuzuru Yamakage, Yoichi Iwami,
Hitoshi Yanami, and Hirokazu Anai: Calibration Considering Flood Forecasting Aptitudes for
Hydrological Parameters of a Distributed Runoff Model: Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering,
JSCE, Vol.60, I_175-180, 2016 (in Japanese)Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Miyamoto Mamoru, Yuzuru Yamakage, Morimasa Tsuda, Hitoshi Yanami,
Hirokazu Anai and Yoichi Iwami: Parameter Identification to Estimate the Discharges of theMultiple Water Level Stations by Multi-objective Optimization: Annual Journal of HydraulicEngineering, JSCE, Vol.60, I_169-174, 2016 (in Japanese)

R. K. Biswas, A. Yorozuya, S. Egashira, MODIFIED GRADIENT BASED METHOD FOR
MAPPING SANDBARS IN MEGA-SIZED BRAIDED RIVER USING MODIS IMAGE, JSCE,
Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol.60, February 2016

Shinji Egashira, Kuniaki Miyamoto, Hiroshi Takebayashi: Formation and developing processes ofdebris flow resulting from slope failures, Journal of the Japan Society of Erosion Control
Engineering, Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 38-42, 2016. (in Japanese)Y. Yamazaki, S. Egashira, Y. Iwami, “Simulator of sediment related disasters for warning andevacuation, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1, Vol. 72, pp. I_1327-I_1332, 2016
(in Japanese)Y. Sawada, H. Tsutsui, T. Koike, M. Rasmy, R. Seto, A Field Verification of an Algorithm for
Retrieving Vegetation Water Content From Passive Microwave Observations, IEEE Transactions
on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.54, pp.2082-2095, April 2016



Gusyev M.A., Gädeke A., Cullmann J., Magome J., Sugiura A., Sawano H. and K. Takeuchi (2016).
Connecting global- and local-scale flood risk assessment: a case study of the Rhine River basin
flood hazard, Wiley, Journal of Flood Risk Management, DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12243, May 2016



Y. Kwak, J. Magome, A. Hasegawa, Y. Iwami, Global Flood Exposure Assessment under Climate
42and Socio-economic Scenarios for Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute(DPRI), Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan, June 5-9, 2016
Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, Manabu TSUKAHARA, Shun KUDO, Hiroshi KOSEKI, and Toshiharu
FUETA, Development of Water-Level/Velocity Measuring Instrument with Radar Technique,
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. G (Environmental Research), Vol.72, No.5, I_305I_311, 2016 (in Japanese)

Shun KUDO, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, Hiroshi KOSEKI, Toshiharu FUETA and Makoto
NAKATSUGAWA, Estimation of Discharge Considering River Bed Fluctuation during Flooding,
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. G (Environmental Research), Vol.72, No.5, I_313I_320, 2016 (in Japanese)

Md. Nasif Ahsan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Karina Vink, Miho Ohara, A systematic review of thefactors affecting the cyclone evacuation decision process in Bangladesh, Fuji Technology Press
Ltd., Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.742-753, August 2016



R. K. Biswas, A.Yorozuya, S.Egashira, Monitoring of sandbars migration process in mega-sized
braided river using MODIS, Conference: River Flow 2016, At St. Louis, Mo. USA, Volume:
Constantinescu, Garcia & Hanes (Eds) © 2016, Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1138-02913-2, pp.622-629, July 2016



S.Kudo, A.Yorozuya, E.D.P.Perera, H.Koseki, Y.Iwami, M.Nakatsugawa, Estimation of discharge
in river channel and distributions of water velocity and depth over floodplain, Conference: River
Flow 2016, At St. Louis, Mo. USA, Volume: Constantinescu, Garcia & Hanes (Eds) © 2016, Taylor& Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-02913-2, pp.297-305, July 2016



H. Koseki, A. Yorozuya, S. Kudo, Y. Iwami, T. Kitsuda, Development of a system to measure bed
forms and vertical velocity profiles in a river channel, Conference: River Flow 2016, At St. Louis,
Mo. USA, Volume: Constantinescu, Garcia & Hanes (Eds) © 2016, Taylor & Francis Group,
London, ISBN 978-1-138-02913-2, pp.1557-1565, July 2016



Gusyev M.A., Morgenstern U., Stewart M.K., Yamazaki Y., Kashiwaya K., Nishihara T. ,Kuribayashi D., Sawano H. and Y. Iwami (2016). Application of tritium in precipitation andbaseflow in Japan: a case study of groundwater transit times and storage in Hokkaido watersheds.
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 1-16, doi:10.5194/hess-20-1-2016

Juarez-Lucas, A.M., Kibler, K.M., Ohara, M. and T. Sayama. Benefits of flood-prone land use andthe role of coping capacity, Candaba floodplains, Philippines. Natural Hazards (2016), pp. 22, DOI:
10.1007/s11069-016-2551-2, online: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-016-25512/fulltext.html, September 2016



Y.Kwak, Park, J., Arifuzzaman, B., Iwami, Y., Amirul, Md., Kondoh, A., Rapid Exposure
Assessment of Nationwide River Flood for Disaster Risk Reduction, The International Archives of
the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS Archives),
doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-1357-2016, 2016, pp.1357-1362, June 2016

Toshio Koike, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Shinji Egashira, An Approach to Next-Generation Water
Disaster Study – In Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Establishment of ICHARM –,43

Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1031, December 2016
Tomoki Ushiyama, Takahiro Sayama, Yoichi Iwami, Ensemble Flood Forecasting of Typhoons
Talas and Roke at Hiyoshi Dam Basin, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1032-1039,
December 2016

Tong Liu, Tsuyoshi Kinouchi, Javier Mendoza, Yoichi Iwami, Glacier Mass Balance andCatchment-Scale Water Balance in Bolivian Andes, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.10401051, December 2016



Yoshihiro Shibuo, Eiji Ikoma, Oliver Saavedra Valeriano, Lei Wang, Peter Lawford, Masaru
Kitsuregawa, Toshio Koike, Implementation of Real-Time Flood Prediction and its Application to
Dam Operations by Data Integration Analysis System, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11,
pp.1052-1061, December 2016

Shun Kudo, Atsuhiro Yorozuya, Hiroshi Koseki, Yoichi Iwami, Makoto Nakatsugawa, Inundation
Process in the Lower Mekong River Basin, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1062-1072,
December 2016



Robin K. Biswas, Atsuhiro Yorozuya, Shinji Egashira, Numerical Model for Bank Erosion in the
Brahmaputra River, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1073-1081, December 2016



Maksym Gusyev, Akira Hasegawa, Jun Magome, Patricia Sanchez, Ai Sugiura, Hitoshi Umino,
Hisaya Sawano, Yoshio Tokunaga, Evaluation of Water Cycle Components with Standardized
Indices Under Climate Change in the Pampanga, Solo and Chao Phraya Basins, Journal of Disaster
Research, Vol.11, pp.1091-1102, December 2016



Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Egashira, Yoichi Iwami, Method to Develop Critical Rainfall Conditions
for Occurrences of Sediment-Induced Disasters and to Identify Areas Prone to Landslides, Journalof Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1103-1111, December 2016



Naoko Nagumo, Miho Ohara, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Hisaya Sawano, The 2015 Flood Impact due
to the Overflow and Dike Breach of Kinu River in Joso City, Japan, Journal of Disaster Research,
Vol.11, pp.1112-1127, December 2016Youngjoo Kwak, Yoichi Iwami, Rapid Global Exposure Assessment for Extreme River Flood Risk
Under Climate Change, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1128-1136, December 2016

Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Hisaya Sawano, Miho Ohara, Naoko Nagumo, Improvement in Flood
Disaster Damage Assessment Using Highly Accurate IfSAR DEM, Journal of Disaster Research,
Vol.11, pp.1137-1149, December 2016Miho Ohara, Naoko Nagumo, Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Hisaya Sawano, Flood Risk Assessment in
Asian Flood Prone Area with Limited Local Data – Case Study in Pampanga River Basin,
Philippines –, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1150-1160, December 2016

Daisuke Kuribayashi, Miho Ohara, Takahiro Sayama, Atsuhiko Konja, Hisaya Sawano, Utilizationof the Flood Simulation Model for Disaster Management of Local Government, Journal of Disaster
Research, Vol.11, pp.1161-1175, December 2016



Yoko Hagiwara, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Hisaya Sawano, Enhancement of Flood Countermeasuresof Japanese-Affiliated Firms Based on the Lessons Learned from the 2011 Thai Flood, Journal of44Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1176-1189, December 2016


Akira Hasegawa, Maksym Gusyev, Yoichi Iwami, Meteorological drought and flood assessment
using the comparative SPI approach in Asia under climate change, Journal of Disaster Research,
Vol.11, pp.1082-1090, December 2016



Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Shigenobu Tanaka, Recovery from Catastrophe and Building Back Better,
Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.11, pp.1190-1201, December 2016



Tsuda, M., Iwami Y., Estimation of daily household water consumption using metered water
consumption data. J. JSCE, Ser. G, 72, 6, II_79-II_85, October 2016 (in Japanese)

Tomoki Ushiyama, Akira Hasegawa, Mamoru Miyamoto, Yoichi Iwami, Dynamic downscaling
and bias correction of rainfall in the Pampanga River Basin, Philippines, for investigating floodrisk changes due to global warming, Hydrological Research Letters,水文・水資源学会, Vol.10(3),pp.106-112, December 2016



Naoko Nagumo, Hisaya Sawano, Land Classification and Flood Characteristics of the PampangaRiver Basin, Central Luzon, Philippines, Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 東京地学協会,
Vol.125, pp.699-716, 2016

NAGUMO Naoko, OHARA Miho, SHRESTHA Badri Bhakta and SAWANO Hisaya: Flood
Simulation and GIS Mapping in Flood-prone Region of the Philippines: Efforts and Issues inContingency Planning. E-journal GEO、Association of Japanese Geographers, Vol. 11, pp.361-374,
2016 (in Japanese)Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Toshio Okazumi, Mamoru Miyamoto, Hisaya Sawano, Flood damage
assessment in the Pampanga river basin of the Philippines, Journal of Flood Risk Management,
Wiley, Vol.9 (4), pp.355-369, December 2016



Rosiret ESCALONA, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, Shinji EGASHIRA, Yoichi IWAMI, Fluvial Fan
Process due to Swing Phenomena, International Journal of Erosion Control Engineering,
Vol.9(2016), No.2, pp.25-31, 2016

Shinji EGASHIRA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Masato SEKINE, Nobutomo OSANAI, Sediment
Run-Out Processes and Possibility of Sediment Control Structures in the 2013 Izu-Ohshima Event,International Journal of Erosion Control Engineering, Vol.9(2016) No.4, pp.155-164, 2016Miho OHARA, Naoko NAGUMO, Badri Bhakta SHRESTHA and Hisaya SAWANO, A Study on
Flood Contingency Planning for Communities in Flood Prone Area -Case Study in Pampanga River
Basin in the Philippines-, Journal of social safety science, Vol.29, pp.85-93, Nov. 2016 (inJapanese)

Md. Nasif Ahsan, Karina Vink, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Livelihood Strategies and Resource
Dependency Nexus in the Sundarbans, Participatory Mangrove Management in a Changing Climate,137-160, February 2017



Yoichi Iwami, Akira Hasegawa, Mamoru Miyamoto, Shun Kudo, Yusuke Yamazaki, Tomoki
Ushiyama and Toshio Koike, 2017, Comparative study on climate change impact on precipitationand floods in Asian river basins, Hydrological Research Letters, Vol.11(1), 24–30, DOI:
10.3178/hrl.11.24, February 201745

Duminda PERERA, Yoichi IWAMI, Yoji CHIDA, Point and non-point source Nutrient circulation
modelling for the Takasaki River basin, Chiba Japan , JSCE, 73(4), pp.I-1165-I-1170, March 2017

Shinji EGASHIRA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Masato SEKINE, Nobutomo OSANAI, Sediment
Run-Out Processes and Possibility of Sediment Control Structures in the 2013 Izu-Ohshima Event,International Journal of Erosion Control Engineering, Vol. 9 (2016) No.4, pp.155-164

Tsuda, M., Irie, M., Iwami Y., 2017. Application of multivariate temporal disaggregation method
to estimate daily sectoral water consumption. J. JSCE, Ser. B1, 73, 4, I_271-I_276, February 2017
(in Japanese).

Tomoki USHIYAMA, Takahiro SAYAMA and Yoichi IWAMI, DEVELOPMENT OF A FLOODFORECASTING SYSTEM USING REGIONAL ENSEMBLE PREDICTION – APPLICATIONTO KINUGAWA FLOOD IN 2015, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1(Hydraulic Engineering), Vol.73(4), pp. I_193-I_198, Feb. 2017 (in Japanese)

Mamoru Miyamoto, Tomoki Ushiyama, Yoichi Iwami, Toshio Koike: Future Change on
Inundation Hazard Considering Duration in the Pampanga River Basin, Philippines, Annual Journalof Hydraulic Engineering, JSCE, Vol.61, I_277-282，2017 (in Japanese)

Tomoki USHIYAMA, Takahiro SAYAMA, Yoichi IWAMI, The Present State of Flash Flood
Forecasting Utilizing Numerical Weather Prediction in Europe, J. Japan Soc. Hydrol. and Water
Resour. Vol. 30, No.2, Mar. 2017 pp. 112 - 125 (in Japanese)

D.HARADA, S.EGASHIRA, A.YOROZUYA and Y.IWAMI; Characteristics of flood flow withriverbed deformation in the Omoto river in 2016 flood disaster, Advances in River Engineering,
JSCE,Vol.23, June 2017 (in Japanese)

Shun KUDO, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, Daisuke HARADA and Toshiharu FUETA, Influence ofFlow Resistance of Hydrographs during a Flood in the Omoto River, Advances in River
Engineering, Vol.23, 49-54, 2017 (in Japanese)Stewart M.K., U. Morgenstern, M. A. Gusyev, and P. Małoszewski (2017) Aggregation effects on
tritium-based mean transit times and young water fractions in spatially heterogeneous catchments
and groundwater systems, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 4615-4627,
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4615-2017

Miho OHARA, Hisaya SAWANO, Michiko BANBA and Hitoshi NAKAMURA, Analysis on
People’s Attitudes to Strategies for Promoting Local Activity to Change Ways of Living in the Area
at Flood Risk, Journal of Natural Disaster Science, Vol. 36. Special Issue, pp.91-108, Sep. 2017 (inJapanese)Daisuke Kuribayashi, Miho Ohara, Takahiro Sayama, Atsuhiro Konja, Hisaya Sawano, Proposal ofa method for evaluating community-level flood vulnerability and considering flood
countermeasures using "Flood Diagnostic Chart", Japan Society of Civil Engineering, Journal of
JSCE F6, Vol.73 No.1, pp.24-42, September 2017 (in Japanese)Tong Liu, Morimasa Tsuda, and Yoichi Iwami, A Study on Flood Forecasting in the Upper Indus
Basin Considering Snow and Glacier Meltwater, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.12, No.4, doi:
10.20965/jdr.2017.p0793, pp. 793-805
46Young-joo Kwak, J. Park, Yoichi Iwami, Large Flood Mapping using Synchronized Water Index
Coupling with Hydrodata and Time-series MODIS Images, 2017 IEEE Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Symposium, IEEE Conference Publications, pp.610-611, July 2017Young-joo Kwak, S. Yun, Yoichi Iwami, New Approach for Rapid Urban Flood Mapping Using
ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 in 2015 Kinu River Flood, Japan, 2017 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Symposium, IEEE Conference Publications, July 2017Young-joo Kwak, Nationwide Flood Monitoring for Disaster Risk Reduction Using Multiple
Satellite Data, ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. ISPRS, MDPI, Vol.6, pp.203- 215, July 2017Naoko Nagumo, Sumiko Kubo, Toshihiko Sugai, Shinji Egashira, Sediment accumulation owing
to backwater effect in the lower reach of the Stung Sen River, Cambodia, Geomorphology, Elsevier,Vol.296, pp.182-192, November 2017

Daisuke Kuribayashi, Miho Ohara, Atsuhiro Konja, Hisaya Sawano, Proposal of a Method for
Evaluating Community-level Flood Vulnerability Using “Flood Diagnostic Chart”, Institute ofSocial Safety Science, Journal of Social Safety Science No.31, pp299-307, 2017.11 (in Japanese)

Edangodage Duminda Pradeep Perera, Takahiro Sayama, Jun Magome, Akira Hasegawa, Yoichi
Iwami, RCP8.5 based future flood hazard analysis for the Lower Mekong River Basin, Hydrology,
2017, 4(55), pp1-17, doi:10.3390/hydrology4040055, November 2017

B: Non-peer Reviewed Paper

栗林大輔、大原美保、近者敦彦、澤野久弥、「洪水カルテ」を用いた地区レベルの洪水脆
弱性把握手法の適用、地域安全学会梗概集、一般社団法人 地域安全学会、Vol.40、pp.101104、2017年6月

Tetsuya IKEDA, Mamoru MIYAMOTO, and Toshio KOIKE, International Flood Initiative Recent Progress in Asian countries -, UNESCO-JASTIP Joint Symposium on Intra-Regional Water
Security and Disaster Management, Quezon City, Philippines, November 15-16, 2017

C: Oral Presentation
Naoko NAGUMO, Badri Bhakta SHRESTHA, Miho OHARA and Hisaya SAWANO: Flooddamage of the Pampanga River Basin by Typhoon Lando and Nona in 2015.Proceedings of theGeneral Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Vol.89 pp.257、Mar, 2016.



Md. Nasif Ahsan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Karina Vink, The challenges and opportunities of early
warning messages aimed at evacuation compliance: A case report following Cyclone Ailain
Bangladesh, UNISDR Science and Technology Conference, January 2016

栗林大輔、大原美保、佐山敬洋、近者敦彦、澤野久弥、氾濫解析モデルを用いた地区レベルの洪水脆弱性把握手法の提案、地域安全学会、2016年地域安全学会梗概集 Vol.38、pp.
171-174、2016年5月



津田守正、紀伊雅敦、石塚正秀、岩見洋一、社会経済特性の変化がダム貯水池の上水道利水運用に与える影響に関する解析、土木学会、第53回土木計画学研究発表会・講演集、

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北村友叡、石塚正秀、津田守正、紀伊雅敦、中村一樹、世界の都市人口の変化に影響を与える水ストレス度の変化の特徴、土木学会、第53回土木計画学研究発表会・講演集、Vol.
53、2016年5月



栗林大輔、大原美保、佐山敬洋、近者敦彦、澤野久弥、氾濫解析モデルを用いた地区レベルの洪水脆弱性把握手法の提案、平成28年度地域安全学会春季大会、高知県立県民文化
ホール、地域安全学会

Miho OHARA, Naoko NAGUMO, Daisuke KURIBAYASHI and Hisaya SAWANO, A Study on
Process of Business Resume after the Flood in Joso City, Proceedings of the spring conference of
the Institute of Social Safety Science, Kochi Prefectural Culture Hall, May 2016



Y. Kwak, J. Magome, A. Hasegawa, Y. Iwami, Global River Flood Exposure Assessment under
Climate and Socio-economic Scenarios: How Many People Are Affected In The Future?, 日本地
球惑星学連合大会2016、幕張メッセ、2016年5月20～25日、日本地球惑星科学連合

Miho OHARA, Naoko NAGUMO, Badri Bhakta SHRESTHA, Hisaya SAWANO, Proposal of
Evidence-Based Flood Contingency Planning with Community Involvement in Data-Limited
Regions, Disaster Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto
TERRSA, Japan, June 5-9, 2016

Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Hisaya Sawano, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Assessment of Disaster Damage dueto Flood Hazard in the Solo River Basin of Indonesia, Disaster Prevention Research Institute(DPRI),
Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan, June 5-9, 2016



Y.Yamazaki, T.Sayama, A.Hasegawa, Y. Iwami, Estimation of Extreme Rainfall and Flood
Inundation Probabilities of Chao Phraya River Basin using MRIAGCM3.2S Projections, Disaster
Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan,
June 5-9, 2016



A.Hasegawa, M.Gusyev, Y. Iwami, Meteorological hazards of droughts and floods in climate
projections by the time-slice experiments with MRI-AGCM3.2 using the comparative SPI, Disaster
Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan,
June 5-9, 2016

Duminda PERERA, Lower Mekong Basin Inundation Analysis of Multi-Sea Surface Temperature
Ensemble Experiments for RCP8.5 Scenario, Disaster Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto
University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan, June 5-9, 2016



Gusyev M., Hasegawa A., Magome J., Umino H. and H. Sawano (2016). Drought impacts in Asianriver basins: historical and climate change perspectives, Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute(DPRI), Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan, June 5-9, 2016



Gusyev M.A., Morgenstern U., Stewart M.K., Yamazaki Y., Kashiwaya K., T. Nishihara,
Kuribayashi D., Sawano H. and Y. Iwami (2016). Drought Assessment Using Tritium River Water
Measurements for Existing Dam Infrastructure in the Ishikari River basin, Japan, Disaster
Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan,
June 5-9, 201648

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T. Ushiyama, A. Hasegawa, Y. Iwami, Dynamic Downscaling and Bias Correction of Rainfall in
the Pampanga River Basin, Philippines, for Flood Risk Change on Global Warming, Disaster
Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan,
June 5-9, 2016

Karina VINK, Md. Nasif Ahsan, H. Sawano, The Benefits of Cyclones as Ecosystem Services,
Disaster Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA,
Japan, June 5-9, 2016



Md. Nasif Ahsan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, How Does Hazard-preparedness Training Enhance
Resilience for Households at Risk?, Disaster Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto
University, ICWRER2016, Kyoto TERRSA, Japan, June 5-9, 2016山崎祐介、江頭進治、岩見洋一、斜面の湿潤及び乾燥過程を考慮した災害発生限界降雨条
件の設定、平成28年度（公社）砂防学会定時総会並びに研究発表会「富山大会」、2016年
5月19日、富山市民会館、定時総会並びに研究発表会「富山大会」実行委員会



牛山朋來、佐山敬洋、岩見洋一、WRF-LETKFを用いた2015年鬼怒川洪水のアンサンブル
予測実験、日本気象学会、2016年度春季大会講演予稿集、pp.176、2016年5月



長谷川聡、Maksym Gusyev、岩見洋一、比較SPIを用いた将来の降水量変化の評価、日本気象学会2016年度春季大会、2016年5月20日、国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター、公益社団法人日本気象学会

Y.Kwak, Lesson learned from 2007 and 2015 floods in Bangladesh, First joint workshop on flood
hazard and damage assessment in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 20, 2016, BWDB

Y.Kwak, Alternative damaged rice-field maps of the 2007 and 2015 floods in Bangladesh, 8th
National Monsoon Forum Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 28, 2016, BMD



Mamoru Miyamoto, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Morimasa Tsuda, Yuzuru Yamakage, Yoichi Iwami,
Hitoshi Yanami, Hirokazu Anai, Proper estimation of hydrological parameters from flood
forecasting aspects, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016, Austria Center Vienna,
April 21, 2016, European Geosciences Union

Toshio Koike, Data Intensive Hydrological Modeling, Standardizing Flood Forecasting andWarning Approaches in Transboundary Catchments, April 19, 2016, Avari Hotel, Lahore, Pakistan,
UNESCO, PMD



Morimasa Tsuda, Improvement of IFAS and application on Indus basin, April 19, 2016, Avari
Hotel, Lahore, Pakistan, UNESCO, PMD

LIU Tong, Progress in snowmelt analysis, April 19, 2016, Avari Hotel, Lahore, Pakistan, UNESCO,
PMD



Morimasa Tsuda, Integrated water resources management under Socioeconomic changes,
International Training on IWRM under Climate Change, June 14, 2016, The Emerald Hotel,
Bangkok, Thailand, Asian Development Bank Institute and Japan Water Agency, Department of
Water Resources, MoNRE, Thailand (DWR-Thailand)

Hisaya Sawano, Flood Risk Assessment on Agricultural Damage of Rice-crops and Governmentof Japan's Damage Data Management, Establishing an information system on damage and losses
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from disasters in crops, livestock, fisheries, aquaculture and forestry, FAO (Food and Agriculture
Organization), June 2016
Duminda PERERA, Yoichi Iwami, Youji Chida, Nutrient circulation modelling for the Takasaki
River basin, Chiba Japan, 2016 International Forum – Agriculture, Biology, and Life Science,
IFABL, Kurume, Japan, August 5-6, 2016

Tomoki Ushiyama, Takahiro Sayama, Yoichi Iwami, Probabilistic streamflow forecasting for Kinu
River flood 2015 in Japan utilizing WRF-LETKF, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 13th
Annual Meeting and Geosciences World Community Exhibition, Beijing, August 1-5, 2016

Liu, T., Hasegawa, A., Jaranilla-Sanchez, P., Tsuda, M., and Iwami, Y., Long-term Flood
Assessment In The Upper Indus River Basin, Pakistan, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
13th Annual Meeting and Geosciences World Community Exhibition, Beijing, August 1-5, 2016

Liu, T., Kinouchi, T. Tsuda, M., Iwami, Y., Asaoka Y., and Mendoza J., Long-term Variations Of
Glaciers, Glacial Lakes, And High Altitude Wetlands In The Tropical Andean Region, Asia
Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 13th Annual Meeting and Geosciences World Community
Exhibition, Beijing, August 1-5, 2016



津田守正、洪水予警報への補正GSMaPの適用、平成28年度JAXA/EORC 水循環ワークシ
ョップ、2016年7月29日



津田守正、岩見洋一、総合洪水解析システム（IFAS）の開発と展望、土木学会、土木学会第71回年次学術講演会講演概要、pp.217-218、2016年8月



岩見洋一、Comprehensive Flood Management System and flood forecasting、JICA研修 アフ
ガニスタン国水文・気象情報管理能力プロジェクト、ICHARM講堂、2016年7月27日



牛山朋来、Flood forecasting utilizing numerical weather prediction、JICA研修 アフガニスタ
ン国水文・気象情報管理能力プロジェクト、ICHARM講堂、2016年7月27日

Naoko NAGUMO, Miho OHARA, Badri Bhakta SHRESTHA, and Hisaya SAWANO: A casestudy of flood simulation and GIS mapping in flood-prone region of the Philippines. Proceedingsof the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Vol. 90, pp.89, September
2016

南雲直子、澤野久弥、周期的な環境変動を伴う東南アジアの河川の研究、日本第四紀学会
講演要旨集、Vol.46、pp.11、2016年9月



海野仁、マキシム・グシエフ、徳永良雄、フィリピン国パンパンガ流域における渇水アセ
スメント、土木学会、土木学会第71回年次学術講演会講演概要集CS5、pp.23-24、2016年
8月

牛山朋來、佐山敬洋、岩見洋一、領域アンサンブル予報を利用した洪水予測手法の2015年
鬼怒川洪水への適用、水文水資源学会2016年度研究発表会、福島、2016年9月17日



Y.Kwak, Park, J., Arifuzzaman, B., Iwami, Y., Amirul, Md., Kondoh, A., Rapid Exposure
Assessment of Nationwide River Flood for Disaster Risk Reduction, XXIII ISPRS Congress, XXIIIISPRS Congress, Commission VIII, Prague, Czech Republic, July 12-19, 2016

栗林大輔、佐山敬洋、近者敦彦、中村要介、澤野久弥、阿賀野川における降雨流出氾濫モ

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デルの適用と浸水開始時刻の再現性検証について、土木学会、土木学会第71回年次学術講演会講演概要、pp.239-240、2016年8月
Morimasa Tsuda, Yoichi Iwami, Application of Flood Forecasting and Analysis Model (IFAS) for
Wadi Flash Flood, The Second International Symposium on Flash Floods in Wadi Systems, Egypt,
October 25-27, 2016

Morimasa Tsuda, Application of GSMaP to flood forecasting/analysis on Indus river basin, The
23rd Session of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum(APRSAF-23), Space Application
Working Group, Philippines, Manila, November 15-16, 2016

Atsuhiro Yorozuya, Rosiret Escalona, Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Egashira: Debris Flow
Characteristics resulting from Consecutive Landslides, Asian Network on Debris Flow Workshop,
Kyoto, November 29 - December 02, 2016

Shinji Egashira, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Atsuhiro Yorozuya: Influence of Fine Sediment on Runout
Process of Debris Flow, Asian Network on Debris Flow Workshop, Kyoto, November 29 December 02, 2016



Rosiret Escalona, Yusuke Yamazaki, Atsuhiro Yorozuya, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Shinji Egashira:Influence of Rainfall Runoff on Debris Flow Size in the August 2014 Hiroshima Disaster, Asian
Network on Debris Flow Workshop, Kyoto, November 29 - December 02, 2016



Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Egashira, Yoichi Iwami: Prediction of Landslides and Debris Flows andtheir Critical Rainfall Conditions in the Oct. 2013 Izu-Oshima Storm, Asian Network on Debris
Flow Workshop, Kyoto, November 29 - December 02, 2016

長谷川聡、Maksym Gusyev、岩見洋一、全球d4PDFにおける比較SPIを用いた将来の降水量の評価、日本気象学会2016年度秋季大会講演予稿集、日本気象学会、Vol.110、pp.271271、2016年10月



長谷川聡、Maksym Gusyev、岩見洋一、比較SPIを用いた将来の降水量変化の評価、日本気象学会2016年度秋季大会講演予稿集、日本気象学会、Vol.109、pp.235、2016年5月



長谷川聡、気候変動評価のためのSPIの改良、平成28年度SI-CAT/創生D研究交流会、SICAT/創生D、東京、2016年12月22日



郭栄珠、朴鍾杰、岩見洋一、バングラデシュ共和国の2015年広域洪水、日本写真測量学会
平成28年度秋季学術講演会、日本写真測量学会、福岡、2016年11月1-2日



郭栄珠、岩見洋一、だいち2号を用いた2015年鬼怒川洪水の後方散乱係数分析、日本リモートセンシング学会平成28年度秋季学術講演会、日本リモートセンシング学会、新潟、
2016年11月10-12日

Miho OHARA, Naoko NAGUMO, Badri Bhakta SHRESTHA, Hisaya SAWANO, Proposal of
Evidence-Based Flood Contingency Planning in Asian Floodprone Area, USMCA2016, USMCA,
Tacroban, Philippines, November 7-9, 2016

Mohamed Rasmy, Maximize the Value of GPM and GSMaP Data for Flood Forecasting, Drought
Monitoring, & Disaster Early-warnings in the Developing Regions, Joint PI Meeting of Global
Environment Observation Mission 2016, Tokyo, Japan, January 23-27, 2017

Morimasa Tsuda, Application of GSMaP to flood forecasting/analysis, The 6th GPM Asia
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Workshop, JAXA, Thai Meteorological Department, Bangkok, Thailand, January 18-19, 2017
Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Flood Hazard and Risk Assessment in the Pampanga River Basin of thePhilippines, ICHARM's Follow-up Seminar, Manila, Philippines, January 31, 2017

牛山朋來、佐山敬洋、岩見洋一、領域アンサンブル予報を用いた洪水予測手法の開発－平
成27年鬼怒川洪水への適用、水工学講演会、土木学会水工学委員会、福岡、2017年3月15～17日

Liu, T., Kinouchi, T., Tsuda, M., Iwami, Y., Asaoka Y., and Mendoza J.: Long-term variations ofglaciers under the changing climate in the tropical Andean region, the International Symposium on‘The Cryosphere in a Changing Climate’, Wellington, New Zealand, Feb. 2017

Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Flood risk assessment in the Solo River basin of Indonesia, Workshop on
Climate Change Impact Assessment in the Solo River Basin, JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 21,
2017

郭栄珠、岩見洋一、広域河川氾濫リスク予測に活かせる衛星リモートセンシング観測、第25回東大生研フォーラム、東京大学生産技術研究所、東京大学、2017年3月2～3日

Morimasa Tsuda, Indus-IFAS model development, Scope and Upgrade for Indus Basin,
International Workshop on Strategic Data for Reliable Models and Timely Flood Forecasts,
PCRWR, UNESCO, Islamabad, Pakistan, April 10-11, 2017



Yusuke Yamazaki, Progress of RRI model development for lower and eastern Indus, International
Workshop on Strategic Data for Reliable Models and Timely Flood Forecasts, PCRWR, UNESCO,
Islamabad, Pakistan, April 10-11, 2017Atsuhiro Yorozuya, ADCP Based Measurement of Flow Regimes, International Workshop on
Strategic Data for Reliable Models and Timely Flood Forecasts, PCRWR, UNESCO, Islamabad,
Pakistan, April 10-11, 2017

LIU Tong, Progress and challenges of simulating meltwater simulation in the Upper Indus,
International Workshop on Strategic Data for Reliable Models and Timely Flood Forecasts,
PCRWR, UNESCO, Islamabad, Pakistan, April 10-11, 2017

Gusyev M.A., Tokunaga Y., and K. Miyake (2017). ICHARM's Practices of Flood Hazard and Risk
Assessment, the International Workshop on Disaster Management for Roads, the World Road
Association (PIARC), Tokyo, Japan, 31st May, 2017

Gusyev M.A., Morgenstern U., Stewart M.K., and Y. Tokunaga (2017). Learning about futureapplications of tritium-tracer in Japanese river waters from the Hokkaido headwater catchments.
JpGU-AGU 2017 Joint Meeting, Chiba, Japan, May 20-25th, 2017



Stewart M.K., Morgenstern U., M.A. Gusyev and P. Maloszewski (2017). The problem with simple
lumped parameter models: Evidence from tritium mean transit times. Poster Presentation at the
EGU 2017 General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 19, EGU 2017-10116

Mohamed Rasmy, ICHARM Activities on Flood forecasting for Disaster Risk Reduction, Space
Applications for Environment and SDGs Panel, JAXA and ESCAP, Thailand, May 15-16, 2017

原田大輔、江頭進治、萬矢敦啓、岩見洋一、中山間地河川の流路・河床変動に及ぼす土砂52

供給の影響、第66回

平成29年度砂防学会研究発表会概要集、砂防学会、平成29年度砂防学会研究発表会、（公社）砂防学会、奈良市、2017年5月24～25日


山崎祐介、江頭進治、岩見洋一、流域における崩壊起源土石流の発達・減衰に及ぼす地形
条件の影響、第66回

平成29年度砂防学会研究発表会概要集、砂防学会、平成29年度砂防学会研究発表会、（公社）砂防学会、奈良市、2017年5月24～25日


牛山朋來、フィリピン・パンパンガ川流域におけるアンサンブル降水予報実験、日本気象学会2017年度春季大会、日本気象学会、国立オリンピック記念青少年センター、2017年5月25～28日

Youngjoo Kwak, Innovative flood monitoring for risk reduction, National Institute of Hydrology,
India, National Institute of Hydrology, India, June 1, 2017

郭栄珠、朴鍾杰、岩見洋一、バングラデシュ共和国の2015年広域洪水、平成29年度春季学術講演会論文集、日本写真測量学会、日本写真測量学会 平成29年度春季学術講演会、東京大学、2017年5月25～26日

Youngjoo Kwak, 朴鍾杰, 岩見洋一, 竹内渉, A Syncro Floodwater Index for Flood Risk
Mapping using Multiple Satellite Data: A Case Study of 2015 Bangladesh Flood, JpGU-AGU 2017
Joint Meeting, Chiba, May 20-25, 2017Youngjoo Kwak, O. Ledvinka, T. Ushiyama, Y. Iwami, J. Danhelka, Multilateral Perspectives onan Interdisciplinary Framework for Flood Forecasting and Flood Risk Projection: A Comparative
pilot study, JpGU-AGU 2017 Joint Meeting, Chiba, May 20-25, 2017



Tetsuya Ikeda, Effort for Effective Flood Management under Climate Change by ICHARM,
Regional workshop: Building Resilience to Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability to Meet Water
Security Challenges, UNESCO Jakarta, Langkawi, Malaysia, July 10-11, 2017

Mohamed Rasmy, The investigation of the damages from the floods and landslides caused by theheavy rainfall in Sri Lanka, Plenary on Water and Disasters, Sri Lanka, August 24, 2017

Mohamed Rasmy, Real-time rainfall monitoring & hydrological modeling in Kalu river basin,
Plenary on Water and Disasters, Sri Lanka, August 24, 2017

Mohamed Rasmy, Yuichi Iwami, Tomoki Ushiyama, Yusuke Yamazaki, Toshio koike, An
Integrated Approach for Maximizing Multi-Platform Data for Enhancing Water Related Disaster
Early Warning and Management in Developing Countries, ICFM7, Leeds, UK, September 5-7,
2017



Gul Muhammad, Mohamed Rasmy, Morimasa Tsuda, Toshio Koike, Simulating hydrologicalresponse of snow and glacier melt and estimating flood peak discharge in SWAT valley river basin,
JSCE 2017 Annual meeting, JSCE, Kyushu Univ., September 11-13, 2017

Habib Jamal, Morimasa Tsuda, Tomoki Ushiyama, Trans boundary flood forecasting throughdownscaling of global weather forecast and hydrological model simulation, JSCE 2017 Annual
meeting, JSCE, Kyushu Univ., September 11-13, 2017

栗林大輔、近者敦彦、澤野久弥、降雨流出氾濫モデルを用いた主要連絡道路の交通途絶評価について、平成29年度土木学会全国大会 第72回年次学術講演会、土木学会、2017年953

月11～13日
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海野仁、Gusyev Maksym、千田容嗣、徳永良雄、インドネシア国ソロ川流域における渇水リスクの試算、平成29年度土木学会全国大会 第72回年次学術講演会、土木学会、2017年
9月11～13日



菊森佳幹、気候変動がメコン川流域（東北タイ）の渇水リスクに及ぼす影響評価、平成29年度土木学会全国大会 第72回年次学術講演会、土木学会、2017年9月11～13日

Young-joo Kwak, Flood Risk under climate change in GBM basin of Bangladesh, Integrated floodrisk and water management under climate change for disaster risk reduction, BWDB-JICA, Dhaka,Bangladesh, July 16, 2017Young-joo Kwak, Yoichi Iwami, Economic Impacts of Flooding under Climate and Socioeconomic
Scenarios in Asia-Pacific region: A pilot initiative of Bangladesh, Asia Oceania Geosciences
Society (AOGS) 14th Annual Meeting, AOGS, Singapore, August 6-11, 2017



長谷川聡、Maksym Gusyev、日本域d4PDFにおける将来の気象学的渇水の変化、日本気象学会2017年度秋季大会講演予稿集、日本気象学会、Vol.112、pp.223、2017年10月

中村要介、阿部紫織、佐山敬洋、降雨分布が中山間地河川の河川流量に及ぼす影響評価、
日本気象学会2017年度秋季大会講演予稿集、日本気象学会、Vol.112、pp.168、2017年10月



牛山朋來、瀬古弘、藤田実季子、小司禎教、船舶搭載GPS PWVの同化インパクト実験、
日本気象学会2017年度秋季大会講演予稿集、日本気象学会、Vol.112、pp.265、2017年10月



牛山朋來、小池俊雄、生駒栄司、喜連川優、大井川・犀川流域のアンサンブル降雨予測シ
ステムの開発、日本気象学会2017年度秋季大会講演予稿集、日本気象学会、Vol.112、pp.394、2017年11月

Naoko Nagumo, Shinji Egashira, Hisaya Sawano, Characteristics of the 2016 flood focusing on
fluvial topography and flood impact on local communities in the Omoto River Basin, northeasternJapan, 9th International Conference on Geomorphology, International Association of
Geomorphologists, New Delhi, India, November 6-11, 2017



南雲直子、江頭進治、2017年7月九州北部豪雨における赤谷川流域の土砂流出特性と集落
立地条件、日本地形学連合2017年秋季大会、日本地形学連合、九州大学、2017年12月2～3日

Miho OHARA, Hisaya SAWANO, Michiko BANBA, Hitoshi NAKAMURA, Analysis on
Residents’ Attitudes toward Risk-Based Floodplain Regulation of Shiga Prefecture in Japan, 4thAsian Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, ISSS, Tohoku University, November 26, 2017



Stewart M.K., Morgenstern U., Toews M., van der Raaij R. and M. Gusyev (2017). Uncertainty
estimation for tritium ages of baseflow. 57th New Zealand Hydrological Society Annual Meeting
2017, Napier, November 28th-December 1, 2017, New Zealand.



郭栄珠、朴鍾杰、複数の時系列データによる広域洪水リスクマップ作成に向けたシンク
ロ洪水指標、平成29年度秋季学術講演会論文集、日本写真測量学会、2017年11月



郭栄珠、だいち2号の高分解能SARデータを用いた2016年小本川の浸水域抽出、平成29年度秋季学術講演会論文集、日本リモートセンシング学会、2017年11月

Young-Joo Kwak, (Invited talk) Smart Field Survey using GNSS applications with labor-saving
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drone and GIS Survey, 2017Global Technology Cooperation Forum, Korea Institute forAdvancement of Technology, Seoul COEX, November 16-18, 2017

M. Rasmy, Satellite Application For Environment (SAFE) and International Flood Initiative (IFI)
activities: Towards effective Flood Disaster Managements in Sri Lanka, The 24th Session of the
Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF-24), Bengaluru, India, November 14-17,
2017

D: Poster Presentation
Naoko Nagumo, Miho Ohara, Hisaya Sawano: Inundation of the eastern part of Joso city, Ibarki
prefecture caused by heavy rainfall disaster in Kanto and Tohoku area. Japan Geoscience Union
Meeting 2016, May 20-25, 2016



MIHO OHARA, NAOKO NAGUMO, BADRI BHAKTA SHRESTHA, HISAYA SAWANO,
MASAHIKO MURASE, TOSHIO KOIKE, Evidence-Based Flood Contingency Planning with
Community Involvement in Data-Limited Regions, 12th KOVACS Colloquim, UNESCO
Headquarters in France, June 2016

牛山朋來、2015年鬼怒川洪水のLETKF解析のメンバー数依存性、日本気象学会秋季大会、名古屋、2016年10月26-28日

Miho OHARA, Wataru KOBAYASHI, Kohta JURAKU, Hikari SUZUKI and Hisaya SAWANO,
A Study on Process of Developing Flood Disaster Reduction Plan through Workshops with
Companies Related to Underground Space, Proceedings of the annual conference of the Institute ofSocial Safety Science, Shizuoka Earthquake Disaster Prevention Center, Nov. 4-5, 2016



Naoko NAGUMO and Shinji EGASHIRA: Impact of topography on flood characteristics in Omoto
River, Iwate Prefecture caused by Typhoon Lionrock in 2016. Proceedings of the General Meetingof the Association of Japanese Geographers, Vol. 91, pp.272, March 28-30, 2017

Hasegawa A., Gusyev M.A., and Y. Iwami (2017). Meteorological drought change evaluation using
comparative standardized precipitation index with d4PDF future and past experiments. Poster
Presentation at the JpGU-AGU 2017 Joint Meeting, Chiba, Japan, May 20-25th, 2017

Zhang H., Ao T., Gusyev M.A., Li X., Liu X., Liu J., and H. Wang (2017). Development andApplication of a Distributed Source Pollutant Transport Model Based on BTOPMC. Poster
Presentation at the JpGU-AGU 2017 Joint Meeting, Chiba, Japan, May 20-25th, 2017

Gusyev M.A., Abrams D., Magome J, and Y. Tokunaga (2017). Coupling MODFLOW anddistributed hydrologic model BTOP in the Fujikawa River basin. Poster Presentation at the
MODFLOW and More 2017 Conference, Colorado, USA, May 21-24th, 2017Youngjoo Kwak, J. Magome, A.Hasegawa, Y. Iwami, Rapid Global River Flood Risk Assessment
under Climate and Socioeconomic Scenarios, Geophysical Research Abstracts, European
Geosciences Union, EGU-General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2017Youngjoo Kwak, O. Ledvinka, T. Ushiyama, Y. Iwami, J. Danhelka, Interdisciplinary Approachfor Assessment of Continental River Flood Risk: A Case Study of the Czech Republic, GeophysicalResearch Abstracts, European Geosciences Union, EGU-General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria,
55April 23-28, 2017
Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Edangodage D.P. Perera, Shun Kudo, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Hisaya Sawano,
Takahiro Sayama, Jun Magome, Akira Hasegawa, Yoichi Iwami, Flood Damage Assessment in the
Selected River Basins of Asian Developing Countries under Climate Change, ICFM7, Leeds, UK,
September 5-7, 2017Naoko Nagumo and Shinji Egashira: Sediment runoff and damage in the Akatani River basin owing
to 2017 torrential rainfall in Northern Kyushu. Japan Association for Quaternary Research,
Fukuoka University, August 26-28, 2017

Mohamed Rasmy, Yuichi Iwami, Tomoki Ushiyama, Toshio koike, Applications of Global
Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) Products for Enhancing Flood Forecasting and Early
Warning Activities in Sri Lanka, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore, August
6-11, 2017

Y.AKIYAMA，Y.SASAKI，M. HASHIBA, A.YOROZUYA: Discharge measurement and analysis
of flow resistance at large-scale flood, The 10th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine
Morphodynamics, Trento-Padova, 15-22 September 2017, pp.148

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D. Harada, S. Egashira, A. Yorozuya and Y. Iwami: Influence of riverbed deformation on flood
flow in the Omoto river flood disaster 2016, Japan, The 10th Symposium on River, Coastal andEstuarine Morphodynamics, Trento-Padova, 15-22 September 2017, pp.190



S. Kudo, A. Yorozuya, D. Harada and T. Fueta: Influence of Flow Resistance Change on
Hydrographs in a Basin, The 10th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics,
Trento-Padova, 15-22 September 2017, pp.209

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A. Yorozuya, S. Egashira, T. Fueta: Study on Sediment Runoff in a Catchment Area, The 10th
Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, Trento-Padova, 15-22 September
2017, pp.269

Young-joo Kwak, J. Park, Yoichi Iwami, Large Flood Mapping using Synchronized Water Index
Coupling with Hydrodata and Time-series MODIS Images, 2017 International Geoscience andRemote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) , IEEE, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, July 23-28, 2017Young-joo Kwak, S. Yun, Yoichi Iwami, New Approach for Rapid Urban Flood Mapping Using
ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 in 2015 Kinu River Flood, Japan, 2017 International Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), IEEE, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, July 23-28, 2017

栗林大輔、大原美保、岩崎貴志、徳永良雄、「ｅコミュニティ・プラットフォーム」を活用した 汎用的な自治体防災情報システムの提案、地域安全学会梗概集、一般社団法人地域安全学会、Vol.41、pp. 41-44、2017年11月

Miho OHARA, Daisuke KURIBAYASHI, Kenji KUROKI, Manabu TERAWAKI and Yoshio
TOKUNAGA, Identification and Trend Analysis of Tense Moments during Emergency Disaster
Response, Proceedings of the annual conference of the Institute of Social Safety Science, Shizuoka
Earthquake Disaster Prevention Center, Nov. 10-11, 2017

E: Paper in technical magazine56

渋尾欣弘、佐貫宏、李星愛、吉村耕平、田島芳満、佐藤愼司、古米弘明、河川・下水道のシームレスモデルを用いたリアルタイム浸水予測手法の開発、公益社団法人日本下水道協会、下水道協会誌Vol.53、No.644、pp.48-51、2016年6月

Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Egashira, Yoichi Iwami, Critical Rainfall Condition Resulting fromLandslides and Debris Flows Predicted by Simulator of Sediment Related Hazards, Civil
Engineering Journal, Vol.58, No.11, pp.16-19, November 2016 (in Japanese)小池俊雄、転換期にある水防災・減災と科学・技術の貢献、土木技術資料、土木研究セン
ター、Vol.58-12、pp.6-7、2016年12月

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三宅且仁、水災害軽減への着実な取組み、土木技術資料、土木研究センター、Vol.58-12、
pp.8-9、2016年12月

Yoichi Iwami, Morimasa Tsuda, Yusuke Yamazaki, Liu Tong, Research and Development andChallenge in Field Application for Strengthening Flood Warning and Management Capacity in
Developing Countries, Civil Engineering Journal, Vol.58, No.12, pp.10-13, December 2016 (inJapanese)

Hisaya Sawano, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Miho Ohara, Proposal of Flood Risk Assessment Methods
Using the RRI Model, Civil Engineering Journal, Vol.58, No.12, pp.14-17, December 2016 (inJapanese)Akira Hasegawa, Yoichi Iwami, Meteorological Drought Assessment in Asia in Future Climatesusing the Comparative SPI Approach, Civil Engineering Journal, Vol.58, No.12, pp.18-21,
December 2016 (in Japanese)

Shun KUDO, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA and Yoichi IWAMI, Runoff Inundation Analysis in the Lower
Mekong River Basin and Validation of Variables over a Floodplain Using Satellite Information,
Civil Engineering Journal, Vol.58, No.12, pp. 22-25, December 2016 (in Japanese)Yoshio Tokunaga, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Town Watching: Effective Training to Learn Disaster
Management, Civil Engineering Journal, Vol.58, No.12, pp.28-31, December 2016 (in Japanese)

Mamoru Miyamoto, A New Perspective for Water Disaster Risk Reduction by International Flood
Initiative(IFI), Kasen, Japan River Association, Vol.849, pp.71-73, April 2017 (in Japanese)

F: PWRI Publication
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Hisaya Sawano, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Yoko Hagiwara, Lessons Learned from the Flood Disasterin Industrial Estates/Parks/Zones in Thailand - based on the experience of the 2011 flood - (English
version and Thai version), PWRI Technical Note No.4322, PWRI, February 2016

澤野久弥、栗林大輔、萩原葉子、2011年タイ・チャオプラヤ川洪水による企業活動への影
響についての調査報告書、土木研究所資料第4323号、土木研究所、2016年2月

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白井隆、2014-2015 修士課程「防災政策プログラム

水災害リスクマネジメントコース」

実施報告書、土木研究所資料 第4329号、国立研究開発法人土木研究所（PWRI）、2016年
6月


ICHARM, Meeting material of The 2nd ICHARM Governing Board, Technical Note of PWRI, No.
4337, Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), July 201657

江頭進治、小関博司、山崎祐介、南雲直子、原田大輔、萬矢敦啓、工藤俊、平成２８年８月台風１０号豪雨による岩手県小本川洪水災害調査報告、土木研究所資料第4348号、国立研究開発法人土木研究所（PWRI）、2016年11月

ICHARM 10th Anniversary, PWRI Technical Note No 4353, ISSN 0386-5878, Public Works
Research Institute (PWRI), March 2017

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