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Daisuke Tokuda

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Contact Info

    Name
    Daisuke Tokuda
    Preferred Pronouns
    he/him
    Job Title
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Office Number
    Research Hall / 254B

    Affiliations

    Centers

    • Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)

    Research Areas

    • Climate Science
    • Hydrology

    Education

    PhD, The University of Tokyo (2020)
    MA, The University of Tokyo (2017)
    BA, The University of Tokyo (2015)

    About

    Main research interests in the global-scale processes of energy and materials transport associated with terrestrial hydrological cycles. Seven-year experiences with the development of global-scale numerical models for the river (HEAT-LINK; Tokuda et al., 2019) and lake (TCHOIR; Tokuda et al., 2021) thermodynamics and water quality (Tokuda et al., in prep.) as well as the development of a global dataset of lake water surface areas based on satellite-based products. Machine learning in the field of hydrology and climatology. Ample experience in Fortran and Python programming languages to implement numerical model development and data analysis on Linux servers.

    Current Research

    Project: Integrated surface physics for coupled hydrometeorology in the UFS for S2S prediction (PI: Dr. David Gochis, Co-PI: Prof. Paul Dirmeyer, and Co-I: Dr. Michael Ek)

    Selected Publications

    D. Tokuda, H. Kim, D. Yamazaki, and T. Oki, “Development of a coupled simulation framework representing the lake and river continuum of mass and energy (TCHOIR v1.0)”, Geoscientific Model Development, 2021. [https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/14/5669/2021/gmd-14-5669-2021.html]

    D. Tokuda, H. Kim, D. Yamazaki, and T. Oki, “Toward the global-scale estimation of water resources with a coupled model framework of hydro- and thermodynamics in rivers and lakes”, Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, JSCE, 2021. [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JSCHE..77..241T/abstract]

    D. Tokuda, H. Kim, D. Yamazaki, and T. Oki, “Development of a Global River Water Temperature Model Considering Fluvial Dynamics and Seasonal Freeze-Thaw Cycle”, Water Resources Research, 2019. [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018WR023083]

    Awards

    • 2022: Encouragement Prize of Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
    • 2022: Outstanding Discussion Award, the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
    • 2021: Best Presentation Award, The Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, Japanese Association of Hydrological Sciences
    • 2018-2020: Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
    • 2017-2018: Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Doctoral Student Special Incentives Program

    Contact Info

    Name
    Daisuke Tokuda
    Preferred Pronouns
    he/him
    Job Title
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Office Number
    Research Hall / 254B