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Yusuke Satoh

Guest Research Scholar

Water Security Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

Biography

Dr. Yusuke Satoh has been a research scholar with IIASA’s Water (WAT) Program since January 2015. He participates in the Water Future and Solutions Initiative (WFaS) and a recently launched IIASA Nexus project, as a hydrologist. Employing hydrological models and their databases, he develops and improves methods for assessing the water availability and demand balance, and the impact of climate and socio-economic change at various spatial scales. Within the WFaS, he has worked on an assessment of the Asian water future as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank and contributed to their Asian Water Development Outlook 2016. In the Nexus project, he works on the development of the Community Water Model.

Dr. Satoh completed his BS degree at the civil engineering department of the University of Hokkaido, where he worked on an assessment of virtual water trade with an IO analysis. He received his MS degree from the University of Tokyo, where he worked on an impact assessment of land use change on regional scale precipitation. Dr. Satoh graduated from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2014, and holds a PhD in Civil Engineering (Hydrology). His PhD research investigated the impact of the water resource management on projected future changes in drought on a global scale. He is acquainted with hydrological modeling and manipulating large datasets as a result of his experience with e.g. the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP) in which he takes part using the MATSIRO land surface model. Following completion ofhis doctoral degree, he worked for six months as postdoctoral researcher at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute in Japan.


Last update: 15 NOV 2016

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Pokhrel, Y.N., Felfelani, F., Shin, S., Yamada, T.J., & Satoh, Y. (2017). Modeling large-scale human alteration of land surface hydrology and climate. Geoscience Letters 4 (1) 1-13. 10.1186/s40562-017-0076-5.

Byers, E. , Gidden, M. , Burek, P. , Leclere, D., Palazzo, A. , Rogelj, J. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , Havlik, P. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Willaarts, B. , & Riahi, K. (2017). Future exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector hotspots. In: Impacts World 2017, 11-13 October 2017, Potsdam, Germany.

Byers, E. , Gidden, M. , Burek, P. , Leclere, D., Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Rogelj, J. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , Havlik, P. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Willaarts, B. , & Riahi, K. (2017). Multi-sector climate impacts assessment for water, energy and land. In: Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project Meeting, 9-10 October 2017, Potsdam, Germany.

Satoh, Y., Kahil, T. , Byers, E. , Burek, P. , Fischer, G., Tramberend, S. , Greve, P., Flörke, M., Eisner, S., Hanasaki, N., Magnuszewski, P., Nava, L.F. , Cosgrove, W., Langan, S. , & Wada, Y. (2017). Multi-model and multi-scenario assessments of Asian water futures: the Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative. Earth's Future 5 (7) 823-852. 10.1002/2016EF000503.

Veldkamp, T., Wada, Y. , Aerts, J.C.J.H., Doell, P., Gosling, S.N., Liu, J., Masaki, Y., Oki, T., Ostberg, S., Pokhrel, Y., Satoh, Y., Kim, H., & Ward, P.J. (2017). Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century. Nature Communications 8 e15697. 10.1038/ncomms15697.