Prof. Dr. Kenichiro Kobayashi

Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University

Professor

My Profile

About

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Rainfall Rainfall Runoff Modelling Modeling and Simulation Hydraulics Hydrological Modeling Flood Modelling Integrated Water Resources Management Hydraulic Engineering

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics
Working Group on Nature Based Solutions
Committee on Ecohydraulics
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Urban Drainage

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Japan Chapter	Director	2025-10-28	Now
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation	Member	2020-03-19	Now

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
A Methodology to Consider the Effect of Paddy Field Dams Using Open Polygon Data Toward Basin Flood Control Management	2025
Brief Overview of Current Adaptation Practices for Japanese River Management on Climate Change	2025
Guidance for Water Engineering in a Changing Climate	2025
Overview of Current Japanese River and Urban Drainage Management in Response to Climate Change	2025
Effect of Water Gate Barriers to Prevent Underground Flooding	2023
Methodology to Simulate Flow Around Kasumi-Dike -a Nature Based Solution	2023
Assessment of Climate Change Effect on the Extreme Flooding of Yodogawa River Basin	2022
A Rainfall-Runoff/Flood-Inundation Model for Myohoji River Basin Kobe Japan with Rainwater Sewage Channels	2020
Process Understanding of the Togagawa River Flooding 2008 Using a Distributed Rainfall-Runoff/Flood-Inundation Model	2019
Integral Porosity Shallow Water Model at District scale–Case Study in Nice	2018
Numerical Study of Building Drag Dissipation Formulations in the Integral Porosity Shallow Water Model	2018
Pseudo-Global Warming Experiment and Its Application to the Evaluation on Flood Scale Changes	2014
Pseudo-Global Warming Experiment and Its Application to the Evaluation on Flood Scale Changes	2014
An Ensemble Flood Simulation for the Dam Preliminary Release Operation in Japan Using JMA-NHM Rainfall	2013
Development of a Simulation-Optimization Model for the Methane Extraction from the Subsurface-Application to an Abandoned Coal Mining Site in the Ruhr, Germany	2005

My Videos

Title	Year
Kenichiro Kobayashi - Overview of Current Japanese River and Urban Drainage Management in Response to Climate Change - [Water Monograph Changing Climate]	2025
[Day1] Climate Change Adaptation I - 4th IAHR YP Congress	2023
[Day2] Climate Change Adaptation - 3rd iahrYPCongress	2023
[Day2] Climate Change and Case Studies - 3rd iahrYPCongress	2023

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date