Date: 2 September 2025

Lecture Topic: Climate change impact on extreme natural hazards

Speaker: Nobuhito Mori

Institution: Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University

Speaker Profile: Professor Nobuhito Mori is a Distinguished Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University, Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, and Honorary Professor at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. His research interests include Air-Sea Interface Physics, Climate Change, Geophysics and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, and Nonlinear Wave Dynamics. As applications of these basic research areas, his research aims to understand the mechanisms of extreme events, including extreme ocean waves, storm surges, and tsunamis.

Lecture Overview: Tropical Cyclones (TCs) can cause severe coastal flooding in mid-latitudes. While the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5, 2013) mainly focused on mean sea level rise, recent studies (e.g., IPCC Sixth Assessment Report AR6, 2021) have emphasized the important role of changes in storm surges and waves in extreme water levels and coastal flooding. Changes in storm surge and wave climates are not only affected by tropical cyclone intensity but also closely related to their track changes. This lecture will briefly review the historical and future long-term changes in extreme water levels, the contribution of increased storm surges and wave heights in observational data and climate projections, and present several case studies of impact assessments on changes in storm surges and extreme waves.

Lecture Time:

Beijing Time: 20:00 on 2 September

UK Time: 13:00 on 2 September

Lecture Link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/85a254a6-e748-4e4e-90ec-503c3ed8327a@cf264fc0-aeb8-449f-9054-82ce4454084b

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