NEWS
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14 June 2025Launches a new personal website (GitHub Pages)
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1 April 2025New position: Senior Researcher at the Center for Climate Change Adaptation (CCCA), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan.
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31 March 2025Retired: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.
Research Interests
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Urban climate and building energy modeling for global cities
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Urban climate, energy, climate change and interaction between human behaviour in cities
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Climate change adaptation and mitigation in urban areas
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Mechanism of heat wave and urban heat island in urban areas
Selected published papers
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Takane, Y., Kikegawa. K. Nakajima, and H. Kusaka, 2024: SLUCM+BEM (v1.0): a simple parameterisation for dynamic anthropogenic heat and electricity consumption in WRF-Urban (v4.3.2). Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 8639-8664. doi: 10.5194/gmd-17-8639-2024
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Takane, Y., K. Nakajima, K. Yamaguchi, and Y. Kikegawa, 2023: Decarbonisation technologies can halve the nonlinear increase in electricity demand in densely populated areas due to climate change. Sustainable Cities and Society, 99, 104966. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2023.104966
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Takane, Y., K. Nakajima, and Y. Kikegawa, 2022: Urban climate changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Integration of urban-building-energy model with social big data. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 44. doi: 10.1038/s41612-022-00268-0
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Takane, Y., Y. Kikegawa, M. Hara, and C. S. B. Grimmond, 2019: Urban warming and future air-conditioning use in an Asian megacity: Importance of positive feedback. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2, 39. doi: 10.1038/s41612-019-0096-2
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Takane, Y., H. Kusaka, and H. Kondo, 2015: Investigation of a recent extreme high-temperature event in the Tokyo metropolitan area using numerical simulations: the potential role of a 'hybrid' foehn wind. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141, 1857–1869. doi: 10.1002/qj.2490
About Me

Center for Climate Change Adaptation (CCCA)
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
Senior Researcher
Yuya Takane
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Educations
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Mar 2008
BSc, Department of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Yukitaka Ohashi)
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Mar 2010
MSc in Science, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Tsukuba, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Hiroyuki Kusaka)
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Mar 2013
PhD in Science, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Hiroyuki Kusaka)
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Research Experiences
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Apr 2013-Sep 2017
Researcher (tenure-track), Environmental Management Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Feb 2017-Jan 2019
Visiting Researcher (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellow), Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, England, United Kingdom (hosted by Prof. Sue Grimmond)
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Oct 2017-Mar 2025
Senior Researcher (tenure), Environmental Management Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Oct 2023-present
Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
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Apr 2025-present
Senior Researcher (tenure), Center for Climate Change Adaptation (CCCA), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Awards
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May 2025
Shono Award 2025, Meteorological Society of Japan
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Sep 2021
Best Paper and Presentation Award, Heat Island Institute International
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Jun 2014
The 6th International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE2014) Poster Award
・Takane, Y., H. Kusaka, and H. Kondo, 2014: Mechanisms of foehn wind and a recent record-breaking high temperature in the Tokyo metropolitan area using the WRF model.
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Jul 2013
Best Paper and Presentation Award, Heat Island Institute International.
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Jul 2008
Best Paper and Presentation Award, Heat Island Institute International.
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Academic Affiliations
Research Performance
Contact
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16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 305-8506
Center for Climate Change Adaptation (CCCA), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
takane.yuya at nies.go.jp