Senior Researcher

Department of Disaster Prevention, Meteorology and Hydrology
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

Address:

1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan
Tel: +81-29-829-8240, Fax: +81-29-874-3720

Mail:

knanko@ffpri.affrc.go.jp

Other website:

- ORCID (0000-0002-1157-9287)
- publons (ResearcherID: F-4833-2010)
- Scopus preview
- Google Scholar Citations

Research interest

• I am interested in cross-cutting science at the interface of meteorology (wind, rainfall, snow, etc.), forestry, and soil science from ecohydrological and geomorphological perspectives, as well as developing devices to measure environmental data. Specific interests are raindrops, rainfall partitioning by the forest canopy, tree sway, breakage mechanism by fluid (wind, avalanche, and tsunami), and soil erosion in mountainous forest areas.

Field

• Ecohydrology
• Hydrogeomorphology
• Tree Biomechanics (and Ecomechanics)

Keywords

• raindrop, drop size distribution (DSD), rainfall erosivity, laser disdrometer, laser drop-detecting gauge (LDG);
• rainfall partitioning by forest canopy, canopy interception, throughfall;
• tree biomechanics, tree sway, tree breakage, windthrow;
• splash erosion, soil erosion;

Raindrop/Snowflake/Particle monitoring with LDG (Google Map)

• Delphis F. Levia (University of Delaware, USA)
  Study on rainfall partitioning by forest canopy.
• Pilar Llorens (IDAEA-CSIC, Spain)
  Study on rainfall partitioning by forest canopy.
• Steffen Seitz (University of Tübingen&, Germany)
  Study on soil erosion in forested area.
• Thomas W. Giambelluca (University of Hawaiʻi at Manōa, USA)
  Study on soil erosion in invasive forest.
• Raymond Torres (University of South Carolina, USA)
  Study on soil erosion process in salt marsh.

Collaborators of Kazuki NANKO in papers (Google Map)