Impact-based flood-damage assessment in Japan under longitudinal typhoon-track perturbations and levee-height variations during Hagibis (2019)
Abstract
Impact-based flood-damage assessment integrates hydrometeorological information with vulnerability and exposure data to generate comprehensive evaluation of flood damage. This study uses the Integrated Land Simulator to assemble an impact-based flood-damage assessment framework for Typhoon Hagibis (2019), one of the most powerful typhoons to strike Japan in recent years. To systematically evaluate how typhoon-track position and levee height influence flood damage, we conduct longitudinal typhoon-track perturbation experiments and levee-height variation scenario analyses. Here we show that the flood damage is highly sensitive to small typhoon-track shifts, with a 0.2° longitudinal shift causing an average damage difference of 83.3 billion JPY. A 1.0° eastward shift causes the highest damage in Kanto and across Japan, mainly around Tokyo, while 1.6° and 0.4° westward shifts produce the greatest damage in Kinki and Chubu, mainly around Osaka and Nagoya, respectively. The levee-height sensitivity experiments show an average flood-damage reduction of approximately 9.1 billion JPY for each 10% increase in levee height.
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BibTeX
@article{li2026impactbased,
title = {{Impact-based flood-damage assessment in Japan under longitudinal typhoon-track perturbations and levee-height variations during Hagibis (2019)}},
author = {Xiaoyang Li and Kei Yoshimura and Hironori Fudeyasu},
journal = {Communications Earth \& Environment},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1038/s43247-026-04077-8},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-04077-8},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Impact-based flood-damage assessment in Japan under longitudinal typhoon-track perturbations and levee-height variations during Hagibis (2019)
AU - Xiaoyang Li
AU - Kei Yoshimura
AU - Hironori Fudeyasu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
JO - Communications Earth & Environment
DO - 10.1038/s43247-026-04077-8
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-04077-8
AB - Impact-based flood-damage assessment integrates hydrometeorological information with vulnerability and exposure data to generate comprehensive evaluation of flood damage. This study uses the Integrated Land Simulator to assemble an impact-based flood-damage assessment framework for Typhoon Hagibis (2019), one of the most powerful typhoons to strike Japan in recent years. To systematically evaluate how typhoon-track position and levee height influence flood damage, we conduct longitudinal typhoon-track perturbation experiments and levee-height variation scenario analyses. Here we show that the flood damage is highly sensitive to small typhoon-track shifts, with a 0.2° longitudinal shift causing an average damage difference of 83.3 billion JPY. A 1.0° eastward shift causes the highest damage in Kanto and across Japan, mainly around Tokyo, while 1.6° and 0.4° westward shifts produce the greatest damage in Kinki and Chubu, mainly around Osaka and Nagoya, respectively. The levee-height sensitivity experiments show an average flood-damage reduction of approximately 9.1 billion JPY for each 10% increase in levee height.
SN - 2662-4435
ER -