Research Projects

The project proposal aims to carry out advanced research in the broad areas of hydrology and climate change under the specific themes such as Detection and Impact ofClimate change which includes climate change impacts on hydrology of Indian rivers, Global water cycle and impact of climate change, Detection of climate change and; Regional Hydrology including regionalisation and modelling of hydrometerologic extremes, hydrologic flux retrieval, validation and modelling Urban hydrology and Adaptive water management. Under the project, R& D projects would be taken up with specific deliverables in the areas of hydrology and water sciences, and to develop outreach programmes in the the mentioned areas through workshops and short term training progammes to disseminate knowledge. The project would develop a first-order working (physically-based) model for the simulation of daily discharge of the Ganga-Brahmaputra river system. The project will involve assessment of project impacts of climate change on surface water availability, groundwater availability and irrigation water demands in Tunga Bhadra river basin. It is expected that the knowledge gained from the successful completion of the project would be helpful in addressing of the issues which are scale-dependent, namely global scale (climate change) to regional (river basins, droughts and water quality) to urban scale (floods and water quality). The study will provide adaptive water management policies at river basing scales.

Several state-of-the-art problems have been addressed in the project that include, (a) Hydrologic modeling for urban floods, (b) Climate change impacts on hydrology of Indian river basins, (c) Freshwater contribution to the Bay of Bengal, (d) Development of a regional groundwater model, (e) Estimates of evapotranspiration and soil moisture from satellite remote sensing and (f) Hydrologic regionalization. The work carried out in the project is interdisciplinary in nature and has resulted in 40 high impact publications. The major infrastructure created includes a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. A large number (about 30) project staff have been trained in the project. The following sections provide a summary of the work carried out in the project. A vibrant research group has been e

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