Publications

General Publications

• Urban Water Systems: A Framework for Collaboration between ICWaR and UNESCO

Recent Publications of Faculty Members

Prof. P. P. Mujumdar (link to bio)

• Chawla, I., & Mujumdar, P. P. (2020). Evaluating Rainfall Datasets to Reconstruct Floods in Data-Sparse Himalayan Region. Journal of Hydrology, 125090.
• Santy, S., Mujumdar, P., & Bala, G. (2020). Potential Impacts of Climate and Land Use change on the Water Quality of Ganga River around the industrialized Kanpur Region. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-13.
• Sharma, S., & Mujumdar, P. P. (2019). On the relationship of daily rainfall extremes and local mean temperature. Journal of Hydrology, 572, 179-191.
• Dey, P., & Mujumdar, P. P. (2019). On the uniformity of rainfall distribution over India. Journal of Hydrology, 578, 124017.
• Mujumdar, P & Tiwari, M. V. (2019). “Water Futures of India : Status of Science and Technology“ (Edited Volume), INSA and IISc Press.
• Mondal, A., & Mujumdar, P. P. (2016). Detection of change in flood return levels under global warming. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 21(8), 04016021 
• Mondal, A., & Mujumdar, P. P. (2015). On the detection of human influence in extreme precipitation over India. Journal of Hydrology, 529, 1161-1172..
• Chawla, I., & Mujumdar, P. P. (2015). Isolating the impacts of land use and climate change on streamflow. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19(8), 3633-3651.
• Chennai Floods 2015 – Rapid Assessment Report
• Mujumdar, P & Rupa, C (2012). Urban Floods:Modelling Studies. Report submitted to National Remote Sensing Center, Hyderabad.
• Ramachandra T. V. & Mujumdar P. P. (2009). Urban Floods: Case Study of Bangalore. Journal of National Institute of Disaster Management, Volume 3(2).

Prof. M. S. Mohan Kumar (link to bio)

• Seetha, N., Kumar, M. M., & Hassanizadeh, S. M. (2015). Modeling the co-transport of viruses and colloids in unsaturated porous media. Journal of contaminant hydrology, 181, 82-101.
• Seetha, N., Kumar, M. M., Hassanizadeh, S. M., & Raoof, A. (2014). Virus-sized colloid transport in a single pore: Model development and sensitivity analysis. Journal of contaminant hydrology, 164, 163-180.
• Ganguly, S., & Kumar, M. M. (2014). Analytical solutions for transient temperature distribution in a geothermal reservoir due to cold water injection. Hydrogeology Journal, 22(2), 351-369.

Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar (link to bio)

• Paul, S., & Kumar, D. N. (2020). Transformation of Multispectral Data to Quasi-Hyperspectral Data Using Convolutional Neural Network Regression. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
• Paul, S., Banerjee, C., & Kumar, D. N. (2020). Evaluation framework of landsat 8–based actual evapotranspiration estimates in data-sparse catchment. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 25(9), 04020043.
• Sonali, P., & Kumar, D. N. Review of recent advances in climate change detection and attribution studies: a large-scale hydroclimatological perspective.
• Shwetha, H. R., & Kumar, D. N. (2020). Estimation of daily actual evapotranspiration using vegetation coefficient method for clear and cloudy sky conditions. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 13, 2385-2395.
• Raju, K. S., & Kumar, D. N. (2020). Review of approaches for selection and ensembling of GCMs. Journal of Water and Climate Change.
• P. Ghosh, D. Nagesh Kumar, Himanshu Bhagat, (2020), Estimation of Seasonal Base Flow Contribution to a Tropical River Using Stable Isotope Analysis, Journal of Hydrology, (Submitted).
• Srinivasa R. K. and Kumar D. N (2017) Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources – With Modeling Techniques and Case Studies, Springer Climate Series, Springer, ISBN 978-981-10-6110-3, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6110-3, pp. 275, 2017

Prof. G. Bala (link to bio)

• Santy, S., Mujumdar, P., & Bala, G. (2020). Potential Impacts of Climate and Land Use change on the Water Quality of Ganga River around the industrialized Kanpur Region. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-13.
• Tresa Mary Thomas, G. Bala, V.V.Srinivas, (2020). Characteristics of the Monsoon Low Pressure Systems in the Indian Subcontinent and the Associated Extreme Precipitation Events, Climate Dynamics (Submitted).
• Tharammal, T., Bala, G., Devaraju, N., & Nemani, R. (2019). A review of the major drivers of the terrestrial carbon uptake: model-based assessments, consensus, and uncertainties. Environmental Research Letters, 14(9), 093005.
• Sharma, J., Upgupta, S., Kumar, R., Chaturvedi, R. K., Bala, G., & Ravindranath, N. H. (2017). Assessment of inherent vulnerability of forests at landscape level: a case study from Western Ghats in India. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change, 22(1), 29-44.
• Tharammal, T., Bala, G., & Noone, D. (2017). Impact of deep convection on the isotopic amount effect in tropical precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122(3), 1505-1523.
• Modak, A., Bala, G., Cao, L., & Caldeira, K. (2016). Why must a solar forcing be larger than a CO2 forcing to cause the same global mean surface temperature change?. Environmental Research Letters, 11(4), 044013.
• Cao, L., Bala, G., Zheng, M., & Caldeira, K. (2015). Fast and slow climate responses to CO2 and solar forcing: A linear multivariate regression model characterizing transient climate change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120(23), 12-037.

Prof. M. Sekhar (link to bio)

• Collins, Sarah, Sian E. Loveless, Sekhar Muddu, Sriramulu Buvaneshwari, Romesh N. Palamakumbura, Maarten Krabbendam, Dan J. Lapworth, Christopher R. Jackson, Daren C. Gooddy, Siva Naga Venkat Nara, Somsubhra Chattopadhyay, and Alan M. MacDonald. (2020). Groundwater Connectivity of a Sheared Gneiss Aquifer in the Cauvery River Basin, India. Hydrogeology Journal 28(4):1371–88.
• Eswar, R., Sekhar, M., & Bhattacharya, B. K. (2017). Comparison of three remote sensing based models for the estimation of latent heat flux over India. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 62(16), 2705-2719.
• Eswar, R., Sekhar, M., Bhattacharya, B. K., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2017). Spatial Disaggregation of Latent Heat Flux Using Contextual Models over India. Remote Sensing, 9(9), 949.
• Eswar, R., Sekhar, M., & Bhattacharya, B. K. (2016). Disaggregation of LST over India: Comparative analysis of different vegetation indices. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 37(5), 1035-1054.
• Tomer, S. K., Al Bitar, A., Sekhar, M., Zribi, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sreelash, K., … & Kerr, Y. (2015). Retrieval and multi-scale validation of soil moisture from multi-temporal SAR data in a semi-arid tropical region. Remote Sensing, 7(6), 8128-8153.
• Sekhar, M., Shindekar, M., Tomer, S. K., & Goswami, P. (2013). Modeling the vulnerability of an urban groundwater system due to the combined impacts of climate change and management scenarios. Earth Interactions, 17(10), 1-25.

Dr. R. Chakrabarti (link to bio)

• Acharya, S. S., & Chakrabarti, R. (2019). Variations in trace metal concentrations and Sr, Nd isotopic compositions in sediments from two contrasting settings in the Eastern Arabian Shelf: Implications for provenance and paleoclimate reconstruction. Chemical Geology, 509, 134-151.
• Chakrabarti, R., Mondal, S., Acharya, S. S., Lekha, J. S., & Sengupta, D. (2018). Submarine groundwater discharge derived strontium from the Bengal Basin traced in Bay of Bengal water samples. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1-10.
• Rajakumar, A. G., Cornelio, A. A., & Kumar, M. M. (2020). Leak management in district metered areas with internal-pressure reducing valves. Urban Water Journal, 1-9.
• Soraganvi, V. S., Ababou, R., & Kumar, M. M. (2020). Effective Flow and Transport Properties of Heterogeneous Unsaturated Soils. Advances in Water Resources, 103655.
• Priyanka, B. N., & Kumar, M. M. (2019). Three-Dimensional Modelling of Heterogeneous Coastal Aquifer: Upscaling from Local Scale. Water, 11(3), 421.
• Priyanka, B. N., Kumar, M. M., & Amai, M. (2018). Estimating anisotropic heterogeneous hydraulic conductivity and dispersivity in a layered coastal aquifer of Dakshina Kannada District, Karnataka. Journal of Hydrology, 565, 302-317. Priyanka, B. N., & Kumar, M. M. (2017). Direct and inverse modeling of seawater intrusion: A perspective. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 90(5), 595-601
• Chakrabarti, R. (2015). Silicon isotopes: from cosmos to benthos. Curr Sci, 108, 246-254.
• Ghosh, P., Chakrabarti, R., & Bhattacharya, S. K. (2013). Short-and long-term temporal variations in salinity and the oxygen, carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions of the Hooghly Estuary water, India. Chemical Geology, 335, 118-127.
• Sheldon, N. D., & Chakrabarti, R. (2010, June). Mass extinctions, climate change, and enhanced terrestrial weathering?: The End-Permian and End-Guadalupian events compared. In Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (Vol. 74, No. 12, pp. A944-A944). THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.

Dr. Prosenjit Ghosh (link to bio)

• Paul, V., Banerjee, Y., Ghosh, P., & Busi, S. B. (2020). Depthwise microbiome and isotopic profiling of a moderately saline microbial mat in a solar saltern. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77622-w
• Banerjee, Y., Thamizharasan, S., & Ghosh, P. (2020). Orbital forcing controlling dry time carbonate precipitation temperature over landmass in the northern mid-latitude during last 50,000 years revealed from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry. Current Science (00113891), 119(2).
• P. Ghosh, D. Nagesh Kumar, Himanshu Bhagat, (2020), Estimation of Seasonal Base Flow Contribution to a Tropical River Using Stable Isotope Analysis, Journal of Hydrology, (Submitted).
• Rajakumar, A. G., Mohan Kumar, M. S., Amrutur, B., & Kapelan, Z. (2019). Real-time water quality modeling with ensemble Kalman filter for state and parameter estimation in water distribution networks. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 145(11), 04019049.
• Rahul, P., Ghosh, P., Bhattacharya, S. K., & Yoshimura, K. (2016). Controlling factors of rainwater and water vapor isotopes at Bangalore, India: Constraints from observations in 2013 Indian monsoon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121(23), 13-936.
• Rahul, P., Ghosh, P., Bhattacharya, S. K., & Yoshimura, K. (2016). Controlling factors of rainwater and water vapor isotopes at Bangalore, India: Constraints from observations in 2013 Indian monsoon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121(23), 13-936.

Prof. V. V. Srinivas (link to bio)

• Masanta, S. K., & Srinivas, V. V. (2020). Regionalization of evapotranspiration in India using fuzzy dynamic clustering approach. Part 2: Applications of regions. International Journal of Climatology.