JOurnals/Book Chapters

2026 [N = 8*]

49) Bhattarai, S., Pradhan, N.R., Talchabhadel, R., 2026. Do the Wettest Days Occur Together? A Global Analysis on Disentangling Precipitation Intensity from Seasonal Timing. Earth Sp. Sci. [Accepted]

48) Talchabhadel, R., Sharma, S., Perez, A.L., Racine, E.F., 2026. Sustainable water–food system transformation in arid and semi-arid regions, in: Pradhan, P., Pant, L.P. (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Food System Transformation for Sustainable Development. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 88–100. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035332854.00011 

47) Bhattarai, S., He, C., Sharma, S., Kumar, S., Talchabhadel, R., 2026. Rainfall relief or humidity havoc? The boon and curse of precipitation during heatwaves. Nat. Hazards 122, 172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07742-x  

46) Gautam, A., Mustafa, Z., Talchabhadel, R., 2026. Satellite-derived Salinity Dynamics in the Mississippi Sound: A Hurricane Nate Case Study. Earth Syst. Environ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-026-01044-3 

45) Poudel, S., Bista, S., Bhattarai, S., Sharma, S., Talchabhadel, R., 2026. Understanding multi-hazard risk for U.S. coastal cities. Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduct. 134, 106023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106023 

44) Talchabhadel, R., Kumar, S., Racine, E.F., 2026. Exploring the Nexus between Land Use Land Cover Changes, Water, and Socioeconomic Factors for a Critically Stressed Arid US-Mexico Transboundary Region, in: Babel, M., Haarstrick, A., Ribbe, L., Shinde, V.R., Aryal, A., Chapagain, K. (Eds.), Water Security and Climate Change, Springer Water. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, pp. 71–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08411-8_5 

43) Bhattarai, S., Pradhan, N.R., Talchabhadel, R., 2026. GeoClimate intelligence platform: A web-based framework for environmental data analysis. Environ. Model. Softw. 106826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106826 

42) Bista, S., Bhattarai, S., Sharma, S., Talchabhadel, R., 2026. Local-scale flood hazard projections in historically vulnerable communities. Model. Earth Syst. Environ. 12, 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-025-02599-2 

2025 [N = 15]

41) Darling, D., Bhattarai, Y., Kamanmalek, S., Talchabhadel, R., Sharma, S., 2025. Explainable machine-learning-based predictions of blood lead levels and school drinking water contamination among children: a case study in Washington DC. Sci. Rep. 15, 40588. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-24213-2  

40) Bhattarai, Y., Chaudhary, V., Walker, C., Talchabhadel, R., Sharma, S., 2025. Ensemble learning for enhancing critical infrastructure resilience to urban flooding. Sci. Rep. 15, 36901. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-20970-2  

39) Duwal, S., Prajapati, R., Upadhyay, S., Neupane, S., Lakhe, H., Thapa, B.R., Davids, J.C., Talchabhadel, R., 2025. Leveraging a Citizen Science Approach for Rainfall Monitoring: Evaluating Performance and Reliability To Complement Standard Datasets. Earth Syst. Environ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-025-00920-8  

38) Talchabhadel, R., Rhodes, E.C., Palmate, S.S., Kumar, S., 2025. Evaluating Vegetation Greening and Browning across the Rio Grande Basin. Earth Syst Environ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-025-00756-2 

37) Ebrahimi, S., Khorram, M., Neri Barranco, R., Sanchez, R., Talchabhadel, R., Palmate, S.S., Dominguez-Tuda, M., Racine, E.F., Kumar, S., 2025. 30 Years of simultaneous crop & land cover land use maps for Middle Rio Grande from 1994 to 2024. Sci Data 12, 1462. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05771-6 

36) Talchabhadel, R., Panthi, J., Pandey, V.P., Rakhal, B., Ghimire, G.R., Bista, S., Bhattarai, S., Poudel, S., Bhattarai, Y., Prajapati, R., Thapa, B.R., Nepal, B., Sharma, S., 2025. Yesterday’s extremes, today’s new normal: flood risk in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Nat Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07524-5 

35) Pudasainee, S., Acharya, R.H., Talchabhadel, R., Shrestha, D., Dawadi, B., 2025. Investigation of meteorological condition during the air dynasty helicopter crash-2019 in Nepal using the WRF model. Nat Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07553-0 

34) Mustafa, Z., Barnes, L., Talchabhadel, R., 2025. Effects of the Bonnet Carré Spillway Openings on the Mississippi Sound. OJCE 15, 300–313. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojce.2025.152016 

33) Bhattarai, S., Banjara, P., Pandey, V.P., Aryal, A., Pradhan, P., Al-Douri, F., Pradhan, N.R., Talchabhadel, R., 2025. Quantifying the cooling effects of blue-green spaces across urban landscapes: A case study of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Urban Climate 61, 102493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102493 [See list of media coverages]

32) Ouadja, A., Zeroualı, B., Flanagan, D.C., Porto, P., Benfetta, H., Farsı, F.Z., Ghosal, K., Talchabhadel, R., Santos, C., 2025. Using empirical methods, GIS and bathymetric survey for assessing the siltation of Sidi-Yacoub Dam (northwestern Algeria). Geofizika 42. https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2025.42.5 

31) Bonta, J., Chin, D.A., Johnson, M.S., Miller, J.J., Minervini, W., Ramirez-Avila, J., Moglen, G., Neelam, T.J., Oliveira, P.T.S., Sharma, S., Talchabhadel, R., Tollner, E.W., Walter, M.T., Ward, T., Woodward, D.E., 2025. The Curve Number’s Initial Abstraction and Physical Hydrology: ASCE-EWRI CN Hydrology Committee Synthesis. J. Irrig. Drain Eng. 151, 06025002. https://doi.org/10.1061/JIDEDH.IRENG-10449 

30) Bhattarai, S., Bokati, L., Sharma, S., Talchabhadel, R., 2025. Understanding spatiotemporal variation of heatwave projections across US cities. Sci Rep 15, 10643. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95097-5 

29) Bokati, L., Somenahally, A., Kumar, S., Robatjazi, J., Talchabhadel, R., Sarkar, R., Perepi, R., 2025. Temporal adjustment approach for high-resolution continental scale modeling of soil organic carbon. Sci Rep 15, 6483. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-89503-1 

28) Gouli, M.R., Hu, K., Khadka, N., Liu, S., Yifan, S., Adhikari, M., Talchabhadel, R., 2025. Quantitative assessment of the GLOF risk along China-Nepal transboundary basins by integrating remote sensing, machine learning, and hydrodynamic model. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 118, 105231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105231 

27) Dahal, K., Talchabhadel, R., Pradhan, P., Parajuli, S., Shrestha, D., Chhetri, R., Gautam, A.P., Tamrakar, R., Gurung, S., Kumar, S., 2025. Nepal’s carbon stock and biodiversity are under threat from climate change exacerbated forest fires. Information Geography 100003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infgeo.2025.100003    [See list of media coverages]

2024 [N = 14]

26) Talchabhadel, R., Bhattarai, S., Bista, S., 2024. Projected Changes in Precipitation Extremes Across the Mississippi River Basin Using the NASA Global Daily Downscaled Datasets NEX ‐ GDDP ‐ CMIP6. Intl Journal of Climatology joc.8748. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8748

25) Bhattarai, Y., Bista, S., Talchabhadel, R., Duwal, S., & Sharma, S. 2024. Rapid prediction of urban flooding at street-scale using physics-informed machine learning-based surrogate modeling. Total Environment Advances, 12, 200116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teadva.2024.200116 

24) Bhattarai, S., Bista, S., Sharma, S., White, L.D., Amini, F., Talchabhadel, R., 2024. Spatiotemporal characterization of heatwave exposure across historically vulnerable communities. Sci. Rep. 14, 20882. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-71704-9 

23) Bhattarai, S., Talchabhadel, R., 2024. Comparative Analysis of Satellite-based Precipitation Data across the CONUS and Hawaii: Identifying Optimal Satellite Performance, Remote Sensing https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16163058 

22) Rahimi, L., Hoque, M., Ahmadisharaf, E., Alamdari, N., Misra, V., Maran, A.C., Kao, S, Aghakouchak, A., Talchabhadel, R., 2024. Future climate projections for South Florida: Improving Accuracy of Air Temperature and Precipitation Extremes with a Hybrid Statistical Bias Correction Technique, Earth's Future https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004531 

21) Prajapati, R., Gardner, J., Pavelsky, T., Talchabhadel, R., 2024. Longitudinal Recovery of Suspended Sediment Downstream of Large Dams in the US. Water Resour. Res. 60, e2023WR036759. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036759 

20) Adhikari, T.R., Baniya, B., Tang, Q., Chen, D., Talchabhadel, R., Li, H., Shrestha, S., Sigdel, M., Budhathoki, B.R., Pradhanang, S.M., Pradhananga, D., Awasthi, R.P., 2024. Identification precipitation threshold and resulting river discharge: An IDF-based approach in the Central Himalaya, Nepal Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2024.2373575 

19) Banjara, P., Bhattarai, S., Pandey, V.P., Talchabhadel, R., 2024. Spatiotemporal characterization of heatwaves on an urban center using satellite-based estimates. Theor. Appl. Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-024-05026-1 

18) Bista, S., Baniya, R., Sharma, S., Ghimire, G.R., Panthi, J., Prajapati, R., Raj Thapa, B., Talchabhadel, R., 2024. Hydrologic applicability of satellite-based precipitation estimates for irrigation water management in the data-scarce region. J. Hydrol. 636, 131310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131310 

17) Rhodes, E.C., Talchabhadel, R., Jordan, T., 2024. A changing river: Long‐term changes of sinuosity and land cover in the Navasota River Watershed, Texas. River rvr2.85. https://doi.org/10.1002/rvr2.85 

16) Bhattarai, Y., Duwal, S., Sharma, S., Talchabhadel, R., 2024. Leveraging machine learning and open-source spatial datasets to enhance flood susceptibility mapping in transboundary river basin. International Journal of Digital Earth 17, 2313857. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2024.2313857  

15) Baniya, R., Regmi, R.K., Talchabhadel, R., Sharma, S., Panthi, J., Ghimire, G.R., Bista, S., Thapa, B.R., Pradhan, A.M.S., Tamrakar, J., 2024. Integrated modeling for assessing climate change impacts on water resources and hydropower potential in the Himalayas. Theor Appl Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-024-04863-4  

14) Kumar, S., Imen, S., Sridharan, V.K., Gupta, A., McDonald, W., Ramirez-Avila, J.J., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Talchabhadel, R., Gao, H., Quinn, N.W.T., Weiss, W.J., Poulose, T., Palmate, S.S., Lee, C.M., Baskaran, L., 2024.  Perceived barriers and advances in integrating earth observations with water resources modeling, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2023.101119. 

13) Dahal, K., Sharma, S., Shakya, A., Talchabhadel, R., Adhikari, S., Pokharel, A., Sheng, Z., Pradhan, A. M. S., & Kumar, S. 2024. Identification of groundwater potential zones in data-scarce mountainous region using explainable artificial intelligence. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130417  

2023 [N = 12]

12) Baniya, M.B., Asaeda, T., Fujino, T., Talchabhadel, R., Baniya, A., K.C., S., Sharma, N.R., Jayasanka, S.M.D.H. 2023. Effects of rainfall on fluvial discharge and suspended sediment transport in the Central Himalayan region, Nepal. Theor. Appl. Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04706-8 

11) Duwal, S., Bhattarai, Y., Milapati, R., Talchabhadel, R. 2023. Charting the Course to Resilience: Hydrodynamic Modeling for Socio-economic Insights for Flood Risk Management in Nepal’s Ungauged Roshi River Catchment. Journal of Hydrology and Meteorology 11, 6, 53-66. Link

10) Gouli, M.R., Hu, K., Khadka, N., Talchabhadel, R. 2023. Hazard assessment of a pair of glacial lakes in Nepal Himalaya: unfolding combined outbursts of Upper and Lower Barun. Geomatics, Nat. Hazards Risk. 14, 2266219. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2023.2266219 

9) Aryal, A., Pandey, V.P., Talchabhadel, R., Thapa, B.R. 2023. Hydro-climatic extremes in a medium range River Basin in western Nepal: Learning from analysis of observed data. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-023-02552-8 

8) Talchabhadel, R., Chhetri, R. 2023. Evaluation of long-term changes in water balances in the Nepal Himalayas. Theor. Appl. Climatol. https://10.1007/s00704-023-04646-3

7) Baniya, R., Talchabhadel, R., Panthi, J., Ghimire, G.R., Sharma, S., Khadka, P.D., Shin, S., Pokhrel, Y., Bhattarai, U., Prajapati, R., Thapa, B.R., Maskey, R.K. 2023. Nepal Himalaya offers considerable potential for pumped storage hydropower. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 60, 103423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2023.103423 

6) Tiwari, S., Adhikari, S., Khadka, U.R., Ghimire, M., Talchabhadel, R. 2023. Water poverty in Western Nepal: assessment of Alital Rural Municipality in Rangun watershed. Water Practice & Technology wpt2023130. https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2023.130 

5) Adhikari, T.R., Baniya, B., Tang, Q., Talchabhadel, R., Gouli, M.R., Budhathoki, B.R., Awasthi, R.P. 2023. Evaluation of post extreme floods in high mountain region: A case study of the Melamchi flood 2021 at the Koshi River Basin in Nepal. Natural Hazards Research S2666592123000707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nhres.2023.07.001 

4) Baniya, M.B., Fujino, T., Talchabhadel, R., Baniya, A., Karki, S., K.C., S., Jha, B. 2023. Detectability of the trend and hysteresis in rainfall across Kali Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalaya, Nepal. Theor Appl Climatol.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04515-z  

3) Gnyawali, K., Dahal, K., Talchabhadel, R., Nirandjan, S. 2023. Framework for rainfall-triggered landslide-prone critical infrastructure zonation. Science of The Total Environment 872, 162242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162242 

2) Talchabhadel, R., Maskey, S.,  Gouli, M.R., Dahal, K., Thapa, A., Sharma, S., Dixit, A.M., Kumar, S. 2023. Multimodal multiscale characterization of cascading hazard on mountain terrain. Geomatics, Nat. Hazards Risk. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2022.2162443 

1) Maharjan, M., Yoneda, M., Talchabhadel, R.,  Thapa, B.R., Aryal, A. 2023. On the Use of Indices on Daily Timescales to Study Change of Extreme Precipitation across Nepal Attributed between 1976-1995 and 1996-2015. Earth Sp. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001509