Research

Research Interests: Detection and Attribution of Hydrologic Change, Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Hydroclimatic Extremes, Hydrologic Statistics, Uncertainty Modeling, Climate Change, Statistical Downscaling, Frequency Analysis of Floods and Droughts including Regionalization, Risk Assessment under Non-stationarity, Urban Flooding.

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A public lecture on Statistical extreme value theory to analyse floods, droughts and heat waves, as part of e-school in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay, now available in YouTube.

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Current students

Pushkar Sharma (PhD, 2017-)

            • Works on quantification of catchment and climate effects on streamflow changes using the Budyko framework.

Pallavi Goswami (PhD, 2017-)

            • Works on modeling of droughts including non-stationarity and climate teleconnections. Coguided by Tim Peterson (Monash University) and Chris Rudiger (Bureau of Meteorology).

Sahana V (PhD, 2017-)

            • Works on drought risk assessment, with due consideration of hazard and vulnerability aspects.

Suma Bhanu Battula (PhD, 2017-)

            • Works on extreme rainfall and the role of orography. Coguided by Subimal Ghosh (IITB) and Steve Siems (Monash University).

Roshan Jha (PhD, 2020-)

  • Works on pre-monsoon heat waves in India. Coguided by Subimal Ghosh (IITB).

Manish Kumar Dhasmana (PhD, 2019-)

  • Works on attribution of floods in India. Coguided by Subhankar Karmakar (IITB).

Shivansh (PhD, 2021-)

  • Works on water availability and climate change, in India. Coguided by Subimal Ghosh (IITB).


Lab Alumni

Chingka Kalai (PhD, 2016-2021)

            • Currently postdoc, University of North Carolina, USA.

Mariam Zachariah (PhD, 2016-2021)

            • Currently postdoc, Imperial College London, UK.

Reema Roy

  • MTech (Water Resources Engineering), IIT Bombay, 2018-2020.

Krishna Pratap Sah

  • MTech (Water Resources Engineering), IIT Bombay, 2018-2020.

Mujeeb Ul Haq

            • MTech (Water Resources Engineering), IIT Bombay, 2017-2019.

Parvathi S

            • MTech (Water Resources Engineering), IIT Bombay, 2015-2017.

Neeraj Sah

            • Recipient of the prestigious DAAD Regional Scholarship.

            • Enrolled for MTech (Water Resources Engineering) in July, 2015.

            • Currently at Imperial College, London, doing his PhD.

Journals that we publish in or cite:

Water Resources Research, Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Water Resources Management, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, Hydrological Sciences Journal.

Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Science, PNAS, Science Advances, Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Research Letters, Scientific Reports, Scientific Data, Journal of Climate, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Climate Dynamics, International Journal of Climatology, Atmospheric Research Letters, Atmospheric Environment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Weather and Climate Extremes, Earth's Future, Natural Hazards, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Global Environmental Change, Regional Environmental Change, Climatic Change, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Global Change Biology, Journal of Environmental Management, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

WIRE's reviews, Reviews of Geophysics.

Extremes, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Environmental Modeling and Software, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Computers and Geosciences, PloSOne.