Publications

Journal Publication

  1. Nair A.S., Indu, J., (2021). Assessment of groundwater sustainability and identifying factors inducing groundwater depletion in India, Geophysical Research Letters.

  2. Nair A. S., Verma K., Karmakar S., Ghosh S., Indu J., (2021). Exploring the potential of SWOT mission for reservoir monitoring in Mahanadi basin, Advances in Space Research, ISSN 0273-1177.

  3. Nair A. S., Nitish K., Indu J., Vivek B. (2021). Monitoring Lake Levels from Space: Preliminary Analysis with SWOT. Frontiers in Water, 161.

  4. Pradhan A., Nair A.S., J. Indu and Pierre Emmanuel Kirstetter (2021), Impact of Sampling of GPM orbital data on Streamflow simulations, Journal of hydrology,593, 125798.

  5. Verma K., Nair A. S., J. Indu, Karmakar S., Calmant S. (2021), Satellite Altimetry for Indian Reservoirs, Water Science and Engineering.

  6. Nair A.S., Rohit M, Thiruvengadam P, J. Indu (2020), Remote sensing Data Assimilation in Hydrometeorology, Hydrological Sciences, 10.1080/02626667.2020.1761021.

  7. Nair A.S. and J. Indu (2020), Changing groundwater storage trend of India post severe drought, International Journal of Remote Sensing,7565-7584,41(19).

  8. Sooraj Krishnan, Nair A.S., J. Indu (2020), Simulation of Passive Microwave Data towards Efficient Assimilation over Indian Sub-Continent, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 10.1109/LGRS.2020.2986011.

  9. Mohit Prakash Mohanty, S.Nithya, Nair A.S., J. Indu, Subimal Ghosh, Chandra Mohan Bhatt. Goru Srinivasa Rao, Subhankar Karmakar (2020), Sensitivity of various topographic data in flood management: Implications on inundation mapping over large data-scarce regions, Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125523.

  10. Nair, A. S., and Indu, J., (2019) Improvement of land surface model simulations over India via data assimilation of satellite-based soil moisture products, Journal of Hydrology, 573, 406-421.

  11. Aan S, Nair A.S., and J. Indu (2019), Role of precipitation forcing on the uncertainty of land surface model simulated soil moisture estimates, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 580, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124264.

  12. Nair, A. S., and Indu, J., (2018) A Coupled Land Surface and Radiative Transfer Models Based on Relief Correction for a Reliable Land Data Assimilation Over Mountainous Terrain, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 15 (11), 1657-1661. Doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2018.2854908.

  13. Nair, A. S., and Indu, J., (2017), Performance Assessment of Multi Source Weighted Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP) product over India, Climate, 5, 2; Doi:10.3390/cli5010002

  14. Nair, A. S., and Indu, J., (2016), Enhancing Noah Land Surface Model Prediction skill over Indian Subcontinent by Assimilating SMOPS Blended Soil Moisture, Remote Sensing, 8, 976; Doi: 10.3390/rs8120976.


Book Chapter


J. Indu and Akhilesh S. Nair (2017), Satellite Based Precipitation – A Review. “Sustainable Holistic Water Resources Management in a Changing Climate”, M/S Jain Brothers, New Delhi, Editors: K. Srinivasa Raju and A Vasan


Conferences with Proceedings

  1. Akhilesh S. Nair, J. Indu, (2020), Reservoir Water Surface Area Detection using Satellite observations for synthetic SWOT data simulation, ICSIDEMPC2020, IEEE conference, Aurangabad

  2. Sooraj Krishnan , Akhilesh. S. Nair , J. Indu (2019): Monitoring Land Surface using Terrestrial L-band Radiometer, 2019 IEEE Recent Advances in Geoscience and Remote Sensing : Technologies, Standards and Applications (TENGARSS), DOI: 10.1109/TENGARSS48957.2019.8976034

  3. Akhilesh S. Nair and J. Indu : Utilizing GRACE and GLDAS data for estimating groundwater storage variability over the Krishna Basin, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-5, 2018 ISPRS TC V Mid-term Symposium “Geospatial Technology – Pixel to People”, 20–23 November 2018, Dehradun, India


Conferences without Proceedings

  1. Akhilesh S. Nair, J. Indu, Olga M., Improving land surface seasonal dynamics in permafrost areas by using soil moisture assimilation, AGU Fall Meeting 2021.

  2. Akhilesh S. Nair, Manu K. S., Patidar G., J. Indu, Karmarkar S., Assessing the Potential of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission measurements for monitoring hydrologic parameters in the Mahanadi River Basin. AGU Fall Meeting 2021.

  3. Akhilesh S. Nair, J. Indu, Olga M, and Narailia N., (2020), Leveraging soil moisture assimilation to improve land surface seasonal dynamics in permafrost regions AGU Fall meeting 2020 (oral presentation), Washington D. C, 2020

  4. Akhilesh S. Nair, and J. Indu, Groundwater storage in response to severe anthropogenic and drought events using GRACE data assimilation, AGU Fall meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA. 2019

  5. Sooraj K., Akhilesh S. Nair, and J. Indu, Addressing Scale Issues in Microwave Brightness Temperature (TB) using Coupled LSM-RTM Modelling and In-situ Measurements., AGU Fall meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA 2019.

  6. Sreekanth J, Akhilesh S. Nair, J. Indu, Kaushik, K. S. : Probabilistic Approach for Regional Groundwater Balance in the Ganga Basin Using Land Surface and Groundwater Models, AOGS 2019, Singapore

  7. Akhilesh S. Nair, Ankita Pradhan, Sooraj Krishnan, J. Indu : Data Assimilation to Study the Influence of Uncertainty in Land Surface Model, AOGS 2019, Singapore

  8. Akhilesh S. Nair and J. Indu : Potential of land data assimilation to tackle model and forcing uncertainties, AGU Fall meeting 2018 (Oral presentation), Washington D. C, 2018

  9. Akhilesh S. Nair and J. Indu, Performance assessment of satellite soil moisture products for land data assimilation, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2018

  10. Akhilesh S. Nair and J. Indu, Enhanced soil moisture initialization using blended soil moisture product and regional optimization of LSM-RTM Coupled Land Data Assimilation system, AGU Fall Meeting, USA, 2017

  11. Akhilesh S. Nair and J. Indu, Coupling Radiative Transfer Observation Operator with Land Surface Model for assimilating Microwave Tb over India, International Workshop on Coupled Data assimilation, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France, October 18-21,2016.

  12. Akhilesh S. Nair and J. Indu, Quantifying Uncertainty in Passive Microwave Data Products over India, Poster in NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Science & applications Workshop, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, November 19-20, 2015.