Publications

Nanda, A., Lewis, D. J., Tate, K. W., & Safeeq, M. (2025). Impacts of climate and disturbance on suspended sediment from oak woodlands. Catena, 249, 108706.

Nanda, A., & Safeeq, M. (2024). Nonlinear storage–discharge dynamics of forested headwater catchment: A hysteresis index approach. Hydrological Processes, 38(6), e15201.

Gupta, V., Syed, B., Pathania, A., Raaj, S., Nanda, A., Awasthi, S., & Shukla, D. P. (2024). Hydrometeorological analysis of July-2023 floods in Himachal Pradesh, India. Natural Hazards, 1-26.

Nanda, A., Mohammad, S. (2023) Hydrological thresholds of three integrated Mediterranean catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 129532. (I.F. 6.708)

Safeeq, M., Nanda, A., Wagenbrenner, J. W., Lewis, J., & Hunsaker, C. T. (2022). Climatic and hydrogeomorphic controls on sediment characteristics in the southern Sierra Nevada. Journal of Hydrology, 128300. (I.F. 6.708)

Meena, R. K., Sen, S., Nanda, A., Dass, B., & Mishra, A. (2022). A contribution to rainfall simulator design–a concept of moving storm automation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(16), 4379-4390. (I.F. 6.617)

Nanda, A., & Sen, S. (2021). A complex network theory-based approach to better understand the infiltration-excess runoff generation thresholds. Journal of Hydrology, 603, 127038. (I.F. 6.708)

Nanda, A., Sen, S., Sharma, A. N., & Sudheer, K. P. (2020). Soil Temperature Dynamics at Hillslope Scale—Field Observation and Machine Learning-Based Approach. Water, 12(3), 713. (I.F. 3.351)

Nanda, A., Sen, S., & McNamara, J. P. (2019). How spatiotemporal variation of soil moisture can explain hydrological connectivity of infiltration-excess dominated hillslope: Observations from Lesser Himalayan Landscape. Journal of Hydrology, 579, 124146. (I.F. 6.708)

Nanda, A., Sen, S., Jirwan, V., Sharma, A., Kumar, V. (2018). Understanding Plot-Scale Hydrology of Lesser Himalayan Watershed- A Field Study and HYDRUS-2D Modeling Approach. Hydrological Processes, 32:1254–1266. (I.F. 3.784)

Sailo, P, Nanda, A., Sen, S., Yadav, B., Investigating the Impact of Slash and Burn (Jhum) Cultivation on Sediment-Discharge-Nutrient Dynamics in High-Rainfall Tropical Hilly Catchments (Under Review)

 Anikul Islam, Divyesh Varade, Aliva Nanda, Somil Swarnkar, and Rajiv Sinha, Remote Sensing-based estimation of Gangotri Glacier Dynamics using fully distributed inversion approach: Evidence of accelerated mass loss and ice thinning (Under Review)

Anikul Islam, Divyesh Varade, Luvkush Patel, Aliva Nanda, Somil Swarnkar, and Rajiv Sinha Implications of surface mass balance and strain rate indicate compressive forces in ablation zones yielding development of distinct supraglacial features at Gangotri glacier (Under Review)

 Nanda, A., Gupta, P. K., Gupta, V., Jha, P. K., & Dubey, S. K. (2025). In Navigating the Nexus: Hydrology, Agriculture, Pollution and Climate Change, Volume 1. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. (Book)

Nanda, A., Gupta, P. K., Gupta, V., Jha, P. K., & Dubey, S. K. (2025). Summary Chapter. In Navigating the Nexus: Hydrology, Agriculture, Pollution and Climate Change, Volume 1 (pp. 527-534). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

 Dubey S., Gupta P., Jha P., Nanda A., Gupta V. (2022). Soil-Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change: Exploring Linkage. Water Science & Technology, Springer Nature. (Book)

Dubey, Swatantra Kumar, Prakash Kumar Jha, Pankaj Kumar Gupta, Aliva Nanda, and Vivek Gupta. "Exploring Linkages Among Soil–Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change—A Summary." Soil-water, Agriculture, and Climate Change: Exploring Linkages 113 (2022): 367. (Book Chapter)

Jindwal, N., & Nanda, A., Identification of Tipping Points of Forest Fire Occurrence in the Western Himalayan State, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, December 2025** 

Bharti, A., Nanda, A., Varade, D., Driving Role of Snow Cover on Soil Moisture Storage and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalayan Catchments, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, December 2025 (Oral) **

Sailo, P, Nanda, A., Sen, S., Yadav, B. Sediment–Hydrology–Nutrient Coupling in Shifting Cultivation and Forested Catchments: A Comparative Watershed-Scale Assessment from Mizoram-Eastern Himalayan Region (EHR), India, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, December 2025 (Oral)**

Nanda, A., Lewis, D. J., & Safeeq, M. Impact of Prescribed Burn on Suspended Sediment Concentration and Discharge: Learning from California’s Oak Woodland, IAHS 2025, Roorkee, India 

Verma, P., Nanda, A., State of Art of Ecohydrology Research in the Indian subcontinent: A Review, IAHS 2025, Roorkee, India **

Jindwal, N., Nanda, A., Forest Fire Dynamics in Himachal Pradesh: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Driving Factors, IAHS 2025, Roorkee, India **

 Nanda, A., Hartsough, P. C., Conklin, M. H., Bales, R. C., & Safeeq, M. (2024). Exploring the Influence of Seasonality and Environmental Conditions on Stand-Scale Transpiration Interconnections. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, California, USA.

 Nanda, A., Hartsough, P. C., Conklin, M. H., Bales, R. C., & Safeeq, M. (2023). Exploring Memory and Real-time Connections of Eco-hydrological Variables of Mediterranean Headwater Catchments. AGU23.

 Safeeq, M., Nanda, A., Fong C., & Heard, A. (2023, October) Hydroclimatic Analysis of Sierra Nevada Network (SIEN) Catchments, Yosemite Hydroclimate Symposium, 2023. (Oral)

 Safeeq, M., Nanda, A., Hartsough, P. C., Conklin, M. H., & Bales, R. C. (2023, June), Investigating Tree, and Stand Level Transpiration in the Sierra Nevada Using Complex Network Theory, Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds (ICRW8), Corvallis, OR, USA. (Oral)

Nanda, A., & Sen, S. (2022, December). What are the Controlling Factors of the Hillslope-scale Soil Moisture and Runoff Dynamics? -A Study from Lesser Himalayan Watershed. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. H45N-1561). (Poster)

Nanda, A., Hartsough, P. C., Conklin, M. H., Bales, R. C., & Safeeq, M. (2022, December). Controls on plant available water and stand-scale transpiration in forested montane catchments. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. H55F-02). (Oral)

Nanda, A., Mohammad, S., Threshold Controlling Runoff Generation Mechanism of Mediterranean Headwater Catchments. AGU-FIHM, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2022. (Oral)

Sen, S., & Nanda, A. How Well Does TWI Explain Spatial Pattern of Soil Moisture in Infiltration-Excess Dominated Hillslopes? European Geosciences Union, Austria, 2019. (PICO)

 Nanda, A., & Sen, S. Understanding Hydrological Connectivity using Spatiotemporal Patterns of Soil Moisture in Lesser Himalayan Hillslopes. Japan Geophysical Union, Chiba, 2018. (Oral)

Nanda, A., & Sen, S. Identifying Runoff Generation Mechanisms and Its Controlling Parameters in the Lesser Himalayan Hillslopes. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2017. (Poster)

Nanda, A., Chandra, H. (2017). Development of a mathematical model for determination of border length and optimization of discharge and irrigation efficiency. 11th Uttarakhand State Science Congress (USSTC), 2016. (Oral)