Peer-Reviewed Journals 


After Joining IISER Bhopal

* mark represents the corresponding author papers

(25) Mukherjee, A., Poonia, V., & Swarnkar, S. (2025). Assessing Compound Flood Drivers in Peninsular India: Multivariate Copula-Based Approach. Journal of Environmental Management (Accepted).


(24) Poonia, V., Mukherjee, A., Singh, A. D., & Swarnkar, S.* (2025). Clustering-Based Assessment of Long-Term Surface Water Scarcity and Per Capita Vulnerability in Arid India. Earth Systems and Environment, 1-22. [Link]


(23) Kolekar, V. N., Swarnkar, S.*, and Joshi, S. K. (2025). Evolving monsoon rain spells and compound extremes across India: A Century-Long assessment. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 156(10), 529. [Link]


(22) Mogili, U. M., and Swarnkar, S.* (2025). Sedimentation-induced vulnerabilities of large reservoirs in India. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 1-22. [Link]


(21) Banerjee, B., Karmakar, P., Singh, S. K., Singh, D., Patra, B., Singh, T. P., & Swarnkar, S. (2025). Spatial Risk Assessment of Tropical Cyclone for Disaster Mitigation in a Coastal District of India Using Geospatial Technology. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 106602. [Link]


(20) Raj, C., Swarnkar, S.*, Poonia, V., & Sahu, V. (2025). Compound dry and hot events in Madhya Pradesh: temporal shifts, regional hotspots, and adaptation strategies. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 156(6), 333. [Link]


(19) Kundu, S., Swarnkar, S.*, and Agarwal, A. (2025). Bayesian-Optimized Recursive Machine Learning for Predicting Human-Induced Changes in Suspended Sediment Transport. In Environmental Monitoring and Assessment [Link]


(18) Singh, S., Swarnkar, S.*, Kundu, S., and Prakash, S. (2025). Investigating Human-Induced Hydrological Changes in the Largest Indian Peninsular Basin. In Hydrological Sciences Journal [Link]


(17) Singh, S., Swarnkar, S., and Sinha, R. (2025). Integrating sediment connectivity and stream power index with RUSLE for modelling soil erosion dynamics in a large Himalayan basin under modern and future climate scenarios. In Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (Wiley) [Link]


(16) Pandey, S., Swarnkar, S.*, Poonia, V., Kundu, S., & Ghosal, M. (2025). Human versus Climate Interactions on Riverine Flood Characteristics in the Largest Indian Peninsular Basin. In Anthropocene [Link]


(15) Prajapati, P., Meena, G. K., Swarnkar, S., and Jha, S. K. (2025). Impact of Indira Sagar Dam on water discharge and sediment flow regimes of the Narmada basin. In Journal of Hydrologic Engineering [Link]


(14) Ghosal, M., Swarnkar, S.*, Poonia, V., Kundu, S., & Pandey, S. (2024). Hydrological dichotomy: Streamflow drought in dammed vs. undammed regions of the largest Indian Peninsular basin. Journal of Arid Environments, 225, 105273. [Link]


(13) Sushma, A. S., Nath, R., Singh, S., Swarnkar, S.*, and Patra, B. (2024). Unravelling surface water dynamics in semi-arid central Indian region for sustainable agricultural practices. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(9), 1-22. [Link]  


(12) Maurya, A. K., Swarnkar, S.*, and Prakash, S. (2024). Hydrological impacts of altered monsoon rain spells in the Indian Ganga basin: a century-long perspective. Environmental Research: Climate [Link


(11) Dey, P., Swarnkar, S., and Mujumdar, P. (2024). Dam operation affects the evolution and propagation of hydrologic extremes, Hydrological Sciences Journal [Link]


(10) Joshi, S. K., Swarnkar, S., Shukla, S., Kumar, S., Jain, S. & Gautam, S. (2023). Snow/ice melt, precipitation, and groundwater contribute to the Sutlej River system, Water Air Soil Pollut 234, 719. [Link]


(9) Swarnkar, S., & Mujumdar, P. (2023). Increasing Flood Frequencies Under Warming in the West‐Central Himalayas. Water Resources Research, 59(2), e2022WR032772. [Link]


(8) Niranjannaik, M., Kumar, A., Beg, Z., Singh, A., Swarnkar, S., & Gaurav, K. (2022). Groundwater Variability in a Semi-Arid River Basin, Central India. Hydrology, 9(12), 222. [Link]


Before Joining IISER Bhopal

* mark represents corresponding author papers


(7)   Sinha, R., Singh, S., Mishra, K., Swarnkar, S. (2022). Channel morphodynamics and sediment budgeting of the Lower Ganga River using a hydro-geomorphological approach. Earth Surface Processes Landforms. (Published; Manuscript ID: ESP-21-0272).  [Link]


(6)   Swarnkar, S., Mujumdar, P., & Sinha, R. (2021). Modified hydrologic regime of upper Ganga basin induced by natural and anthropogenic stressors. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-11. [Link]


(5)   Swarnkar, S., Tripathi, S., & Sinha, R. (2021). Understanding hydrogeomorphic and climatic controls on soil erosion and sediment dynamics in large Himalayan basins. Science of The Total Environment, 795, 148972. [Link]


(4)   Swarnkar, S.*, Prakash, P., Joshi, S. K., & Sinha, R. (2021): Spatio-temporal rainfall trends in the Ganga River basin over the last century: understanding feedback and hydrological impacts, Hydrological Sciences Journal, DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2021.1976783 [Link]


(3)   Swarnkar, S., Sinha, R., & Tripathi, S. (2020). Morphometric diversity of supply-limited and transport-limited river systems in the Himalayan foreland. Geomorphology, 348, 106882. [Link]


(2)   Sinha, R., Gupta, A., Mishra, K., Tripathi, S., Nepal, S., Wahid, S. M., & Swarnkar, S. (2019). Basin-scale hydrology and sediment dynamics of the Kosi river in the Himalayan foreland. Journal of hydrology, 570, 156-166. [Link]

(1)   Swarnkar, S., Malini, A., Tripathi, S., & Sinha, R. (2018). Assessment of uncertainties in soil erosion and sediment yield estimates at ungauged basins: an application to the Garra River basin, India. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(4), 2471-2485. [Link]