Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources

Trend analyses of seasonal mean temperature Series pertaining to Tapi river basin, using monthly data.- .    Dry and wet spell characterization of Naini river basin, western Maharashtra, India.- Assessment of Climate Change on Crop Water Requirement in Tandula Command of Chhattisgarh (India).- Impact of climate change on hydrological regime of Narmada river basin.- Climate change impacts on water resource in Ethiopia.- Spatio-temporal trend analysis of long term IMD gridded precipitation in Godavari river basin, India.- Forecasting reference evapotranspiration using artificial neural network for Nagpur Region.- Assessment of extremes using time varying downscaling model.- Assessment of impact of land use land cover and climate change on quality of  river using water quality index.- Assessment of tail behavior of probability distributions of daily precipitation  data over India.- Probabilistic prediction of monthly streamflow using graphical modeling approach.

 






 

Ramakar Jha is a chair professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and has 30 years of experience in the field of hydrology and water resources engineering. Dr Jha is presently working as Chair Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna-INDIA, which is a Premier Institute in India under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Dr. Jha has served at various levels from Scientist-B to Scientist-E1 at National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee, India and as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Rourkela. He has worked and working as Country Co-ordinator of UNESCO- GWADI and Principal Investigator for many International (EU-FP7, DAAD, ADB, AUS-Aid) and National research and consultancy projects (ISRO, DST, MoWR, MHRD). Moreover, he served as Chair for many administrative positions and received a coupel of international and national awards for research papers. Presently, he is working as Dr Rajendra Prasad Chair for Water resources under the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India in the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Patna, Bihar.


V. P. Singh is a University Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in engineering. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional hydrologist, and an Honorary diplomate of ASCE-AAWRE. He is a Distinguished member of ASCE, a Distinguished Fellow of AGGS, and an Honorary Member of AWRA, and a fellow of EWRI-ASCE, IAH, ISAE, IWRS, and IASWC. He has published extensively in the areas of hydrology, irrigation engineering, hydraulics, groundwater, water quality, and water resources (more than 1320 journal articles; 31 textbooks; 75 edited reference books; 110 book chapters; and 315 conference papers). He has received more than