Research Reports: Recent submissions

  • SR-5/98-99 : Hydrological problems of hard rock region (A State - of - Art Report) 
    Durbude, Dilip G. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1998)
    During last three to four decades, there have been considerable developments in different fields of the hydrological sciences. Physiographically, India as a whole can be divided into three distinct features; (i) The ...
  • SR-4/98-99 : Present status of urban hydrology 
    Mehta, Rama D. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1998)
    In the wake of growth and development of towns at a fast speed, the urbanisation is taking place at a very rapid rate. The constant increase in impervious area is causing high amounts of runoff in less time with the ...
  • SR-3/98-99 : Review of hydrological studies in north eastern region 
    Mani, Pankaj; Patwary, B. C. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1998)
    In this review report, it has been tried to review all the hydrological studies done in the northeastern region of India by any agencies Governmental or non-Governmental. Sufficient care has been taken to include ...
  • SR-2/98-99 : Hydrological inventory of south Bihar river basins 
    Chatterjee, C.; Ghosh, N. C. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1998)
    Hydrological information of a region provide the basic database for water resources planning and management. Without the knowledge of hydrological properties, neither a management approach nor a planning can achieve its ...
  • SR-1/98-99 : Hydrological inventory of river basins in eastern Uttar Pradesh 
    Lohani, A. K.; Pandey, N. G. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1998)
    The state of Uttar Pradesh is drained by the rivers Ganga and Yamuna and their tributaries. Yamuna itself is one of the tributaries of Ganga. The northern and eastern parts are drained by the main rivers and their tributaries ...
  • SR-6/97-98 : Status report on Sagar Lake 
    Sinha, Jiweshwar; Thakural, L. N. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1997)
    There are a number of major problems that the lakes, all over the world are facing. The Sagar lake is also, not an exception. Though, geographically the lake is small and situated in the region where normal annual rainfall ...
  • SR-5/97-98 : Review of artificial recharge practices 
    Ram, Shobha (National Institute of Hydrology, 1997)
    Development of the groundwater resources in various parts of the world has been increasing in recent years as development of surface water resources approaches its extreme point., The increasing use ...
  • SR-4/97-98 : Recent technical literature relevant for the hydrologists of the country 
    Mehta, Rama D.; Bhar, A. K. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1997)
    A sizable number of Journals in the field of hydrology and water resources are published. It is not a easy task to go through all of them by the scientists involved in different studies ...
  • SR-3/97-98 : Some news regarding hydrological problems of the country 
    Mehta, Rama D.; Bhar, A. K. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1997)
    Dissemination of any news concerning all of us, particularly, the news about water resources is of utmost importance due to the fact that availability of good water has become the most critical factor for any development ...
  • SR-2/97-98 : Software for hydrological applications 
    Chalisgaonkar, Deepa (National Institute of Hydrology, 1997)
    Because of growing demand of computers in the field of Hydrology, large number of softwares for hydrological as well as general pourpose applications are available. These softwares are required to be used for different ...
  • SR-1/97-98 : Hydrological aspects of flood disaster management 
    Palaniappan, A. B.; Mahapatra, P. K. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1997)
    Flooding is the major disaster bringing greater damage than any other disaster. Flooding remains a major unresolved problem and is a global phenomenon. There are climatological and part-climatological ...
  • SR-4/96-97 : Some news regarding hydrological problems of the country 
    Mehta, Rama D.; Bhar, A. K. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1996)
    Dissemination of any news concerning all of us, particularly, the news about water resources is of utmost importance due to the fact that availability of good water has become the most critical factor for any development ...
  • SR-3/96-97 : Hydrology aspects of watershed development 
    Soni, B.; Singh, Hemant; Dwivedi, A. K. (1996)
    A Watershed is the natural base for studying and modelling the terrestrial system, because the inputs and outputs are defined and quantified, and second the integrated system responses are ...
  • SR-2/96-97 : Recent technical literature relevant for the hydrologists of the country 
    Mehta, Rama D.; Bhar, A. K. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1996)
    A sizable number of Journals in the field of hydrology and water resources are published. It is not a easy task to go through all of them by the scientists involved in different studies and projects. Also some hydrological ...
  • SR-1/96-97 : Procedure for risk based hydrological design 
    Kumar, Rakesh; Singh, R. D. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1996)
    Risk is inherent in nature and society, while uncertainty depends on investigations. Decision making in water resources is most often a deterministic selection of dimensions which divide the probability distribution ...
  • SR-47 : Soil and water conservation with special reference to NE region 
    Patwary, B. C.; Dwivedi, V. K.; Bhunya, P. K. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1995)
    North Eastern Region is one of the richest areas in the world in soil & water resources. Its water resource is undoubtedly sufficient enough to satisfy its ever increasing demands of its own ...
  • SR-46 : Hydrological data book for Indira Gandhi Nahar Project Stage-I 
    Kumar, Vijay (National Institute of Hydrology, 1995)
    Successful planning and management of irrigation projects requires vast amount of data related to command area. Reliable mapping of the areas affected by different problems in the command area ...
  • SR-45 : Major and important lakes of Rajasthan: status of hydrological research 
    Khobragade, S. D. (National Institute of Hydrology, 1995)
    Notwithstanding its climatic regime, the State of Rajasthan has many minor and major water bodies especially in the eastern and southern part. However, most of these are manmade and there ...
  • SR-44 : Rainfall measuring equipment 
    Kumar, Bhishm (National Institute of Hydrology, 1993)
    There are different kinds of raingauges starting from the Symon's type raingauge to highly advanced automatic recording and telemetric type raingauges which are used with microprocessor controlled devices(data ...
  • SR-43 : Spillway gate regulation 
    Kumar, A. R. Senthil (National Institute of Hydrology, 1993)
    Storage structures are constructed to equalize the natural streamflow. Spillway is pro- vided at the dam site to dispose off the surplus water from the upstream of the reservoir to the downstream without causing any harm ...