NIH Digital Repository: Recent submissions

  • III-2-Web GIS Application for Flood in Upper Assam 
    Rathore, D. S.; Chalisgaonkar, Deepa; Kumar, S. R.; Patwary, B. C. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Large tract of the Brahmaputra basin in Assam is prone to floods. The flooding is caused mainly due to breaches in the embankment of the Brahmaputra. In Upper Assam, Dhemaji district is one of the most frequently flooded ...
  • III-3-Development of a GIS Based River Basin Bodel. 
    Sadhukhan, Debasis (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    This study is focused on the development of a GIS based river basin model WSDCM (Water Demand and Supply Calculation Model). WDSCM analyzes water demand and supply at sub-basin level and then, by system water balance, ...
  • III-4-Integrated Water Resource Development Plan for Sustainable Management of Tigaleru Watershed , Dornala Mandal 
    Kumar, G. Arun; Raju, A. Mariya; Venkatesh, N.; Sandilya, C. V. S.; Reddy, K. Mruthyunjaya (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Integrated watershed management requires a host of inter-related information to be generated and studied in relation to each other. Remote sensing techniques provide valuable and up-to-date information on natural resources. ...
  • III-5-Artificial Ground Water Recharge Zones Mapping Using Remote Sensing and GIS - A Case Study. 
    Singh, Amanpreet; Panda, S. N.; Kumar, K. S. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Artificial recharge plays a vital role in the sustainable management of scarce groundwater resources. This study proposes a methodology to delineate artificial recharge zones using remote sensing (RS) and geographical ...
  • III-6-Hydrological Assessment for Renovation of tanks using Geo-informatics. 
    Rao, G. Prasad; Rao, V. V. R. M. Narayana; Reddy, K. Mruthyunjaya (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Runoff is one of the most important hydrologic variables used in most of the applications of water resources. Reliable prediction of quantity and rate of runoff from land surface into streams / rivers is difficult and time ...
  • III-7-Preliminary Investigations on Dhansiri (South) River Basin in NE India. 
    Kumar, S. R.; Rathore, D. S. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Water resources management practice deals with occurrences, distribution, movement and properties of water on the earth and their environmental relations. Hydrological processes are quite complex in nature and show wide ...
  • III-8-Runoff Estimation from a Small Watershed using GIUH Approach in a GIS Environment. 
    Nema, M. K.; Lohani, A. K. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    A geomorphological instantaneous unit hydrograph (GIUH) is derived from the geomorphological characteristics of Kothuwatari (29.67 km2) watershed, a sub-watershed of upper Damodar Valley, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India and ...
  • Session-IV-Key Note Paper-Role of Isotope Techniques in Water Resources. 
    Datta, P. S. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
  • IV-1-Optimal Reservoir Operation for Hydropower Generation. 
    Arunkumar, R.; Jothiprakash, V. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Hydropower is one of the vital components of reservoir operation, especially in large multi-purpose reservoirs. It is a renewable, economic, non-polluting and environmental friendly source of energy. India is endowed with ...
  • IV-2-A Chaotic Analysis of Koyna Reservoir Catchment Rainfall Data. 
    Fathima, T. A.; Jothiprakash, V. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    The significance of treating rainfall as a chaotic system instead of a stochastic system is gaining interest in recent past studies and helps to understand the dynamic behaviour of the processes in a better way. Out of ...
  • IV-3-Modeling Sediment Runoff - Case Studies from Indian Rivers using ANN Technique. 
    Sarkar, Archana; Kumar, Rakesh; Singh, R. D. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    The magnitude of sediments transported by rivers is a major concern for the water resources planning and management. The methods available for sediment estimation are largely empirical, with sediment rating curves being ...
  • IV-4-Estimation of Spatial Erosion using ANSWERS Model. 
    Tyagi, J. V.; Jain, Sanjay K.; Kumar, Rakesh (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Four major basic factors that influence runoff and soil erosion in a watershed are climate, soil properties, topography and land cover characteristics. These factors show large spatial variability across the watershed. The ...
  • IV-5-Computation of Transport Capacity of Wash Load in Alluvial Channels at Limiting Stage. 
    Khullar, N. K.; Kothyari, U. C.; Singh, Jaspal (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    For a given hydraulic condition, every channel has a capacity to carry given fine sediment in suspension without their deposition on the bed. This capacity of the channel is termed as limiting capacity of fine sediment ...
  • IV-6-Surface Water and Groundwater Interaction along the River Yamuna in NCT, Delhi. 
    Kumar, Sudhir; Mishra, Kumkum; Kumar, Bhishm (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Independently, the surface water and the groundwater systems have fairly been well understood but the interaction between surface water and groundwater is poorly understood. Improvements in understanding the interaction ...
  • IV-7-Downscaling of Climate Variables using Support Vector Machine. 
    Murtiningrum, Kuji; Jain, S. K.; Kansal, M. L. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    World's climate is showing the changes in a number of components of the hydrological cycle and hydrological systems. Thus it is very important that scientist try to predict the future climate so that we can prepare strategies ...
  • IV-8-Application of Soft Computing Techniques in Flood Forecasting. 
    Lohani, A. K. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Flood is one of the most common hydrologic experienced by our country. The flood problem faced by India is unique in several respects due to varied climate and rainfall patterns in different parts of the country. Generally ...
  • IV-9-Cloud Computing and Water Resources Planning and Management. 
    Srivastava, Alok (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    The development in Water Resources Planning and Management in terms of automation/software/ hardware has witnessed remarkable growth in the recent decades. The Industry has now several Commercially Off The Shelf software ...
  • IV-10-Soil Erosion based Prioritization and Development of CAT Plan for Catchment - A Case Study of Bundelkhand. 
    Jaiswal, R. K.; Dehariya, D. K.; Nema, A. K.; Thomas, T.; Galkate, R. V. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Comprehensive land development procedures attract special attention in many countries that enable soil and water conservation, better and productive land use and optimum and effective use of available natural resources. ...
  • V-1-Simulating the Impact of Forest Cover Change on Annual Stream Flow From a Forested Watershed. 
    Venkatesh, Basappa; Purandara, B. K.; Varadaraju, S. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    The present study aims at understanding the impact of changing land cover on the stream flow. In order to simulate the impact of land cover changes, a mathematical model has been used with the observed data such as rainfall, ...
  • V-2-Water Availability Assessment in Kharun River under Regulated and Virgin Flow Conditions using Mike Basin 
    Galkate, R. V.; Mehta, Palak; Jaiswal, R. K.; Thomas, T. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    The water availability study of Kharun river in Chhattisgarh state has been carried out to estimate dependable flow in the river basin at various probability levels at different time periods and to analyze the flow regime ...