NIH Digital Repository: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • V-3-Regional Flood Frequency Analysis using L-moments for Mahi and Sabarmati Subzone 3(a). 
    Kumar, Rakesh; Mani, P.; Arora, Manohar; Patra, J. P.; Sarkar, Archana (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Estimation of flood frequencies and their magnitudes is needed for taking up various structural and non-structural measures of water resources planning, development and management. Regional flood frequency relationships ...
  • V-4-Evaluation of Drought Scenario in Sagar and Chhatarpur Districts in Bundelkhand Region of Madhya Pradesh. 
    Thomas, T.; Galkate, R. V.; Jaiswal, R. K.; Ghosh, N. C. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    The Bundelkhand region reeling under the severe recurrent droughts and famine conditions for the last few years, resulting in loss of agricultural livelihood, decreased grain production, depletion of surface and groundwater ...
  • V-5-Effect of Two Hydroelectric Projects in Series on the Low Flow Characteristics of Satluj River. 
    Kumar, Pradeep; Choube, U. C.; Mishra, S. K. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    A large number of hydropower schemes on the Satluj River are in different stages of development. These river valley schemes will cause flow related impacts due to storage, flow diversion, tunnelling, muck disposal etc. ...
  • V-6-Estimation of Potential Evapotranspiration under Changing Environment- A Case Study. 
    Mehta, Rama D.; Kumar, Garvit; Om, Hari; Dwivedi, V. K.; Kumar, Vipin (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Evapotranspiration constitutes one of the major components of the hydrological cycle and hence its accurate estimation is of vital importance to assess water availability and requirements. This study explores the utility ...
  • V-7-Urban Flooding in Changing Environment. 
    Sharma, Sanjay K.; Jain, C. K.; Singh, R. D. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Urban flooding is currently one of the major and costly environmental hazards. The main causes of urban flooding include uneven distribution of rainfall along with rapid urbanization, encroachment and filling of natural ...
  • V-8-Possible impact of Deficit Rainfall on Water Availability in Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh during summer of 2012. 
    Khobragade, S. D.; Semwal, Prabhat; Singh, R. D.; Kumar, A. R. Senthil (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Sukhna Lake located at Chandigarh is a valuable manmade lake. It is very popular destination in the region for tourism and recreation. It also has high ecological value due to its biodiversity. However, in recent years the ...
  • Session-VI-Key Note Paper-Water Quality Management in Changing Environment 
    Trivedi, R. C. (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    As we know water is the most essential natural resource for our life, economic growth and agriculture. In the recent past, it is becoming a critical scarce resource in many parts of the country. Fortunately, India is wettest ...
  • VI-1-Groundwater Quality Evaluation in Relation to Health Hazards - A Case Study. 
    Kumar, Arun; Kochhar, Naresh; Dadwal, Veena (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    It is well known that Mansa and Bathinda districts of Punjab, shows very high incidence of cancer. In order to evaluate the quality of groundwater in relation to health hazards, the eighty representative groundwater samples ...
  • VI-2-Utilization of Sludge for Sustainable Development of Society. 
    Sahu, Vaishali (Indian Association of Hydrologists, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 2012)
    Unsustainable trend in waste generation is a cause for concern because the generation of waste can be a symptom of environmentally inefficient use of resources. Therefore, development of new technologies to recycle and ...