NIH Digital Repository: Recent submissions

  • 27-Modeling Urban Flooding from Storm Sewers Using Dynamic Wave Theory. 
    Mukhopadhyay, Biswajit; Dutta, Aniruddha; Nouri, Fariborz; Kaushik, Chitranjan (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Traditionally, urban storm sewers, meant to convey excess runoff from impervious covers efficiently, are designed with the applications of rational formula of hydrology with all of the conceptual limitations of the method. ...
  • 28-Numerical Modeling for Floodway Assessment—A Case Study. 
    Panu, U. S.; McKenna, Dominic; Tomlinson, Daniel (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Vitality of the Neebing-Mclntyre Floodway based on a variety of climatic and geometrical boundary conditions has been evaluated. A numerical hydraulic model of the floodway was developed. Sensitivity analysis of the floodway ...
  • 29-Development of Interface for Daily Runoff Assessment from a Watershed. 
    Dhore, K. A.; Khare, Deepak; Chaube, U. C.; Garg, P. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Surface runoff is one of the major components in watershed hydrology. The amount of runoff generated from any watershed depends on the many watershed characteristics such as land use, soil type and its physical properties, ...
  • 30-Quantification of Urban Runoff Reaching to the Upper Bhopal Lake, M.P., India . 
    Dwivedi, Vijay K.; Ojha, C. S. P.; Choubey, V. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    The Upper Bhopal Lake in the city of Bhopal in the State of Madhya Pradesh of India is the only source of water for the city of Bhopal. Economic as well as recreational activities of the city of Bhopal is dependent on the ...
  • 31-Modeling Rainfall-Runoff Process Using Grey System Theory with Two Solution Procedures. 
    Trivedi, Harsh V.; Singh, J. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Rainfall-runoff is a nonlinear process and can be modeled with a nonlinear modeling framework. The process of rainfall to runoff transformation involves a complex mechanism and it is quite difficult to understand too. To ...
  • 32-Genetic Algorithm Based Unit Hydrograph. 
    Rai, R. K.; Gundekar, H. G.; Sarkar, S.; Mathur, B. S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Unit hydrograph approach is one of the commonly used techniques employed for the determination of flood hydrographs. For this purpose various distribution functions have been utilized in the past. The suitability of the ...
  • 33-Impacts of Urbanization on Streamflow. 
    Rudra, Ramesh P.; Dickinson, Trevor; Ahmed, Syed I. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    This study has concentrated on the temporal and spatial changes in streamflow patterns due to urbanization and/or rainfall trends within the watershed. The analyses were conducted by using the rainfall data from two stations, ...
  • 34-The Development of a Flood Risk Model for Romania. 
    Bachu, Murthy; Jadhav, Kunal; Chendes, Viorel (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Spatially explicit hydrodynamic flood models can play an important role in natural hazard risk reduction. A key element of these models that make them suitable for risk reduction is the ability to provide inundation ...
  • 35-Mathematical Model of River Mandarmani, Purba Midnapore—A Case Study. 
    Dolai, D. P.; Roy, Shyamal Kumar (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Jalda Kuthi is a traditional fish landing centre situated on the bank of Mandarmani River at the confluence of Bay of Bengal in Purba Midnapur District of West Bengal. Due to siltation at the confluence of the river, the ...
  • 36-Experimental Evidences on the Run-on Process. 
    Corradini, Corrado; Morbidelli, Renato; Saltalippi, Carla; Flammini, Alessia; Govindaraju, Rao S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Experimental evidence of infiltration of excess water that moves downslope over unsaturated areas, usually called run-on process, is provided in laboratory. The experiments were carried out using a laboratory slope ...
  • 37-Melt-Runoff Delaying Characteristics of Gangotri Glacier. 
    Arora, Manohar; Singh, R. D.; Kumar, Amit; Singh, Pratap (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Most of the Himalayan basins have considerable snow and glacier covered areas. The melt contribution in such rivers augments their flows in the lean season, thereby reducing the variation in water availability. Depending ...
  • 38-Role of Snow and Glacier Melt Runoff Modelling in Hydropower Projects in the Himalayan Region. 
    Singh, Pratap; Polglase, Larry; Wilson, David (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    At present the installed capacity of Indian hydropower projects is about 35900 MW, which represents 25% of the total installed capacity of India (1,43,000 MW). The share of hydropower generated in the Himalayan region is ...
  • 39-Estimation of SWE and Surface Energy Balance for a Snow Cover in Pir-Panjal Range of N-W Himalaya. 
    Datt, Prem; Pooja; Srivastava, P. K.; Negi, P. S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Melting of seasonal snowpack in mountainous ranges of Indian Himalaya contributes significantly to the rivers flowing in the mountain valley. The melting of snow starts in late winter, i.e., from April onwards and produces ...
  • 40-Snow Harvesting for Drinking and Irrigation Water - A Case Study. 
    Negi, P. S.; Sethi, D. N.; Mathur, P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    In the recent past due to global warming and change in climate, the snow fall pattern has changed considerably. The late snow fall, frequent avalanche activity and fast snow melting reduces the frequency of contact time ...
  • हिंडन नदी जल ग्रहण क्षेत्र के ऊपरी भाग की मृदा जलांश विशिष्टताएँ 
    मित्तल, संजय; कुमार, चन्द्र प्रकाश (2003G, 2003)
    जलविज्ञानीय और कृषि प्रणालियों के गणितीय प्रतिरूपों के अध्ययन हेतु मृदा जलांश, मृदा जल दवाब और असंतृप्त द्रवीय चालकता के पारस्परिक सम्बन्धों का ज्ञान अति आवश्यक है।
  • A rule-based spectral unmixing algorithm for extracting annual time series of sub-pixel impervious surface fraction 
    Patidar, Nitesh; Keshari, A. K. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
    The spatial distribution and the temporal dynamics of impervious surface (IS) are important for understanding urbanization and its impact on surface energy balance, ecohydrological processes, and urban heat island. ...
  • Ensemble modelling framework for groundwater level prediction in urban areas of India 
    Yadav, Basant; Gupta, Pankaj Kumar; Patidar, Nitesh; Himanshu, Sushil Kumar (Elsevier, 2020)
    India is facing the worst water crisis in its history and major Indian cities which accommodate about 50% of its populationwill be among highly groundwater stressed cities by 2020. In past fewdecades, the urban ...
  • Groundwater recharge sources in the Gandak alluvial aquifer, NE India : how important is leakage from irrigation canals? 
    Dochartaigh, B. Ó.; MacDonald, Alan; Jackson, Christoper; Krishnaswamy, Jagdish; Chaudhary, Sunil; Nair, Tarun; Keeffe, Jimmy O’; Varma, Girish; Khan, Mohsneen; Krishan, Gopal (British Geological Survey, 2019)
    Alluvial sediments in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (IGB) form one of the world’s largest and most heavily used aquifer systems. There is clear evidence for overabstraction and/or groundwater contamination in some parts of the ...
  • Study of climatological condiions using isotopic signature of air moisture at roorkee, Uttarakhand, India 
    Krishan, Gopal; Rao, M. S.; Kumar, Bhishm (National Water Development Agency, 2012)
    In the present study, an attempt has been made to correlate the isotopic composition of the air moisture samples collected on daily basis by condensation method over a period of five years (2007-11) with the meteorological ...
  • Identification of Sources of Atmospheric Vapour using Isotopic Signature of Air Moisture at Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India 
    Krishan, Gopal; Rao, M. S.; Kumar, Bhishm (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, 2012)
    As a result of research and applications of isotope hydrology in the country during the last few decades, it has become possible to study continental scale hydrological cycle and trace the movement of water molecules from ...