NIH Digital Repository: Recent submissions

  • 194-Water Monitoring Challenges and Strategies for Better Quality of Life. 
    Srivastava, Abhinav; Sharma, V. P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water is a prime natural resource, a basic human need and a precious national asset. Safe potable water, improved housing and clean environment are vital elements in transformation of life. It has been estimated that the ...
  • 195-Conflict and Co-operation in the Sharing of Waters of Interstate Rivers - Remodeling the Indian Experience Based on International Law. 
    Jain, Aanchal; Parmar, Aprajita (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    A majority of rivers in India, coursing across its geographical contours, are interstate rivers. The sharing of water amongst riparian states has grown to become a major source of conflict within the hydro-regime in India. ...
  • 196-Water, Environment, Energy and Society—Interaction and Interdependence. 
    Jain, Sharad K.; Singh, V. P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Management of natural resources is inherently complex. People in developing countries live in close proximity to nature and hence changes in environment and climate have a significant influence on their lives. Society is ...
  • 197-Quality Analysis of Landfill Leachate and its Impact on Ground Water. 
    Khitoliya, R. K.; Kalra, A. M.; Kumar, Shakti; Joshi, Devinder (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Population of the cities around the world, is increasing day by day. A huge amount of solid waste is generated by the daily activities of people. Disposal of solid wastes is one of the major problems of present times. Land ...
  • 198-Economising Riverine Ecology. 
    Dalal, Charu (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water resources of a country constitute its vital assets. India is richly endowed with a network of great rivers. But pressures of rapid population growth cause rapid depletion of water resources. Economy and ecology can ...
  • 199-Effects of Urbanization on Water Table Increase in Wadi Aday—Muscat Water Assessment Area - Oman. 
    Helmi, Tariq; Khatry, Aysha Mohammed Al (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Oman is located in the south-eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula with a total land area of 309.832 km2, 75% of it occupied by desert. Muscat, the capital is the largest city. It has undergone a rapid economic, population ...
  • 200-Water Issues Facing a Remote Indigenous Community in Australia. 
    Herben, Naomi; Shrestha, Surendra P.; Riley, Steven J. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    With an area of 7.7 million square kilometers, Australia is the sixth largest nation in the world. On the other side of the spectrum, it is the country with few people, the population totalling just over 21 million (ABS, ...
  • Author Index 
    National Institute of Hydrology (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • Contents 
    National Institute of Hydrology (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • Acknowledgements 
    National Institute of Hydrology (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • Sponsors 
    National Institute of Hydrology (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • Preface 
    Jain, Sharad K.; Singh, Vijay P.; Kumar, Vijay; Kumar, Rakesh; Singh, R. D.; Sharma, K. D. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • 64-Mutual Control between Nodes and Edges of a Complex Network. 
    Fiorentino, Mauro; Sanchirico, Antonio (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    One of the most fascinating discoveries of the last years is that numerous complex systems, although very different among them, as belonging to physical, biological, chemical, informational, social or other environments, ...
  • 65-Scale-Invariant Analysis of Hydrological Processes -A Case Study from Portugal 
    Lima, M. Isabel P. de (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • 66-Estimation of Hydraulic Conductivity by Neural Network-Ridge Function. 
    Mathur, S.; Nia, M. R. Mollaei (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Aquifer properties exhibit significant spatial variation and assigning hydraulic conductivity values to a distributed parameter model based on the available scanty field data is an important problem in modeling of groundwater ...
  • 67-The Methodology of Long Range Forecasting of Levels of Large Lakes. 
    Babkin, Alexey V. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The methodology of revealing of periodicities in time series of the lake level and water balance components is elaborated. It combines the development of the original physically based model of oscillations of mutually ...
  • 68-Copulas for Multivariate Flood Frequency Analysis. 
    Chowdhary, Hemant; Escobar, Luis A.; Singh, Vijay P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Flood frequency analysis is commonly accomplished by fitting univariate distributions to annual peak flows. Lognormal, gamma, log-Pearson, extreme value, logistic and Wakeby are the commonly employed flood frequency ...
  • 69-Testing Weibull Distribution for Deriving Synthetic Unit Hydrograph Shapes with New Regionalization Techniques. 
    Bhunya, P. K.; Jain, S. K.; Agarwal, P. K.; Rathore, D. S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The two-parameter weibull distribution is presented as an alternate for developing synthetic hydrographs after a review of the existing applications like the popular gamma distribution method. The suitability of weibull ...
  • 70-Bivariate Flood Frequency Analysis for the Hydrological Safety of Dams. 
    Giustarini, L.; Melone, F.; Moramarco, T.; Flammini, Alessia (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    A large number of dams, built in Italy in the last century, have been dimensioned using hydrological data sample limited in length of time series. Therefore, the design flood was affected from the scarcity of data and a ...
  • 71-A Comparative Study of Different Estimation Procedures. 
    Manik, De (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    In flood frequency analysis, estimation of return periods of extreme values of discharge, water levels etc., are computed using different distribution functions. Gumbel distribution is one of such widely used distribution ...