• On the occurrence of the worst drought in South Asia in the observed and future climate 

  Aadhar, Saran; Mishra, Vimal (IOP Publishing, 2020-12)

  Droughts in South Asia pose substantial challenges to water resources, agricultural, and socio-economic growth of more than two billon people. However, the most detrimental soil moisture droughts, their impacts, and ...
• A computationally efficient framework for rotation dependent and rotation independent intensity measures 

  Vats, Falak; Basu, Dhiman (Wiley, 2020-12)

  Orientation of a structure in a site is generally known but not the direction of maximum shaking during a future seismic event. Two different types of intensity measures (IMs) are usually used to approximately account for ...
• The combined exposure of microplastics and toxic contaminants in the floodplains of north India: a review 

  Pandey, Deeptija; Singh, Ashwin; Ramanathan, Alagappan; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2020-11)

  Microplastics in aquatic ecosystem are an emerging environmental threat, primarily aggregating into sediments and living biota besides providing active transportation to toxic pollutants. Recent studies have revealed that ...
• Strong influence of changes in terrestrial water storage on flood potential in India 

  Shah, Deep; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley, 2020-12)

  Rapid groundwater depletion due to anthropogenic pumping for irrigation poses enormous challenges on socio?economic, agricultural, and financial spheres of India. However, the role of groundwater depletion on flood potential ...
• Discussion of “Multivariate modeling of projected drought frequency and hazard over India" 

  Mishra, Vimal; Aadhar, Saran (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2021-02)
• Small strain shear modulus and yielding characteristics of compacted high plasticity clay 

  Kantesaria, Naman; Sachan, Ajanta (ICE Publishing, 2020-11)

  This experimental study describes the elastic and yielding response of compacted high plasticity clay in conjunction with deformation characteristics at relatively larger strains for different stress paths and stress states. ...
• A study on buckling of simply supported plates with edges partially restrained for in-plane movement 

  Prajapat, Kanta; Ray-Chaudhuri, Samit; Kumar, Ashwini (Springer, 2020-12)

  This paper investigated experimentally the influence of size and location of a circular cut-out on the buckling load of simply supported plates with in-plane boundary conditions (and thus, induced stress pattern in the ...
• Increase in population exposure due to dry and wet extremes in India under a warming climate 

  Kumar, Rohini; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley Open Access, 2020-12)

  Dry and wet extremes affect agricultural production, infrastructure, and socioeconomic well?being of about 1.4 billion people in India. Despite the profound implications of dry and wet extremes, their changes in the observed ...
• Substantial decline in atmospheric aridity due to irrigation in India 

  Ambika, Anukesh Krishnankutty; Mishra, Vimal (IOP Publishing, 2020-12)

  Compound extremes of soil moisture drought and high vapour pressure deficit (atmospheric aridity) are disastrous for natural and social systems. Despite a significant expansion in irrigated area in India, the role of ...
• Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation 

  Mishra, Vimal; Ambika, Anukesh Krishnankutty; Asoka, Akarsh; Aadhar, Saran; Buzan, Jonathan; Kumar, Rohini; Huber, Matthew (Nature Research, 2020-10)

  Intensive irrigation in India has been demonstrated to decrease surface temperature, but the influence of irrigation on humidity and extreme moist heat stress is not well understood. Here we analysed a combination of in ...
• Effect of bed roughness on flow field around spur dyke in a rigid bed meandering channel 

  Sharma, Kedar; Mohapatra, Pranab K. (Taylor and Francis, 2020-10)

  Effect of bed roughness on flow field and turbulence characteristics due to spur dyke in rigid bed meandering channel is presented in this study. This is an extension of authors earlier work. In the experiments, cement ...
• Propagation of meteorological to hydrological droughts in India 

  Bhardwaj, Kunal; Shah, Deep; Aadhar, Saran; Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2020-10)

  Drought is among the costliest natural disasters that affect the economy, food, and water security, and socio?economic well?being of about 1.4 billion people in India. Despite the profound implications of droughts, the ...
• Proclivities for prevalence and treatment of antibiotics in the ambient water: a review 

  Bhagat, Chandrashekhar; Kumar, Manish; Tyagi, Vinay Kumar; Mohapatra, Pranab K. (Nature Research, 2020-12)

  In the intial two decades of the twenty-first century, antibiotic (AB) resistance in human pathogens has emerged as a major challenge for water, sanitation, and public health. Considering these challenges, we critically ...
• Runoff sensitivity of Indian sub-continental river basins 

  Bharat, Shalinee; Mishra, Vimal (Elsevier, 2020-10)

  Understanding the sensitivity of water availability in the current and future climate in the Indian sub-continent is vital for food and water security. Using the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model and Budykos ...
• Bias-corrected climate projections for South Asia from coupled model intercomparison project-6 

  Mishra, Vimal; Bhatia, Udit; Tiwari, Amar Deep (Nature Research, 2020-12)

  Climate change is likely to pose enormous challenges for agriculture, water resources, infrastructure, and livelihood of millions of people living in South Asia. Here, we develop daily bias-corrected data of precipitation, ...
• On the projected decline in droughts over South Asia in CMIP6 multimodel ensemble 

  Aadhar, Saran; Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2020-10)

  Recent studies based on the ensemble mean of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) General Circulation Models (GCMs, CMIP6?GCMs hereafter) reported a decline in drought frequency over South Asia in the projected ...
• Utilization of fly ash amended sewage sludge as brick for sustainable building material with special emphasis on dimensional effect 

  Taki, Kaling; Gahlot, Rohit; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2020-12)

  Sewage sludge (SS) management has been regarded as a serious environmental and health issue around the globe, especially in developing countries like India, mainly due to the lack of proper regulatory criteria, and appropriate ...
• Probabilistic seismic risk assessment of India 

  Rao, Anirudh; Dutta, Debashish; Kalita, Pratim; Ackerley, Nick; Silva, Vitor; Raghunandan, Meera; Ghosh, Jayadipta; Ghosh, Siddhartha; Brzev, Svetlana; Dasgupta, Kaustubh (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2020-09)

  This study presents a comprehensive open probabilistic seismic risk model for India. The proposed model comprises a nationwide residential and non-residential building exposure model, a selection of analytical seismic ...
• A strong linkage between seasonal crop growth and groundwater storage variability in India 

  Asoka, Akarsh; Mishra, Vimal (American Meteorological Society, 2020-09)

  Groundwater is rapidly depleting in India primarily because of pumping for irrigation. However, the crucial role of crop growth at annual and seasonal timescales in groundwater storage variability remains mostly unexplored. ...
• Impacts of hydrological model calibration on projected hydrological changes under climate change�a multi-model assessment in three large river basins 

  Huang, Shaochun; Shah, Harsh; Naz, Bibi S.; Shrestha, Narayan; Mishra, Vimal; Daggupati, Prasad; Ghimire, Uttam; Vetter, Tobias (Springer, 2020-09)

  This study aimed to investigate the influence of hydrological model calibration/validation on discharge projections for three large river basins (the Rhine, Upper Mississippi and Upper Yellow). Three hydrological models ...

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