• Novel deep learning transformer model for short to sub-seasonal streamflow forecast 

  Ambika, Anukesh Krishnankutty; Tayal, Kshitij; Mishra, Vimal; Lu, Dan (Wiley, 2025-07)

  Accurate short-to-subseasonal streamflow forecasts are becoming crucial for effective water management in an increasingly variable climate. However, streamflow forecast remains challenging over extended lead times, uncertainty ...
• Capturing the peak response over all possible orientations for direction of arrival of multicomponent seismic excitation 

  Vats, Falak; Basu, Dhiman (Wiley, 2025-07)

  Ground motion is often recommended to be applied with all possible orientations relative to the plan layout of a structure, and the resulting maximum response for an engineering demand parameter (EDP) over all possible ...
• Drivers of flash floods in the Indian sub-continental river basins 

  Dilip K., Nandana; Vegad, Urmin; Mishra, Vimal (Nature Research, 2025-07)

  Flash floods occur every year during the summer monsoon season in India, causing substantial damage to agriculture, infrastructure, and human life. Despite their profound implications, flash flood hotspots remain unknown, ...
• A district-level flood severity index for flood management in India 

  Saharia, Manabendra; Jain, Sharad K.; Prakash, Ved; Malik, Harshul; Sreejith, O. P.; Joshi, Dheeraj (Springer, 2025-07)

  India is one of the worst affected countries in the world in terms of fatalities and economic damage due to natural disasters, particularly floods. For planning flood mitigating and relief measures, granular historical ...
• Alternate intensity measure for maximum direction shaking and construction of the associated ground motion models 

  Vats, Falak; Basu, Dhiman (Elsevier, 2025-11)

  Seismic standards recommend RotD100 as the intensity measure to define the maximum direction shaking while accounting for directionality. Nevertheless, the inherent overestimation with this choice is well known. Alternatively, ...
• An alternate double-bounded distribution for environmental variables and its possible application to wind speed modeling 

  Panchal, Aniket; Basu, Dhiman (Springer, 2025-07)

  Natural phenomena such as wind speed, flood levels, precipitation, and many others exhibit bounded behavior on both ends due to physical constraints. This paper introduces an alternative Generalized Double Bounded Distribution ...
• Designing resilient multipurpose reservoir operation policies in presence of internal climate variability 

  Upadhyay, Divya; Bhatia, Udit (Wiley, 2025-07)

  Adaptation planning for water resource systems is fraught with significant challenges, arising from uncertainties associated with diverse climate change scenarios, varying model structures, and Internal Climate Variability ...
• Three-dimensional numerical study of flood-building interactions to assess the efficiency of flood adaptation strategies 

  Kumar, Ashish; Pandey, Abhishek K.; Mohapatra, Pranab K.; Bhatia, Udit (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025-09)

  The conventional assessment of flood adaptation strategies often emphasizes the depth–damage relationship, overlooking the complex interactions between floods and buildings in damage modeling. This study uses a three-dimensional ...
• Cyclic and post-cyclic response of compacted coal ash 

  Shrivastava, Aparna; Sachan, Ajanta (Springer, 2025-08)

  In the present study, effect of shear strain amplitude and frequency on cyclic and post-cyclic response of coal ash was investigated under simple shear conditions. A series of multistage tests on coal ash specimens including ...
• X-ray CT-based 3D characterization of desiccation cracking in compacted expansive soil under varying vertical stress states 

  Agarwal, Brijesh Kumar; Sachan, Ajanta (Springer, 2025-06)

  Compacted expansive soils are used as hydraulic barriers in landfill liners, deep nuclear waste disposal facilities, the core of earthen dams, seal layers of CO2 storage, etc. In the absence of high-quality fill material, ...
• Experimental analysis on the effect of overburden stress on the smear zone characteristics of clayey soil 

  Aparna, Radhakrishna P.; Robinson, Retnamony G.; Gandhi, Shailesh R. (Brazilian Association of Soils Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2025-06)

  Preloading with vertical drains is a well-proven ground improvement technique suitable for soft clay deposits. This technique involves installing vertical drains that cause soil remolding in the immediate vicinity of its ...
• Hydrologic-hydraulic response of swales to stormwater runoff 

  Bhat, Aamer Majid; Mohapatra, Pranab Kumar; Tripathi, Indra Mani (Elsevier, 2024-12)

  Urban areas face high pluvial flood risks due to intense storms from climate change, more impervious surfaces from urbanization, and inefficient drainage systems. The consequences include damage to infrastructure, public ...
• Soil moisture rapid transitions between dry and wet extremes in India, 1951-2024 

  Sharma, Paras; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley, 2025-06)

  Soil moisture (SM) rapid transition categorized by the rapid swings between drought and wet phase has profound implications for agriculture and water resources. However, the drivers, impacts, and characteristics of the ...
• Developing ground motion prediction equations: an alternate methodology and its implementation with a subset of NGA-West2 database 

  Vats, Falak; Basu, Dhiman (Springer, 2025-05)

  Ground-motion-prediction-equations (GMPEs) play a critical role in seismic hazard analysis. However, the conventional methods for developing GMPEs, which rely on functional forms and assumptions like homoscedasticity, can ...
• Buried object detection using cross-correlation and wavelet coherence analysis of MASW datasets 

  Vishwakarma, Prabhakar; Prashant, Amit (Springer, 2025-05)

  This study focuses on buried object detection using the cross-correlation and wavelet coherence of multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) datasets. Underground objects (pipes, building foundations, and rocks) create ...
• Multi-day extreme precipitation caused major floods in India during summer monsoon of 2024 

  Chuphal, Dipesh Singh; Malik, Iqura; Singh, Rajesh; Vangala, Gayathri; M. Niranjannaik; Vegad, Urmin; Dilip K., Nandana; Mukhopadhyay, Parthsarathi; Selvan, J. Parvathy; Kapadia, Vivek; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley, 2025-05)

  The risk of extreme precipitation and flooding has increased in India due to climate change. During the 2024 summer monsoon season, three major extreme precipitation events occurred across the western, southern, and northern ...
• An alternate perspective on the critical orientation of horizontal pair of seismic excitations: theory and illustrations 

  Vats, Falak; Basu, Dhiman (Elsevier, 2025-09)

  This paper enhances the understanding of critical orientation (that maximizes the response of an EDP over all possible orientations) for horizontal ground motion pairs when applied to the base of a structure. Given that ...
• An application of multicomponent directional-cum-modal combination rule: routine seismic design and performance assessment 

  Basu, Dhiman; Vats, Falak (Springer, 2025-06)

  A framework is proposed for incorporating the multi-component directional-cum-modal combination rule within the practice of seismic design/performance assessment. Target spectrum is assumed to be available in the seismic ...
• How far have roadside curb inlets evolved towards sustainable urban drainage? 

  Bhat, Aamer Majid; Tripathi, Indra Mani; Mohapatra, Pranab Kumar (Elsevier, 2025)

  Stormwater management has become a critical issue, particularly with the ongoing urbanization and the impacts of climate change. Roadside curb inlets are key components of grey infrastructure that convey stormwater to ...
• Improved estimates of temperature distributions for design of jointed plain concrete pavements in India and Nepal 

  Jha, Avinash; Sen, Sushobhan (Taylor and Francis, 2025)

  Local weather conditions give rise to temperature distributions within Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements (JPCPs). Previous research has demonstrated that these temperature distributions are non-linear, leading to the ...

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