• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Does comprehensive evaluation of hydrological models influence projected changes of mean and high flows in the Godavari River basin? 

  Mishra, Vimal; Shah, Harsh; L�pez, M. Roc�o Rivas; Lobanova, Anastasia; Krysanova, Valentina (Springer, 2020-09)

  Understanding the projected changes in the mean and high flows remains a significant challenge due to uncertainty arising from global climate models (GCMs) and hydrological models. Moreover, the calibration approaches used ...
• Effect of fly ash layer addition on bearing capacity of expansive soil 

  Sivakumar, N.,; Mandal, Anirban; Karumanchi, Siva Ram; Singh, Dhananjay K. (ICE Publishing, 2020-12)

  The long-term structural performance of roads is mainly governed by the characteristics of subgrade soil. Subgrades with high compressive clays are one of the challenging aspects worldwide. Expansive soils swell and shrink ...
• A novel framework for conditional simulation of fully nonstationary spatially varying ground motion field 

  Rodda, Gopala Krishna; Basu, Dhiman (John Wiley and Sons, 2020-09)

  Existing procedures for conditionally generating the spatially varying ground motion (SVGM) through the coherency?based methods can be broadly categorized into two approaches: (i) cross?spectral density (CSD)?based procedures ...
• Use of commercially available bentonite clay for treatment of micaceous sand 

  Sadhwani, Bhumika; Seethalakshmi, P.; Sachan, Ajanta (Journal of Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering, 2020-05)

  Micaceous soils are considered to be detrimental due to low compactability, high compressibility and low shear strength behavior; which results in failures of pavements under traffic loading, earthen dams, embankments, ...
• Shear strength and microscopic behavior of micaceous Kutch soil 

  Pandya, Pavni; Sachan, Ajanta (Journal of Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering, 2020-05)

  Micaceous soils are generally known for their high compressibility and low compacted density behavior. Mica particles have an influence on the compaction properties of soil due to their platy shape, ability to split into ...
• Dynamic behavior and characteristic failure response of low plasticity cohesive soil 

  Thakur, Adarsh Singh; Sachan, Ajanta; Pandya, Saloni (Springer, 2020-08)

  The present study evaluates the effect of stress history and loading conditions on dynamic behavior and failure characteristics of low plasticity cohesive soil. A series of two-way strain controlled cyclic triaxial tests ...
• Assessing the impact of soil moisture and land surface temperature on grasslands in Bundelkhand region of India 

  Singh, Ashwin; Singh, Jai Prakash; Chaurasia, R. S. (Range Management Society of India, 2020-06)
• Models for strength and stiffness of steel plate shear walls with openings 

  Khan, Nasar A.; Srivastava, Gaurav (Elsevier, 2020-10)

  Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are being increasingly used as a lateral load resisting mechanism in buildings, particularly in highly seismic zones. Their lighter weight compared to reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls, ...
• Extremes in water availability and suicide: evidence from a nationally representative sample of rural Indian adults 

  Mishra, Vimal et al. (Elsevier, 2020-11)
• Experimental and numerical investigation of saltwater intrusion dynamics on sloping sandy beach under static seaside boundary condition 

  Dalai, Chitaranjan; Munusamy, Selva Balaji; Dhar, Anirban (Elsevier, 2020-10)

  Two-dimensional sandbox experiments were conducted to investigate the variable-density circulation and flow patterns in sloping beach configurations. The experiments provide new benchmark results for validating the sandbox ...
• Relative contribution of precipitation and air temperature on dry season drying in India, 1951?2018 

  Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2020-07)

  Soil moisture plays an essential role in food production and land?atmosphere feedback. However, the relative contribution of precipitation and air temperature on dry season (October?December) soil moisture has not been ...
• Reappraisal review on geopolymer: a new era of aluminosilicate binder for metal immobilization 

  Taki, Kaling; Mukherjee, Santanu; Patel, Arbind Kumar; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2020-07)

  Geopolymers are the inorganic polymers containing aluminosilicate materials in their backbone and are produced from geopolymerization process at ambient or controlled temperature involving alkali activators and balanced ...
• Drought onset and termination in India 

  Shah, Deep; Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2020-07)

  Despite the implications of meteorological drought propagation to agricultural, hydrological, and groundwater droughts, the focus of previous studies has been primarily on meteorological droughts in India. We use the ...
• Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems 

  Bhatia, Udit et al. (Resilience Alliance, 2020-06)

  We convened a workshop to enable scientists who study water systems from both social science and physical science perspectives to develop a shared language. This shared language is necessary to bridge a divide between these ...

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