Advances in Hydrology and Climate Change : Historical Trends and New Approaches in Water Resources Management

Highlighting recent trends that employ innovative management and conservation approaches, this volume provides an informative overview of the issues and challenges in water resources affected by climate change, such as drought, flooding, glacier changes, and overbuilt-up urban areas. Focusing on surface and groundwater related issues, the book presents solutions that include such methods as morphometric assessment, parameter estimation, long-term trend analysis, sustainability indexes, storm water management models, entropy-based measurement of long-term precipitation, and more. The volume focuses on providing a better understanding of climatic uncertainty through hydrometeorological data sets and their application in hydrological modeling. These analyses help to serve as the basis for the design of flood-control and water-usage management policies.

Surendra Kumar Chandniha, PhD, is Assistant Professor/Scientist in the Department of Soil and Water Engineering at BRSM College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology and Research Station, Mungeli, India. Dr. Chandniha has more than nine years of experience in the field of water resources, surface water hydrology, soil and water engineering, and climate change. He has published more than 65 research papers in journals as well as book chapters. He has done quality research work at IIT Roorkee and NIH Roorkee and has received several awards in the water sectors area.

Anil Kumar Lohani, PhD, is currently Scientist-G and Head of the Surface Water Hydrology Division at the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India. Dr. Lohani is Coordinator of the Central India Hydrology Centre of the National Institute of Hydrology, Bhopal, and Head and Coordinator of the Centre for Flood Management Studies at the National Institute of Hydrology, Guwahati, India. Dr. Lohani has over 30 years of research experience in surface water hydrological modeling, flood management, decision support system, and soft computing techniques. He has published 225 research papers in journals and conferences as well as books, book chapters, and technical reports.

Gopal Krishan, PhD, is Scientist-C at the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, and former researcher for the Indo Gangetic Basin Groundwater Resilience Project for the British Geological Survey, United Kingdom, and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing–Indian Space Research Organisation. Dr. Krishan has over 20 years of research experience in hydrological evaluation, surface water and groundwater hydrology project management, and field investigation. He has published more than 150 research papers in journals as well as one book and several book chapters, newsletter articles, and technical reports.

Ajay Krishna Prabhakar, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, where he has over seven years of teaching and research experience in the field of surface water hydrology, planning and management of water resources, drought analysis, and climate change. He has published research papers in peer-reviewed and SCI journals in water resources, groundwater, rainfall trend, and climate change.