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Dr. Athira P
Associate Professor
, Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Engineering Centre
Civil Engineering
Research Area: Predictions in Ungauged Basins, Research Area: Hydrological Modelling and Uncertainty Analysis, Research Area: Watershed Management, Research Area: Landuse/Landcover change modelling, Research Area: Climate change impact analysis, Research Area: Water Security, Research Area: Forest Hydrology
  • Biosketch
  • Teaching

    Water Resources Engineering

    Hydraulic Engineering

    Computational Hydraulics

    Surface Water Hydrology

    GIS and its Applications in Water Resources Engineering

    Advanced Hydrological Modelling

    Ecology and Environment

    Irrigation Engineering

  • Research Group

    Jose George( 2018, On-Going): Quantification of uncertainty in Climate change studies

    Sreeshna T R (2021, On-Going): Climate Change Impact on Irrigation and Agricultural Production

    Jainet (2021, On-Going): Forest Hydrology

    Sreeraj (2022-On-going): Dynamic Parameterization of Hydrological Models

    Rajat, (2018-2020). A Modified Calibration Approach for SWAT Model to Improve the Process Representation. (Completed)

  • Additional Information
    Title
    Sponsored Projects
    Description

    Development of a River Basin Management Plan for Bharathapuzha, Irrigation, and Design Research Board, Government of Kerala.2022-2024, INR: 73 Lakhs (Co-PI)

    Community-Driven Asset Mapping of Pudussery Panchayat, Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation-CSR, 2021, INR: 2.5 Lakhs (PI)

    Improving the water availability in hilly rain shadow regions through appropriate water conservation measures: A case study of Vadakarapathy Panchayat in Palakkad District, Kerala, Department of Science and Technology,2015-2021, INR. 35 Lakhs. (PI)

    Drought Preparedness in Kerala: A comprehensive assessment with respect o climate change, Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment, 2019-2021, INR. 12 Lakhs (Co-PI)

     

  • Publications
    Graphical Representation of Climate Change Impacts and Associated Uncertainty to Enable Better Policy Making in Hydrological Disaster Management
    Jose George and P. Athira
    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 122 (2025)
    Initial Observations from Field Testing of a Digital Participatory Tool to Improve Water Security in Rural India
    Shivani A Mehta, Aila Dutt, Ajay Tannirkulam, Akshay Pratap Singh, Aman Verma, Anamitra Singha, Ananda Sreenidhi, Ananjan Nandi, Ankit, Ankit Kumar, Atharv Dabli, Athira P, Balakumaran Ramachandran, Chahat Bansal, Chintan Sanjaybhai Sheth, Craig Dsouza,
    International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development 337 - 364 (2024)
    A comparison of reservoir modules of SWAT and SWAT+ models in Cedar Creek watershed
    Sreeraj, Athira and Kristin
    SWAT Conference & Workshops 8-12 July, 2024 at the National School of Water and Environment Engineering, Strasbourg University, France (2024)
    Bayesian Framework for Uncertainty Quantification and Bias Correction of Projected Streamflow in Climate Change Impact Assessment
    Jose George and Athira P,
    Water Resources Managment (2024)
    A Graphical Representation of Climate Change Impacts with Associated Uncertainties
    Jose George and Athira Pavizham
    EGU General Assembly (2024)
    Impact of Climate Change on Regional Water Availability and Demand for Agricultural Production: Application of Water Footprint Concept
    T R Sreeshna and P. Athira
    Journal of Water Resources Management (2024)
    Modified calibration strategies and parameter regionalization potential for streamflow estimation using a hydrological model
    SK Guniganti, SK Regonda, P Athira, S Reed
    Hydrological Sciences Journal (2024)
    A model output statistic‑based probabilistic approach for statistical downscaling of temperature
    Jose George and P. Athira
    Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2024)
    A Multi-stage Stochastic Approach for Statistical Downscaling of Rainfall
    Jose George and Athira P.
    Water Resources Management (2023)
    Regional Scale Water Footprint Based Agricultural Water Security Assessment
    Sreeshna T. R. and Athira P.
    20th Annual Meeting of AOGS, Singapore 30th July-4th August (2023)
    Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Post Processing of Projected Streamflow Data
    Jose George and Athira P.
    20th Annual Meeting of AOGS, Singapore 30th July-4th August (2023)
    Hydrological Non-stationarity in SWAT model Simulations under Changing Climate and Land Cover
    Sreeraj Sreenivas and Athira P.
    28th IUGG General Assembly in Berlin, Germany (2023)
    Trends, extreme events and long-term health impacts of particulate matter in a Southern Indian industrial area
    Anju Elizbath Peter, Monish Raj, Praveena Gangadharan, Athira P and Shiva Nagendra S.M.
    Water, Air and Soil Pollution 234 (303) (2023)
    A Probabilistic Multi Stage Approach for Statistical Downscaling of Temperature Data
    Jose George and Athira P.
    AGU, Fall Meeting December 16 (2022)
    Process informed selection of climate models for climate change impact assessment in the Western Coast of India
    Jose George and Athira P.
    Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2022)
    A Process Driven Downscaling Technique to Improve Confidence in Climate Projections
    Jose George and Athira P.
    AGU Fall Meeting (2021)
    Effect of Root Zone Soil Moisture on the SWAT Model Simulation of Surface and Subsurface Hydrological Fluxes
    Rajat and Athira P.
    Environmental Earth Sciences (2021)
    Calibration of Hydrological Models Considering Process Interdependence: a Case Study of SWAT Model
    Rajat and Athira P.
    Environmental Modelling and Software (2021)
    Calibration of distributed hydrological models considering the heterogeneity of the parameters across the basin: a case study of SWAT model
    Athira P. and Sudheer K. P.
    Environmental Earth Sciences 80 (4) (2021)
    A Procedure to Reduce the Uncertainty in Regional-Scale Climate Change Impact Studies
    Jose George and Athira P.
    AGU 2020 Fall Meeting (2020)
    A Comparative Study on Different Calibration Approaches for Streamflow Prediction in Swat Model
    Rajat and Athira P.
    17th Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society HS-02 (2020)
    Long-Term Changes in Climatic Variables over the Bharathapuzha River Basin, Kerala, India
    Jose George and Athira P.
    Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2020)
    Long Term Trend in Climate Variables over Bharathapuzha Catchment, Kerala, India
    Jose George and Athira P.
    8th Asia Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources (APHW) International Conference IIT Roorkee (22-23 November) (2019)
    Impact of calibration objective function on the performance of the hydrological model
    Vamsi Krishna Vema, Cicily Kurian, Athira P, K P Sudheer, and I. Chaubey
    ASCE-World Environmental and Water Resources Congress May,2019 (2019)
    Uncertainty in the SWAT model simulations due to different spatial resolution of gridded precipitation data
    Vamsi Krishna Vema, Jobin Thomas, Jayaprathika M., Cicily Kurian, Athira P, K P Sudheer
    International SWAT conference, Chennai (2018)
    A computationally efficient method for uncertainty analysis of SWAT model simulations
    P. Athira, C. Nanda, K. P. Sudheer,
    Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Accessment 32 (6) 1479–149 (2018)
    Landuse/Land cover change detection and Modelling in Bharathapuzha River Basin
    Epapra, P., Athira P., and Sathish K. D.
    14th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society,Singapore HS11-A008 (2017)
    Regionalization of Distributed hydrological Models: A method to predict the streamflow and to quantify the predictive uncertainty
    Athira, P. Sudheer, K.P., Cibin, R., and Chaubey, I.,
    Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (2016)
    A method to reduce the computational requirement while assessing uncertainty of complex hydrological models
    Athira, P., and Sudheer, K., P.
    Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (2014)
    Application of distributed hydrological models for predictions in ungauged basins: a method to quantify predictive uncertainty
    Cibin, R., Athira P., Sudheer K. P., and Chaubey I.,
    Hydrological Processes (2013)
    A Multi-criterion Based Approach to Quantify Predictive Uncertainty of Distributed Hydrologic Models When Applied to Ungauged Basins
    Athira, P., Sudheer, K. P, Cibin, R., and Chaubey, I.
    Advances in Geosciences 23 ( (HS) ) 75-88 (2010)

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