athira

Dr. Athira P.

Asst. Professor

Civil Engineering

athira@iitpkd.ac.in

Teaching

Water resources Engineering

Hydraulic Engineering

Computational Hydraulics

Surface Water Hydrology

GIS and its Applications in Water Resources Engineering

Advanced Hydrological Modelling

Research Group

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

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

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

Jainet (On-Going): Forest Hydrology

Research Area

Predictions in Ungauged Basins

Hydrological Modelling and Uncertainty Analysis

Watershed Management

Landuse/Landcover change modelling

Climate change impact analysis

Additional Information

Title

Sponsored Research

Description

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,2015-2020,INR. 35 Lakhs. (PI)

Drought Preparedness in Kerala: A comprehensive assessment with respect o climate change, Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment, 2018-2020, INR. 12 Lakhs (as Co-PI, PI: Dr. Subhasis Mitra)

Recent Publications

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)