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

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

Rajat (On Going): Improved Calibration Method for Soil and Water Assessment Tool

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

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)