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Subimal Ghosh     

                                                                           

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Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,

Powai,

Mumbai – 400 076, India.

E-mail:  subimal @ civil.iitb.ac.in; subimal.ghosh @ gmail.com

Phone: +91 22 2576 7319 (Off.); +91 22 2576 8319 (Res.)

 

Education

Research Interest

Publications

Sponsored Research Project

Students

Awards and Recognitions

 

 

 

EDUCATION

August, 2004 - October, 2007 - Ph D (Submission: July, 2007), (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Thesis Title: Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change: Uncertainty Modeling.

under the supervision of Prof. P. P. Mujumdar.                                                     

August, 2002 - July, 2004 - Master of Engineering (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Project Title: Risk Minimization Models for River Water Quality Control.

Under the supervision of Prof. P. P. Mujumdar.

August, 1998 - July, 2002 - Bachelor of Engineering (Jadavpur University

, Kolkata)

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RESEARCH INTEREST

Hydro-climatology

Hydrology

Water Resources Systems

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PUBLICATIONS

    BOOK CHAPTERS

1.    Mujumdar, P.P. and Subimal Ghosh, (2008) ,Fuzzy Logic Based Approaches in Water Resources Systems Modeling,,  Practical Hydroinformatics, Ed. by R. Abrahart, L. See, D. Solomatine, Water Science and Technology Library, (Pub : Springer) ISBN : 978-3-540-79980-4, pp. 165-176.

2.    Raje, D., Ghosh, S. and Mujumdar, P. P. Hydrologic impacts of climate change: Quantification of Uncertainties, Green House Gas Emissions and Climate Change, (Pub : American Soc. Civil Engrs (ASCE))

JOURNALS

3.    Salvi, K, Kannan S, and Subimal Ghosh (2013), High Resolution Multi-site Daily Rainfall Projections in India with Statistical Downscaling for Climate Change Impacts Assessment, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, AGU (In press)

4.    Kannan S and Subimal Ghosh (2013), A nonparametric kernel regression model for downscaling multisite daily precipitation in the Mahanadi basin, Water Resources Research, AGU (In Press)

5.    Subimal Ghosh and Katkar, S (2012), Modeling Uncertainty Resulting from Multiple Downscaling Methods in Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change ,Water Resources Management, DOI 10.1007/s11269-012-0090-5

6.    Kodra, E, Subimal Ghosh and Ganguly, A. R. (2012), Evaluation of global climate models for Indian monsoon, Environmental Research Letters, 7, 014012 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014012

7.    Subimal Ghosh, Das, D, Kao, S-C, Ganguly, A. R. (2012), Lack of uniform trends but increasing spatial variability in observed Indian rainfall extremes, Nature Climate Change, 2, 86–91, DOI: doi:10.1038/nclimate1327

8.    Subimal Ghosh (2010), SVM-PGSL coupled approach for statistical downscaling to predict rainfall from GCM output, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D22102, doi:10.1029/2009JD013548.

9.    Katkar, S., Gupta A., and Subimal Ghosh (2010), Transfer Function based Downscaling Methods for Assessing Future Rainfall using GCM Output, Hydrology Journal, Vol. 33, 9-16.

10. Kashid S, Subimal Ghosh and Maity R. (2010),Streamflow prediction using multi-site rainfall obtained from hydroclimatic teleconnection,, Journal Of Hydrology, 395, pp 23-38, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.10.004

11. Subimal Ghosh and Misra C (2010),Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change: Modeling Techniques and Challenges,, Open Hydrology Journal, 4, 115-121

12. Subimal Ghosh (2010),Modelling bivariate rainfall distribution and generating bivariate correlated rainfall data in neighbouring meteorological subdivisions using copula,, Hydrological Processes,  24, 3558–3567

13. Kannan, S. and Subimal Ghosh (2010),Prediction of daily rainfall state in a river basin using statistical downscaling from GCM output,, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Springer.

14. Subimal Ghosh, Raje D. and P. P. Mujumdar (2010),Mahanadi Streamflow: Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptive Strategies,, Current Science, 98(8), pp 1084-1091.

15. Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2010): Fuzzy Waste Load Allocation Model: A Multiobjective Approach, Journal of Hydroinformatics, 12.1, 96-109.

16. Subimal Ghosh, Luniya, V. and Gupta, A. (2009),Trend Analysis of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall at Different Spatial Scales,, Atmospheric Sciences Letter, Royal Meteorological Society, 10(4), pp. 285-290

17. Musti, S., Subimal Ghosh and Mujumdar, P. P. (2009), Imprecise Probability for Modeling Partial Ignorance: Application to Waste Load Allocation in a River System, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 15 (SP1), pp. 258-271

18. Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2009), Climate Change Impact Assessment- Uncertainty Modeling with Imprecise Probability, Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmosphere (AGU), 114, D18113, doi:10.1029/2008JD011648

19. Mujumdar P. P. and Subimal Ghosh (2008), Climate Change Impact on Hydrology and Water Resources, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 14(3), 1-17.

20. Mujumdar, P. P., and S. Ghosh (2008), Modeling GCM and scenario uncertainty using a possibilistic approach: Application to the Mahanadi River, India, Water Resources Research, 44, W06407, doi:10.1029/2007WR006137

21. Subimal Ghosh, H. R. Suresh and P. P. Mujumdar (2008): Fuzzy Waste Load Allocation Model: Application to a Case-Study, Journal of Intelligent Systems, 17, (1-3), pp. 283-296.

22. Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2008): Statistical Downscaling of GCM Simulations to Streamflow using Relevance Vector Machine. Advances in Water Resources. (Pub: Elsevier, Netherlands), 31(1), pp. 132-146

23. Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2007): Nonparametric Methods for Modeling GCM and Scenario Uncertainty in Drought Assessment. Water Resources Research, 43, W07405, doi:10.1029/2006WR005351

24. P. P. Mujumdar and Subimal Ghosh (2007): Assessment of Impact of Global Climate Change on Precipitation at Regional Scales, Hydrology Review, INCOH Roorkee, 22, pp 21-36.

25. Subimal Ghosh and P.P. Mujumdar (2006): Risk Minimization in Water Quality Control Problems of a River System. Advances in Water Resources. (Pub: Elsevier, Netherlands), 29, pp. 458-470.

26. Subimal Ghosh and P.P. Mujumdar (2005): Future Rainfall Scenario over Orissa with GCM Projections by Statistical Downscaling, Current Science, India, 90(3), pp. 396-404.

27. Subbarao, V.V.R., Mujumdar, P.P. and Subimal Ghosh (2004): Risk Evaluation in Water Quality Management of a River System. Journal of Water Resour. Plng and Mgmt. Vol. 130, No. 5, September 1, 2004. (Pub: American Society of Civil Engineers).

28. Mujumdar, P.P. and Subimal Ghosh, (2004) ,Systems Techniques for  Planning Inter-Basin Water Transfers,, Special Issue on Hydrological aspects of large scale water transfer, Hydrology Review, INCOH Roorkee, 19(1-2), pp. 21-40.

  CONFERENCE

29. Salvi, K and Subimal Ghosh (2012), Future Patterns of Flood and Drought in India Using the Three Month Standardized Precipitation Index, HYDRO 2012, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, india

30. Salvi K and Subimal Ghosh (2012), Climate Change and Simulations of Extreme Hydrologic Scenarios in India,  Indo-German Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in Applications, Darmstadt, Germany

31. Murari, K, Daly, E. and Ghosh, S., Change in Intensity-duration Relationship of Extreme Temperature Episodes in Transient Climate Over India., AOGS - AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, 13 to 17 August, 2012, Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore

32. Salvi, K and Subimal Ghosh (2012), High Resolution Rainfall Projections in India for Climate Change Impact Assessment,     AOGS - AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, 13 to 17 August, 2012, Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore

33. Bhatia, U, Salvi K., and Subimal Ghosh (2011), Performance   Comparison of quantile base correction with KNN technique of Downscaling to project future temperature, Hydro, 2011, Surat, India, 29-30 December.

34.  Salvi, K, Kannan, S. and Subimal Ghosh (2011), Finer Scale Temperature and Rainfall Projections for Climate Change Impacts Assessment, 4th International Conference on Environmental and Computer Science, Singapore, Sept 16-18, 2011 [Key-note]

35. Kannan, S. and Subimal Ghosh (2010), Multi-site daily rainfall prediction for climate change scenarios using the non-parametric k-nearest neighbours, The Ninth International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering (ICHE 2010), Indian Institute of Technology Madras,  Chennai, India. 2-5 August 2010

36. Kannan S. and Subimal Ghosh (2010),Generation of Rainfall State in a River Basin incorporating Climate Change,, 17th IAHR-APD Congress, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 21-24 February, 2010

37. Subimal Ghosh, Luniya, V. and Gupta, A. (2010),Trend Analysis in Extreme Rainfall Events over Large Region in India: Is It Always Correct?,, 3rd developing nations conference: India 2010 - An International Perspective on Current & Future State of Water Resources & the Environment, January, 5-7, Chennai, India

38. Subimal Ghosh (2009),SVM for Statistical Downscaling with Proper Selection of Parameters,, Workshop on Advanced Soft Computing Techniques (WAST2009), 15-16 October, 2009, Kanpur, India.

39. P. P. Mujumdar, Ghosh, S. and Raje, D. (2009), Hydro-meteorological predictions from GCM simulations: downscaling techniques and uncertainty modeling, New Approaches to Hydrological Prediction in Data-sparse Regions (Proc. of Symposium HS.2 at the Joint IAHS & IAH Convention, Hyderabad, India, September 2009). IAHS Publ. 333, 2009, 165-175

40. A K Agrawal, K Sree Ram Reddy, A S Dsouza, S S More, S Shrikrishna Kolwankar, A Sirohi and Subimal Ghosh (2008),Changes in Monsoon Rainfall Pattern in Indian Meteorological Subdivisions,, HYDRO 2008, Jaipur.

41. Subimal Ghosh (2008): Modeling Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change, National Conference on ,Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management,, Govt. Engg. College, Aurangabad (Invited Key Note Paper), June 13-14, 2008

42. Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2008): Correction for Bias in Downscaling GCM Simulations for Hydrologic Impact Assessment, Water Down Under 2008, Adelaide, Australia, April 14-17, 2008.

43.  Subimal Ghosh (2007): Statistical Downscaling with SVM-PGSL Coupled Approach for Prediction of Monsoon Rainfall, HYDRO-2007, Surat, India.

44. Subimal Ghosh, and P. P. Mujumdar (2007): Modeling GCM and Scenario Uncertainty: An Imprecise Probability Approach, 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 17-19th December, 2007, Pune, India.

45. Subimal Ghosh, Sashank M, and P. P. Mujumdar (2006): Waste Load Allocation: An Imprecise Fuzzy Risk Approach. International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges (CENeM-2007), January 11-14, 2007, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India. (Invited Key Note Paper)

46. Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar (2006): Minimization of Constarint Vioaltion in Fuzzy Multiobjective Programming, 7th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, (HIC 2006), 4th-8th Septemeber, 2006, Nice, France

47. Subimal Ghosh, H. R. Suresh and P. P. Mujumdar (2005): Fuzzy Water Quality Management Model: Application to a Case Study, Proceedings of the 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005 (IICAI 05), Pune, India, 20-22 Dec, 2005. pp. 2006-2015.

48.  Subimal Ghosh and P.P. Mujumdar (2005): A fuzzy waste load allocation model integrating skewness of distributions. National Conference on Advances in Water Engineering for Sustainable Development (NCAWESD-2005), Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.T. Madras, May 16 & 17, 2005

49.  Subimal Ghosh and P.P. Mujumdar (2005): Risk Minimization Model for River Water Quality Management. International Conference on Hydrological Perspectives of Sustainable Development 2005 (HYPESD '05).

 

 

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SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTs

Assessing Impact of Climate Change on Indian Subdivisional Rainfall, Funding Agency: IRCC, IIT Bombay. [2007-2010, Completed]

Multi-site Statistical Downscaling using Copula for Climate Change Impact Assessment on Hydrology, Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology. [2008-2011, Completed, rated as ‘Excellent’]

Assessing Impacts of Global and Local Changes on River Basin Scale Hydrology, Funding Agency: Space Technology Cell, IITB-Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). [2009-2012, On-going]

Downscaling for Projections of Indian Rainfall and Temperature at high spatial Resolution, Funding Agency: Space Application Centre, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). [2011-2012, Completed]

Impacts of Global and Local Changes on the Rainfall in a Metro City, Funding Agency: Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India. [2012-2015, on-going]

 

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STUDENTS

Ph. D.:

1.    S Kashid ( Jointly guided with Prof. Rajib Maity and Prof. M C Deo) [Completed]: Basin Scale Streamflow Forecasting with Hydro-meteorological and Hydro-climatological Inputs

2.    S. Kannan: Multi-site Statistical Downscaling to Assess Impacts of Climate Change

3.    Kamal Murari (At IITB Monash Research Academy, jointly guided with Dr. Edoardo Daly): Climate Change and Extremes: Impacts Analysis

4.    Kaustuv Salvi: Imapcts of Global and Local Changes on River Basin Scale Hydrology

5.    Hengade Narendra Vijay (Jointly guided by Prof. T I Eldho, co-guided by me): Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use Change on Sediment Transport in a River

6.    K Shashikanth (Jointly guided by Dr. K Rajendran, C-MMACS, Bangalore): Finer scale climate projections.

7.    Amey Pathak (Jointly guided by Prof. Praveen Kumar, UIUC, USA): Impacts of Precipitation Recycling on Indian Monsoon rainfall.

8.    Hiteshri Shastri (Jointly guided by Prof. Subhankar Karnakar, CESE, IITB): Impacts of Urbanization on Rainfall Pattern

 

M. Tech:

1.    Sudhir Katkar

2.    Munir Ahmad Nayak

3.    Monika Arora

4.    Sahana A. S.

 

 

 

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

 

Reviewer of IPCC AR5 report (WG II)

Editorial Board Member of The Scientific World Journal (Impact Factor 1.524)

Young Scientist Award 2012 from Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in ,Engineering and Technology,

Young Investigator Award 2012 from Industrial Research & Consultancy Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) Young Engineer Award 2011.

Institute of Engineers (India) Young Engineer (Civil) Award 2011

The outstanding reviewer award for Journal of Hydrologic Enginnering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2010.

BOYSCAST Fellowship (2009-10) from Department of Science and Technology, to work in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, US

Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Award for 2009-2010 in ,Engineering Sciences,

Prof. N S Govinda Rao Medal Best Ph. D. Thesis Award 2007 from Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Fast Track Project Grant for Young Scientists from Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India (2007)

,Risk Minimization in Water Quality Control Problems of a River System,, by Ghosh and Mujumdar (2006) has been selected as one of the 25 hottest articles of Advances in Water Resources in 3 consecutive periods. (Oct-Dec 2005 [Rank-1], Jan-Mar 2006 [Rank-1], Apr-Jun 2006 [Rank-7]). [http://top25.sciencedirect.com/index.php?cat_id=6&subject_area_id=9&journal_id=03091708]

National Doctoral Fellowship Award from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in 2004.

All India Rank -39 in GATE 2002

Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), Indian Science Congress Association and Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH)

 

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