Climate Change and Water Resources
In this talk, hydrologist Pradeep Mujumdar looked at how climate change will most likely introduce an additional burden on the already stressed water systems in India. The talk presented the latest research on assessment of climate change impacts on regional hydrology, with emphasis on likely changes in water availability, agricultural water demands, floods and droughts and water quality. He also spoke about the challenges of assessing the impacts of climate change on water resources at different space-time scales.
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About the Hydrologist
Pradeep Mujumdar is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and as Chairman, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research. He has earlier served as the Chairman of the Department from November 2006 to December 2010 and as KSIIDC Chair Professor from August 2012 to July 2015. He holds an Associate Faculty position in the Center for Earth Sciences at IISc Bangalore. His area of specialization is Water Resources with a focus on climate change impacts on hydrology/water resources, statistical downscaling of GCM outputs, urban flooding, planning and operation of large scale water resources systems, and uncertainty modeling. He has served as the Chairman of the Water Resources Management section of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), and as a reviewer for the Assessment Report 5 (AR5) of the IPCC.
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