0000-0002-3582-9527 About
Prof. Manoj Kumar Jain is Professor of Hydrology, and Former Head of the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee. He holds B. Tech. and M. Tech. (Gold Medal) from Jabalpur, followed by a Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee. His research interests include distributed hydrological modelling, soil erosion studies, soil and water conservation engineering, hydrological analysis and design, remote sensing, GIS applications in hydrology, drought studies, water accounting etc. He supervised 14-Ph.D. and 64-M. Tech. dissertations and examined 10 external PhD thesis as an external examiner. Dr. Jain published over 150 High Impact Journals/Conference research papers and 3 book chapters. He is also serving as Editor of Hydrology Journal of IAH, Associate Editor of Hydrological Sciences Journal. He has also served as a Member of Editorial Board of J. Environmental Management. He is a Fellow member of Indian Water Resources Society (India) and life member of Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH). He is a member of IAHS. He is also a member of Technical Advisory Committee of National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee.
Prof. Jain has trained several senior-level scientists/engineers under various capacity-building programs from India and Afro-Asian Countries. He has completed twelve R&D projects sponsored by various organizations. He has also completed 27 consultancy projects for multiple clients, including NTPC Ltd, THDC Ltd., Himachal EMTA Ltd., L&T Ltd, Reliance Energy Ltd., NLM Vientiane City, Lao PDR, Directorate of Groundwater, Govt. of Odisha, APSDMS, Andhra Pradesh, Department of Water Resources, Govt. of Odisha, etc.
Employment
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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Professor2018 - Present
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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Associate Professor2006 - Present
Education
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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee PhD1997 - 2002
Projects & Funding
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Publications (165)
- Impact of reservoir storage on propagation from meteorological to hydrological drought Save
- Reliability of entropy-based telemetry discharge estimates in the Himalayan rivers: a comparative study with ADCP and current meter Save
- Two Decades of Climate and Land Use Change Reshape Water Erosion Patterns Across India Save
- Development of daily downscaled, bias-corrected CMIP6 climate datasets for estimating reference evapotranspiration (ETo) in South Asia Save
- Water Security Assessment in the Typical Ecosystems of the Ghataprabha River Basin Save
- Addressing Uncertainties in Surface Velocity Profiles and Discharge Estimation through Noncontact Methods: Case Study of Two Himalayan Rivers Save
- Improved Framework for Attribution Analysis of Contributing Climatic Factors Influencing Reference Evapotranspiration Save
- Hydrological drought vulnerability assessment in Ethiopia using multi-criteria decision-making Save
- GloRESatE: A dataset for global rainfall erosivity derived from multi-source data Save
- The changing characteristics of propagation time from meteorological drought to hydrological drought in a semi‐arid river basin in India Save