Balaji Narasimhan

About

Dr.Balaji Narasimhan has 12 years of experience in the use of GIS and remote sensing tools for hydrologic model development. As a hydrologic modeler, Dr.Balaji Narasimhan developed the SWAT model for two large water supply lakes in North-Central Texas, USA to assess the effect of upstream watershed management on lake water quality. He also developed a state of the art GIS based real-time integrated drought/wildland fire assessment tool currently used by Texas Forest Service for assessing forest fire risks across the state. Dr.Balaji Narasimhan served as an advisor to CLIMARICE project, Sponsored by Norwegian Government at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. ClimaRice is an integrated project that aims to assess the climate variability and its impacts on the water availability and rice production systems in the Cauvery river basin of Tamil Nadu, India. He was also a member of National Water Resources Assessment Committee formulated by the National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad for bringing out a state of the art report on hydrologic models and issues related to national level assessment. Currently Dr. Balaji Narasimhan is a member of "Think Tank" in the development of India Water Resources Information System (India-WRIS).

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Professor
  2007 - Present

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (52)

• Development and Evaluation of an Improved Process Based Paddy Irrigation Module for SWAT
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7030985
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• Quantification of uncertainties associated with lumped and spatially explicit representations of small and medium reservoirs in a hydrological model for flood simulations
  2026 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9142255/v1
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• Impact of climate change and hydrologic data uncertainty on water supply in an urban river basin
  2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-8333-1_3
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• A new simulation − optimization framework based on multi-layer Green-Ampt infiltration model and genetic algorithm for developing planning guidelines of low impact development measures at river basin scales
  Journal of Hydrology 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.133139
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• HydroAmal: A simulation-optimization framework for effective flood management in a conservation reservoir
  Environmental Modelling & Software 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106596
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• Assessment of increasing hydrologic model complexity in the representation of small and medium reservoirs within a river basin scale model and its impact on process simulation and parameter uncertainty
  Journal of Hydrology 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.132925
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• An integrated modeling approach for the design and planning of inter-basin water transfer under climate change conditions
  Sustainable Water Resources Management 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s40899-025-01233-4
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• Enhancing irrigation water productivity using short-range ensemble weather forecasts at basin scale: A novel framework for regions with high hydro-climatic variability
  Journal of Hydrology 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131610
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• Shifts in bioclimatic zones mirror climate change signals in a tropical agriculture‐dominated Bharathapuzha River basin of southern Western Ghats (India)
  International Journal of Climatology 2024 DOI: 10.1002/joc.8535
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• Evaluation of Remote Sensing Rainfall Products, Bias Correction and Temporal Disaggregation Approaches, for Improved Accuracy in Hydrologic Simulations
  Water Resources Management 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s11269-023-03486-0
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