Research

I am working on developing a novel reservoir based global drought monitoring system that focuses on droughts in reservoirs (based on storage and evaporation losses), how these droughts are changing in the current climate across the globe, and how humans influence these droughts, especially in the era of the Anthropocene.

Project

Developing NASA’s Global Water Reservoir product suite using MODIS and VIIRS observations

Data

Our global reservoir products (MOD28C2, MOD28C3, VNP28C2, and VNP28C3) provide area, elevation, storage, evaporation rate, and evaporation volume data for 164 global reservoirs. It includes 151 man-made reservoirs (2,672 km^3 ) and 13 regulated natural lakes (23,801 km^3). The total storage capacity of the 151 man-made reservoirs represents approximately 45.82% of the global capacity.

RESEARCH PRODUCTS AND MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

SERVICE

Reviewed 20+ articles for disciplinary journals, including Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Hydrology, Environmental Research: Climate, Scientific Data, Earth’s Future, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere.

 

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS FACILITATED
  • Chair, “Remote Sensing of Water Resources”, Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2023
  • Co-Convener, “Monitoring Global Lakes and Reservoirs Using Multi-Satellite Observations”, American Meteorological Society
WORKSHOP ORGANIZED (PLANNING TEAM MEMBER)
  • 2023 AMS SatMOC Virtual Short Course on ‘Satellite Enterprise: Applications and Opportunities’
  • 2024 AMS SatMOC Virtual Short Course on ‘Monitoring El Nino Southern Oscillation and its impacts on community’
  • 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology (AMS 2024 Annual Meeting)
  • 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems (AMS 2024 Annual Meeting)
INVITED TALK
  • “New Perspective for monitoring hydrological droughts considering reservoir dynamics”, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2022
LEADERSHIP
  • Student Member (Selected), Committee on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology (2023-2025)
  • Student Representative (Nominated), Remote Sensing Technical Committee, AGU (2023−2024)
  • Director of Finance, Indian Graduate Students’ Organization, Texas A&M University (2021-2023)
  • Discipline Coordinator, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar (2017-2018)
  • Manager of Tech-Fest at Gujarat Technological University (GTU) (2016-2017)