
Indus River Basin
Water Security and Sustainability
Description
Key Features
- Includes detailed chapters provided by specialists in each different field as compiled by well experienced editors
- Presents work from related fields across the Indus basin and makes them easily accessible on one single place
- Shows the Indus River as a type case and shares issues relevant to other locations across the world
Readership
Scientists and researchers focusing on: Environmental Science, Agriculture, Physical Geography, Geographical Information Science, International Affairs, political science, economics, water resources, business
Table of Contents
Part I. Indus River Basin - Past, Present and Future
1. Indus River Basin: Water Security and Sustainability
Thomas Edwin Adams III and Sadiq Khan
2. Water resources modeling and prospective evaluation in the Indus River under present and prospective climate change
Bocchiola Daniele Sr.
3. Challenges in forecasting water resources of the Indus River Basin: Lessons from the analysis and modeling of atmospheric and hydrological processes.
Michel d. S Mesquita
4. Past and expected future glacier changes in the Upper Indus Basin
Tobias BolchPart II. Climate-Eco-Hydrology of Indus River Basin
5. Probabilistic precipitation analysis in the Central Indus River basin
Paolo Reggiani
6. Glaciers in the Indus River Basin
Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya
7. A Review on the Projected Changes in Climate over the Indus Basin
Arun Bhakta Shrestha and Nisha Wagle
8. A hydrological perspective on interpretation of available climate projections for the Upper Indus Basin
Nathan Daniel ForsythePart III. Water and Food Security of Indus river basin
9. Transboundary Indus River Basin: Potential Threats To Its Integrity
Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema
10. Indo-Ganges River Basin Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and irrigated area mapping
Murali Krishna Gumma
11. Increasing water productivity in the Agriculture sector
Asad Sarwar and Qureshi
12. Hydrological cycle over Indus basin at monsoon margins: present and future
Shabeh ul HassonPart IV. Water Extremes in Indus River Basin
13. Water Resources Forecasting within the Indus River Basin: a call for comprehensive modeling
Thomas Edwin Adams III
14. Review of hydrometeorological monitoring and forecasting system for floods in the Indus Basin in Pakistan.
Mandira Singh Shrestha
15. Flood monitoring system for Indus River basin using distributed hydrologic modeling framework
Sadiq Khan
16. Annual Flood Monitoring of 2010 Indus River Flood using Synchronized Floodwater Index
Young-Joo KwakPart V. Water Management in Indus river basin
17. Water management in the Indus basin in Pakistan: challenges and opportunities
Muhammad Basharat
18. Reimagining the planning of irrigation and agriculture in the Indus river basin, Punjab, Pakistan
Ayesha Shahid
19. Developing Groundwater Hotspots: An Emerging Challenge for Integrated Water Resources Management in Indus Basin
Muhammad Basharat
20. Resource linkages for water infrastructure planning.
Akhtar Ali
Product details
- No. of pages: 485
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: January 12, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128127834
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128127827
About the Editors
Sadiq Khan
Affiliations and Expertise
Thomas Adams
Visiting Scientist, NOAA/NWS National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Thomas E. Adams, III, has twenty years of real-time operational hydrologic forecasting experience at the NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS), Ohio River Forecast Center (OHRFC), including model parameter estimation, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling and model calibration. His experience includes development and implementation of the Ohio River Community HEC-RAS Model, operational probabilistic/ensemble hydrologic forecasting, precipitation estimation and analysis, land surface/atmosphere interaction, and impact of global climate change on water resources.
He is currently involved with Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) software development and testing for the NWS and served as flash flood forecasting expert in Beijing, China. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Soil Science Society of America.
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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Muhammad Q. Sun Jan 13 2019
Extraordinary book
The book is an extraordinary addition to the topic. It discusses hydrological as well as economic aspects of Indus basin.