Jeeban Panthi

• Postdoc Fellow at Kansas State University
• PostDoc Position at Kansas State University

Reliable precipitation estimates are crucial for planning and managing water resources, monitoring hydrologic extremes, and fulfilling irrigation water requirements. Accurate precipitation estimates are particularly challenging in complex mountain terrains, where monitoring gauges are often sparsely distributed due to their remote locations, and hi...

Regional hydroclimatic variability and change can affect water resources and hydropower generation. It is essential to assess hydropower potential under current and future climatic conditions to inform the design and operation of hydropower infrastructures. Here, we employ an integrated modeling framework to assess the impact of projected hydroclim...

The coastal zone, which is the interface between land and sea, is hydrodynamically very active due to the complex interactions of various hydrological controls and variable‐density fluids. These forces vary over time, resulting in a state of dynamic equilibrium in the system. The major hydrological processes in coastal aquifer systems are saltwater...

There is a pressing need for a transition from fossil-fuel to renewable energy to meet the increasing energy demands and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Nepal Himalaya possesses substantial renewable energy potential that can be harnessed through hydropower projects due to its peculiar topographic characteristics and abundant water resources....

Karnali River Basin (KRB) located in western Nepal has been experiencing increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation trends in recent decades, making the basin highly susceptible to droughts. Adaptation to future droughts requires insight into the characteristics of past droughts and their impacts on different sectors. This study assesses t...

Cascading hazards are becoming more prevalent in the central Himalayas. Primary hazards (e.g., earthquakes, avalanches, and landslides) often trigger secondary hazards (e.g., landslide dam, debris flow, and flooding), compounding the risks to human settlements, infrastructures, and ecosystems. Risk management strategies are commonly tailored to a s...

Regional hydroclimatic variability and change can affect water resources and hydropower generation. It is essential to assess hydropower potential under current and future climatic conditions to inform the design and operation of hydropower infrastructures. Here, we employ an integrated modeling framework to assess the impact of projected hydroclim...

Saltwater intrusion (SWI) into coastal aquifers is a growing problem for the drinking water supply of coastal communities worldwide, including for the sustainability of coastal ecosystems depending on freshwater inflow. The interface between freshwater and seawater in coastal aquifers is highly dynamic and is sensitive to changes in the hydraulic g...

This article is composed of one integrated commentary about the state of ICON principles (Goldman et al., 2021) in natural hazards and a discussion on the opportunities and challenges of adopting them. Natural hazards pose risks to society, infrastructure, and the environment. Hazard interactions and their cascading phenomena in space and time can...

Natural hazards pose huge risk to life and property. These risks are dynamic and deeply uncertain. A comprehensive understanding of natural hazards and proper tools to account for dynamic risk are crucial to informing risk management. Integrated approaches, coordinated processes, open science, and networked efforts help address multihazard multisec...

Fluvial floods drive severe risk to riverine communities. There is a strong evidence of increasing flood hazards in many regions around the world. The choice of methods and assumptions used in flood hazard estimates can impact the design of risk management strategies. In this study, we characterize the expected flood hazards conditioned on the unce...

This article is composed of one integrated commentary about the state of ICON principles (Goldman et al., 2021) in natural hazards and a discussion on the opportunities and challenges of adopting them. Natural hazards pose risks to society, infrastructure, and the environment. Hazard interactions and their cascading phenomena in space and time can...

Continuous streamflow prediction is crucial in many applications of water resources planning and management. However, streamflow prediction is challenging, particularly in data-scarce regions. This paper demonstrates an approach to regionalize the flow duration curve for predicting daily streamflow in the data-scare region of the central Himalayas....

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) in Nepal installed the first weather radar in 2019 in the western region of the country. Radar‐rainfall estimates across the Himalayas can be useful to inform decision‐making in a broad range of infrastructure sectors, including water, energy, construction, transportation, and agriculture. image

The hydrology of the Himalayan region, known as the water tower of Asia, is undergoing rapid transformations due to climate change and growing human influences, and it is known that this region is one of those most vulnerable to climate change. Numerous studies have examined the changes in the hydrology of Nepal, which includes a significant upstre...

Streamflow and sediment flux variations in a mountain river basin directly affect the downstream biodiversity and ecological processes. Precipitation is expected to be one of the main drivers of these variations in the Himalayas. However, such relations have not been explored for the mountain river basin, Nepal. This paper explores the variation in...

This article is about the state of ICON principles Goldman et al. (2021), https://doi. org/10.1029/2021EO153180 in natural hazards and a discussion on the opportunities and challenges of adopting them. Natural hazards pose risks to society, infrastructure, and the environment. Hazard interactions and their cascading phenomena in space and time can...

Extreme rainfall is one of the major causes of natural hazards in the central Himalayan region, including Nepal. The performance of strategies to manage hazards and related risks relies on the accuracy of quantitative hydrometeorological prediction. Rain gauges have traditionally been used to measure the rainfall amount. However, point measurements...

Fluvial floods drive severe risk to riverine communities. There is a strong evidence of increasing flood hazards in many regions around the world. The choice of methods and assumptions used in flood hazard estimates can impact the design of risk management strategies. In this study, we characterize the expected flood hazards conditioned on the unce...

Sound understanding of catchment hydroclimatic variability is critical for informed decision-making in water resource management. Observations and physical arguments suggest that the changing climate modifies rainfall, temperature and streamflow in several mountainous catchments in Nepal. We analyze the spatiotemporal variability and trend of rainf...

Improving decision-making in various areas of water policy and management (e.g., flood and drought preparedness, reservoir operation and hydropower generation) requires skillful streamflow forecasts. Despite the recent advances in hydrometeorological prediction, real-time streamflow forecasting over the Himalayas remains a critical issue and challe...

It's unequivocal that the global climate is changing, including the rise in atmospheric temperature and variability in precipitation amount and pattern, and the rate of change in the Himalaya region is higher than the global average. Since precipitation and temperature are the major controlling factors of water resources in both upstream and downst...

It has long been recognized that there is a link between sustainable development, poverty and consistent access to useable water. Increased population is requiring more water and changing climate is altering the hydrological cycle making the water less accessible at the time when it is required. Combining the measurement of water availability and t...

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The people living in the agrarian societies develop different strategies in response to climatic variability and environmental uncertainties. Transhumant pastoralists in the Himalayas are among those who follow nature's rhythm of seasonality. The traditional practices built in group's experience might be useful to adapt with climate variability and...

Both climatic and non-climatic factors affect surface water quality. Similar to its effect across various sectors and areas, climate change has potential to affect surface water quality directly and indirectly. On the one hand, the rise in temperature enhances the microbial activity and decomposition of organic matter in the river system and change...

Abstract: Climate change has emerged as one of the pressing problems of the world. The people living in the agrarian societies whose subsistence livelihood depends upon the direct utilisation of natural resources historically develop different strategies in response to climatic variability and environmental uncertainties. Transhumant pastoralists i...

Global climate change has local implications. Focusing on datasets from the topographically-challenging Karnali river basin in Western Nepal, this research provides an overview of hydro-climatic parameters that have been observed during 1981–2012. The spatial and temporal variability of temperature and precipitation were analyzed in the basin consi...

This paper presents temporal and spatial pattern of drought phenomena in central Nepal using standardized precipitation index (SPI) at multiple time scales. The study is based on 32 years of monthly precipitation data from 40 meteorological stations from 1981 to 2012. Results indicate that, while there is no distinct trend in regional precipitation...

Improved irrigation use efficiency is an important tool for intensifying and diversifying agriculture in Nepal, resulting in higher economic yield from irrigated farmlands with a minimum input of water. Research was conducted to evaluate the effect of irrigation method (furrow vs. drip) on the productivity of nutritious fodder species during off-mo...

International Conference on Climate Change Innovation and Resilience for Sustainable Livelihood (ClimDev15 Conference ); 12–14 January 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal

Climate change vulnerability depends upon various factors and differs between places, sectors and communities. People in developing countries whose subsistence livelihood depends mainly upon agriculture and livestock production are identified as particularly vulnerable. Nepal, where the majority of people are in a mixed agro-livestock system, is id...

Satellite-based precipitation products have been shown to represent precipitation well over Nepal at monthly resolution, compared to ground-based stations. Here, we extend our analysis to the daily and subdaily timescales, which are relevant for mapping the hazards caused by storms as well as drought. We compared the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mis...

Extreme weather events have received significant attention in recent year since it has greater negative impacts on human and environments than changes in climate means. In recent years those events have emerged as a source of vulnerability for agro-livestock smallholders in Nepal where people are mostly dependent on rain-fed agriculture and livesto...

Landslides, floods, and droughts are recurring natural disasters in Nepal related to too much or too little water. The summer monsoon contributes more than 80% of annual rainfall, and rainfall spatial and inter-annual variation is very high. The Gandaki River, one of the three major rivers of Nepal and one of the major tributaries of the Ganges Riv...

Global climate change has local implications. Focusing on datasets from the Karnali river basin in western Nepal, this research provides an overview of hydro-climatic changes that have been observed during 1981-2012. The spatial and temporal trends of temperature and precipitation from 32 meteorological stations distributed in the basin were analyz...

The climate of the Himalayan region is changing rapidly. Decreasing glacier and snow cover are the visible evidences of the change in temperature and precipitation pattern in the Himalayan region. Nepal is considered the fourth most vulnerable country to the impacts of climate change , partly due to the reliance of most of the population on croppin...

Scientific community agrees that climate change is occurring and its impacts are more in low income countries. Nepal is experiencing significant changes in climate, which have a direct and severe impact on the livelihood of its people, most of whom are still rural. A study has been undertaken to look at the impact and potential adaptations to farm...

Poor and agrarian communities of the developing countries are affected most by the climate change and the situation will further worsen in the future. This is because they have poor adaptive capacity and limited access to alternate means of production. Looking through the climate lens, Nepal is facing the problem of too much water leading to landsl...

Nepal is facing problems of too much water causing landslides and flood, and too little water causing drought.The Gandaki River Basin lies in the central part of Nepal and the river is one of the tributaries of the Ganges River. Observed precipitation data and the future projection from the regional climate models were analyzed for the basin. The d...

Climate is affecting the entire world and the impacts are more in developing countries like Nepal whose resilience capacity is low due to low economic capacity. Researches and data show that the dry regions and seasons in Nepal are becoming dryer that lead to drought in dry seasons and regions. Most of the agricultural activities in Nepal is rain-f...

Climate change has significant impacts on the water resource of Himalayan region affecting more than 1.4 billion people downstream. The Hindu-Kush Himalaya (HKH) makes the largest and highest mountain chain over the earth and contains the third largest ice reserves after the Polar Regions. The project aims to understand the climate variability and...

Green economy is a framework that is hoped will ensure genuine, long-term sustainability, survivability, well-being and happiness for all people everywhere, always within the limits of nature. It is an inclusive approach, promoting fairness, equity, participation, freedom and democracy, with social and environmental justice at its core. The five-da...

Traditional energy resource mainly firewood is a major source for fulfilling the domestic energy demand and inefficient burning of fuelwood is a major source of GHGs emission in Nepal. This study was conducted in Tharu Community of Baidi Village at Bardia District, Mid-Western part of Nepal to identify the role of renewable energy technology for re...