munir.nayak@nitsri.net
9993815818
PG Block Water Resources Department of Civil Engineering

Dr.Munir Ahmad Nayak

Assistant Professor

Management of water resources systems for a changing climate Estimation of risk, reliability, return period, robustness, and resilience of water systems Understanding the climatological patterns behind floods and droughts Stochastic hydrology and statistical modelling of hydrological extremes

Education

Degree Institute CGPA Year Subject Description
Ph. D. 2016 Civil Engineering; Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering The University of Iowa
M.Sc. 2016 Statistics The University of Iowa
M.Sc. 2013 Civil Engineering; Environmental Water Resources Systems Cornell University
M.TECH 2011 Civil Engineering; Water Resources Engineering IIT Bombay
B.TECH 2009 Civil Engineering NIT Srinagar

Publications Journal

Month-Year Authors Paper Title Volume PageNo DOI Impact Factor Type Journal Name
2023 Lyngwa, R. V., Waqar U. Hassan, Munir A. Nayak, and M. F. Azam Large fraction of winter precipitation variability in two major Himalayan basins explained by Atmospheric Rivers 5.381 SCI Journal of Climate
2023 Mahto, S. S., Munir A. Nayak, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, and Vimal Mishra Atmospheric rivers that make landfall in India are associated with flooding, 2023 7.29 SCI Communication Earth & Environment
2023 Dar, Junaid; Abdul Q. Dar, and Munir A. Nayak Atmospheric patterns and winter precipitation over north-western South Asia. 3.651 SCI International Journal of Climatology
2022 Kuk-Hyun Ahn and Munir A. Nayak Atmospheric River Activities and Their Effects on Precipitation over South Korea 610 6.708 SCI Journal of Hydrology
2021 Waqar ul Hassan Munir A. Nayak and Rosa Vellosa Lyngwa Recent changes in heatwaves and maximum temperatures over a complex terrain in the Himalayas. 794 10.754 SCI Science of the total environment
2021 Munir A. Nayak and Waqar ul Hassan A synthesis of drought prediction research over India, 13 SCOPUS Water Security
2021 Rosa Vellosa Lyngwa and Munir A. Nayak Atmospheric River linked to extreme rainfall events over Kerala in August 2018 253 5.965 SCI Atmospheric Research
2020 Waqar ul Hassan and Munir A. Nayak, Global teleconnections in droughts caused by oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns 16 6.947 SCI Environmental Research Letters
2020 Munir A. Nayak, Mary K. Cowles, Gabriele Villarini, and Burhan ul Wafa Bayesian hierarchical models for the frequency of winter heavy precipitation events over the central United States: The role of atmospheric rivers 56 6.159 SCI Water Resources Research
2018 Munir A. Nayak, Jonathan D. Herman and Scott Steinschneider Balancing flood risk and water supply in California: Policy search integrating short-term forecast ensembles with conjunctive use 54 6.159 SCI Water Resources Research
2018 Munir A. Nayak and Gabriele Villarini Remote sensing-based characterization of rainfall during atmospheric rivers over the central United States. 556 6.708 SCI Journal of Hydrology
2017 Munir A. Nayak and Gabriele Villarini, A long-term perspective of the hydroclimatological impacts of atmospheric rivers over the central United States 53 6.159 SCI Water Resources Research
2017 Nancy A. Barth, Gabriele Villarini and Munir A. Nayak Mixed populations and annual flood frequency estimates in the western United States: The role of atmospheric rivers 53 6.159 SCI Water Resources Research
2016 Munir A. Nayak and Mark A. Turnquist Optimal recovery from disruptions in water distribution networks 31 10.066 SCI Computer-Aided Civil and
2016 Munir A. Nayak and Gabriele Villarini Evaluation of the capability of the Lombard test in detecting abrupt changes in variance. 534 6.708 SCI Journal of Hydrology
2016 Munir A. Nayak, Gabriele Villarini, and A. Allen Bradley Atmospheric Rivers and Rainfall during NASA’s Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) Campaign 17 4.871 SCI Journal of Hydrometeorology
2015 Danielle Touma, Moetasim Ashfaq, Munir A. Nayak, Shih-Chieh Kao, and Noah S. Diffenbaugh A multi-model and multi-index evaluation of drought characteristics in the 21st century 526 6.708 SCI Journal of Hydrology
2014 Munir A. Nayak, Gabriele Villarini, and David A. Lavers On the skill of numerical weather prediction models to forecast atmospheric rivers over the central United States 41 5.576 SCI Geophysical Research Letters
2013 Munir A. Nayak and Subimal Ghosh Prediction of extreme rainfall event using weather pattern recognition and support vector machine classifier 114 3.410 SCI Theoretical and Applied Climatology

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