Asphota
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Asphota

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January 6, 2022
How vulnerable is our water supply to climate change?
January 6, 2022
How to estimate flows in ungauged catchments?
January 6, 2022
How much does suspended sediment corrode the turbine?
January 6, 2022
How much does coastal flood depend on the topographic features?
About Me
PhD Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. Researcher with specialization in risk (climate and non-climate) analysis of water infrastructures. Lead author of “Climate Change and the Hydropower Sector: A Global Review”. Contributor to the development of International Hydropower Association (IHA) Climate Resilience Guide (CRG), 2019. Independent consultant to the World Bank Group. Member of the technical committee on climate change for the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD), 2021.

I am professionally fluent in English (preferred language), and conversational in French (DELF A2 certified). I have native fluency in Nepali, and Hindi.

Skills

Specialization


  • Courses : GIS, Probability, Bayesian Statistics, Time Series, Hydrologic Modeling, Optimization, Systems Analysis, Physical Principles, Spatial-Temporal Data Mining, Ground Water
  • Online Courses : Climate Change Using Deep Learning, Climate Geospatial Analysis on Python, Principal Component Analysis with Numpy, Classification Trees in Python, Spatial Data Science
  • Other Certification : Certified User of the Hydropower Sustainability Tools by the World Bank Group (2020), Certified User of the G-res Tool by the International Hydropower Association (2020)

Programming Language


  • R : Working with global gridded datasets (Netcdf files), data cleaning, statistical analysis, stochastic weather generator (MCMC), data visualization
  • GIS : Geospatial analysis, watershed delineation, map generation and visualization
  • Python : Downloading reanalysis datasets (Netcdf files), extracting data from XMLs, hydrologic modeling (SPHY), processing raster files, storm surge modeling (using GeoCLAW)
  • MATLAB : Hydrologic modeling (HBV, HYMOD), optimization (Genetic Algorithm), future climate projection
  • Suite of HEC-products : Hydrologic modeling, hydraulic modeling and reservoir routing

Language


  • English : Professional fluency, primary language of choice for communication
  • Nepali and Hindi : Fluent
  • French : Introductory (DELF A2 certified)
Projects
Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review
Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review

Journal WIREs Climate Change - Invited Review

Reviewed over a 100 papers on the effect of climate change on hydropower project to summarize the impacts on a global scale, and identified room for improvement in the current approaches.

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Visualizing the Uncertainty in Flood Forecasting
Visualizing the Uncertainty in Flood Forecasting

National Weather Service and University of Cincinnati

Proposed techniques to improve real-time flood forecast by partitioning the uncertainties using Analysis of Variance Technique and visualizing the results using heatmaps and bar charts.

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Climate Change Risk Analysis for projects in Kenya and Nepal
Climate Change Risk Analysis for projects in Kenya and Nepal

The World Bank Group, Deltares, Future Water, University of Cincinnati

Performed the risk assessment of a proposed hydropower project in Nepal following the World Bank Group Decision Tree Framework using rainfall-runoff models, and climate projections.

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California Hydrologic Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptive Planning Project
California Hydrologic Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptive Planning Project

University of Cincinnati, US Army Corps of Engineer

In collaboration developed an advancement to the stochastic weather generator using hourly global gridded datasets to prepare reservoirs in California to tackle future extreme events.

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Multidimensional Risk Assessment on Riverine Contamination: Case Study of Cincinnati
Multidimensional Risk Assessment on Riverine Contamination: Case Study of Cincinnati

Ohio Water Resources Center, University of Cincinnati

In collaboration developed a river contamination risk (RANK) framework to model plume exposure in Ohio River under climate and non-climate uncertainty by solving shallow water equations.

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Understanding and visualization of the topogrpahic sensitivity in a Storm Surge model
Understanding and visualization of the topogrpahic sensitivity in a Storm Surge model

National Water Center- NOAA, University of Florida, Columbia University, University of Cincinnati

In collaboration developed a framework to assess the sensitivity of coastal floods to topographic features using different resoultions of data on models that solves the shallow water equations.

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Climate Change Risk Assessment of the Upper Arun Project
Climate Change Risk Assessment of the Upper Arun Project

The World Bank Group, University of Cincinnati, CSPDR

Developed and employed the International Hydropower Association’s CRG to assess the climate risks (changes in mean, extremes, and effect on daily operation) to a proposed hydropower.

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Discharge in sub-basins of the Arun Basin in Nepal
Discharge in sub-basins of the Arun Basin in Nepal

The World Bank Group, University of Cincinnati, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Estimated the streamflow, evaporation, and infiltration along the stream channel in an ungauged glacierized catchment with a distributed hydrologic model, and global gridded datasets.

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Short Term Consultant for the World Bank
Short Term Consultant for the World Bank

The World Bank Group

Compiled the data on suspended sediment, reservoir operation, and turbine abrasion from five high-sediment operational hydropower projects in Nepal and India.

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