IITKGP
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Responsibilities

  • Chairperson, School of Water Resources
  • Associate Dean, Outreach

Research Areas

  • Statistical hydrology
  • Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Eng
  • Remote Sensing Applications
  • Analysis of Hydrologic Extremes
  • AI/ML Applications in Hydroclimatology
I work in the broad research area of Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Engineering.

Specific Research Interests include:
i) Hydroclimatic Teleconnection: Large Scale Coupled Circulation Patterns and Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR), Time-Invariant and Time-Varying Approaches.

ii) Modelling for Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Effect of climate change on hydrology and water resources, Hydrological Systems in a Changing Environment, Bias correction and downscaling.

iii) Analysis of Hydroclimatic Extremes: Spatio-temporal change in rainfall extremes, Analysis and hydroclimatic modeling of droughts, Probable Maximum Precipitation.

iv) Sea Level Rise: Hydroclimatic modelling of local Sea Level Rise, Coastal vulnerability and future impacts.

v) Statistical Methods: Time series analysis and forecasting, Copula theory in hydroclimatic analysis, Graphical Modelling, Probabilistic prediction and uncertainty quantification.

vi) Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology: Application of remote sensing for soil moisture assessment.

vii) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Application of Support Vector Machines (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Evolutionary Optimizer, Deep Learning (DL) etc. in hydroclimatology
  • Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Hydroclimatology (2nd Edition) by Maity R. 1-436 (2022)
  • Increase in Probable Maximum Precipitation in a Changing Climate over India by Sarkar S., Maity R. Journal of Hydrology 585:124806 - (2020)
  • Assessment of basin-wise future agricultural drought status across india under changing climate by Suman M., Maity R. Journal of Water and Climate Change 12 2400-2421 (2021)
  • Global climate shift in 1970s causes a significant worldwide increase in precipitation extremes by Sarkar S., Maity R. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 11:11574 - (2021)
  • Long-term simulation of daily rainfall across India: Performance of cumulus convection schemes in regional climate model during southwest and northeast monsoon by Dutta R., Sunanda N., Patra A., Maity R. Atmospheric Research 259 - (2021)
  • Potential of deep learning in drought assessment by extracting information from hydrometeorological precursors by Maity R., Khan M.I., Sarkar S., Dutta R., Maity S.S., Pal M., Chanda K. Journal of Water and Climate Change 12 2774-2796 (2021)
  • Revealing alarming changes in spatial coverage of joint hot and wet extremes across India by Dash S., Maity R. Scientific Reports 11 - (2021)
  • Hybrid deep learning approach for multi-step-ahead daily rainfall prediction using GCM simulations by Khan M., Maity R. IEEE Access 8 52774-52784 (2020)

Principal Investigator

  • AI-based Local Weather Forecasting and Urban Flood Simulation IIT KHARAGPUR
  • Review of design report of river bank protection along with physical verification HINDUSTAN URVARAK AND RASAYAN LIMITED
  • Stochastic Modelling for High Spatio-Temporal Resolution Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval using L and S Band NISAR Observations SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE, Indian Space Research Organization

Co-Principal Investigator

  • DPR for installation of STP for VIswabharati campus at Bolpur, Shantiniketan STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
  • Promoting Agricultural Resilience with AI-based Modeling and Value Chain Analysis (PARAM-VC) Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC)

Ph. D. Students

Arindam Majumder

Area of Research: Water Availability and Supply system

Chandankumar N M

Area of Research: Intensification of Hydrological Cycle and Modelling of Extremes

Gorantla Indraja

Area of Research: Climate change and hydrological extremes

Pratyush Kumar Dora

Area of Research: Assessment and Modelling of Hydroclimatic Disaster

Tamal Patra

Area of Research: Quantifying Future Risks: Modeling of Natural Disasters and Hydroclimatic Extreme Events

Triveni Majhi

Area of Research: Climate change impact on water resources