Roorkee Water Conclave 2020: Roorkee Water Conclave IIT Roorkee Roorkee, India, February 26-28, 2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 1, 2020 |
Submission deadline | February 20, 2020 |
Background
Climate change and its impact on water sector are the most critical global challenge in current century. It is likely to be more severe in developing countries whose economy is largely dependent on the agriculture and is already under stress due to population increase and associated demands for energy, fresh water and food. Climate change poses uncertainties to the supply and management of water resources. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted an increase of temperature about 2 to 4o C over the next 100 years. As a result, the various components of hydrologic cycle would be affected causing considerable changes in the precipitation characteristics, evapotranspiration, runoff patterns, snow & glacier melts, recharge to the ground water etc. Consequently, these changes can indirectly affect the flux and storage of water in surface and subsurface reservoirs (i.e., lakes, soil moisture, and groundwater). In addition, there may be other associated impacts, such as acceleration of floods & drought, seawater intrusion, water quality & environmental deterioration, potable water shortage, etc.
In order to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change on country's water resources and attaining its sustainable development and management, there are needs for developing the rational adaptation strategies and enhancing the capacity to adapt those strategies. It would provide the means for alleviating the negative impacts of climate change. The risk, reliability and uncertainty analysis are must before deciding the adaptation strategies. Keeping in view, the importance of impacts of climate change, it is necessary to identify the key issues and challenges, which the expected climate change will bring in water resources planning, design and management, provide the framework for adequate research, and formulate recommendations for the future work.
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts of Papers (not exceeding 150 words) must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference and the acceptance will be notified by …………… The authors of the accepted abstracts are requested to submit the full length papers latest by …………… The following paper categories are welcome:
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List of Topics
1. Monitoring of Hydrological & Hydro-Meteorological data and its Management
- Advanced Hydrological & Hydro-Meteorological Instruments
- Space Technology for Data Monitoring
- Data Storage, Retrieval and Dissemination
- Web based Hydrological Information System
2. Climate Change, Climatological Modelling & Predictions
- Climate Change and Global Warming
- Climate Change and Technology
- General Circulation Models
- Regional Circulation Models
- Downscaling
- Uncertainty Analysis
3. Hydrological Modelling under Changing Climates
- Hydrological Models and its Applications to Simulate the Hydrologic Cycle
- Calibration, Validation and Sensitivity Analysis
- Ensemble Modelling
- Models for Assessment of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation
4. Assessment of Water Resources and Climate Change
- Methodologies for Water Resources Assessment
- Climate change & evaluation of its impact on water resources
- Uncertainty & Reliability Analysis
- Water Resources Planning considering climate change
- Decision Support System for Integrated Water Resources Development & Management
- Hydrology of Wetlands, Ponds & Lakes
5. Ground Water Management
- Ground Water Monitoring
- Assessment of Ground Water Resources
- Aquifer Mapping
- Ground Water Modelling
- Sea Water Intrusion in Coastal Areas
6. Floods & its Management
- Flood Mechanism & its possible causes
- Cloud Burst and Flash Floods
- Riverine floods, Glacial outburst floods and Urban Floods
- Floods resulting due to drainage congestion and structural failure
- Design Floods and Climate Change
- Flood Vulnerability
- Integrated Flood Management
- Space Technology & Flood Management
7. Drought & its Management
- Drought Monitoring
- Meteorological, Hydrological & Agricultural Aspects of Drought
- Drought Indices
- Drought Response Plan
- Drought Vulnerability and Management
- Space Technology & Drought Management
8. Water Resources System Operation and Climate Change
- Reservoir Water Balance
- Rule Curves
- Integrated Operation of Multipurpose Reservoirs
- Decision Support Systems for Real Time Operation
- Reliability Analysis under Changing Climate
- Dam Safety and Management
- Space Technology & Reservoir Management
9. Water Quality & Environment
- Eco-Hydrology
- Forest Hydrology
- Green Technologies & Climate Change
- Monitoring and Management of Surface & Groundwater Quality under Climate Change
10. Adaptation Strategies
- Monitoring & Predictions
- Advanced Analytical Tools & Techniques
- Application of Advanced Technologies
- Creation of Additional Storages
- Interlinking of Rivers
- Artificial Recharge
- Cropping Pattern
- Enhancing Water Use Efficiency
- Short Term, Medium Term & Long Term Structural and Non-Structural Measures to Cope with Climate Change
11. Role of Women in Mitigation Impacts of Climate Change
- Strengthen Gender-Response Policy Development
- Raise Awareness of Gender and Climate Change Issues
12. Energy and Water Nexus
- Assessment of Hydro-Power Potentials
- Hydro-power Developments & Managements including Risk Mitigation
- Advance Technologies for Hydropower Developments
- Multiple Benefits of Hydropower
- Power Trading & Regional Developments
- Variable Speed Hydro
- Fast Response Ancillary Services
- Solar-Hydro Hybrid Energy Systems
13. Impact of Climate Change on Food Security
- Weather Prediction & Forecasting for Irrigation Scheduling, Flood & Drought Management
- Applications of Satellite Technologies for Societal Benefits
- Impacts of Land Degradation on Livelihood
- Socio-Economic Analysis for Water and Energy
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus
14. Policy Frame Work
- Planning Strategies under Climate Change & their Implementation
- Participatory Approaches Along with their Integration in Management Practices as well as for Sustainable Development
15. Industrial Framework for Mitigation Challenges
- Mitigating Challenges through it Risk Management
16. River Dynamics and Hydraulic Structures
- Morphology of Rivers and Morphodynamics
- Erosion and Protection Works
- Reservoir Sedimentation
- Hyper Concentrated Flow
- Aerated Flows
- Instrumentation
- Environmental Hydraulics
- Numerical and Physical Modeling
- Hydraulic Transients
- Hydraulic Structures
17. Isotope Techniques for Water Resources Management
- Surface Water-Groundwater Interaction
- Moisture recycling
- Groundwater Pollution Studies
- Mountainous Hydrology
Committees
Program Committee
Organizing committee
- Chairman - Prof. Ajit K. Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee
- Co-Chairman - Dr. S.K. Jain, Director, NIH Roorkee
Publication
Roorkee Water Conclave 2020 proceedings will be published in ………………
Venue
The conference will be held at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, during Feb 26-28, 2020.