A5012207328- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Water resources management and optimization
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- GNSS positioning and interference
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
- Climate change and permafrost
- Climate variability and models
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Heavy metals in environment
- Engineering and Agricultural Innovations
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Coal and Its By-products
- Membrane Separation Technologies
University of Bonn
2013-2024
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2024
Afghanistan, Central Asia. In this study, we evaluated the terrestrial water storage dynamics in Afghanistan and its five major river basins using anomalies (TWSA) from three Gravity Recovery Climate Experiment (GRACE) mascons observations JPL, CSR, GSFC processing centers, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Land Data Assimilation System – Asia (FLDAS-CA) simulation. Since 2008, due to intense prolonged drought conditions groundwater overexploitation, TWS has been decreasing at...
Abstract Environmental flows (EFs), essential for upholding the ecological integrity of rivers and aquatic habitats, have been disrupted significantly by diverting water agricultural, industrial domestic uses. This underscores imperative implementing sustainable resource management to harmonize agricultural environmental needs. The study was conducted in Indus River Basin (IRB), a region extensively transformed human interventions. EFs were determined through various techniques, including...
Accurate estimation of snow-covered area (SCA) is vital for effective water resource management, especially in snowmelt-dependent regions like the Kabul River Basin (KRB). It serves as a reference point comparing expected variations availability driven by climate change, particularly arid and semi-arid KRB. In this study, fractional snow cover (FSC) was estimated across KRB using Landsat moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) datasets. For purpose, 34 Landsat-8 MODIS...
Afghanistan contains an irrigated area of approximately 3 million ha, with the remainder consisting rainfed regions. Agriculture, as primary consumer water resources, contributes significantly to national GDP. The undergoes variation from year year, depending on availability water. To understand variations in actual consumption by agriculture sector, it is vital assess long-term spatiotemporal evapotranspiration (AET) across country. This study assesses AET (1983-2023) and its implications...
The Kabul River basin (KRB) of Afghanistan, a lifeline around 10 million people, has multiplicity governance, management, and development-related challenges leading to inequity, inadequacy, unreliability irrigation water distribution. Prior any uplifting intervention, there is need evaluate the performance system on long term basis identify existing bottlenecks. Although are several indicators available for evaluation schemes, we used coefficient variation (CV) actual evapotranspiration...
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) products were used in this study which covers a period of 2000–2014. Comparison the SCA derived from MODIS and Landsat NDSI showed significant correlation, resultant coefficient determination (R2) was 0.85. For analyzing trend SCA, Mann-Kendall test applied; results show an increasing non-significant mean annual with Sen's slope value +16.99 (km2/year), winter identified. The 8.92 km2 564 for elevation ranges 5001–5694 m 4001–4500...
The Kabul River Basin (KRB) in Afghanistan is densely inhabited and heterogenic. basin’s water resources are limited, climate change anticipated to worsen this problem. Unfortunately, there a scarcity of data measure the impacts on KRB’s current resources. objective study introduce methodology that couples remote sensing Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for simulating impact existing KRB. Most biophysical parameters required SWAT model were derived from sensing-based algorithms. SUFI-2...
Water and soil polluted by heavy metals (HMs) are the primary problem due to rapidly increasing urbanization industrialization. For treatment of soil, phytoremediation turns into a cost-effective eco-friendly technique. The current research aimed examine load pollution, specifically HMs, in sediment wastewater (WW) GadoonAmazai Industrial Estate (GAIE), Pakistan compare ability native grass species Cynodon dactylon Digiteria sanguinalis for phytoaccumulation HMs. industrially was analysed...
The Kabul River basin (KRB) of Afghanistan, a lifeline around 10 million people, has multiplicity governance, management and development related challenges leading to inequity, inadequacy unreliability irrigation water distribution. Prior any uplifting intervention, there is need evaluate the performance system on long term basis identify existing bottlenecks. Although are several indicators used for evaluation schemes, but we coefficient variation (CV) actual evapotranspiration (ETa) in...
Due to many uncertainties in hydrological data and modeling, the findings are frequently regarded as unreliable, especially heterogeneous catchments such Kabul River Basin (KRB). Besides, statistical methods assess performance of models have also been called into doubt several studies. We evaluated Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model by indicators including Kling-Gupta efficiency (KGE), Nash–Sutcliffe (NSE), coefficient determination (R2) at single multi-outlets KRB assessed streamflow...
Despite decades of conflict and political instability, drought has also severely affected Afghanistan’s rural population agriculture sector. Agriculture is a primary livelihood source in the country, recurring droughts have put cascading pressures on agricultural economy food security. Therefore, understanding key drivers all risk components through comprehensive assessment critical for proactive management. This study assesses from an integrated perspective, emphasizing combined...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEEditorialNEXTSpecial Issue in ACS ES&T Water: Water Challenges and Solution Opportunities South Asia, a Rapidly Developing Region of the WorldRaju Kumar Gupta*Raju Gupta*E-mail: [email protected]. Tel: +91-5122596972.More by Raju GuptaView Biographyhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5537-8057, Fazlullah AkhtarFazlullah AkhtarMore AkhtarView Biography, Shameen JinadasaShameen JinadasaMore JinadasaView Biographyhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7755-0711, Shukra Raj...