| Sanction Date: | 31-03-2016 | ||||
| Project Category | LG | ||||
| Year | 2015-2016 | ||||
| Project Duration | 3 Years | ||||
| BTA : | Water Resource Management | ||||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: | Upper Ganga and Indus Basins within the Western Himalayan Region | ||||
| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi | ||||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | Roles & Responsibilities | ||
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Hydrological Projections, Drought Scenarios, Flood Return Levels | |||
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National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand | 1.Temperature & precipitation gradients across the Himalaya. 2.100 AT/RH station data and precipitation data for subgrid scale parameterization |
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National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Noida, UP | 1. Hydrological water budget and change in the changing climate 2. Model based future projection in water budget |
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Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka | Tree, bird and mammal databases for Indus basin; Maxent models | |||
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NCF, Mysore | Ecological database: birds Ecological monitorin: Birds Community-engagement and citizen science | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. A.P. Dimri
School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi |
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| Project Brief Description: | The impact of climate change on Himalayan hydrology, biodiversity and ecosystem properties remain poorly explored. It may be due to lack of climatic and species distribution data along altitudinal gradients across the IHR, wet-dry and other atmospheric flows which influence local to regional processes as well as global weather patterns. To unlock these issues, it is a priority to develop better understanding of the atmospheric processes and resultant hydrological, glaciological and ecological responses over the IHR. This project therefore is structured to achieve this objective in understanding complexities associated with hydrology-glaciology-ecology within the climate change framework and its implications and manifestations thereof. The project has few interventions such as monitor climate data, develop model, use measured data to minimise uncertainty, analyses of LULC maps for identify fragmentation statistics, communicate and share relevant climatic and ecological information with Himalayan communities to the objectives. Finally, main outcomes of the project are: establishment of long-term climate monitoring, species distribution databases, identifying frequency of extreme hydro-meteorological events, glacier and snow-melt dynamics, water management strategy to reduce risk to flooding and drought etc. | ||||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | Village communities across two river bsins in 50 AT/RH and 5 precipitation study sites where we implement citizen science and outreach programs State Agencies and Central Govt Agencies
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| Activity Chart (For 3years) | Click Here | ||||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 2,10,02,000/-( Rupees two crore ten lakh two thousand only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
| Develop extensive database for climate and ecological processes across the elevation gradients | Development of world class field observatories and long-term ecological and climate monitoring systems in Ganges and Indus sub-regions (2 basins), by combining citizen science with field work by research teams. | No of long term monitoring systems established in 2 basins |
| Regional climate modelling with sub-grid orographic forcing, extreme hydrological events, biodiversity dynamics for the present (1970-2010) | Integrated and synthetic assessment of vegetation and faunal response to climate change in 3 different Himalayan watersheds. | Assessment reports of watershed (Nos.) |
| Regional climate model simulations for climate change scenarios (up to ~2100) | Engagement with local communities to develop long-term citizen science based monitoring programs for ecological and climatic changes. | Models and knowledge products developed and published out of the projects (Nos.) |
| Identify ecological restoration strategies to adapt to future climatic scenarios. | Develop models that can provide more reliable projections for ecological changes, weather and extreme climatic events for the western Himalayan region. | Communities engaged in monitoring program (Nos.) |
| Develop specific approaches to ensure participation of women in citizen science and outreach programs. | Women participation in science outreach program (Nos.) |
| S.No. | Name | Qualification | Designation | Salary |
| 1. | Sameer Javed | MSc. Geology | JRF | Rs.12500/+HRA |
| 2. | Arkadeb Banerjee | MSc Atm. Sc. | JRF | Rs.25000+HRA |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment | Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | AT/RH Instruments (50) | (HOBO-U23-003) for environmental meteorological monitoring | 21,38,864 |
| 2. | High performance computational cluster | 32 TB usable strage Infiniband communication device ,05 compute nodes, one master node for model simulation and data handling | 39,00,000 |
| 3. | Rain Gauge (10) | HOBO (RG3) For research and various analysis | 6,70,195 |
