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Rajesh Shrestha

Hydrologist

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Rajesh joined PCIC as a hydrologist in November 2010. He has extensive experience in hydrologic and nutrient transport modelling, and assessment of climate-induced changes. He possesses a strong background in the application of process-based and data-driven models for catchment hydrologic and river hydraulic modelling, flood forecasting, and risk and uncertainty analyses.

Education: 

  • PhD Water Resources Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  • MSc Resources Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Selected Publications: 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Prowse, T.P., Shrestha, R.R, Bansal, B.R., Dibike, Y.B., 2010. Changing spring air-temperature gradients on large northern rivers: implications for severity of river-ice floods, Geophysical Research Letters 37, L19706, doi:10.1029/2010GL044878.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Simonovic, S.P., 2010. Fuzzy nonlinear regression approach to stage – discharge analyses: case study, ASCE-Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 15(1), 49-56, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000128.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Simonovic, S.P., 2010. A fuzzy set theory based methodology for analysis of measurement uncertainties in river discharge and stage, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 37, 429-439, doi:10.1139/L05-151.
  • Lee, H., Balin, D., Shrestha, R.R., Rode, M., 2010. Streamflow prediction with uncertainty analysis, Weida catchment, Germany, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering 14(3), 413-420, doi: 10.1007/s12205-010-0413-0.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Nestmann, F., 2009. Physically based and data driven models and propagation of input uncertainties in river flood prediction, ASCE-Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 14(12), 1309-1319, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000123.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Rode, M., 2008. Multi-objective calibration and fuzzy preference selection of a distributed hydrological model, Environmental Modelling and Software 239(12), 1384-1395 doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.04.001.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Bárdossy, A., Rode, M., 2007. A hybrid deterministic - fuzzy rule based model for catchment scale nitrate dynamics, Journal of Hydrology 342, 143-156. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.05.020.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Bárdossy, A., Nestmann, F., 2007. Analysis and propagation of uncertainties due to stage discharge relationship: a fuzzy set approach, Hydrological Sciences Journal 52(4), 595-610. doi: 10.1623/hysj.52.4.595.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Theobald, S., Nestmann, F., 2005. Simulation of flood flow in a river system using artificial neural networks, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 9(4), 313-321.

Conference Proceedings

  • Shrestha, R.R., Dibike, Y., Prowse, T.D., 2010. Modelling Climate Impacts on Hydrologic Processes in the Lake Winnipeg Watershed, in Swayne, D.A., Yang, W., Voinov, A. A., Rizzoli, A., Filatova T. (Eds.), Proc., 2010 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/index.php?n=Main.Proceedings
  • Shrestha, R.R., Dibike, Y., Prowse, T.D., 2009. Application of SWAT in Hydrologic and Nutrient Transport Modelling of the Lake Winnipeg Watershed, in Twigg, K., Swyden, C., Srinivasan, R. (Eds.), Proc., 2009 International SWAT Conference, Boulder, Colorado. Texas Water Resources Institute Technical Report no. 356. 243-251. http://twri.tamu.edu/reports/2009/tr356.pdf
  • Shrestha, R.R., Rode, M., 2007. Modelling catchment scale nutrient transport using a combined process based and data driven approach, in Water Quality and Sediment Behaviour of the Future: Predictions for the 21st Century, IAHS Red book Publ. No. 314-34, 125-134.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Bárdossy, A., 2006. Uncertainty analysis of a stage discharge relationship: a fuzzy regression approach, in Gourbesville P., Cunge, J., Guinot, V., Liong, S.-Y. (Eds.), Proc., Seventh International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Research Publishing, Chennai, India, 2967-2974.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Nestmann F., 2005. River water level prediction using physically based and data driven models, in Zerger, A., Argent, R.M. (Eds.), Proc., MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Melbourne, Australia, 1895-1900.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Theobald, S., Nestmann, F., 2004. Combined hydrodynamic–neural network model for flood flow simulation, in Liong, S-Y, Phoon, K. K. & Babovic, V. (Eds.), Proc., Sixth International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Singapore, 1489-1496.
  • Shrestha, R.R., 2003. Flood routing using artificial neural networks, Proc., XXX IAHR Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece, 121-126.
  • Shrestha, R.R., Theobald, S., Nestmann, F., 2002. Flood risk modelling of Babai River in Nepal, in Spreafico, M., Weingartner, W. (Eds.), Proc. International Conference on Flood Estimation, CHR Report II-17, Berne, 679-686.