Research Interests
Flood risk management, Flood hazard mapping, Vulnerability analysis, Climate change impact assessment, Population exposure, Flood resilience mechanisms, Hydrological modelling, Design rainfall analysis for data-poor catchments, Statistical downscaling, Water and waste water treatment, Bio- kinetics modelling for pollutant removal
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Research
The most updated list of publications may be found in my Google Scholar profile.
[18] Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., and Durga Rao, K.V.H., (2021) An integrated approach of flood risk assessment over a severely flood-prone coastal region using geomorphic classifiers, and socio-economic indicators. Journal of Geomatics [in press].
[17] Mohanty, M.P., and Simonovic, S. (2021) Changes in floodplain regimes over Canada due to climate change impacts: observations from CMIP6 models. Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 148323.
[16] Mohanty, M.P., & Karmakar, S. (2021) WebFRIS: an efficient web-based decision support tool to disseminate end-to-end risk information for flood management, Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, 288, 112456.
[15] Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S. & Ghosh, S. (2021) WEBFRIS: a web-based flood information system for enhanced resilience through risk awareness. European Water, European Water Resources Association [in press]
[14] Mohanty, M.P., & Karmakar, S. (2021) Hydrodynamic flood modelling of large regions under data-poor situations - A case study of Jagatsinghpur district, Odisha. International Journal of Business Analytics (Special Issue on Data Analytics in Humanitarian Supply Chain and Disaster Relief Operations Under Risk and Uncertainty), 8(2).
[13] Satpathy, S., Bhatia, U., Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2021) Flood Evacuation during Pandemic: A multi-objective Framework to HandleCompound Hazard. Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, 16(3), 034034.
[12] Mohanty, M.P., and Simonovic, S. (2021) Fidelity of reanalysis datasets in floodplain mapping: investigating performance at inundation levelover large regions. Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier, 597, 125757.
[11] Mohanty, M.P., and Simonovic, S. (2021) Understanding dynamics of flood exposure in Canada withmultiple high-resolution population data. Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 143559.
[10] Mohanty, M.P., S, Nithya., Indu, J., Ghosh, S. & Karmakar, S. (2020) Sensitivity of various topographic data in flood management: Implications on inundation mapping over large data-scarce regions. Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier, 590, 125523.
[9] Mohanty, M.P., Sherly, M. A., Ghosh, S., & Karmakar, S. (2020) Tide-Rainfall Flood Quotient:An incisive measure of comprehending a region’s response to storm-tide and pluvial flooding. Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, 15 (6), 064029.
[8] Mohanty, M.P., H, Vittal., Yadav, V., Ghosh, S. & Karmakar, S. (2020) A new bivariate riskclassifier for flood management considering hazard and socio-economic dimensions. Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, 255, 109733.
[7] Mohanty, M.P., Sahil, M., & Karmakar, S. (2020) Flood management in India: A focussed review on the current status and future challenges. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Elsevier, 101660.
[6] Gusain, A., Mohanty, M.P., Ghosh, S., & Karmakar, S. (2020) Capturing Transformation of Flood Hazard over a Large River Basin under Changing Climate using a Top-down Approach. Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 138600.
[5] Ghosh, M., Mohanty, M.P., Kishore, P., Karmakar, S. (2020) Performance Evaluation ofpotential inland flood management options through a 3-way coupled hydrodynamic modelling for a coastal urban catchment. Hydrology Research, IWA Publishing, nh2020123.
[4] Ghosh, S., Karmakar, S., Saha, A., Mohanty, M.P. et al. (2019) Development of India's first integrated expert urban flood forecasting system for Chennai. Current Science, 117(5), 741-745.
[3] Brahmacharimayum, B., Mohanty, M.P., & Ghosh, P.K. (2019) Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Biological sulfate Reduction: A Review. Global NEST, 21 (2), 222-244.
[2] Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2018). Regionalized Design Rainfall Estimation:an appraisal of Inundation Mapping for Flood Management under Data-ScarceSituations. Water Resources Management, Springer, 32(14), 4725-4746.
[1] Mohanty, M.P., Brahmacharimayum, B., & Ghosh, P. K. (2018). Effects of phenol on sulfate reduction by mixed microbial culture: kinetics and bio-kinetics analysis. Water Science and Technology, IWA Publishing, 77(4), 1079-1088.
Honors And Awards
Students
Miscellaneous
1. Invited lecture on Fidelity of reanalysis datasets in floodplain mapping: Investigating performance at inundation level over large regions by CONECTA AL II, CIVGEO 2022 on 24 July 2021 in Lima, Peru.
2. Invited lecture on Advances in Urban Water Management organized by CUSE, IIT Bombay from 10 December to Dec. 14, 2018, at IIT Bombay.
3. Invited lecture for a workshop on Flooding in Cities, Warning & Dissemination organized by SVNIT, Surat, Gujrat (India) from Aug. 20-21, 2018.
4. Invited lecture on Flood Modeling: A demonstration in the CEP-QIP course on Impacts of Climate Change, Urbanization, and Land-Use-Land-Cover Change on Water Resources organized from May 30- Jun. 3, 2016 at IIT Bombay.
1. Mohanty, M.P., & Simonovic, P. S. (2021) A comprehensive approach for flood-plain mapping through identification of hazard using publicly available data sets over Canada, ICFM 8, Aug. 17-19, 2021, Iowa, USA (accepted).
2. Mohanty, M.P., & Karmakar, S. (2021) Tide Equivalent Rainfall: A new metric to improve the resilience of global coastal regions to pluvial and tidal impacts, ICFM 8, Aug. 17-19, 2021, Iowa, USA (accepted).
3. Ghosh, M., Mohanty, M.P., & Karmakar, S., Identification of Optimal Hydraulic Flood Management Scenarios for a Socially Vulnerable Urban Coastal Catchment: A 3-way Coupled Hydrodynamic Approach, Paper Number: H218-0012, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 1-20, USA.
4. Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2019) WEBFRIS: a web-based flood information system for enhanced resilience through risk awareness, EWRA 2019, Jun. 23-25, 2019, Madrid, Spain.
5. Mohanty, M.P., Vittal, H., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2017) An exhaustive approach for identification of flood risk hotspots in data-poor regions enforcing combined geomorphic and socio-economic indicators, Paper Number: NH21B-0174, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 11-15, 2017, New Orleans, USA.
6. Singh, J., Paimazumder, D., Mohanty, M.P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2017) Urbanization induces non-stationarity in Extreme Rainfall Characteristics over Contiguous United States, Paper Number: GC43F-1125, AGU Fall Meeting 2017, Dec. 11-15, 2017, New Orleans, USA.
7. Sharma, T., Vittal, H., Mohanty, M.P., Ghosh, S., & Karmakar, S. (2017) Assessing the Impacts of Decadal Socio-Agro-Hydro Climatic Variations on Agricultural Vulnerability over India. Paper Number: GC34B-08, AGU Fall Meeting 2017, Dec. 11-15, 2017, New Orleans, USA.
8. Mohanty, M.P., Nithya, S., Indu, J., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. Impacts of different sources of topographic data and uncertainty assessment on 1-D 2-D coupled flood inundation modelling, United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction - “Building Resilience through Integrated Applications”, Oct. 23-25, 2017, Beijing, China.
9. Mohanty, M.P., Gusain, A., Sharma, T., Ranjan, P., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2016) A Comparative Flood Hazard Assessment with Climate Projections for India, ICRC: Cordex 2016, May 17-20, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden.
10. Mohanty, M.P., Gusain, A., Sherly, M.A., Karmakar, S., & Ghosh, S. (2016) Estimation of Design rainfall for flood risk mapping in a data-scarce situation, 9th International Geographical Union Conference, Mar. 18-20, 2016, New Delhi, India.
11. Gusain, A., Mohanty, M.P., Vittal, H., Karmakar, S., Ghosh, S., & Rao, G.S (2015) Assessment of future change in streamflow through the identification of its association with precipitation in Mahanadi Basin, India under the data-scarce scenario, Paper Number: H43I-1676, AGU Fall Meeting 2015, Dec. 14-18, 2015, San Fransisco, USA.
12. Mohanty, M.P., Brahmacharimayum, B., & Ghosh, P.K. (2014) Simultaneous bio-reduction of sulfate and nitrate in batch shake flasks Poster presentation at National Conference on Sustainable Development of Environmental Systems, Jun. 20-21, 2014, Guwahati, India.
13. Mohanty, M.P., & Ghosh, P.K. (2014) A review on various Bio-kinetic models used in biological sulfate reduction, International Conference on Harnessing Natural Resources for sustainable development – A global trend (IHNRSD-14), Jan. 29-31, 2014, Guwahati, India.
14. Brahmacharimayum, B., Mohanty, M.P., & Ghosh, P.K. (2014) A review on the intermediates, pathways, and enzymes utilized in dissimilatory sulfate reduction, International Conference on Harnessing Natural Resources for sustainable development – A global trend (IHNRSD-14), Jan. 29-31, 2014, Guwahati, India.
15. Laskar, M., Mohanty, M. P., Brahmacharimayum, B., & Ghosh, P.K. (2013) Kinetics of sulfate bio-reduction and sulfide oxidation by mixed microbial consortia, International Congress of Environmental Research (ICER-2013), Dec. 19-21, 2013, Aurangabad, India.