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Sangam Shrestha is affiliated with the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. Their primary research focus lies in environmental science, with significant contributions to various subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and ocean engineering.

Their work extensively addresses topics related to hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, climate variability and models, water resources management and optimization, hydrology and drought analysis, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Prominent papers authored or co-authored by Sangam Shrestha include:

  • "Intensifying saline water intrusion and drought in the Mekong Delta: From physical evidence to policy outlooks" (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "How the saline water intrusion has reshaped the agricultural landscape of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, a review" (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Evaluation of artificial intelligence models for flood and drought forecasting in arid and tropical regions" (2021), published in Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Impacts of land-use changes on the groundwater recharge in the Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam" (2020), published in Environmental Research
  • "Assessment of flood adaptive capacity of urban areas in Thailand" (2020), published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • S. Mohanasundaram
  • Ho Huu Loc
  • Mukand S. Babel
  • S. Virdis
  • Sarawut Ninsawat

Shrestha's research is published predominantly in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Environmental Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Water and Climate Change
  • Groundwater for Sustainable Development
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Assessment of surface water quality using multivariate statistical techniques: A case study of the Fuji river basin, Japan

    Sangam Shrestha;F. Kazama

  • Delineation of groundwater potential zones in the Comoro watershed, Timor Leste using GIS, remote sensing and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique

    Domingos Pinto;Sangam Shrestha;Mukand S. Babel;Sarawut Ninsawat

  • Evaluation and application of a SWAT model to assess the climate change impact on the hydrology of the Himalayan River Basin

    Binod Bhatta;Sangam Shrestha;Pallav K. Shrestha;Rocky Talchabhadel

  • Integrated assessment of the climate and landuse change impact on hydrology and water quality in the Songkhram River Basin, Thailand

    Sangam Shrestha;Binod Bhatta;Manish Shrestha;Pallav K. Shrestha

  • Assessment of groundwater vulnerability and risk to pollution in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

    Sangam Shrestha;Dickson John Semkuyu;Vishnu P. Pandey

  • Climate change impact on glacier and snow melt and runoff in Tamakoshi basin in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region

    Dibesh Khadka;Mukand S. Babel;Sangam Shrestha;Nitin K. Tripathi

  • Exploring the application of artificial intelligence technology for identification of water pollution characteristics and tracing the source of water quality pollutants.

    Puze Wang;Jiping Yao;Guoqiang Wang;Fanghua Hao

  • Assessment of surface water quality using multivariate statistical techniques: case study of the Nampong River and Songkhram River, Thailand

    Somphinith Muangthong;Sangam Shrestha

  • Anthropogenic influences on the water quality of the Baiyangdian Lake in North China over the last decade.

    Quan Han;Runze Tong;Wenchao Sun;Yue Zhao

  • Climate change impacts on irrigation water requirement, crop water productivity and rice yield in the Songkhram River Basin, Thailand

    Siriwat Boonwichai;Sangam Shrestha;Mukand S. Babel;Sutat Weesakul

  • Climate change impacts on groundwater resources in Mekong Delta under representative concentration pathways (RCPs) scenarios

    Sangam Shrestha;Tran Viet Bach;Vishnu Prasad Pandey;Vishnu Prasad Pandey

  • Groundwater vulnerability to climate change: A review of the assessment methodology.

    Rana Ammar Aslam;Sangam Shrestha;Vishnu Prasad Pandey

  • A framework for estimating pollutant export coefficients from long-term in-stream water quality monitoring data

    S. Shrestha;F. Kazama;L. T. H. Newham

  • A framework for measuring groundwater sustainability

    Vishnu P. Pandey;Sangam Shrestha;Saroj K. Chapagain;Futaba Kazama

  • Intensifying saline water intrusion and drought in the Mekong Delta: From physical evidence to policy outlooks.

    Ho Huu Loc;Doan Van Binh;Edward Park;Sangam Shrestha

  • Evaluation of index-overlay methods for groundwater vulnerability and risk assessment in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

    Sangam Shrestha;Ranjana Kafle;Vishnu Prasad Pandey;Vishnu Prasad Pandey

  • Quantifying the impact of climate change on crop yield and water footprint of rice in the Nam Oon Irrigation Project, Thailand

    Sangam Shrestha;Ranju Chapagain;Mukand S. Babel

  • Use of principal component analysis, factor analysis and discriminant analysis to evaluate spatial and temporal variations in water quality of the Mekong River

    Sangam Shrestha;Futaba Kazama;Takashi Nakamura

  • Evaluating the impacts of climate and land-use change on the hydrology and nutrient yield in a transboundary river basin: A case study in the 3S River Basin (Sekong, Sesan, and Srepok).

    Nguyen Thi Thuy Trang;Sangam Shrestha;Manish Shrestha;Avishek Datta

  • Evaluation of climate change impacts and adaptation strategies on rainfed rice production in Songkhram River Basin, Thailand.

    Siriwat Boonwichai;Sangam Shrestha;Mukand S. Babel;Sutat Weesakul

  • Evaluation of annualized agricultural nonpoint source model for a watershed in the Siwalik Hills of Nepal

    Sangam Shrestha;Mukand S. Babel;A. Das Gupta;F. Kazama

  • A framework to assess adaptive capacity of the water resources system in Nepalese river basins

    Vishnu Prasad Pandey;Mukand S. Babel;Sangam Shrestha;Futaba Kazama

  • Assessment of Deep Groundwater Quality in Kathmandu Valley Using Multivariate Statistical Techniques

    Saroj Kumar Chapagain;Vishnu P. Pandey;Sangam Shrestha;Takashi Nakamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Mukand S. Babel
Mukand S. Babel Asian Institute of Technology
Avishek Datta
Avishek Datta Asian Institute of Technology
Baolin Xue
Baolin Xue Beijing Normal University
Hiroshi Ishidaira
Hiroshi Ishidaira University of Yamanashi
Matthew Collins
Matthew Collins University of Exeter
Rajib Shaw
Rajib Shaw Keio University
Fanghua Hao
Fanghua Hao Beijing Normal University
Kuniyoshi Takeuchi
Kuniyoshi Takeuchi University of Yamanashi
Marc Verloo
Marc Verloo Ghent University
Mesfin Mekonnen
Mesfin Mekonnen University of Alabama

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