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Venkatesh Merwade is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science with a strong emphasis on hydrology and watershed management. Within this broad field, their work covers multiple subfields, including water science and technology, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, ecology, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's research topics include hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, hydrology and drought analysis, hydrology and sediment transport processes, environmental monitoring and data management, and soil erosion and sediment transport.

Key recent publications by Venkatesh Merwade include:

  • Evaluating the reliability of synthetic rating curves for continental scale flood mapping, 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • Incorporating Network Scale River Bathymetry to Improve Characterization of Fluvial Processes in Flood Modeling, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • How Is Spatial Homogeneity in Precipitation Extremes Changing Globally?, 2023, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Regional flood frequency analysis and uncertainties: Maximum streamflow estimates in ungauged basins in the region of Lavras, MG, Brazil, 2020, CATENA
  • Uncertainty Analysis and Quantification in Flood Insurance Rate Maps Using Bayesian Model Averaging and Hierarchical BMA, 2022, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Venkatesh Merwade frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Sayan Dey (15 joint works)
  • William Crossley (7 joint works)
  • Chung-Yuan Liang (7 joint works)
  • Siddharth Saksena (5 joint works)
  • Tao Huang (5 joint works)

Their work is published in various scientific venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
  • Water Resources Research (5 publications)
  • Environmental Modelling & Software (4 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (3 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Effect of topographic data, geometric configuration and modeling approach on flood inundation mapping

    Aaron Cook;Venkatesh Merwade

  • GIS techniques for creating river terrain models for hydrodynamic modeling and flood inundation mapping

    Venkatesh Merwade;Aaron Cook;Julie Coonrod

  • Uncertainty in Flood Inundation Mapping: Current Issues and Future Directions

    Venkatesh Merwade;Francisco Olivera;Mazdak Arabi;Scott Edleman

  • Incorporating the effect of DEM resolution and accuracy for improved flood inundation mapping

    Siddharth Saksena;Venkatesh Merwade

  • Quantifying the relative impact of climate and human activities on streamflow

    Kuk-Hyun Ahn;Venkatesh Merwade

  • Evaluation of Temperature and Precipitation Trends and Long-Term Persistence in CMIP5 Twentieth-Century Climate Simulations

    Sanjiv Kumar;Venkatesh Merwade;James L. Kinter;Dev Niyogi

  • Multi-objective calibration of a hydrologic model using spatially distributed remotely sensed/in-situ soil moisture

    Mohammad Adnan Rajib;Venkatesh Merwade;Zhiqiang Yu

  • Investigating the role of model structure and surface roughness in generating flood inundation extents using one- and two-dimensional hydraulic models

    Z. Liu;V. Merwade;K. Jafarzadegan

  • Anisotropic considerations while interpolating river channel bathymetry

    Venkatesh M. Merwade;David R. Maidment;John A. Goff

  • Towards a large-scale locally relevant flood inundation modeling framework using SWAT and LISFLOOD-FP

    Adnan Rajib;Zhu Liu;Venkatesh Merwade;Ahmad A. Tavakoly;Ahmad A. Tavakoly

  • Implementation of surface soil moisture data assimilation with watershed scale distributed hydrological model

    Eun Jin Han;Venkatesh Merwade;Gary C. Heathman

  • Effect of spatial trends on interpolation of river bathymetry

    Venkatesh Merwade

  • Uncertainty Quantification in Flood Inundation Mapping Using Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimate and Sensitivity Analysis

    Younghun Jung;Venkatesh Merwade

  • Impact of Watershed Subdivision and Soil Data Resolution on SWAT Model Calibration and Parameter Uncertainty

    Sanjiv Kumar;Venkatesh Merwade

  • Estimation of annual baseflow at ungauged sites in Indiana USA

    Laurent Ahiablame;Indrajeet Chaubey;Bernard Engel;Keith Cherkauer

  • Incorporating institutions and collective action into a sociohydrological model of flood resilience

    David J. Yu;Nikhil Sangwan;Kyungmin Sung;Xi Chen

  • A DEM-based approach for large-scale floodplain mapping in ungauged watersheds

    Keighobad Jafarzadegan;Venkatesh Merwade

  • Geospatial Representation of River Channels

    Venkatesh M. Merwade;David R. Maidment;Ben R. Hodges

  • Land use/cover change impacts in CMIP5 climate simulations: A new methodology and 21st century challenges

    Sanjiv Kumar;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Venkatesh Merwade;Timothy DelSole

  • Multi-scale temporal stability analysis of surface and subsurface soil moisture within the Upper Cedar Creek Watershed, Indiana

    Gary C. Heathman;Michael H. Cosh;Venkatesh Merwade;Eunjin Han

  • HydroShare: Advancing Collaboration through Hydrologic Data and Model Sharing

    David G. Tarboton;Ray Idaszak;Jeffery S. Horsburgh;Jeff Heard

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Maidment
David R. Maidment The University of Texas at Austin
David G. Tarboton
David G. Tarboton Utah State University
Zhu Liu
Zhu Liu Tsinghua University
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
Bernard A. Engel
Bernard A. Engel Purdue University West Lafayette
Marian Muste
Marian Muste University of Iowa
Nandita B. Basu
Nandita B. Basu University of Waterloo
Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia
Charles R. Lane
Charles R. Lane Environmental Protection Agency
Matthew Huber
Matthew Huber Purdue University West Lafayette

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