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Yadu Pokhrel is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research is centered in the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography. Other subfields in their work include Sociology and Political Science as well as Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to hydrology and water management, including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Variability and Models, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis. Their research also engages with Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Yadu Pokhrel's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change, 2021, Science
  • Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought-heatwave events, 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • Irrigation in the Earth system, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yadu Pokhrel include Naota Hanasaki, Yusuke Satoh, Hannes Müller Schmied, Simon N. Gosling, and Wim Thiery.

The primary venues for their publications are Water Resources Research, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Hydrology, Nature Communications, and Nature Sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

    Yadu Pokhrel;Farshid Felfelani;Yusuke Satoh;Yusuke Satoh;Julien Boulange

  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

    Lukas Gudmundsson;Julien Boulange;Hong X. Do;Hong X. Do;Hong X. Do;Simon N. Gosling

  • Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

    T.I.E. Veldkamp;T.I.E. Veldkamp;Y. Wada;J.C.J.H. Aerts;J.C.J.H. Aerts;P. Döll

  • Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events

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  • Human–water interface in hydrological modelling : current status and future directions

    Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Ad de Roo;Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change.

    Julien Boulange;Naota Hanasaki;Dai Yamazaki;Yadu Pokhrel

  • Incorporating anthropogenic water regulation modules into a land surface model

    Yadu Pokhrel;Naota Hanasaki;Sujan Koirala;Jaeil Cho

  • A global hydrological simulation to specify the sources of water used by humans

    Naota Hanasaki;Naota Hanasaki;Sayaka Yoshikawa;Yadu Pokhrel;Shinjiro Kanae

  • Climate and anthropogenic contributions to the desiccation of the second largest saline lake in the twentieth century

    Suyog Chaudhari;Farshid Felfelani;Sanghoon Shin;Yadu Pokhrel

  • The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change

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  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Irrigation in the Earth system

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  • A Review of the Integrated Effects of Changing Climate, Land Use, and Dams on Mekong River Hydrology

    Yadu Pokhrel;Mateo Burbano;Jacob Roush;Hyunwoo Kang

  • Human impact parameterizations in global hydrological models improve estimates of monthly discharges and hydrological extremes : A multi-model validation study

    T I E Veldkamp;T I E Veldkamp;F Zhao;P J Ward;H de Moel

  • Model estimates of sea-level change due to anthropogenic impacts on terrestrial water storage

    Yadu N. Pokhrel;Yadu N. Pokhrel;Yadu N. Pokhrel;Naota Hanasaki;Pat J. F. Yeh;Tomohito J. Yamada

  • Incorporation of groundwater pumping in a global Land Surface Model with the representation of human impacts

    Yadu N. Pokhrel;Sujan Koirala;Pat J.-F. Yeh;Naota Hanasaki

  • Recent Progresses in Incorporating Human Land-Water Management into Global Land Surface Models Toward Their Integration into Earth System Models

    Yadu N. Pokhrel;Naota Hanasaki;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Hyungjun Kim

  • Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services

    Min Gon Chung;Min Gon Chung;Kenneth A. Frank;Yadu Pokhrel;Thomas Dietz

  • The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models

    Fang Zhao;Ted I. E. Veldkamp;Katja Frieler;Jacob Schewe

  • Natural and human-induced terrestrial water storage change: A global analysis using hydrological models and GRACE

    Farshid Felfelani;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Laurent Longuevergne;Yadu N. Pokhrel

  • Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts

    Jamal Zaherpour;Simon N Gosling;Nick Mount;Hannes Müller Schmied

  • The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 3. Influence on terrestrial water storage computations and comparison with GRACE

    Yadu N. Pokhrel;Ying Fan;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Pat J.F. Yeh

  • Potential Disruption of Flood Dynamics in the Lower Mekong River Basin Due to Upstream Flow Regulation

    Yadu Pokhrel;Sanghoon Shin;Zihan Lin;Dai Yamazaki

  • High Resolution Modeling of River-Floodplain-Reservoir Inundation Dynamics in the Mekong River Basin

    Sanghoon Shin;Yadu Pokhrel;Dai Yamazaki;Xiaodong Huang

  • Human-induced Terrestrial Water Storage Change: A Global Analysis using Hydrological Models and GRACE

    F. Felfelani;Y. N. Pokhrel

Frequent Co-Authors

Naota Hanasaki
Naota Hanasaki National Institute for Environmental Studies
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Hannes Müller Schmied
Hannes Müller Schmied Goethe University Frankfurt
Shinjiro Kanae
Shinjiro Kanae Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Manolis G. Grillakis
Manolis G. Grillakis Technical University of Crete
Hyungjun Kim
Hyungjun Kim University of Tokyo

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