Jekyll2026-05-13T07:53:30+00:00https://riverlab.in/feed.xmlRIVER LabResearch lab at CSRE, IIT Bombay working on satellite remote sensing, hydrological modelling, and water-resource management for regulated rivers and reservoirs.Maitra Tiwari joins the RIVER Lab as summer intern2026-05-11T00:00:00+00:002026-05-13T07:52:44+00:00https://riverlab.in/2026/05/11/maitra-joinsMr. Maitra Tiwari, a student of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur, joins the RIVER Lab. His work will focus on evaluating the performance of LSTMs for predicting streamflow.]]>pritam-dasShanta Panja joins RIVER Lab as a PhD student2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:002026-05-13T07:52:44+00:00https://riverlab.in/2025/11/10/shanta-joins-riverlabWe welcome Shanta Panja to the RIVER Lab! Shanta joins us as a PhD student and will be investigating the estimation of groundwater seepage from reservoirs using satellite observables.]]>pritam-dasPritam Das joins CSRE, IIT Bombay as Assistant Professor2025-08-04T00:00:00+00:002026-05-13T07:52:44+00:00https://riverlab.in/2025/08/04/joined-iitbWe are officially launching RIVER Lab at the Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE), IIT Bombay. The lab will focus on satellite remote sensing of water bodies, regulated river hydrology, and open-source hydrological software. Positions for PhD students and research associates are open – see the Join page for details.]]>pritam-dasNew paper on SWOT reservoir monitoring published in Earth and Space Science2025-05-01T00:00:00+00:002026-05-13T07:52:44+00:00https://riverlab.in/2025/05/01/swot-paper-publishedOur paper on multi-satellite tracking of surface water storage in the SWOT era is now published in Earth and Space Science. We show that SWOT achieves near-order-of-magnitude improvement in elevation RMSE over pre-SWOT approaches for reservoir storage estimation.
]]>pritam-dasPaper on forecast-informed reservoir operations published in Journal of Hydrologic Engineering2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:002026-05-13T07:52:44+00:00https://riverlab.in/2025/04/01/forecast-paper-publishedOur paper exploring forecast-informed dam operations in ungauged mountainous basins using GEFS and the RAT satellite framework is now published in Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE). We apply the framework to the 2018 Kerala floods as a globally representative test case.
]]>pritam-dasRAT published as a Python package in Digital Water2025-03-01T00:00:00+00:002026-05-13T07:52:44+00:00https://riverlab.in/2025/03/01/rat-python-packageThe Reservoir Assessment Tool (RAT) is now available as a conda-installable Python package with a command-line interface, CI/CD pipeline, and full documentation at ratdocs.io. The paper describing the package is published in Digital Water.