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Prof. Litan Kumar Ray

PhD (IIT Roorkee)

Assistant Professor Gr-II

Department of Civil Engineering

Room No:   +91-870-2464250
litan@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Climate Change 

 Compound climate extreames 

 Drought Analysis 

 Flood Forecasting 

 Hydrologic Modelling 

 Machine learning Applications in water resources 

 Remote sensing and GIS application in Water  

 Risk and Reliability analysis 

 Stochastic Hydrology 

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Integrated Watershed Management(CE76023)
  • Irrigation Engineering(CE302)
  • Engineering Hydrology(CE252)
  • Computational Methods in Water Resources Engineering(CE5703)
  • Comprehensive Viva(CE6747)
  • Dissertation Part - A(CE6749)
  • Land and Water Management(CE5714)
  • Dissertation Part - B(CE6799)
  • Seminar - II(CE5798)
  • Applications of Remote Sensing & GIS in Water Resources & Environmental Engineering(CE5768)
  • Fluid Mechanics-I(CE152)
  • Integrated Watershed Management(CE5713)
  • Seminar - I(CE5748)
  • ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9902-5405
  • SCOPUS ID: 57204362514
  • Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FQyfEoUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao


  • Concurrent and dynamical interdependency of compound precipitation and wind speed extremes over India, By V.M. Reddy & Litan Kumar Ray, Elsevier, Atmospheric Research, vol.304, pp.107389, 2024
  • Non-Stationary Flash Drought Analysis and Its Teleconnection With Low-Frequency Climatic Oscillations, By Krishna Priya, V. M. Reddy, Litan Kumar Ray & Jew Das, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Hydrological Processes, vol.38(10), pp.1-19, 2024
  • Past and future joint return period of precipitation extremes over South Asia and Southeast Asia, By V.M. Reddy & Litan Kumar Ray, Elsevier, Global and Planetary Change, vol.239, pp.104495, 2024
  • Flood frequency analysis of Narmada River Basin in India under nonstationary condition, By Litan Kumar Ray, Narendra Kumar Goel, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, vol.24, pp.05019018, 2019
  • Effects of compound hydro-meteorological extremes on rice yield in different cultivation practices in India, By Anshuman Mishra, Litan Kumar Ray, & V. Manohar Reddy, Springer Vienna, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, vol.155, pp.4507–4520, 2024
  • Change and coincidence risk analysis of floods in the Mahanadi River Basin, India, By S. R. Shalini, Manohar Reddy & Litan Kumar Ray, IWA Publishing, Journal of Water and Climate Change, vol.15, pp.4254, 2024
  • Spatio-temporal change in rainfall over five different climatic regions of India, By Litan Kumar Ray, Narendra Kumar Goel, IWA Publishing, Journal of Water and Climate Change, vol.12, pp.3124-3142, 2021
  • Trend analysis and change point detection of temperature over parts of India, By Litan Kumar Ray, Narendra Kumar Goel, Manohar Arora, Springer Vienna, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, vol.138, pp.153-167, 2019
  • Limitation of automatic watershed delineation tools in coastal region, By Litan Kumar Ray, Taylor & Francis, Annals of GIS, vol.24, pp.261-274, 2018

Formulation of Sustainable Adaptation Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on the Groundwater Systems of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor INCGW, Ministry of Jal Shakti
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 5005132
  • Status Ongoing

System Studies on the Subarnarekha-Mahanadi Link Project

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor National Water Development Agency (NWDA)
  • Duration 18 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 81000000
  • Status Completed


Jatoth Mounika

  • Area of Research: Drought Analysis

Manohar Reddy V

  • Area of Research: Compound climate extreames

T Nagendra Babu

  • Area of Research: Climate change Impact on Floods
  • Second Year Faculty Advisor (Continuing from July, 2024)
  • Co-ordinator Water Resources Programme (April, 2022 - June, 2024)