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Upmanu Lall
Upmanu Lall. AGU member since 1981. Alan & Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering; Director Columbia Water Center; Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate & Society, Columbia University, New York, NY. Volunteer experience includes: Associate Editor: Water Resources Research, J of Hydrologic Engineering; Member 4 panels National Academy of Science; Member World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water Scarcity, and participant in Global Risk Council deliberations; Member original group responsible for founding CUAHSI; Member, New York Academy of Science panel on Climate Change; Contributor to IPCC.
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Columbia University
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Education
Doctorate
1981
Honors & Awards
Walter Langbein Lecture
Received December 2022
Union Fellow
Received December 2017
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For incisive contributions to the understanding and predictability of hydrologic processes at regional and global scales.
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Publications
Summer Monsoon Drying Accelerates India's Groundwater Depletion Under Climate Change
Groundwater in north India remains a vital food and water security resource for more than one billion people. Both summer monsoon drying, and winte...
August 06, 2024
The Value of Large‐Scale Climatic Indices for Monthly Foreca...
February 20, 2024
Compound Continental Risk of Multiple Extreme Floods in the ...
November 04, 2023
Hidden Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature States Revea...
October 21, 2022
Stochastic Downscaling of Hourly Precipitation Series From C...
October 17, 2022
AGU Abstracts
What is Driving the Changing Runoff Efficiency in the Upper Colorado River Basin?
WATER AND SOCIETY: ADVANCING WATER AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT BY LINKING QUANTITY AND QUALITY WITH SOCIETY, ECOSYSTEMS, AND CLIMATE II ORAL
hydrology | 13 december 2024
David Palumbo, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Upmanu Lall
The aridification trends in the western United States require an understanding of the physical processes governing streamflow for effective water reso...
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Travel Resilience of NYC Residents in Response to Extreme Weather: A Spatio-Temporal analysis of Human Mobility Patterns Using Multi-modal Transportation Data
CITY AND CLIMATE EXTREMES: SCIENTIFIC AND COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2024
Mengling Qiao, Masahiko Haraguchi, Upmanu Lall
Understanding how residents adjust mobility patterns in extreme weather is crucial for urban resilience. Existing studies often overlook the transitio...
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Assessing inundation semantic segmentation models trained on high versus low resolution labels using FloodPlanet, a manually labeled multi-sourced high-resolution flood dataset
ADVANCING MACHINE LEARNING FOR REMOTE SENSING: OVERCOMING DATA SCARCITY AND DOMAIN SHIFT CHALLENGES II ORAL
informatics | 12 december 2024
Zhijie Zhang, Rohit Mukherjee, Beth Tellman, Jonat...
Flooding impacts more people than any other environmental hazard, causing extensive economic and social impact. Leveraging satellite data and deep lea...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturers - Earth Covering
2021 - 2023
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Hydrology Fellows Committee
2019 - 2020
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Natural Hazards Fellows Committee
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