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Upmanu Lall
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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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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
The influence of global warming and pan-tropical interactions on ENSO dynamics
TROPICAL PACIFIC CLIMATE VARIABILITY: DYNAMICS, TELECONNECTIONS, IMPACTS, AND PROJECTIONS IV POSTER
ocean sciences | 15 december 2023
Lei Yan, Mengjie Zhang, Mark A. Cane, Upmanu Lall
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), notably originating from the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, is recognized as the primary and influen...
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Investigating Fair Water Trading Markets and Economic Impacts to Overcome Scarcity Challenges in the Lower Colorado River Basin
WATER SCARCITY AND WATER SECURITY IN A CHANGING WORLD III ELIGHTNING
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Laureline Josset, Xin Lan, Upmanu Lall, Lifeng Luo
The Lower Colorado River Basin has been experiencing a series of arid conditions, and droughts are expected to increase in severity and frequency. In ...
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A Bayesian Hierarchical Framework for Modeling Migration Flows
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND HUMAN MIGRATION: ADVANCES IN MODELING AND ANALYSIS II POSTER
global environmental change | 13 december 2023
Aric Cutuli, Upmanu Lall, Michael J. Puma, Emile E...
The prediction of migration flows, or the number of individuals who will migrate from one location to another, is a fundamental goal of research on po...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturers - Earth Covering
2021 - 2023
Member
Hydrology Fellows Committee
2019 - 2020
Member
Natural Hazards Fellows Committee
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