Dr. Asif Khan
Dr. Asif Khan has more than nineteen years of professional field and research experience. Dr. Khan did post-doctorate on research topic: “Water-Energy-Food Nexus under climate change for the Indus Basin” at IIASA-Austria, and secured his PhD degree in the field of hydro-climatology from Cambridge University UK, where his research topic was “The hydro-climatology of the Upper Indus Basin: a critical analysis of data and modelling needs in a complex mountain environment”. He worked as Lead Author for IPCC AR-6 water chapter, and Member of several other international Forums. Dr. Khan also worked with Government Departments of KP, Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and AJK together with ADB, World Bank, UNICEF, AIIB, CDM Smith, NESPAK, and IFAD.
Publications:
| 1. Khan, A., Richards, K. S., Parker, G., McRobie, A., Mukhopadhyay, B., 2014. How large is the Upper Indus Basin? The pitfalls of auto-delineation using DEMs. Journal of Hydrology, 509, 442 – 453. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.11.02.
2. Mukhopadhyay, B., Khan, A., 2014. A quantitative assessment of the genetic sources of the hydrologic flow regimes in Upper Indus Basin and its significance in a changing climate. Journal of Hydrology. 509,549 – 572. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.11.059
3. Mukhopadhyay, B., Khan, A., 2014. Rising river flows and glacial mass balance in central Karakoram. Journal of Hydrology, 513, 192-203. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.042
4. Mukhopadhyay, B., Khan, A., Gautam, R., 2014. Rising and falling river flows: Contrasting signals of climate change from the eastern and western Karakoram. Journal of Hydrological Sciences. 60(12), 2062-2085.
5. Mukhopadhyay, B., Khan, A., 2014. Boltzmann–Shannon entropy and river flow stability within Upper Indus Basin in a changing climate. International Journal of River Basin Management,1-9. doi: 10.1080/15715124.2014.9657186. Khan, A., B. S. Naz & L. C. Bowling, 2015. Separating snow, clean and debris covered ice in the Upper Indus Basin, Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalayas, using Landsat images between 1998 and 2002. Journal of Hydrology 521(0):46-64 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.048.
7. Mukhopadhyay, B. & Khan, A., 2015. A re-evaluation of the snowmelt and glacial melt in river flows within Upper Indus Basin and its significance in a changing climate. Journal of Hydrology 527(0):119-132 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.04.045. 8. Khan, A., 2015. Hydrological modelling and their biases: constraints in policy making and sustainable water resources development under changing climate in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalayas. UNDEP.
9. Mukhopadhyay, B. & Khan. A, 2016. Altitudinal variations of temperature, equilibrium line altitude, and accumulation-area ratio in Upper Indus Basin. Hydrology Research 48(3) doi:10.2166/nh.2016.144.
10. Dahri, Z. H., F. Ludwig, E. Moors, B. Ahmad, Khan. A & P. Kabat, 2016. An appraisal of precipitation distribution in the high-altitude catchments of the Indus basin. Science of The Total Environment 548:289-306 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.001.
11. Reggiani, P., B. Mukhopadhyay, T. H. M. Rientjes & Khan. A, 2017. A joint analysis of river runoff and meteorological forcing in the Karakoram, upper Indus Basin. Hydrological Processes 31(2):409-430 doi:10.1002/hyp.11038. 12. Ahmad, S., Khan. A., 2017. Impact of Industrial effluents on the irrigation water quality of Warsak Canal system and its effect on crops. The Environ Monitor XVII (9-10) 13. Rehman, A, U., Khan. A., 2017. Impact of Domestic waste water contamination on Warsak Gravity Canal irrigation water , quality, crop production and needed control. The Environ Monitor XVII (9-10) 14. Iqbal, M., Z. Dahri, E. Querner, Khan. A & N. Hofstra, 2018. Impact of Climate Change on Flood Frequency and Intensity in the Kabul River Basin. Geosciences 8(4):114 15. Dahri, Z. H., M. Eddy, L. Fulco, A. Shakil, Khan. A, A. Irfan & K. Pavel., 2018. Adjustment of measurement errors to reconcile precipitation distribution in the high altitude Indus basin. International Journal of Climatology 0(0) doi:10.1002/joc.5539 16. Muhammad, S.,Tian, L.,Khan, A, 2019. Early twenty-first century glacier mass losses in the Indus Basin constrained by density assumptions. Journal of Hydrology 574: 467-475.
17. Hayat, H.,Tahir, A.A., Wajid, S.,Arshad, M., Zubair, F., Hashmi, Z., Khan, A., Khan, A. J., Irshad, M. , 2019 Simulation of the meltwater under different climate change scenarios in a poorly gauged snow and glacier-fed Chitral River catchment (Hindukush region). Geocarto International. 1-17. 18. Wada, Y., Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Willaarts, B.A., Magnuszewski, P., Mochizuki, J., Mayor, B., Wang, Y., Burek, P., Byers, E., Riahi, K., Krey, V., Langan, S., van Dijk, M., Grey, D., Hillers, A., Novak, R., Mukherjee, A., Bhattacharya, A., Bhardwaj, S., Romshoo, S., Thambi, S., Muhammad, A., Ilyas, A., Khan, A., Lashari, B. K., Mahar, R. B., Ghulam, R., Siddiqi, A., Wescoat, J., Yogeswara, N., Ashraf, A., Sidhu, B., Tong, J. 2019. Co-designing Indus Water-Energy-Land Futures. One Earth. 1 (2). 185-194. 19. Ali, S., Saeed, A., Kiani, R.S., Muhammad, S., Khan, F., Babar, R., Khan, A., Iqbal, M.S., Goheer, M.A., Naseem, G., Fahad, S. 2021. Future climatic changes, extreme events, related uncertainties, and policy recommendations in the Hindu Kush sub-regions of Pakistan. Theoretical and applied climatology. 143. 193-209. 20. Shah, M.I., Khan, A., Akbar, T. A., Hassan, Q.K., Khan, A.J., Dewan, A. 2020. Predicting hydrologic responses to climate changes in highly glacierized and mountainous region Upper Indus Basin. Royal Society Open Science. Volume 7, issue 8. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191957.21. Waqar, M., Ahmad, S.R., Khan, A. 2021. Flow Regime Vulnerability Over Transboundary Rivers in Himalayas Region; A Case Study of the Neelum River Pakistan. Technical Journal of UET Taxila.22. Rizvi, F.F., Ahmed, B., Hussain, S., Khan, A., Raza, M., Shahid, M. 2021. Assessment of climate extremes from historical data (1960-2013) of Soan River Basin in Pakistan. International Journal of Global Warming. Pp 1-37.23. Attaullah, H.; Khan, A.; Khan, M.; Khan, F.; Ali, S.; Masud, T.; Iqbal, M.S. The Karakoram Anomaly: Validation through Remote Sensing Data, Prospects and Implications. Water 2022, 14, 3157. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14193157
24. Attaullah, H.; Khan, A.; Khan, M.; Atta, H.; Iqbal, M.S. Implications of Accuracy of Global Glacier Inventories in Hydrological Modeling: A Case Study of the Western Himalayan Mountain Range. Water 2023, 15, 3887. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15223887
Publication (Book Chapter)
1. Mukhopadhyay, B., Khan, A., 2016. Indus River Basin. Chapter 109. Chow’s Handbook of Applied Hydrology (the 50th Anniversary Tribute to Late Professor Ven Te Chow’s original classic work). 2. Reggiani, P., Boyko, O., T. H. M. Rientjes, A. Khan., 2018. Probabilistic precipitation analysis in the Central Indus River basin. Indus River Basin: Water Security & Sustainability. 3. Khan, A., Idrees, H., 2023. The impact of climate change on the Indus River Basin: challenges and constraints. Water Policy in Pakistan: Issues and Options. Springer
Publication (Conference Paper)
1. Khan, A., Khan, M., 2016. Accuracy assessment of ISI-MIP and FAO hydrological modelling results in the Upper Indus Basin. 4th IAHR Europe Congress. 27-29 July, 2016, Liege, Belgium. |
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