PUBLICATIONS

“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder”

- Albert Einstein

Book chapters

S. N. Bhanja and J. Wang (2020). Emerging groundwater and surface water trends in Alberta, Canada. Global Groundwater. Elsevier, Netherlands.
S.N. Bhanja and A. Mukherjee (2020). Groundwater sustainability and security in South Asia. Global Groundwater. Elsevier, Netherlands.
P. Malakar, S. Sarkar, A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja, A. Sun (2020). Application of Artificial Intelligence methods for the prediction of groundwater quality and quantity. Global Groundwater. Elsevier, Netherlands.
A. Mukherjee and S. N. Bhanja (2019). An Untold Story of Groundwater Replenishment in India: Impact of Long-Term Policy Interventions. In: A. Singh et al. Eds. Water Governance: Challenges and Prospects. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, M. Rodell (2018). Groundwater Storage Variations in India. In Groundwater of South Asia (pp. 49-59). Springer, Singapore.
A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja (2018). Estimating Present-Day Groundwater Recharge Rates in India. In Groundwater of South Asia (pp. 37-47). Springer, Singapore.
A. Hussain, K. Das, S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee (2018). Potential Impact of Climate Change on Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions in Lower Reaches of Ganges River, India. In Groundwater of South Asia (pp. 583-591). Springer, Singapore.

Journal Publications

Biogeochemical model development for water quality applications and soil greenhouse gas emissions

1. S. N. Bhanja, J. Wang (2021). Influence of environmental factors on autotrophic, soil and ecosystem respirations in Canadian boreal forest. Ecological Indicators, 125, 107517. [I. F.: 4.23]
2. J. Wang, N. K. Shrestha, M. A. Delavar, T. W, Meshesha, S. N. Bhanja (2021). Modelling watersheds and river basins in cold climate regions: A review. Water, 13(4), 518. [I. F.: 2.54]
3. S. N. Bhanja, J. Wang (2020). Estimating influences of environmental drivers on terrestrial heterotrophic respiration. Environmental Pollution, 257, 113630. [I. F.: 6.79; Citations: 6]
4. S. N. Bhanja, J. Wang, N. Shrestha, X. Zheng (2019). Modelling microbial kinetics and thermodynamic processes for quantifying soil CO2 emission. Atmospheric Environment, 209, 125-135. [I. F.: 4.04; Citations: 8]
5. S. N. Bhanja, J. Wang, N. Shrestha, X. Zheng (2019). Microbial kinetics and thermodynamic (MKT) processes for soil organic matter decomposition and dynamic oxidation-reduction potential: Model descriptions and applications to soil N2O emissions. Environmental Pollution, 247, 812-823. [I. F.: 6.79; Citations: 14]

Groundwater recharge, storage and its controlling factors; hydrologic data assimilation

6. P. Malakar, A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja, D. Saha, S. Sarkar, R. Ray (2021). Deep learning-based forecasting of
groundwater level trends over India: Implications for crop production and drinking water supply. ACS ES&T Engineering.
7. P. Malakar, A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja, A. R. Ganguly, R. K. Ray, A. Zahid, S. Sarkar, D. Saha, and S. Chattopadhyay (2021). Three decades of depth-dependent groundwater response to climate variability and human regime in the transboundary Indus-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna mega river basin aquifers. Advances in Water Resources, 149, 103856. [I. F.: 4.02; Citations: 2]
8. P. Malakar, A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja, D. Saha, R. Ray, S. Sarkar, A. Zahid (2021). Machine learning-based regional-scale groundwater level prediction using GRACE. Hydrogeology Journal, 29 (3), 1027-1042. [I. F.: 2.64; Citations: 1]
9. P. Malakar, A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja, D. Saha, R. Ray, S. Sarkar, A. Zahid (2020). Importance of spatial and depth-dependent drivers in groundwater level modeling through machine learning. Hydrology and Earth System Science Discussions. [Citations: 3]
10. S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, M. Rodell (2020). Groundwater storage change: Estimates from major river basins across India. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 65(4), 650-659. [I. F.: 2.19; Citations: 8]
11. B. Li, M. Rodell, S. Kumar, H. Beaudoing, A. Getirana, B. Zaitchik, L. DeGoncalves, C. Cossetin, S. N. Bhanja, A.
Mukherjee, S. Tian, N. Tangdamrongsub, Di Long, J. Nanteza, J. Lee, F. Policelli, I. Goni, D. Daira, M. Bila, G. Delannoy, D. Mocko, S. Steele-Dunne, H. Save, S. Bettadpur (2019). Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: Advances and challenges. Water Resource Research, 55(9), 7564-7586 [I. F.: 4.31; Citations: 41]
12. S. N. Bhanja, P. Malakar, A. Mukherjee, M. Rodell, P. Mitra, S. Sarkar (2019). Using satellite-based vegetation cover as indicator of groundwater storage. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(14), 8082-8092 [I. F.: 4.50; Citations: 11]
13. S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee (2019). In situ and satellite-based estimates of usable groundwater storage across India: implications for drinking water supply and food security. Advances in Water Resources, 126, 15- 23. [I. F.: 4.02; Citations: 17]
14. S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, R. Rangarajan, B. R. Scanlon, P. Malakar and S. Verma (2019). Long-term groundwater recharge rates across India by in situ measurements. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 711-722. [I. F.: 5.15; Citations: 16]
15. A. Y. Sun, D. Walling, B. R. Scanlon, Z. Zhang, S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, Z. Zhong (2019). Combining Physically-Based Modeling and Deep Learning for Fusing GRACE Satellite Data: Can We Learn from Mismatch? Water Resources Research, 55(2), 1179-1195. [I. F.: 4.31; Citations: 34]
16. S. N. Bhanja, X. Zheng, and J. Wang (2018). Estimating long-term groundwater storage and its controlling factors in Alberta, Canada. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22, 6241-6255. [I. F.: 5.15; Citations: 13]
17. A. Mukherjee*, S. N. Bhanja* and Y. Wada (2018). Groundwater depletion causing reduction of baseflow triggering Ganges river drying. Scientific Reports, 8, 12049. [I. F.: 4.00; Citations: 51] [*Joint first author]
18. S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, M. Rodell, Y. Wada, S. Chattopadhyay, I. Velicogna, K. Pangaluru, and J. S. Famiglietti (2017). Groundwater rejuvenation in parts of India influenced by water-policy change implementation. Scientific Reports, 7, 7453. [I. F.: 4.00; Citations: 68]
19. M. Girotto, G. J. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, M. Rodell, C. Draper, S. N. Bhanja, and A. Mukherjee (2017). Benefits and pitfalls of GRACE data assimilation: A case study of terrestrial water storage depletion in India. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(9), 4107-4115. [I. F.: 4.50; Citations: 54]
20. S. N. Bhanja, M. Rodell, B. Li, D. Saha, A. Mukherjee (2017). Spatio-temporal variability of groundwater storage in India. Journal of Hydrology, 544, 428-437. [I. F.: 4.50; Citations: 28]
21. S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, D. Saha, I. Velicogna, and J. Famiglietti (2016). Validation of GRACE based groundwater storage anomaly using in-situ groundwater level measurements in India. Journal of Hydrology, 543(B), 729–738. [I. F.: 4.50; Citations: 76]
22. A. Mukherjee, D. Saha, C. F. Harvey, R. G. Taylor, K. M. Ahmed and S. N. Bhanja (2015). Groundwater systems of the Indian Sub-Continent. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 4, 1-14. [I. F.: 3.65; Citations: 141]

Remote sensing applications in earth sciences

23. S. Duttagupta*, S. N. Bhanja*, A. Dutta*, S. Sarkar, M. Chakraborty, A. Ghosh, A. Mukherjee (2021). Impact of
Covid-19 lockdown on river and groundwater-sourced drinking water sustainability in the arsenic-affected Ganges river basin. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), 2832. [I. F.: 2.85] [*Joint first author]
24. A. Singhal, S. Sahu, S. Chattopadhyay, A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja (2020). Using night time lights to find regional inequality in India and its relationship with economic development. PLOS One, 15 (11), e0241907. [I. F.: 2.74; Citations: 3]
25. S. Duttagupta, A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja, S. Chattopadhyay, S. Sarkar, K. Das, S. Chakraborty, D. Mondal (2020). Achieving sustainable development goal for clean water in India: influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on groundwater microbial pollution. Environmental Management, 66, 742–755,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01358-6 [I. F.: 2.56; Citations: 1]
26. A. Mukherjee, S. Dutta Gupta, S. Chattopadhyay, S. N. Bhanja, A. Bhattachayra, S. Chakraborty, S. Sarkar, T. Ghosh, J. Bhattacharya, S. Sahu (2019). Impact of sanitation and socio-economy on groundwater fecal pollution and human health towards achieving sustainable development goals across India from ground observations and satellite-derived nightlight. Scientific Reports, 9, 15193 [I. F.: 4.00; Citations: 5]
27. Y. Yoon, S. V. Kumar, B. A. Forman, B. Zaitchik, Y. Kwon, Y. Qian, S. Rupper, V. Maggioni, P. Houser, D. Kirschbaum, A. Richey, A. Arendt, D. Mocko, J. Jacob, S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee (2019). Evaluating the uncertainty of terrestrial water budget components over High Mountain Asia. Frontiers of Earth Science, 7, 120. [I. F.: 2.69; Citations: 18]
28. S. Dutta Gupta, A. Bhattacharya, A. Mukherjee, S. Chattopadhyay, S. N. Bhanja, S. Sarkar, P. Malakar, J. Bhattacharya (2019). Groundwater faecal pollution observation in parts of Indo-Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin from in-situ measurements and satellite-based observations. Journal of Earth System Science, 128. [I. F.: 1.42; Citations: 7]

Aerosols and climate change

29. S. Verma, B. Priyadharshini, S. K. Pani, D. Bharath Kumar, A. R. Faruqi, S. N. Bhanja, M. Mandal (2016).
Aerosol extinction properties over coastal West Bengal Gangetic plain under inter-seasonal and sea breeze
influenced transport processes. Atmospheric Research, 167, 224-236. [I. F.: 4.68; Citations: 17]
30. S. Verma, S. N. Bhanja, A. Misra and S. K. Pani (2014). Aerosol optical and physical properties during winter
monsoon pollution transport in an urban environment. Environmental science and pollution research, 21 (7),
4977-4994. [I. F.: 3.06; Citations: 19]
31. S. Verma, S. K. Pani and S. N. Bhanja (2013). Sources and Radiative Effects of Wintertime Black Carbon
Aerosols in an urban atmosphere in east India. Chemosphere, 90, 260–269. [I. F.: 5.78; Citations: 35]

Conference abstracts and Presentations

S. N. Bhanja. 11th INDOGFOE-Symposium on “Groundwater storage quantification in India and its influence in food security” organized by DST, India and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (February, 2021). [Invited poster in virtual mode]

S. N. Bhanja. Brainstorming session on Satellite Observations and Modelling of GRACE Data for Terrestrial Applications on “Improving spatial resolution of GRACE products in India” organized by NGRI Hyderabad, India (February, 2021). [Invited talk in virtual mode]

S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee. Meteorological drought and groundwater storage: Insights from the Indian river basins. Indo-US bilateral symposium on “The study of decadal scale droughts and mega-droughts in semi-arid tracts of India and North America” at IISER Mohali (January, 2020). [Invited talk]

S. Werth, S. F. Sherpa, M. Shirzaei, K. X. Whipple, S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee. Climate Sensitivity of the Glacier Mass Budget of High Mountain Asia Based on Satellite Gravimetry. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December, 2019).

S. N. Bhanja, J. Wang, N. Shrestha, X. Zheng. Soil CO2 emission quantification – A new modelling approach. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (April, 2019).

P. Malakar, A. Mukherjee, S. N. Bhanja, A. Ganguly, D. Saha, R. Ray, S. Sarkar, A. Zahid. Groundwater-Climate variability link in the transboundary aquifer system of south Asia. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (April, 2019).

Modelling microbial kinetics and thermodynamic (MKT) processes for soil organic matter decomposition and its application to soil N2O emission, by S. N. Bhanja, J. Wang, N. Shrestha, X. Zheng. AGU Fall meeting, Washington D.C., USA (December, 2018).

Global groundwater storage estimates through assimilation of GRACE data into a land surface model, B. Li, M. Rodell, S. Kumar, H. Beaudoing, A. Getirana, B. Zaitchik, L. DeGoncalves, C. Cossetin, S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, S. Tian, N. Tangdamrongsub, Di Long, J. Nanteza, J. Lee, F. Policelli, I. Goni, D. Daira, M. Bila, G. Delannoy, D. Mocko, S. Steele-Dunne, H. Save, S. Bettadpur. AGU Fall meeting, Washington D.C., USA (December, 2018).

Variability of groundwater storage in India: Spatial and temporal aspects, by S. N. Bhanja, M. Rodell, A. Mukherjee, and B. Li. Accepted for oral presentation at AGU Fall meeting, New Orleans, USA (December, 2017).

Groundwater Recharge under varied land use regions in the semi-arid parts of western West Bengal, India by P. Malakar, A. Mukherjee and S. N. Bhanja. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December, 2016).

Changes in India’s land surface water balance during the GRACE mission years: A data assimilation perspective by M. Girotto, G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, M. Rodell, C. Draper, S. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December, 2016).

Estimating the performance of GRACE based groundwater storage anomaly using in-situ groundwater level measurements in India by S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, M. Rodell, J. Famiglietti. Invited talk at Indo-US workshop, Hyderabad, India (November, 2016).

Groundwater recharge estimation in India by S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee. Geological Society of India annual meeting (October, 2016).

Present-day groundwater recharge estimation in parts of the Indian Sub-Continent by S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, Y. Wada, B. Scanlon, R. Taylor, M. Rodell, P. Malakar. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December, 2015).

Groundwater storage changes over Indian Sub-Continent, A quantitative approach by S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, M. Rodell, I. Velicogna, K. Pangaluru and J. S. Famiglietti. NSF Workshop on Development and Application of Analytical Tools in Support of Food-Energy-Water Nexus Planning, Washington D. C. (October, 2015).

Regional groundwater storage changes in the Indian subcontinent: The role of anthropogenic activities by S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee, M. Rodell, I. Velicogna, K. Pangaluru and J. S. Famiglietti. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December, 2014).

Potential delineation of groundwater storage using satellite-based vegetation index over parts of the Indian subcontinent by S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee and M. Rodell. GSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada (October, 2014).

Climate change impact on groundwater storage over parts of Indian subcontinent by S. N. Bhanja and A. Mukherjee. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December, 2013).

Abstraction-triggered long term groundwater storage depletion in parts of the Ganges basin of the Indian subcontinent by S. N. Bhanja, A. Mukherjee and M. Rodell. GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, USA: 125th Anniversary of GSA (October 27-30, 2013).

Satellite based estimates of groundwater storage depletion and its connection to climate change over Indian region by S. N. Bhanja and A. Mukherjee. Fourth National Research Conference on Climate Change, presented in IIT Madras on October 26 and 27, 2013.

Wintertime Variability of Aerosol Properties over an Urban Location in east India: Implications for Shortwave Aerosol Radiative Forcing by S. N. Bhanja, S. K. Pani and S. Verma. Conference of Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association, BARC, Mumbai, Dec 11-13 (2012).

Seasonal Variation of Carbonaceous Aerosols at an Urban Region (Kolkata) in east India by S. Das Khan, D. Dutta, S. N. Bhanja and S. Verma. Conference of Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association, BARC, Mumbai, Dec 11-13 (2012).

Aerosol optical properties over Kolkata by S. K. Pani, S.N. Bhanja and S. Verma. National Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at NIT Rourkela, January 20-21 (2012).

Impact of natural and anthropogenic aerosols on hydrological cycle and climate change by S. N. Bhanja. Workshop cum seminar series on "Challenges and opportunities in Air Pollution and Climate Change" (CHOP-C) under Germany-India-2012, "Infinite Opportunities" programme at IITM Pune, January 16-18 (2012).

Wintertime aerosol properties and their implications to radiative forcing over Eastern India by S. N. Bhanja, S. Verma and S. K. Pani. European Aerosol Conference, Manchester, September 04-09 (2011).

Source evaluation of aerosols measured over the Indian subcontinent and ocean from combined measurement and modeling platforms by S. Verma, S. N. Bhanja, M. Schulz and Y. Balkanski. European Aerosol Conference, Manchester, September 04-09 (2011).

Source evaluation of the seasonal variation in aerosol optical depth distribution over the Indian subcontinent from combined measurement and modeling platforms by S. Verma, M. Schulz, Y. Balkanski, S. N. Bhanja and S. K. Pani. Asian Aerosol Conference, Xi’an (China), August 17-20 (2011).

Variation in Wintertime Black Carbon Aerosols at an Urban Center in the Eastern India by S. K. Pani, S. Verma, and S. N. Bhanja. Asian Aerosol Conference, Xi’an (China), August 17-20 (2011).

Seasonal Variation of aerosol Radiative forcing over the east coast of India by S. N. Bhanja and S. Verma. Conference of Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association, Aerosol and Clouds: Climate change perspective, Darjeeling, Mar 24-26 (2010).

Regional warming or cooling over India due to land use and land cover changes by S. Nayak, M. Mandal, and S. Bhanja. TROPMET, Advances in Weather and Climate Services, Kolkata, May 19-21 (2010).