ICARUS welcomes new postdoctoral researcher Satish Bastola to work on a SFI funded project ‘Capturing Uncertainty in Climate Change Impacts for the Water Sector

Satish graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the Department of civil engineering, at Tribhuvan University, lalitpur, Nepal in 1998. He then completed a two years masters in Water resources engineering where he carried out a performance evaluation of rainfall runoff models (NAM and UBC) in hilly catchments of Nepal. Satish then moved to the University of Yamanashi, Kofu, in to carry out PhD research on the regionalization of parameters of Hydrological models examining their posterior probability distribution. 

Since then Satish has been involved in postdoctoral research at UMR Hydrosciences Montpellie. There he has carried out hydrological modeling of Lake Chad basin using HYDRA, examined a number of satellite based precipitation (GPCP, TRMM3b43RT, TRMM3b43, REF1.0, and Ref2.0) with the gauged precipitation in Lake Chad basin, and modeled potential evaporation in the lake basin using radiation based empirical models (Makkink, and Hargerves) and global gridded forcing data obtained from NCEP/NCAR.

At ICARUS, Satish will work on an SFI funded project ‘Capturing Uncertainty in Climate Change Impacts for the Water Sector where he will carry out research into climate change and hydrology. This is a three year project. We welcome Satish to the ICARRUS team.