Title : Dr.
Name : Dibesh Khadka
FoS : Water Engineering and Management – Hydraulics Lab
Position : Senior Laboratory Supervisor
Location : Hydraulics Laboratory
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Email : dibesh@ait.asia

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  1. Doctor of Engineering (D. Eng) in Water Engineering and Management (2021), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
  2. Master of Engineering (M. Eng) in Water Engineering and Management (2012), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand.
  3. Master of Science (M.Sc) Hydro informatics and Water Management, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNSA), France
  4. Bachelor of Engineering (B. E.) in Civil Engineering (2007), Tribhuwan University (TU), Nepal

RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests are Hydrology and Water Resources; Hydro-meteorological Extremes; Water Resources Modeling; Climate Change Impact Assessment; Climate Risk Management; and Climate Adaptation.

TEACHING
  1. CE74.15: Research Design and Experimental Methods

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Aryal, S., Babel, M. S., Gupta, A., Farjad, B., Khadka, D., & Hassan, Q. K. (2025). Attribution of the climate and land use change impact on the hydrological processes of Athabasca River Basin, Canada. Hydrology, 12(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology12010007

Mahmood, R., Jia, S., Babel, M. S., Ai, Z., Shi, X., Hassan, M., & Khadka, D. (2025). Developing a Multimodel Ensemble Framework for Improved Streamflow Simulation in the Amudarya River Basin. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 26(11), 1693-1716. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-25-0055.1

Aryal, S., Babel, M. S., Gupta, A., Farjad, B., Khadka, D., & Hassan, Q. K. (2024). Assessment of hydrological baseline condition and its alteration in Athabasca River Basin, Canada. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 53, 101805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.101805

Babel, M. S., Chawrua, L., Khadka, D., Tingsanchali, T., & Shanmungam, M. S. (2024). Agricultural drought risk and local adaptation measures in the Upper Mun River Basin, Thailand. Agricultural Water Management, 292, 108655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108655

Khadka, D., Babel, M. S., Tingsanchali, T., Penny, J., Djordjevic, S., Abatan, A. A., & Giardino, A. (2024). Evaluating the impacts of climate change and land-use change on future droughts in northeast Thailand. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 9746. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59113-4

Abatan, A. A., Collins, M., Babel, M. S., Khadka, D., & De Silva, Y. K. (2023). Sub-seasonal to seasonal drivers of dry extreme rainfall events over Northeast Thailand. Frontiers in Climate, 4, 1031226. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.1031226

De Silva, Y. K., Babel, M. S., Abatan, A. A., Khadka, D., & Shanmugasundaram, J. (2023). Evaluation of ENSO in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models and its significance in the rainfall in Northeast Thailand. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 154(3), 881-906. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04585-z

Khadka, D., Babel, M. S., & Kamalamma, A. G. (2023). Assessing the impact of climate and land-use changes on the hydrologic cycle using the SWAT Model in the Mun River Basin in Northeast Thailand. Water, 15(20), 3672. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15203672

Kumar, S., Babel, M. S., Agarwal, A., Khadka, D., & Baghel, T. (2023). A comprehensive assessment of suitability of Global Precipitation Products for hydro-meteorological applications in a data-sparse Himalayan region. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 153(1), 263-285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04469-2

Penny, J., Khadka, D., Alves, P. B., Chen, A. S., & Djordjević, S. (2023). Using multi criteria decision analysis in a geographical information system framework to assess drought risk. Water Research X, 20, 100190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wroa.2023.100190

Penny, J., Khadka, D., Babel, M., Alves, P., Djordjević, S., Chen, A. S., & Loc, H. H. (2023). Integrated assessment of flood and drought hazards for current and future climate in a tributary of the Mekong river basin. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 14(12), 4424-4443. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2023.252

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ONGOING AND COMPLETED PROJECTS
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