Introduction to Drought Monitoring and Analysis: Types, Indices, Data Inputs, and Univariate vs Bivariate Drought Characterization – A Hands-on Workshop

Introduction to Drought Monitoring and Analysis: Types, Indices, Data Inputs, and Univariate vs Bivariate Drought Characterization – A Hands-on Workshop

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Last date of the Registration : 25th March, 2026

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Profile of the Instructors

Dr. Poonia earned his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from M.D.U. University (2015), M.Tech in Civil Engineering (Water Resource Engineering) from MANIT Bhopal (2018), and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Water Resource Engineering) from IIT Indore (2022), where he researched “Droughts: Occurrence, Evolution and Impacts over India”. After his Ph.D., he served as a National Postdoctoral Fellow at IISc Bangalore and later on he served as postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis USA. In 2023, he joined NIT Calicut as an Assistant Professor. In 2024, he joined MANIT Bhopal as an Assistant Professor. His research focuses on Drought and heatwave monitoring, Compound flooding, Flash drought and forecasting, Climate change impact assessment, Extreme events, Risk and resilience assessment, Crop modelling, and he has secured one external project from ANRF, GoI. He also organized a highly competitive one-week GIAN (Initiative of Ministry of Education) funding-INR 6,64,000, ANRF sponsored one-week short term training program and two self-financed one-week short term training programs, AICTE-QIP-PG certificate program for six months where funding sanctioned is INR 20 Lakhs.

 

Dr. Swarnkar earned his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University (2012), M.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Kanpur (2014), and Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from IIT Kanpur (2020), where he researched “Sediment Dynamics of the Ganga River Basin.” After his Ph.D., he served as a National Postdoctoral Fellow at IISc Bangalore. In 2022, he joined IISER Bhopal as an Assistant Professor. His research focuses on human-
climate-water interactions in Indian river basins, and he has secured two external projects. He also organized a highly competitive SERB Karyashala workshop.

Modules of the Workshop

S.No. Module name Concepts covered Recorded
videos -
number of
hours
Live
sessions -
No. of hours		 Assessment Learning
outcomes
Day 1 Introduction of
drought, its
drivers, and
index
calculation		 Introduction to drought, its
types and their
characteristics.
Overview of drought
conditions in India, and its
key indices to denote
drought conditions.
Hands-on task: Download
datasets from IMD and from
satellite imageries like from
USGS, EARTHDATA for
MODIS, GLEAM, GIMMS,
etc, and preprocessing of
downloaded data.		 Live lecture
session – 1
hourLive hands-
on session –
2 hours		 Attendance Getting Started
with exploring
various dataset
from IMD and
other sources
Analysing
precipitation
and
temperature
patterns		 Overview of rainfall and
temperature datasets
downloaded.
Using R/MATLAB for
precipitation and
temperature trend analysis.
Case studies: Drought
Patterns in Regulated and
Unregulated CatchmentsHands-on task:
Visualization of data and
showcasing the trend of
data using MK Test and
Sens’s Slope.		 Live lecture
session – 1
hourLive hands-
on session –
1 hour		 Attendance Data visualization
and trend analysis.
Day 2 Drought
Characterization		 Drought Characterization:
Case Study: Occurrence,
distribution, concurrence
and evolution of major
drought types across
different River Basins of
India
Hands-on task: Calculation
of drought indices (SPI,
SSI, SMI and VCI), drought
concurrence, evolution and
its characteristics (duration,
severity and frequency).		 Live lecture
session – 1
hourLive hands-
on session –
2 hour		 Attendance Drought Index
calculation using
MATLAB/R
Copula Based
Approach for
Drought
Studies		 Copula Based Approach for
Drought Studies:
Univariate v/s bivariate
analysis, and introduction
of a statistical tool – copula.
Hands-on task: Bivariate
analysis of major drought
types using copula.		 Live lecture
session – 1
hour
Live hands-
on session –
1 hour		 Attendance Copula based
bivariate approach
using MATLAB/R.

Session details

Date of the Workshop : 28th and 29th March, 2026

Timings (IST) : Saturday and Sunday

Session I - 10:00 a.m. - 01:00 p.m.

Session II - 02:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m.

Mode of the Workshop : Online

Fee Structure

Students : Rs. 708/- ( Rs. 600 + 18% GST)

Faculty : Rs. 944/- ( Rs. 800 + 18% GST)

Industry : Rs. 1770/- ( Rs. 1500 + 18% GST)

Intended Audience & Eligibility

Intended Audience:

Students, Faculty and Industry professionals

Eligibility:

Very basic knowledge of data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Python, or R). No prior
experience in drought analysis is required; the workshop is designed to build
knowledge from the fundamentals.

 

Certificate Criteria

Attendance is mandatory for the certificate

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