[1] The hydrological budget of Himalayan rivers is dominated by monsoonal rainfall and snowmelt, but their relative impact is not well established because this remote region lacks a dense gauge network. Here, we use a combination of validated remotely‐sensed climate parameters to characterize the spatiotemporal distribution of rainfall, snowfall, and evapotranspiration in order to quantify thei...

Mobile phone based potable water quality assessment device is developed to analyze and study water pollution level at Indus river. Indus river is habitat of endangered Indus river dolphin and water pollution is one of major causes of survivability threats for this specie. We tested device performance at the six locations of Lahore canal. pH of canal water deviates from the normal range of the i...

The Indus script is an undeciphered script of the ancient world. In spite of numerous attempts over several decades, the script has defied universally acceptable decipherment. In a recent series of papers (Yadav et al. 2010; Rao et al. 2009a, b; Yadav et al. 2008a, b) we have analysed the sequences of Indus signs which demonstrate presence of a rich syntax and logic in its structure. Here we fo...

The Himalaya and adjacent Tibetan Plateau are the source of several major Asian rivers supporting a large, diverse ecosystem and a population of more than 1 billion people [Ives and Messerli, 1989; Barnett et al., 2005]. Large rivers such as the Indus, Sutlej, Ganges, Arun, and Brahmaputra/Tsangpo draining the southern Tibetan Plateau and the Himalaya are essential for agriculture and energy ge...

We present INDUS (Intelligent Data Understanding System), a federated, query-centric system for knowledge acquisition from autonomous, distributed, semantically heterogeneous data sources that can be viewed (conceptually) as tables. INDUS employs ontologies and inter-ontology mappings, to enable a user or an application to view a collection of such data sources (regardless of location, internal...

Timing of surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau has received much attention because of proposed links between high topography and change in regional and global climate, southern Asian paleoecology, and ocean chemistry (Quade et al., 1989; Edmond, 1992; Prell and Kutzbach, 1992; Raymo and Ruddiman, 1992; Molnar et al., 1993; Derry and France-Lanord, 1996). However, the actual vintage of high ele...