Assistant Professor, Departement of Civil Engineering
Drought risk management, hydro-climatology, water resources systems analysis, hydrologic modelling
Office:
FB 311 Civil Engineering Department,
IIT Kanpur, 208016, Uttar Pradesh
Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
PhD - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020
M.Tech-Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2015
B.Tech-Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2013
Apurv, T., Sivapalan, M., & Cai, X. (2017). Understanding the role of climate characteristics in drought propagation. Water Resources Research, 53, 9304–9329. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR021445
Apurv, T., & Cai, X. (2020). Drought propagation in contiguous U.S. watersheds: A process‐based understanding of the role of climate and watershed properties. Water Resources Research, 56, e2020WR027755. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027755
Dar, J. A., & Apurv, T. (2024). Spatiotemporal characteristics and physical drivers of heatwaves in India. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109785. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109785
Singh, V., & Apurv, T. (2025). An analytical approach for quantifying the role of vapor pressure deficit in soil moisture depletion during flash droughts. Water Resources Research, 61, e2024WR038995. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR038995
Rashid, O., & Apurv, T. (2025). Understanding the inter-event variability of recession flow characteristics and its drivers. Journal of Hydrology, 133033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.133033
Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award (2017), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Washington D.C.
Academic excellence award, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2015)
Understanding the physical mechanisms of flash droughts in India
Inter-event variability of recession flow characteristics
Physical mechanisms of heatwave onset and termination in India
Physically based evaluation of evapotranspiration estimation methods