Sankar Arumugam Assistant Professor Water Resources/Environmental Engineering Office: 314 Mann Hall Phone: (919) 515-7700 Fax: (919) 515-7908 E-mail: sankar_arumugam@ncsu.edu Personal page: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~sarumug

Research Interests

Understanding, modeling and forecasting hydrological fluxes at large spatial scales based on land surface and climatic indices; water resources planning and analysis; integrated water management and environmental assessment in developing countries

Education

MS, Master of Science by Research, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, 1996

BS, Agricultural Engineering - Tamilnadu Agricultural University - Coimbatore, India, 1991

Representative Publications

Sankarasubramanian, A. and Lall, U., Flood Quantiles and Changing Climate: Seasonal forecasts and causal relations,Water Resources Research, 39 (5), art.no.1134, 2003.

Vogel, R.M. and Sankarasubramanian, A.,The Validation of a Watershed Model without Calibration, Water Resources Research, 39(10), art.no.1292, 2003.

Matalas, N.C., and Sankarasubramanian, A., Effect of Persistence on Trend Detection via Regression, Water Resources research, 39(12), art.no. 1342, 2003.

Sankarasubramanian, A. and Vogel, R.M.,Hydroclimatology of the continental U.S., Geophysical Research Letters, 30(7), art. no. 1363, 2003.

Sankarasubramanian, A. and Vogel, R.M., Comment on the paper: “Basin hydrologic response relations to distributed physiographic descriptors and climate”, Journal of Hydrology, 263,257-261, 2002.

Sankarasubramanian, A. and Vogel, R.M., Annual Hydroclimatology of the United States, Water resources Research, 38(6), art. no. 1083, 2002.

Sankarasubramanian, A., Vogel, R.M. and Limbrunner, J.F., Climate elasticity of streamflow in the United States, Water Resources Research, 37(6), 1771-1781, 2001.

Vogel, R.M. and Sankarasubramanian, A., Scaling Properties of Annual Streamflow in the continental United States, Journal of Hydrological Sciences, 45,465-476,2000.

Fernandez, W., Vogel, R.M. and Sankarasubramanian, A., Regional Calibration of a Watershed Model, Journal of Hydrological Sciences, 45, 689-707, 2000.

Sankarasubramanian, A. and Srinivasan, K., Investigation and Comparison of sampling properties of L-moments and conventional moments, J. Hydrology, 218, 13-34,1999.

Srinivasan, K. and Sankarasubramanian, A., Flood Frequency Models for Indian Catchments– A Relook, Institution of Engineers Vol. 77, 41-46,1996 (Awarded Department of Irrigation Medal as best paper by Ministry of Water Resources, India).

Professional Memberships

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Geophysical Union