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Dr. Vijay Singh, P.E.

Dr. Vijay Singh, P.E.
Title Professor, Caroline & William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water
Office 321 Scoates Hall
Phone (979) 845-7028
E-mail vsingh@tamu.edu
Specialization Environmental – Soil & Water
Info Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • B.S., U.P. Agricultural University – India, Engineering and Technology, 1967
  • M.S., University of Guelph – Canada, Engineering, 1970
  • Ph.D., Colorado State University, Civil Engineering, 1974

Research Interests

Surface-water Hydrology, Groundwater Hydrology, Hydraulics, Irrigation Engineering, Environmental Quality and Water Resources. Principal research topics have encompassed:  1.  Watershed modeling, 2.  Erosion and Sediment Transport in Upland Watersheds, 3. Streamflow Forecasting, 4. Dam Break Analysis, 5. Entropy-Based Modeling, 6. Network Design, 7. Groundwater Modeling, and 8. Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change.

Recent Publications

  1. Singh, V.P., Entropy Theory for Movement of Moisture in Soils. Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, W03516, doi:10.1029/2009WR008288, pp. 1-12, 2010.
  2. Singh, V.P., Entropy Theory for Derivation of Infiltration Equations. Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, W03527, doi: 10.1029/2009WR008193, pp. 1-20, 2010.
  3. Chowdhary, H. and Singh, V.P., Reducing Uncertainty in Estimates of Frequency Distribution Parameters Using Composite Likelihood Approach and Copula-Based Bivariate Distributions. Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, W11516,doi: 10.1029/2009WR008490, pp. 1-23, 2010.
  4. Long, D. and Singh, V.P., Integration of the GG Model with SEBAL to Produce Time Series of Evapotranspiration of High Spatial Resolution at Watershed Scales. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, D21128, doi:10.1029/2010JD014092, 1-22, 2010.
  5. Hao, Z. and Singh, V.P., Single-Site Monthly Streamflow Simulation Using Entropy Theory. Water Resources Research, Vol. 47, W09528, doi:10.1029/2010WR010208, pp.1-14, 2011.
  6. Zhang, Q., Singh, V.P.,  Li, J. and Chen, X., Analysis of Maximum Consecutive Wet Days. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 116, D23106, doi:10.1029/2011JD016088, 2011.
  7. Long, D. and Singh, V.P., A Modified Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (M-SEBAL) Based on a Trapezoidal Framework. Water Resources Research, Vol. 48, W02528, doi: 10.1029/2011WR010607, pp. 1-24, 2012.
  8. Long, D. and Singh, V.P., Deriving Theoretical Boundaries to Address Scale Dependencies of Triangle Models for Evapotranspiration Estimation. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, pp. 1-17, DO5113, doi: 10.1029/2011JD017079, 2012.
  9. Li, Chao, Singh, V.P. and Mishra, A.K., Simulation of the Entire Range of Daily Precipitation Using a Hybrid Probability Distribution. Water Resources Research, Vol. 48, pp.1-17, W03521,doi:10.1029/2011WR011446, 2012.
  10. Li, C., Singh, V.P. and Mishra, A.K., Entropy Theory-Based Criterion for Hydrometric Network Evaluation and Design: Maximum Information and Minimum Redundancy. Water Resources Research, Vol. 48, W05521, doi: 10.1029/2011WR011251, pp. 1-15, 2012.