Ganga-Zumbi

Status Paper for River Ganga

Ganga: a Grid User Interface

Details are presented of GANGA, the Grid user interface being developed to enable large-scale distributed analysis by physicists in the ATLAS and LHCb experiments.

Ganga user interface for job definition and management

Ganga is a frontend for job definition and management in a distributed environment. It is being developed in the context of two high-energy physics experiments, ATLAS and LHCb, but is a component-based system that can readily be extended to meet the needs of other user communities. Ganga allows the user to specify the software to run, which may include user code, to set values for any configura...

Arsenic groundwater contamination in parts of middle Ganga plain, Bihar

Arsenic contamination of groundwater in low-lying Bhagarathi–Ganga deltaic plain is known for more than two decades. The problem was recognized in 1984 (ref. 1) in West Bengal, when 16 patients from a village of 24 Parganas district reported arsenicosis. Subsequent investigations revealed extensive arsenic contamination in groundwater in the Bengal Basin affecting the eastern part of West Benga...

A sediment budget for the Ganga–Brahmaputra catchment

Published data are used to construct an approximate sediment budget for the 1.656 × 10 km catchment of the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers. From these data, it has not been possible to identify the major sources of sediment. Recently published Nd/Sr tracer results suggest that the High Himalaya is the main source of sediment, providing for the first time a focus for more detailed research on the r...