Research Reports The publications in this series cover a wide range of subjects—from computer modeling to experience with water user associations—and vary in content from directly applicable research to more basic studies, on which applied work ultimately depends. Some research reports are narrowly focused, analytical and detailed empirical studies; others are wide-ranging and synthetic overvie...

He–Pb double dating of detrital zircons is more reliable than conventional U–Pb dating for tracing the source of detritus in sediments and can be used to constrain the percentage of recycled material in sediments. Conventional U–Pb dating can be used to constrain the provenance of sediments if the U–Pb zircon age pattern for potential source regions is known but can only be used to trace the so...

The Indus script is one of the major undeciphered scripts of the ancient world. The small size of the corpus, the absence of bilingual texts, and the lack of definite knowledge of the underlying language has frustrated efforts at decipherment since the discovery of the remains of the Indus civilization. Building on previous statistical approaches, we apply the tools of statistical language proc...

Abstract The study explores the factors affecting sedimentation trends in surrounding catchment area of Tarbela Dam for period 1980–2017, specifically rain and temperature. Furthermore, this also investigates seasonal effects sediment loads coming into reservoir from 2007 to 2012. statistical techniques were applied estimation climate (rainfall temperature) on inflow its area. results revealed ...

Historical and future projected changes in climatic patterns over the largest irrigated basin world, Indus River Basin (IRB), threaten agricultural production food security Pakistan, particular for vulnerable farming communities. To build a more detailed understanding of impacts climate change on agriculture s IRB, present study analyzes (1) observed trends average temperature, precipitation re...

Abstract In India’s Indo-Gangetic plains, river flows are strongly altered by dams, barrages and water diversions for irrigation, urban supply, hydropower production flood control. Human demands freshwater likely to intensify with climatic socio-economic changes, exacerbating trade-offs between different sustainable development goals (SDGs) dependent on (e.g. SDG2, SDG6, SDG7, SDG11 SDG15). Fre...

has to be expanded further to provide for a study of evolution and formation of Indian languages in the Indian language union (sprachbund). The paper analyses the stages in the evolution of early writing systems which began with the evolution of counting in the ancient Near East. Providing an example from the Indian Hieroglyphs used in Indus Script as a writing system, a stage anterior to the s...