Manish Shrestha

Centres

Stockholm Environment Institute

SEI Topics

Climate Water Air Land Energy Governance Economy Gender Health

Manish Shrestha

Research Associate

SEI Asia
Expertise: Hydrology, modelling, Climate change, land-use analysis
manish.shrestha@sei.org

Manish Shreshta is a Research Associate in SEI Asia.

Prior to joining SEI, he worked at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) as a researcher responsible for projects related to climate and was involved in hydrology modeling workshops and trainings. Before joining AIT, Manish was an intern with the Interdisciplinary Research Center for River Basin Environment, University of Yamanashi (ICRE-UY) in Japan and as an engineer in Nepal.

His key areas of interest includes hydrological and hydraulic modeling, climate change, water induced disaster and management, land use analysis and GIS based studies. He has published several peer reviewed journal articles on climate and hydrological modeling.

Manish holds a Master’s Degree in Water Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

Publications authored externally to SEI

Shrestha, M., Acharya, S.C., Shrestha, P.K., 2016. Bias Correction of climate models for hydrological modeling – are simple methods still useful? Meteorological Applications. (In press)
Shrestha, M., Shrestha, S., Datta, A., 2016. Assessment of climate change impact on water diversion from Bago River to Moeyingyi wetland, Myanmar. Current Science. (In press)
Trang N. T., Shrestha, S., Shrestha, M., Datta, A., Kawasaki A., 2016. Climate change impact on hydrology and nutrient loading in transboundary river basin: A case study in the 3S River Basin (Sekong, Sesan and Srepok). Science of The Total Environment, 576, 586-598.
Shrestha, S., Shrestha, M., Babel, M.S., 2016. Modelling the potential impacts of climate change on hydrology of Indrawati River Basin in Nepal. Environmental Earth Science, 75(4), 1-13.

Case Study on Sediment in the Mekong River Basin: Current State and Future Trends