• Analysis of the effect of climate change impacts on floods in Kelani river basin, Sri Lanka 

  Kulathunga, SPSP [Thesis-Abstract]

  Sri Lanka is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, including rising land and sea temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, more extreme weather events, and sea-level rise. Notably, climate change has been ...
• Potential of incorporating satellite soil moisture observations in flood modeling in Kelani river basin, Sri Lanka 

  Rajapaksha, RMKC [Thesis-Abstract]

  Floods are frequent and devastating natural disasters, causing significant social and economic losses worldwide. Flood modelling plays a crucial role in predicting and mitigating the impacts of floods. In recent years, ...
• Streamflow variability under climate change scenarios in Kelani river basin, Sri Lanka 

  Farhat F [Thesis-Abstract]

  In recent years, the downstream floodplain of the Kelani River Basin has been suffering from frequent floods. With the current climate change trend, flood-related damages are expected to amplify in future. Therefore, ...
• Forecasting dry weather flow to assess future water extraction capacities at Koleimodara intake in Kuda ganga, Kalu ganga 

  Fernando WRS [Thesis-Abstract]

  Kalu Ganga is the primary source of potable water supply in the greater Colombo area and total Kalutara District. Kethhena water treatment is supposed to cover the water demand in the middle and southern parts of the ...
• Impact of climate change and socio - economic development on water allocation for ecosystem - water -energy -food services :a case study on Mahaweli river basin, Sri Lanka 

  Fernando WBDT [Thesis-Abstract]

  This study was carried out to assess the impacts of climate change on the dynamics of surface water availability for different present and future users in the Mahaweli river basin. A multi-tier modeling method was ...
• Evaluation of the effect of loss and transform methods on the performance of HEC-HMS model : a case study in Kelani river basin, Sri Lanka 

  Kothalawala CD [Thesis-Abstract]

  Hydrological modelling plays a vital role in understanding the hydrological system of any watershed and providing reliable data to manage the water resources of the relevant watershed in a sustainable manner. Among the ...
• Evaluation of gridded precipitation products for streamflow modelling in GIN watershed, Sri Lanaka 

  Doya PD [Thesis-Abstract]

  Watershed, Sri Lanka An accurate representation of spatial precipitation is significant for hydrological studies. Spatial precipitation is also the basic input for distributed hydrological models and the accuracy of ...
• Modelling streamflow variability in dry and wet zone river basins in Sri Lanka using satellite soil moisture data 

  Phuyal U [Thesis-Abstract]

  Streamflow variability is important in basin water resources management to analyze and plan for the present and future hazards and vulnerabilities affecting effective water management. The unique feature of soil to hold ...
• Impact of climate change on droughts in Maduru Oya river basin in Sri Lanka over the 21st century 

  Kour G [Thesis-Abstract]

  Drought is an creeping hazard that is least understood and the most complex of all-natural hazards. The drought study requires large historical climatological and meteorological datasets and their complex inter-relationships. ...
• Drought assessment of Kirindi oya and Kelani river basins in Sri Lanka under climate change impacts 

  Azmi F [Thesis-Abstract]

  Drought is a natural phenomenon that occurs because of climate change. Droughts are localized events influenced by climatic variables such as precipitation, evapotranspiration, and temperature. As a result, the characteristics ...
• Assessment of deforestation and land cover change impacts on flood peak discharge in Maduru oya basin, Sri Lanka 

  Nab AW [Thesis-Abstract]

  Population growth raises demand and competition for water resources and food stocks while it changes the landuse types by anthropogenic activities to adopt applicable measures for supplying water for domestic, agricultural, ...
• Assessment of climate change impact on water availability in upper Mahaweli river basin, Sri Lanka 

  Musadiq F [Thesis-Abstract]

  Climate change, population increase, and economic development will all have an impact on future water availability for drinking water supply, agriculture, and recreation activities, with different effects in different ...
• Development of a rainfall-runoff-inundation model and flood monitoring system based on satellite imagery for Kalu ganga basin, Sri Lanka 

  Sultana T [Thesis-Abstract]

  Floods are getting severe due to climate change and anthropogenic activities which neeimmediate response to lower the risk and decrease the human and financial losses. Floodinundation mapping for flood risk preparedness ...
• Flood hazard and vulnerability assessment in upper Gin river basin in Sri Lanka under climate change 

  Kumar V [Thesis-Abstract]

  Floods are a frequent major disaster throughout the world, usually resulting in fatalities andmassive economic and environmental damage. Seasonal and localized flooding is one of theextremely common natural disasters in ...
• Flood risk assessment in Kalu river basin Sri Lanka using geospatial techniques and hydrological modelling 

  Gurung R [Thesis-Abstract]

  Kalu Ganga basin is one of the main waterway basins in Sri Lanka which gets exceptionally high rainfalls with higher discharges. This report is about how the different zones, having a higher likelihood of a flood in the ...
• Evaluation of the changes in the climatic parameters affecting water resources in the Kelani river basin 

  Wangmo K [Thesis-Full-text]

  The impact of climate change on the freshwater resources of Sri Lanka is most likely to affect the Sri Lankan economy since most sectors are vulnerable to climate change. There is limited research on Climate Change in Sri ...
• Analysis of rainfall trend and ITS impact on future hydropower generation - case study on victoria reservoir. 

  Lakmali JWR [Thesis-Full-text]

  Mahaweli river basin is the major river basin for hydropower generation in Sri Lanka and it supplies about 1800 GWh annually to the national grid, but the expected generation is about 2400 GWh (2019). The annual hydropower ...
• Flood forecasting model using HEC-HMS for Nagalagam Street hydrometric station with relative impact of antecedent rainfall in Kelani river basin 

  Senadhinatha NMA [Thesis-Full-text]

  The recurrent occurrence of major floods around the world as well as in Sri Lanka has significantly increased in the recent past. Thus, flood forecasting models have been developed to provide reliable and accurate simulation ...
• Evaluation of climate elasticity of runoff based on observed rainfall/streamflow data and simulated future streamflow using swat model in Kelani ganga basin 

  Siriwardena KKGIL [Thesis-Full-text]

  Kelani Ganga basin is the 7th largest watershed in Sri Lanka, spanning over 2,292 km2, with a length of 145 km, and annually discharging 4,225 MCM flow to the sea. The annual average rainfall varies from 2000 mm to 5700 ...
• Applicability of model parameter transferability of tank model in streamflow simulation in gin river basin 

  Boralugoda BPD [Thesis-Full-text]

  Amidst of the population growth and increased demand due to rising level of living standard, stress on the water resources has been increased rapidly in recent years. Water practitioners, researchers have been stressing ...

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