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Teesta River and Its Ecosystem

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The Teesta River is the main right-bank tributary of Brahmaputra River which originates from North Sikkim Himalaya, India, and joins the Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh. Teesta River is the high elevated drained river which originates from TsoLhamo Lake at 5030-m elevation which shows its potential to generate the hydroelectricity. Due to the large variation in the elevation profile, the located cities at the bank of this river are at risk of landslides and flash flood events during monsoon season. A case study on Teesta river catchment using hydrological modeling to simulate the governing parameters such as streamflow in the river basin was carried out with MIKE NAM hydrological model.

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Acknowledgments

This present work has been carried out under DST research project No. YSS/2014/000878 and financial support is gratefully acknowledged. We also thankful to CWC New Delhi India, IMD Pune India and IITM Pune India for providing the required data sets for the completion of this work.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, 781039, India

    Manish Kumar Goyal & Uttam Puri Goswami

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Goyal, M.K., Goswami, U.P. (2018). Teesta River and Its Ecosystem. In: Singh, D. (eds) The Indian Rivers. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2984-4_37

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