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Selected Research Articles of Dr. Pranaya Diwate


Faculty: Dr. Pranaya Diwate

Date: 27 Mar 2026

RESEARCH ARTICLE :

  1. Kudnar, N.S., Diwate, P., Mishra, V.N. et al. Spatio-temporal variability and trend analysis of rainfall in Wainganga river basin, Central India, and forecasting using state-space models. Theor Appl Climatol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04168-4(IF 3.5)
  2. Diwate Pranaya, Narendra Kumar Meena, Ravi Bhushan, Sundeep Pandita, K. R.Chandana, and Pawan Kumar. "Sedimentation rate (Pb-210 and Cs-137), grain size, organic matter and bathymetric studies in Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India." Journal of Himalayan Geology 41, no. 1 (2020): 51-62.(IF 1.01)
  3. Meena, N.K., Prakasam, M., Bhushan, R., Sarkar, S., Diwate, P. and Banerji, U., 2017. Last-five-decade heavy metal pollution records from the Rewalsar Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India. Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(1), p.39.(IF 2.78)
  4. Pawan Kumar, Narendra Kumar Meena, Pranaya Diwate, Ambrish Kumar Mahajan, Ravi Bhushan”The heavy metal contamination history during ca 1839-2003 AD from Renuka Lake of Lesser Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India. Environmental Earth Science78:549(IF 2.78)
  5. Mishra, P.K., Chauhan, P.R., Diwate, P., Parth, S. and Anoop, A., 2020. Holocene climate variability and cultural dynamics in the Indian subcontinent. Episodes Journal of International Geoscience, 43(1), pp.552-562. (IF 2.2)
  6. Pranaya Diwate, Narendra Kumar Meena, Sundeep Pandita. Climate Variability from Indian Subcontinent in the last 2ka: A Review. Journal of Critical Review. 2020; 7(5): 2460-2467. doi:10.31838/jcr.07.05.413
  7. Pranaya Diwate, Firoz Khan, Sakshi Maurya, Narendra Kumar Meena,Samaya Humane , Rushikesh BaburaoGolekar“Sedimentation Pattern and its Controlling Factors in Indian Lakes”Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences. Vol.40F, Geology (Geological Science), No.1, January-June 2021: P.38-52
  8. Kaushik, Sandeep Kumar, Varun Narayan Mishra, Milap Punia, Pranaya Diwate, Thota Sivasankar, and Anil Kumar Soni. "Crop Health Assessment Using Sentinel-1 SAR Time Series Data in a Part of Central India." Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences (2022): 1-18.
  9. Ritesh Kumar, Akshay Rai, Varun Narayan Mishra, Pranaya Diwate and V. S. Arya Performance Evaluation of Supervised Classifiers for Land Use and Land Cover Mapping Using Sentinel-2 MSI Image Journal of Geoscience Research Vol. 6, No.2, July, 2021 pp. 231-241
  10. Narendra Kumar Meena, Pranaya Diwate, Sundeep Pandita Evidence of ENSO and IOD Interplay in Continental Climatic Records from Southern Himalaya (Renuka Lake), IndiaJournal of Geoscience Research Vol. 7, No.2, January, 2022 pp. 01-09
  11. Niwate, M. C., Hiragond, A. S., Diwate, P. R.,&Golekar, R. B. (2022). Hydrogeochemical characteristics of groundwater influenced by seawater intrusion in coastal aquifer of Guhagar, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra (India). Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences-Geology, 41(1), 51-69.
  12. Ganesh Sonawane, Pranaya Diwate, Kajal Pansare1, Shekhar Kokate, Walmik Jagdale “A Review on Current Vaccination Status of COVID-19 in Maharashtra State of India Using GIS. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI) 2972-2981 12 (18)
  13. P Diwate, F Khan, S Kamble, RB Golekar Historical Review and Prospect on Diatomsstudy in India “Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences-Geology 41 (2), 297-308

Book/Chapter (International Scopus Indexed)

  1. Diwate, P., Patil, P., Kathe, P., & Mishra, V. N. (2023). Sustainable Urban Planning and Sprawl Assessment Using Shannon’s Entropy Model for Energy Management. Urban Energy Systems: Modeling and Simulation for Smart Cities, 157.
  2. Diwate, P., Golekar, R., Ambadkar, A., Kumar, P., & Mishra, V. N. (2023). Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Change and Its Impact on 2021 Chiplun Flood, Maharashtra, India. In Advances in Water Resource Planning and Sustainability (pp. 65-75). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
  3. Jamir, I., Diwate, P., Kumar, V., & Chauhan, G. S. (2020). Inferring Relationship of Landslides, Tectonics, and Climate: Tons Valley, NW Himalaya. In Spatial Information Science for Natural Resource Management (pp. 169-179). IGI Global.
  4. Giri, Pavankumar, Pranaya Diwate, and Yadao Kumar Mawale. "Morphometric Analysis of Tapi Drainage Basin Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques." Sustainable Development Practices Using Geoinformatics (2020): 57-72.
  5. Pranaya Diwateand Sakshi Maurya "Remote Sensing and GIS in limnological studies: A case study from Northwest Himalayan Lakes, India" published in edited book volume Geo-information Technology in Earth Resources Monitoring and Management Publisher: Nova Science Publishers (USA)
  6. Patil, S. N., A. V. Deshpande, A. M. Varade, Pranaya Diwate, A. A. Kokoreva, R. B. Golekar, and P. B. Gawali. "Magnetic Susceptibility and Heavy Metals Contamination in Agricultural Soil of Kopargaon Area, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra, India." In Geospatial Technology for Landscape and Environmental Management, pp. 405-430. Springer, Singapore, 2022.
  7. Rawat, Ashish, M. P. S. Bisht, Y. P. Sundriyal, Pranaya Diwate, and Swapnil Bisht. "Prioritization and Quantitative Assessment of Dhundsir Gad Using RS and GIS: Implications for Watershed Management, Planning and Conservation, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand." In Geospatial Technology for Landscape and Environmental Management, pp. 165-189. Springer, Singapore, 2022.
  8. Rushikesh Golekar, Sanjay kumar Narayan Patil, NandkishorKachate, Pranaya Diwate“Geospatial distribution of Dar Zarrouk Parameters resulting from Vertical Electrical Sounding in Dharangaon and Erandol Block of Jalgaon District, India Geo-Information Technology in Earth Resources Monitoring and Management 369-382 (1)
  9. Pranaya Diwate, Narendra Kumar Meena, Sundeep Pandita ,KhayingshingLuirei, Sumedh Humane, Ravi Bhushan ''Diatoms from Indian Himalaya (Renuka Lake) responses to 20thcentury global warming and climate change'’ accepted in"Disaster Management and Environmental Sustainability''" to be published by Willey.
  10. Pranaya Diwate, Ashish B Itolikar, Firoz Khan, Kunal Chinche. Pranali Kathe "Hydrological and Morphometric Study of the Girna River Basin, Maharashtra using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques accepted in “Geospatial Technology for Natural Resource Management" to be published by Willey.
  11. Manoj Pawar, Pavankumar Giri, Pranali Kathe, Pranaya Diwate “Evaluation of Groundwater potential zones in Godavari Sub-Basin using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and GIS'' accepted in "Geospatial Technology for Natural Resource Management" to be published by Willey.
  12. K.S. Kumbhar, Rishikesh Golekar, Pranaya Diwate “Assessment of Land use/land cover dynamics in the Watershed of Kolhapur District Maharashtra using remote sensing and GIS Techniques’‘Geospatial Technology for Natural Resource Management" to be published by Willey.
  13. Pranaya Diwate, Rishikesh Golekar, Abhijeet Ambadkar, Pawan Kumar, Varun Narayan Mishra“Analysis of land use/land cover change and its impact on 2021 Chiplun Flood, Maharashtra, India” submitted to Springer Nature
  14. Pranaya Diwate, Priyanka Patil, Pranali Kathe, Varun Narayan Mishra “Assessment of Urban Sprawl using Shannon’s Entropy Model: A Case study of Gandhinagar City, India submitted to Edited Volume to be published by Springer Nature.
  15. Pranaya Diwate, Firoz Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, Kunal Chinche, Pavankumar Giri, Varun Narayan Mishra Morphometric Analysis of Panzara River Basin Watershed, Maharashtra, India using Geospatial Approach submitted to Springer Nature

Abstract in Conference

  1. M.A.Sonar, K.M.Wanjadwadkar and P.R.Diwate “Study of bio-stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of Cenozoic succession of Kutch basin, western India “Conference paper presented (oral presentation) in 24th ICMS held during November 18-20, 2013 in Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun.
  2. Pranaya Diwate, Narendra K. Meena, Sumedh K.Humane, Sundeep K.Pandita “Sedimentary Diatoms based tropic status of Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India” Participated and presented a paperin conference 1st National geo research scholar meet (NGSOM) held during 1st to 4thJune 2016.
  3. Pranaya Diwate, Narendra K. Meena, Sumedh K.Humane, Sundeep K.Pandita “Sedimentary Diatoms based tropic status of Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India” Conference paper presented in 2st National geo research scholar meet (NGSOM) held during 1st to 4th June, 2016.
  4. Pranaya Diwate, Narendra K. Meena, Sumedh K.Humane, Sundeep K.Pandita“Sedimentary Diatoms based tropic status of Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India” Conference paper presented in 2st National geo research scholar meet (NGSOM) held during 1st to 4thJune, 2016.
  5. Prakasam M., Narendra K. Meena, Sarkar Sudipta, Pranaya Diwate“Paleoclimatic multiproxy record from Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya, India: during the past 600-years” Abstract in TWAS-ROCASA Young Scientist Conference "Frontiers in Earth & Climate Sciences" held during 5-7 Dec. 2016 at Bangalore, India.
  6. Pranaya Diwate, Narendra K. Meena, Sumedh K.Humane, Sundeep K. Pandita “Multiproxy record of past 170-year climate and ecological changes from NW Himalayan lake sediments core (Renuka Lake), India.” Conference paper presented in “National Conference on Earth System Science” held during May 16-18, 2018 in Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun.
  7. Narendra Meena, Prakasham M, Sarkar S. Pranaya Diwate “High resolution 1600 year climatic records inferred from Tso-Moriri lake Ladakh, northwestern Himalaya, India. Conference paper in Himalayan Karakoram Tibet (HKT) Workshop held at Oct.5-7, 2015.
  8. Prakasam, M, Narendra. Meena, Pranaya Diwate “Multi-centennial climatic variability from Tso-Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya, India” CLIVAR-ICTP Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability and Predictability, Italy held during November 16-20, 2015.
  9. Pranaya Diwate, Narendra K. Meena, Sumedh K.Humane, Sundeep K. Pandita"Diatoms response to climate change in the past 170 year from Renuka Lake, Northwest Himalaya, Indiaaccpeted in IGC 2020
  10. Firoz Khan, Narendra K. Meena, Y.P. Sundriyal, Pranaya Diwate"Palaeoclimatic scenario based on high resolution multi proxy records from Baspa Valley, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, IndiaConference paper accepted in “Recent Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainable Development” held during November 08-10, 2019 in Suresh yan Vihar University, Jaipur
  11. Narendra Meena, Pranaya Diwate, Sundeep Pandita, Ravi Bhushan, Pankaj Kumar, Sundeep ChopraSignatures of Solar Influence on Indian Summer Monsoon for the Last Two Millenniafrom the Renuka Lake, Northwest HimalayaConference paper presented in “Recent Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainable Development” held during November 08-10, 2019 in Suresh yan Vihar University, Jaipur

Book

  1. Pranaya Diwate and Kunal Chinche (2022) “Comparative study of different Digital Elevation Models for Morphometric analysis on Panzara river basin (MH), India” ISBN- 978-613-8-97343-0 Scholars' Press.
  2. Pranaya Diwate, Praful Shinde, Pranali Kathe, Aniket Boargaokar “Evaluation of Groundwater potential zones in Amravati taluka of Amravati District, Maharashtra”9798889516958 Notion Press

Edited Book

Springer Book entitled “Geospatial Technologies for Integrated Water Resources Management: Mapping, Modeling, and Decision-Making” is submitted for publication

PROJECT AWARDED

SERB Start up Research Grant

A Grant of 20 lakhs Rs. Approved and sanctioned for the project entitled “Assessment of Heavy metal pollution from major cities of Maharashtra: Source identification, ecological risk” from Science and Engineering Research Board.