Shakeel Ahmad Bhat's research while affiliated with Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir and other places
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Publications (61)
Rainfall is crucial for the development and management of water resources. Six hybrid soft computing models, including multilayer perceptron (MLP)–Henry gas solubility optimization (HGSO), MLP–bat algorithm (MLP–BA), MLP–particle swarm optimization (MLP–PSO), radial basis neural network function (RBFNN)–HGSO, RBFNN–PSO, and RBFGNN–BA, were used in...
Temperature considers one of the most important factors in the estimation of agricultural water requirements, hydrological processes and climate change studies. In order to determine the most accurate prediction model in a semi-arid environment for the daily minimum and maximum temperature (T max and T min ), linear regression (LR), additive regres...
Rainfall is crucial for the development and management of water resources. Six hybrid soft computing models, including multilayer perceptron (MLP)–Henry gas solubility optimization (HGSO), MLP–bat algorithm (MLP–BA), MLP–particle swarm optimization (MLP–PSO), radial basis neural network function (RBFNN)–HGSO, RBFNN–PSO, and RBFGNN–BA, were used in...
Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic energy that has wavelengths that are longer than visible light, gamma, and ultraviolet radiation but shorter than microwave and radio frequency radiation. IR radiation falls between the region of visible light (0.38–0.78 μm) and microwaves (11,000 mm). Because of its inherent advantages over traditional he...
Biochar is a carbon-based substance made by the pyrolysis of organic waste. The amount of biochar produced is determined by the type of feedstock and pyrolysis conditions. Biochar is frequently added to the soil for various reasons, including carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas mitigation, improved crop production by boosting soil fertility, remov...
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Middle Euphrates Region—Iraq (MER) is important for Iraq’s agricultural activity and production. This paper evaluated the possibility of using groundwater for irrigation in this region. This evaluation was based on computing the irrigation water quality index (IWQI) spatial distribution via the geographical information system (GIS). The IWQI distri...
This study was conducted to assess the effect of two thermal treatments, viz. roasting and pan frying (deep frying), on nutritional profile, aflatoxin, and capsaicin content in green chilies. Green chilies were subjected to roasting and frying to reduce the aflatoxin contamination, besides retaining their pungency and nutritional profile. Reversed‐...
Lateral Saltwater Intrusion (LSWI) and Vertical Saltwater Intrusion (VSWI) are the major problems in coastal aquifers. Coastal aquifers are subjected to natural and artificial changes, including sea‐level rise, decreasing inland recharge, and overexploitation of production wells’ water resources. Therefore, this study investigates the influence of...
Dams significantly impact river hydrology by changing the timing, size, and frequency of low and high flows, resulting in a hydrologic regime that differs significantly from the natural flow regime before the impoundment. For precise planning and judicious use of available water resources for agricultural operations and aquatic habitats, it is crit...
Dams significantly impact river hydrology, mainly by changing the timing, size, and frequency of low and high flows, resulting in a hydrologic regime that differs significantly from the natural flow regime before the impoundment. For precise planning and judicious use of available water resources for agricultural operations and aquatic habitats, it...
Rapid industrialization, increased waste production and surge in agricultural activities, mining, contaminated irrigation water and industrial effluents contribute to the contamination of water resources due to heavy metal (HM) accumulation. Humans employ HM-contaminated resources to produce food, which eventually accumulates in the food chain. Dec...
Reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) is an important component of the hydrological
cycle that is used for water resource planning, irrigation, and agricultural management, as well as
in other hydrological processes. The aim of this study was to estimate the ETo based on limited
meteorological data using an artificial neural network (ANN) method....
Understanding the recent variations in temperature extremes is crucial to anticipate the forthcoming incidences of extreme phenomena. However, knowledge of temperature extremes’ spatial and temporal patterns, as well as their links to atmospheric oscillation and topography, is scarce in Bangladesh. To this end, this research intends to analyze the...
Dumping waste materials into aquatic ecosystems leads to pollution, which directly and indirectly poses a danger to all life forms. Currently, huge quantities of wastes are generated at a global scale with varying constituents, including organic fractions, emerging contaminants and toxic metals. These wastes release concentrated contaminants (leach...
Purpose
Apricots are not only nutritionally-rich but also possess pharmacological significance owing to their high antioxidant activity, and they are rich in vitamins, fibers, bioactive phytochemicals and minerals. Because of its immense organoleptic characteristics, apricot juice (AJ) is well accepted; however, it has a limited shelf-life, thereby...
Food spoilage and safety are key concerns of the modern food sector. Among them, several types of polluting agents are the prime grounds of food deterioration. In this context, nanotechnology-based measures are setting new frontiers to strengthen food applications. Herein, we summarize the nanotechnological dimension of the food industry for both p...
Soil erosion is exacerbated by unsustainable land-use activities and poor management practices, undermining reservoir storage capacity. To this effect, appropriate estimation of sediment would help to adopt sustainable land-use activities and best management practices that lead to efficient reservoir operations. This paper aims to investigate the s...
Coronavirus refers to a group of widespread viruses. The name refers to the specific morphology of these viruses because their spikes look like a crown under an electron microscope. The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that has been reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, was proclaimed an international public health emergency (P...
Nanotechnology being an emerging science for water treatment requires more research emphasis and depth knowledge. For wastewater treatment, different forms of nanomaterials are used based on the type of contaminants and treatment efficiency desired. With the development in the field of nanomaterials, novel and emerging nanomaterials are coming into...
Understanding the recent variations in temperature extremes is crucial to anticipate the forthcoming incidences of extreme phenomena. However, Knowledge on temperature extremes' spatial and temporal patterns, as well as their links to atmospheric oscillation and topography, is scarce in Bangladesh. To this end, this research intends to analyze the...
Timely and reliable water footprint prediction is imperative and prerequisite to mitigate climate risk and ensure water and food security and enhance the water-use efficiency. This study aims to model the Water Footprint (WF) by using the four kernels of Gaussian processes models (Polynomial, Normalized Poly, Radial Basis Function RBF, and Pearson...
This study aimed at investigating the influence of different postharvest treatments with oxalic acid (OA) and salicylic acid (SA) on quality attributes and postharvest shelf life of temperate grown apricot varieties stored under controlled atmosphere (CA) storage conditions. After each treatment was given, the samples were stored in CA store mainta...
This study aimed at investigating the influence of different postharvest treatments with oxalic acid (OA) and salicylic acid (SA) on quality attributes and postharvest shelf life of temperate grown apricot varieties stored under controlled atmosphere (CA) storage conditions. After each treatment was given, the samples were stored in CA store mainta...
The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a major challenge from human health perspective. The alarming exponential increase in the transmission and fatality rates related to this disease has brought the world to a halt so as to cope up with its stern consequences. This has led to the imposition of lockdown across the globe to prevent the fu...
The antioxidant characteristics associated with the cherry fruit components that mainly involve polyphenolic compounds like flavonoids and anthocyanins have resulted in an increase in its global production and consumption. This chapter provides a comprehensive summary related to cherry fruit, cherry fruit juices, seeds, and cherry fruit by-products...
Bioreactors are getting a major boost over the recent past for improving the water qualities in regions affected by waterlogging and poor drainage problems. In order to decrease the quantity of nitrate in agricultural drainage, Woodchip or denitrification bioreactors have come up as an innovative, engineering-based technology. Bioreactors form an a...
High-intensity ultrasound assisted food processing is a promising and emerging non-thermal method, having broad applications in various food processing operations such as homogenization, extraction, degassing, de-foaming, emulsification, crystallization, cleaning, etc. The shelf life of the liquid food materials can be augmented by the means of ult...
High pressure processing (HPP) or the cold pasteurization of foods offers a viable and practical alternative to thermal processing by allowing food to pasteurize at room temperature. When using high pressure processing, microorganisms are destroyed, but covalent bonds do not break and the effect on processed food is minimal. In addition, the positi...
Various anthropogenic activities result in a continuous discharge of contaminants of emerging concerns (CECs) into the natural environs. The remediation of these substances is an emerging concern to safeguard life on earth. The main aim of this research article is to provide a deep imminent into the available conventional and advanced wastewater tr...
The present study aims to evaluate the effect of integrated nitrogen management on growth performance characteristics of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) var. contendor under temperate conditions of Kashmir valley during kharif season of 2014 at the research farm of SKUAST-K, Shalimar, Srinagar. The experiment was laid out in a randomized block...
Rising population and decreasing cultivable land pose a great challenge to modern agriculture. The agricultural production has to be balanced with the ever-increasing population to meet the demands of food supply. These changes have led to intensification of agriculture resulting into conversion of natural vegetation areas to agricultural land. Thi...
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOE MITIGATION OF FLOODS
Comprising almost a third of greenhouse gas emissions and having an equally prominent role in pollution of soils, fresh water, coastal ecosystems, and food chains in general, agriculture is, alongside industry and electricity/heat production, one of the three biggest anthropogenic causes of breaching the planetary boundaries. Most of the problems i...
Aims: The study aimed at modeling the climate change projections for Ferozpur subcatchment of Jhelum sub-basin of Kashmir Valley using the SDSM model. Study Design: The study was carried out in three different time slices viz Baseline (1985-2015), Mid-century (2030-2059) and End-century (2070-2099). Place and Duration of Study: Division of Agricult...
Research and investigation was carried out on "Assessing the impacts of climate change on Surface Water Resources of Wular Lake". The discharge of river Jhelum at Asham Inlet was obtained of the previous 21 years, and formatted to a prerequisite form. Also the climatic data viz. temperature, precipitation, etc. were obtained from the metrological s...
Saffron (Crocus Sativus) is a small bulbulous perennial spice member of the Iridaceae family. Saffron finds its measure use in food, beverage, cosmetics and textile industries. A comparative study was carried in the saffron fields of Pulwama district to determine the water use efficiency of various methods of irrigation and analyse the cost benefit...
Subsurface agricultural drainage can allow large gains in agricultural productivity in the midwestern United States. There is, however, concern about pollutants moving through these systems. One specific water quality concern is nitrate, a form of nitrogen that moves readily through the soil and often can be present in high amounts in clear drainag...
Study was carried out to find the effects of moisture content and screen perforation area on decortication efficiency of water chestnut decorticator. The decortication efficiency was maximum 52.70 % in screen C (area of perforation 38%) at 9% moisture content. Average amount of broken decreased with increase in area of perforations whereas the aver...
The study was conducted to prediction of soil loss using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE)
with the computer capabilities of a Geographical Information System (GIS), using the software package
ArcGIS at Khimber micro-watershed of Dal Catchment in Kashmir valley. The USLE estimates soil
loss based on the relationships of factors; rainfall (R),...
Citations
... It expresses the percentage of the dependent variable's variance that the model explains and also evaluates the goodness of fit [45]. The following are the formulae for these statistical criteria [45,46]: ...
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... However, it was not until 1960s that IR had been employed for the testing of food samples. Subsequently, from 1970 to 1980, a noticeable amount of work on IR application in foods was carried out [26]. Even now a lot of research is being conducted to develop more efficient and effective infrared dryers for use in the food industry with and without the combinations of other drying techniques. ...
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... Biochar is frequently added to the soil for various reasons, including carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas mitigation, improved crop production by boosting soil fertility, removing harmful contaminants, and drought mitigation (Bhat et al. 2022). Biochar alters soil hydraulic properties (which include soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity) by changing the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil. ...
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... In this decade, various models have been developed for analysing, mapping, predicting, and planning water use allocation in a region, such as the water evaluation and planning model (WEAP), irrigation water quality index (IWQI), optimally pruned learning machine (OP-ELM), dynamic evolving neural-fuzzy inference system (DENFIS), multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS), and integrated valuation of ecosystem service and tradeoffs (InVEST) (Khafaji et al., 2022;Nivesh et al., 2022;Adnan et al., 2023;Nahib et al., 2023). However, most of the models are used for specific purposes in agriculture or homogenous characteristics of climate zones. ...
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... Groundwater in coastal aquifers is vital for various purposes, including water supply. Nevertheless, SWI impairs fresh groundwater and increases salinity (Abd-Elaty et al. 2022a). Assessment of the water quality indicators is essential for integrated water resource management and future sustainable development (Abd-Elaty et al. 2019). ...
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... Recently, in response to the increasing energy demand, significant new initiatives are currently underway in the field of hydropower development [18]. Many aspects of the disruption of river thermal regimes have received some attention, which mainly focus on the analysis of vertical water temperature within the reservoir region and downstream water temperature [19][20][21]. ...
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... Phytoremediation involves the use of hyper-accumulator plant species that are tolerant to HMs, which can effectively remove, decompose, or detoxify hazardous metals from the environment or soil. Various phytoremediation methods such as phytostabilization, phytodegradation, rhizofiltration, phytoextraction, and phytovolatilization have been utilized for soil decontamination (Shen et al. 2022;Gavrilescu 2022;Bhat et al. 2022). ...
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... Hence, it is necessary to perform a comparative analysis of the water use for this area. Evapotranspiration can be an important factor affecting the amount of water needed for vegetation development, surface runoff, and therefore, for irrigation and water resource management [24][25][26]. Estimation of evapotranspiration helps producers gauge crop water needs. ...
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... The SWAT model involves delineating the study area, collecting meteorological data, and calibrating and validating the model with inputs like land use and soil properties (Akoko et al. 2021;Mengistu et al. 2019). It is crucial to accurately define the area, collect meteorological data, and configure the model with all necessary inputs for accurate simulation (Elbeltagi et al. 2022). ...
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... The mean annual temperature in Bangladesh ranges from 25 to 30 • C, with winter being the most pleasant season of the year with a minimum temperature of 4 • C, and with summer highs usually ranging from 38 • C to about 41 • C, with April being the hottest month and January being the coldest. More than 80% of the precipitation occurs during the rainy season, with an average relative humidity of 80% and an annual precipitation of about 2428 mm, ranging from 1900 mm in the north-west and south-west regions to 3100 mm in the north-east region [27]. ...
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