Heat waves characteristics intensification across Indian smart cities

MK Goyal, S Singh, V Jain - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Indian cities have frequently observed intense and severe heat waves for the last few years.
It will be primarily due to a significant increase in the variation in heat wave characteristics …

Navigating the impact of climate change in India: a perspective on climate action (SDG13) and sustainable cities and communities (SDG11)

S Hussain, E Hussain, P Saxena, A Sharma… - … in Sustainable Cities, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is a global concern of the current century. Its rapid escalation and ever-
increasing intensity have been felt worldwide, leading to dramatic impacts globally. The …

A review of widely used drought indices and the challenges of drought assessment under climate change

J Han, VP Singh - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023 - Springer
Under climate change, drought assessment, which can address nonstationarity in drought
indicators and anthropogenic implications, is required to mitigate drought impacts. However …

IMDLIB: An open-source library for retrieval, processing and spatiotemporal exploratory assessments of gridded meteorological observation datasets over India

S Nandi, P Patel, S Swain - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
Addressing a pressing need for streamlined access to observed meteorological data in
India, we present IMDLIB, an open-source Python library that operates on gridded datasets …

Assessment of land-use land-cover dynamics and urban heat island effect of Dehradun city, North India: a remote sensing approach

A Mishra, DS Arya - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024 - Springer
Urbanisation is a crucial issue for urban planners and researchers worldwide, especially in
South Asia, where rapid urbanisation has led to several negative impacts on the …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) climate scenarios and its impacts on the Greater Accra region

EK Siabi, EA Awafo, AT Kabo-bah, NSA Derkyi… - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects of climate change (CC) have intensified in Ghana, especially in the Greater
Accra region over the last two decades. CC assessment under the new IPCC scenarios and …

An index-based approach to assess the vulnerability of socio-ecological systems to aridity and drought in the Danube Delta, Romania

N Damian, B Mitrică, I Mocanu, I Grigorescu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Delta regions are compound socio-ecological systems increasingly exposed to various multi-
hazards (eg, drought, flooding). The Danube Delta, one of the most complex wetland areas …

Analysis of decadal land use changes and its impacts on urban heat island (UHI) using remote sensing-based approach: A smart city perspective

S Sahoo, A Majumder, S Swain, Gareema, B Pateriya… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The land surface temperature (LST) pattern is regarded as one of the most important
indicators of the environmental consequences of land use/land cover change. The possible …

Characterization and assessment of hydrological droughts using GloFAS streamflow data for the Narmada River Basin, India

S Swain, SK Mishra, A Pandey, PK Srivastava… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Hydrological droughts severely affect the demand of water for domestic water supply,
irrigation, hydropower generation, and several other purposes. The pervasiveness and …

Meteorology-driven trends in PM2. 5 concentrations and related health burden over India

X Wang, J Zhu, K Li, L Chen, Y Yang, Y Zhao… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
As a heavily polluted country, India has made great efforts on mitigating severe PM 2.5
pollution during last several years. Quantifying meteorological impacts on PM 2.5 pollution …