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Dec 17, 2024;197 (1): 64.

A study of land cover and land surface temperature changes triggered by tropical cyclone "Titli".

Srikanth Kadali, Debadatta Swain, Dikshika Mahapatra
Author Information
  1. Srikanth Kadali: School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, 752050, Odisha, India.
  2. Debadatta Swain: School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, 752050, Odisha, India. dswain@iitbbs.ac.in. ORCID
  3. Dikshika Mahapatra: School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, 752050, Odisha, India.
PMID: 39688712 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-024-13535-9

Abstract

The intensity and frequency of tropical cyclones (TC) are on the rise due to climate change, resulting in severe damage to coastal regions. Hence, the mitigation of socioeconomic and environmental consequences of cyclones has attained paramount importance in the recent years. In this study, the rapid impact of a very severe cyclonic storm "Titli" on land cover (LC) changes were evaluated using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and high-resolution Sentinel-2 data. The cyclonic event caused substantial modifications in land use and land cover with nearly 46% decrease in dense vegetation, 129% increase in fallow land, and 111% increase in water body, over the study region. Widespread damage (dense to less dense vegetation) was evident on the left side of the cyclone track as compared to the right. The analysis revealed a 98.3% decrease in dense vegetation, marked by a decrease in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from 0.73 to 0.44 over the landfall region. This NDVI decrease continued for nearly 3 months before the onset of vegetation regrowth. Change in vegetation into other LCs over the landfall region resulted in an increase of the mean daytime land surface temperature by ~ 6 °C. The analysis highlights the magnitude of spatiotemporal scale damages to LULC and consequent loss in seasonality that can be ushered in by a single short-duration extreme weather event like TC and thus emphasizes the need for well-formulated mitigation strategies.

Keywords

Cyclone impact Land surface temperature Land use land cover NDVI Tropical cyclone

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MeSH Term

Cyclonic Storms
Environmental Monitoring
Temperature
Climate Change
Satellite Imagery
Journal Article

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