The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment

P Lal, A Kumar, S Kumar, S Kumari, P Saikia… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 has caused tremendous …

Effect of lockdown due to SARS COVID-19 on aerosol optical depth (AOD) over urban and mining regions in India

AK Ranjan, AK Patra, AK Gorai - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-COronaVIrus Diseases 2019 (SARS-
COVID-19) pandemic has posed a serious threat to human health (death) and substantial …

Evaluating the 2018 extreme flood hazard events in Kerala, India

P Lal, A Prakash, A Kumar, PK Srivastava… - Remote Sensing …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The very high anomalous precipitation (more than 500 mm) and release of water from
reservoirs located in an upper catchment resulted in severe flood inundation situation in …

Quantifying temperature and precipitation change caused by land cover change: a case study of India using the WRF model

P Lal, A Shekhar, A Kumar - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The large-scale Land-Uses and Land-Cover Changes (LULCC) in India in the past several
decades is primarily driven by anthropogenic factors that influence the climate from regional …

[HTML][HTML] Combining time series and land cover data for analyzing spatio-temporal changes in mangrove forests: A case study of Qinglangang Nature Reserve, Hainan …

B Zhu, J Liao, G Shen - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Mangrove forests have important social, ecological, and economic value in coastal
ecosystems. However, they are one of the most vulnerable ecosystems in the world and are …

[HTML][HTML] Mismatches between vegetation greening and primary productivity trends in South Asia–A satellite evidence

S Sarmah, M Singha, J Wang, J Dong… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vegetation greening contributes to gross carbon sequestration by plants and thus plays a
vital role in mitigation of global warming. Terrestrial vegetation has a significant greening …

Analysing frequent extreme flood incidences in Brahmaputra basin, South Asia

A Kumar, S Mondal, P Lal - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The present study is focused on the flood inundation in Brahmaputra Basin, which is one of
the most recurrent and destructive natural disasters of the region. The flood inundation was …

Effect of vegetation structure on above ground biomass in tropical deciduous forests of Central India

P Lal, A Kumar, P Saikia, A Das, C Patnaik… - Geocarto …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The study aimed to determine the above-ground biomass (AGB) of tropical deciduous
forests in Central India using field-based techniques and spaceborne quad-pol ALOS …

Feedback from vegetation to interannual variations of Indian summer monsoon rainfall

S Budakoti, T Chauhan, R Murtugudde… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Interannual variations of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) are modulated by external
forcings such as El Niño Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole, and the Atlantic Niño …

Spatial heterogeneity for urban built-up footprint and its characterization using microwave remote sensing

S Kumari, P Lal, A Kumar - Advances in Space Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The study focuses on the spatial heterogeneity and footprint analysis of Greater Hyderabad
Metropolitan Corporation (GHMC), India using local indicators of spatial association (LISA) …