Urban heat island studies in South Asia: A critical review

R Kotharkar, A Ramesh, A Bagade - Urban climate, 2018 - Elsevier
South Asian cities are home to nearly 15% of the world's urban population. These cities are
experiencing rampant environmental deterioration, making them vulnerable to the impacts of …

Analysis of urban heat island (UHI) in relation to normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI): A comparative study of Delhi and Mumbai

A Grover, RB Singh - Environments, 2015 - mdpi.com
The formation and occurrence of urban heat island (UHI) is a result of rapid urbanization and
associated concretization. Due to intensification of heat combined with high pollution levels …

Evaluating urban heat island in the critical local climate zones of an Indian city

R Kotharkar, A Bagade - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018 - Elsevier
The rise in global temperature and rapid pace of urbanisation is fuelling the need to
understand cities and its climate implication. Measuring urban heat island (UHI) have …

Review of secondary aerosol formation and its contribution in air pollution load of Delhi NCR

M Mishra, S Gulia, N Shukla, SK Goyal… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2023 - Springer
The elevated levels of fine particulate matter (PM) and its associated health concerns are
one of the major cause of apprehension for society as well as for policymakers in the region …

Simulating micro-scale thermal interactions in different building environments for mitigating urban heat islands

S Chatterjee, A Khan, A Dinda, S Mithun… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tropical cities are more susceptible to the suggested fall outs from projected global warming
scenarios as they are located in the Torrid Zone and growing at rapid rates. Therefore …

Assessing the immediate impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the air quality of Kolkata and Howrah, West Bengal, India

M Sarkar, A Das, S Mukhopadhyay - Environment, Development and …, 2021 - Springer
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 caused a nationwide lockdown in India from 24 March
2020 and was further extended up to 3 May 2020 to break off the transmission of novel …

[HTML][HTML] WiFEX: walk into the warm fog over Indo-Gangetic Plain region

SD Ghude, RK Jenamani, R Kulkarni… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Acharja, P., K. Ali, SD Ghude, V. Sinha, B. Sinha, R. Kulkarni, I. Gultepe, and MN Rajeevan,
2022: Enhanced secondary aerosol formation driven by excess ammonia during fog …

Inter-seasonal variations of surface temperature in the urbanized environment of Delhi using Landsat thermal data

RB Singh, A Grover, J Zhan - Energies, 2014 - mdpi.com
Complex land use/cover patterns in urban areas significantly influence their prevailing
surface temperature conditions. As a result of differential cooling and heating of various land …

Spatial variations of intra-city urban heat island in megacity Delhi

N Yadav, C Sharma - Sustainable cities and society, 2018 - Elsevier
This study examines the variation of intra-city Urban Heat Island (UHI) in megacity Delhi by
the mobile transverse measurement technique and spatial maps of UHI along the mobile …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial patterns of trends in seasonal extreme temperatures in India during 1980–2010

SS Roy - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2019 - Elsevier
Station level daily maximum and minimum temperature data spread across India were
analyzed for trends in seasonal extreme temperature indices. The trends were calculated for …