Snow cover area change and its relations with climatic variability in Kashmir Himalayas,India     

Mifta ul Shafiq  Zahoor ul Islam  P. K. Joshi  Waseem A. Bhat 《国际地球制图》2019,34(6):688-702

Snowmelt makes an essential component of the hydrological system of Kashmir Himalayas. The present study was carried out to examine the status of Snow Cover Area (SCA) using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 8-day Snow Cover Product between 2000 and 2016. The intra- and inter-annual variability in SCA and in meteorological parameters was observed and various statistical tests were used to study the interrelationship. Results of statistical analysis indicate decrease in maximum temperature (?0.05 °C/year) and minimum temperatures (?0.02 °C/year) while rise in precipitation (19.13 mm/year). It also showed an increase in annual mean SCA (43.5 sq km) during the study period. The analysis was also carried out on a seasonal basis. The results revealed that in Kashmir Himalayas, climate plays a dominating role in controlling the SCA. The results depict the short-term fluctuations in SCA and show the magnitude of change between two successive values being very large in SCA.  相似文献   

Three-Dimensional Petrophysical Modelling and Volumetric Analysis to Model the Reservoir Potential of the Kupe Field,Taranaki Basin,New Zealand     

Qadri  S. M. Talha  Islam  Md. Aminul  Shalaby  Mohamed Ragab 《Natural Resources Research》2019,28(2):369-392

Natural Resources Research - This study addresses the three-dimensional (3D) petrophysical modelling and volumetric analysis of the Farewell Reservoir in the Kupe Field in the southern Taranaki...  相似文献   

Evaluation of long term trends in apple cultivation and its productivity in Jammu and Kashmir from 1975 to 2015     

Bhat  Mohammad Shafi  Lone  Fayaz A.  Shafiq  Mifta ul  Rather  Javaid A. 《GeoJournal》2021,86(3):1193-1202

GeoJournal - Horticulture plays a pivotal role in the economy of Jammu and Kashmir. Owing to favourable agro-climatic conditions, temperate horticulture is fast expanding in the state which is...  相似文献   

How do links between households and NGOs promote disaster resilience and recovery?: A case study of linking social networks on the Bangladeshi coast   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Rabiul Islam  Greg Walkerden 《Natural Hazards》2015,78(3):1707-1727

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Model of singularity free charged compact stars     

Safiqul Islam  Farook Rahaman  Iftikar Hossain Sardar 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2015,356(2):293-300

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Effects of convective available potential energy,temperature and humidity on the variability of thunderstorm frequency over Bangladesh     

Wahiduzzaman  Md  Ali  Md. Arfan  Luo  Jing-Jia  Wang  Yu  Uddin  Md. Jalal  Shahid  Shamsuddin  Islam  A. R. M. Towfiqul  Mondal  Sanjit Kumar  Siddiki  Ubaydur Rahaman  Bilal  Muhammad  Qiu  Zhongfeng  Dambul  Ramzah  Eibek  Kutubuddin  Haque  Md. Emdadul 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2022,147(1-2):325-346

Theoretical and Applied Climatology - The present study examines the effects of convective available potential energy (CAPE), temperature and humidity on the spatiotemporal variation of...  相似文献   

Participatory Vulnerability Reduction (PVR): an urban community-based approach for earthquake management     

Md. Mashrur Rahman  Uttama Barua  Farzana Khatun  Ishrat Islam  Rezwana Rafiq 《Natural Hazards》2018,93(3):1479-1505

Participation of local people during any disaster is enormous. They possess better knowledge and information about their own community than anyone else from the outside. This study proposes Participatory Vulnerability Reduction (PVR), a community-based approach for disaster management. The concept of PVR was applied to an urban community of Dhaka city (Ward no. 06 of Dhaka North City Corporation) which has been identified by the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme as one of the most vulnerable areas of the city for earthquake. PVR consists three steps, and in each step, different participatory urban appraisal tools were used. In the first step, the community people assessed the earthquake vulnerability. It was found that some certain parts of the study area are highly vulnerable due to lack of accessibility to the critical facilities, inadequacy of open space, poor construction practice and unsuitable soil condition for building construction. This was followed by analyzing the root causes and effects of these problems. Structural fragility of the buildings, construction of settlements by filling the low-lying areas and development of slums beside taller buildings are the three major causes behind the above vulnerable issues. In the second step, capacity of the community was assessed in terms of resources and their organizational structure. In the final step, local people developed the strategies to overcome the vulnerability and a community-based organizational set up was proposed to coordinate the collective actions. Although developed in local context, application of PVR is not limited for earthquake and it can be replicated for other communities as well.  相似文献   

An analysis of climatic and human induced determinants of agricultural land use changes in Shupiyan area of Jammu and Kashmir state,India     

Rehana Rasool  Mifta ul Shafiq  Pervez Ahmed  Parvaiz Ahmad 《GeoJournal》2018,83(1):49-60

The economy of the Jammu and Kashmir state depends mostly on traditional forms of occupation. Unaffected and unaltered by modern day industrial developments and changing times, the indigenous traditional occupations of farming, animal husbandry and horticulture forms the backbone of the state economy. But in the last few decades, Agriculture in the state as well as the study area is receiving a set back and Horticulture is flourishing leaps and bounds. The present study aims to analyze various determinants responsible for this change. Climatic as well as field data was thoroughly analyzed to comprehend the situation. A Mann–Kendall test was done on the climatic data to support the hypotheses. It was observed that initially changing climatic trends proved to be the triggering factor supporting this change, but in due course of time, the determinants took an economic and psychological turn. The perusal of Indian Meteorological Data reveals an increasing trend of annual mean maximum temperature from 16.78 °C in 1985 to 17.58 °C in 1995 and an increase from 5.30 °C to 7.00 °C in the annual mean minimum temperature, and as such acting as a triggering factor for the land use conversion. Further, the mean annual rainfall shows a decrease from 100.75 mm in 1981 to 79.43 mm in 1991. The greater economic returns from horticulture as well as the changing behavioral patterns of people over the time further cemented its growth. The farmers have since persisted with the horticulture activity as it has proven to be an economically a much better lucrative enterprise.  相似文献   

Quantifying land use/land cover spatio-temporal landscape pattern dynamics from Hyperion using SVMs classifier and FRAGSTATS®     

Salim Lamine  Sudhir Kumar Singh  Szilárd Szabó  Nour El Islam Bachari  Prashant K. Srivastava 《国际地球制图》2018,33(8):862-878

This study aims to quantify the landscape spatio-temporal dynamics including Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) changes occurred in a typical Mediterranean ecosystem of high ecological and cultural significance in central Greece covering a period of 9 years (2001–2009). Herein, we examined the synergistic operation among Hyperion hyperspectral satellite imagery with Support Vector Machines, the FRAGSTATS^® landscape spatial analysis programme and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for this purpose. The change analysis showed that notable changes reported in the experimental region during the studied period, particularly for certain LULC classes. The analysis of accuracy indices suggested that all the three classification techniques are performing satisfactorily with overall accuracy of 86.62, 91.67 and 89.26% in years 2001, 2004 and 2009, respectively. Results evidenced the requirement for taking measures to conserve this forest-dominated natural ecosystem from human-induced pressures and/or natural hazards occurred in the area. To our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind, demonstrating the Hyperion capability in quantifying LULC changes with landscape metrics using FRAGSTATS^® programme and PCA for understanding the land surface fragmentation characteristics and their changes. The suggested approach is robust and flexible enough to be expanded further to other regions. Findings of this research can be of special importance in the context of the launch of spaceborne hyperspectral sensors that are already planned to be placed in orbit as the NASA’s HyspIRI sensor and EnMAP.  相似文献   

Waterlogging induced loss and damage assessment of urban households in the monsoon period: a case study of Dhaka,Bangladesh     

Nithila  Arna Nishita  Shome  Paromita  Islam  Ishrat 《Natural Hazards》2022,110(3):1565-1597

Natural Hazards - Every monsoon period, the households in Dhaka face extensive waterlogging in their localities. This recrudescing event leads to tangible and intangible losses in the lives of...  相似文献