URBANIZATION LED TO OVERALL 60% ENHANCEMENT IN WARMING IN INDIAN CITIES

Urbanization alone has led to an overall 60 percent enhancement in warming in Indian cities, with eastern tier-II cities leading the way. It was revealed through a study conducted by the researchers from IIT Bhubaneswar. This research provides a science based quantitative ranking of urbanization for Indian cities.

The researchers investigated the contributions of local-scale urbanization and regional climate change to the warming in 141 major Indian cities over the past two decades. They took 18 years of high-resolution land surface temperature data from NASA's Aqua satellite for the period between 2003 and 2020. They also compared urban and rural warming trends.

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