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Thermal stress and urban heat island effect in Jorhat urban environment as a result of changing land use and land cover

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The objective of the study is to determine the impact of land use and land cover (LULC) change on land surface temperature (LST) and thermal stress at Jorhat from 2009 to 2021. The experiment used Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper) for 2009 and OLI (Operational Land Imager)/TIRS (Thermal Infrared Sensor) for 2021 from earth.explorer.usgs.gov. Landsat data were employed to calculate the LST and LULC changes. Utilizing UTFVI (urban thermal field variance index), thermal stress over the ground surface has been computed. Thermal discomfort is computed simultaneously using the relative strain index (RSI) and net effective temperature (NET) index. Jorhat evidenced significant rise in built-up land to 281.25 hectares with reduced vegetation cover of 480.96 hectares from 2009 to 2021. These modifications caused significant rises in LST of 4.28 °C, 2.33 °C and 3.01 °C in September, October and December from 2009 to 2021. According to UTFVI from 2009 to 2021, Jorhat experienced declining ecologically excellent area with a rising proportion of ecologically worse land. In September and October 2009, the Jorhat city had just 10 days of bioclimatic discomfort and 19 days of bioclimatic comfort, as opposed to 24 and 10 days in 2021, respectively. Similarly, NET estimated 21 very hot days in October 2021, as opposed to just 9 days in 2009. Compared to 2009, there are now 6 and 4 days in December 2021 that are classified as warm or slightly hot, respectively. This leads to the conclusion that Jorhat's thermal condition is significantly impacted by changes in land use and land cover.

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The authors of the manuscript are very much thankful to earth.explorer.usgs.gov for providing required satellite datasets and power.larc.nasa.gov data for the climatic data needed for the successful completion of this research work.

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Neog, R., Hazarika, J. Thermal stress and urban heat island effect in Jorhat urban environment as a result of changing land use and land cover. Acta Geophys. 70, 2771–2783 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-00927-z

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