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Factors That Influence the Hydrological Process: A Climate and Land Use/Land Cover Perspective

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The hydrological cycle (HyC) is affected by several factors, but climate and land use/land cover (LU/LC) are the most influential ones. This chapter has tried to show some satellite-based land use/land cover feature extraction methods that are useful for climate studies. Several literature works have claimed that climate is more influential than land use. Land use has an impact on several components of the hydrological cycle. This chapter provides a perspective on climate change, urbanization, land degradation, and other disasters and also on the usage of land use/land cover features in the study of the hydrological cycle. The anomaly in solar radiation due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its impact on climatic factors and the hydrological cycle with its implication in food production is briefed. Some of the global measurement missions for precipitation and land surface temperature (LST) are also discussed. To investigate the influence of land use/land cover on the hydrological cycle, identification of a particular class or all land use classes of a particular region may be essential. This chapter uses the synoptic view of satellite data and attempts to exercise certain indices to identify certain classes and classification algorithms to classify land use classes. This work has also experimented with certain classification algorithms to delineate some land use/land cover features and has also pointed out some limitations in the application of indices. This chapter discusses the factors that influence the hydrological cycle and highlights the usage of satellite data in regional studies.

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Jesudhas, C.J., Muniraj, K., Devaraj, S. (2022). Factors That Influence the Hydrological Process: A Climate and Land Use/Land Cover Perspective. In: Panneerselvam, B., Pande, C.B., Muniraj, K., Balasubramanian, A., Ravichandran, N. (eds) Climate Change Impact on Groundwater Resources. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04707-7_3

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