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4 August 2016 Long-term change analysis of satellite-based evapotranspiration over Indian vegetated surface
Shweta Gupta, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, Akhouri Pramod Krishna
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Proceedings Volume 9877, Land Surface and Cryosphere Remote Sensing III; 98771F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2228065
Event: SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2016, New Delhi, India
Abstract
In the present study, trend of satellite based annual evapotranspiration (ET) and natural forcing factors responsible for this were analyzed. Thirty years (1981-2010) of ET data at 0.08° grid resolution, generated over Indian region from opticalthermal observations from NOAA PAL and MODIS AQUA satellites, were used. Long-term data on gridded (0.5° x 0.5°) annual rainfall (RF), annual mean surface soil moisture (SSM) ERS scatterometer at 25 km resolution and annual mean incoming shortwave radiation from MERRA-2D reanalysis were also analyzed. Mann-Kendall tests were performed with time series data for trend analysis. Mean annual ET loss from Indian ago-ecosystem was found to be almost double (1100 Cubic Km) than Indian forest ecosystem (550 Cubic Km). Rainfed vegetation systems such as forest, rainfed cropland, grassland showed declining ET trend @ - 4.8, -0.6 &-0.4 Cubic Kmyr-1, respectively during 30 years. Irrigated cropland initially showed ET decline upto 1995 @ -0.8 cubic Kmyr-1 which could possibly be due to solar dimming followed by increasing ET @ 0.9 cubic Kmyr-1 after 1995. A cross-over point was detected between forest ET decline and ET increase in irrigated cropland during 2008. During 2001-2010, the four agriculturally important Indian states eastern, central, western and southern showed significantly increasing ET trend with S-score of 15-25 and Z-score of 1.09-2.9. Increasing ET in western and southern states was found to be coupled with increase in annual rainfall and SSM. But in eastern and central states no significant trend in rainfall was observed though significant increase in ET was noticed. The study recommended to investigate the influence of anthropogenic factors such as increase in area under irrigation, increased use of water for irrigation through ground water pumping, change in cropping pattern and cultivars on increasing ET.
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Shweta Gupta, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, and Akhouri Pramod Krishna "Long-term change analysis of satellite-based evapotranspiration over Indian vegetated surface", Proc. SPIE 9877, Land Surface and Cryosphere Remote Sensing III, 98771F (4 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2228065
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KEYWORDS
Climatology

Satellites

Vegetation

MODIS

Soil science

Spatial resolution

Thermal remote sensing

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