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Quantifying Connections Between Urban LCLUC and Emerging Extreme Heat in Rapidly Growing Indian Cities
Project Start Date
01/01/2024
Project End Date
12/31/2027
Grant Number
23-LCLUC23_2-0038
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Team Members:

Person Name Person role on project Affiliation
Glynn Hulley Principal Investigator Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena , US
Anamika Shreevastava Co-Investigator California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, USA
Ronita Bardhan Collaborator Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Vimal Mishra Collaborator Indian Institute of Technology  , Gandhinagar, India
Abstract

SIGNIFICANCE: The rapid growth of urban settlements, combined with climate change and the urban heat island effect, has increased the risk of extreme heat exposure. In the Indian subcontinent, fast-developing cities have experienced a significant rise in the frequency, intensity, and duration of heatwaves, posing a threat to nearly a billion people who regularly experience temperatures exceeding 100F during summers. PROBLEM STATEMENT: Current global estimates of heat exposure underestimate the risk to urban residents due to high thermal variability within cities. Therefore, there is an urgent need of characterizing where urban growth and extreme heat emergence intersects at scales of