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Monitoring and trend mapping of sea surface temperature (SST) from MODIS data: a case study of Mumbai coast

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Title Monitoring and trend mapping of sea surface temperature (SST) from MODIS data: a case study of Mumbai coast
 
Creator AZMI, S
AGARWADKAR, Y
BHATTACHARYA, M
APTE, M
INAMDAR, AB
 
Subject INDIA
Sea surface temperature
Remote sensing
Spatio-temporal trends
Marine and coastal environment
MODIS
 
Description Sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the most important parameters in monitoring ecosystem health in the marine and coastal environment. Coastal ecosystem is largely dependent on ambient temperature and temperature fronts for marine/coastal habitat and its sustainability. Hence, thermal pollution is seen as a severe threat for ecological health of coastal waters across the world. Mumbai is one of the largest metropolises of the world and faces severe domestic and industrial effluent disposal problem, of which thermal pollution is a major issue with policy-makers and environmental stakeholders. This study attempts to understand the long-term SST variation in the coastal waters off Mumbai, on the western coast of India, and to identify thermal pollution zones. Analysis of SST trends in the near-coastal waters for the pre-and postmonsoon seasons from the year 2004 to the year 2010 has been carried out using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer (MODIS) Thermal Infra-red (TIR) bands. SST is calculated with the help of bands 31 and 32 using split window method. Several statistical operations were then applied to find the seasonal averages in SST and the standard deviation of SST in the study area. Maximumvariation in SSTwas found within a perpendicular distance of 5 km from the shoreline during the study period. Also, a warm water mass was found to form consistently off coast during the winter months. Several anthropogenic sources of thermal pollution could be identified which were found to impact various locations along the coast.
 
Publisher SPRINGER
 
Date 2016-01-14T11:10:57Z
2016-01-14T11:10:57Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT, 187(4)
0167-6369
1573-2959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-015-4386-9
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17442
 
Language en