Research Publications

Journal Publications 

1. Pradana, R. P., Bhanage, V., Fajary, F. R., Hussainzada, W., Badriana, M. R., Lee, H. S., ... & Putra, I. D. G. A. (2025). Assessing Green Strategies for Urban Cooling in the Development of Nusantara Capital City, Indonesia. Climate, 13(2), 30. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli13020030 (IF:3.0)

2. Kavathekar, V., Tripathy, A. K., Chettri, S. K., & Bhanage, V. (2024). Evaluation of land use land cover dynamics and urban heat island effects over Mumbai metropolitan Region, India. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-024-06266-4  (IF:3.0)

3.  Fajary, F. R., Lee, H. S., Bhanage, V., Pradana, R. P., Kubota, T., & Nimiya, H. (2024). Evaluating MPAS-A Performance for Mesoscale Simulation in a Tropical Region: A Case Study of Extreme Heat in Jakarta, Indonesia. Atmosphere, 15(10), 1202. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15101202  (IF:2.5)

4.  Fajary, F.R., Lee, H.S., Kubota, T., Vinayak Bhanage., Pradana, R.P., Nimiya, H. and Putra, I.D.G.A. (2024) "Comprehensive spatiotemporal evaluation of urban growth, surface urban heat island, and urban thermal conditions on Java island of Indonesia and implications for urban planning. " Heliyon, 10(13). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e33708 (IF:3.4)

5. Vinayak Bhanage., Lee, H. S., Cabrera, J. S., Kubota, T., Pradana, R. P., Fajary, F. R., & Nimiya, H. (2024). "Identification of optimal CMIP6 GCMs for future typical meteorological year in major cities of Indonesia using multi-criteria decision analysis. " Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, 1341807 https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1341807 (IF: 3.3)

6. Vinayak Bhanage., Lee, H.S., Kubota, T., Pradana, R.P., Fajary, F.R., Arya Putra, I.D.G. and Nimiya, H., 2023. City-wise assessment of suitable CMIP6 GCM in simulating different urban meteorological variables over major cities in Indonesia. Climate, 11(5), p.100 https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11050100 (IF: 3.0)

7. Kulkarni, S., Kumar, Vinayak Bhanage, and Gedam, S., (2023). Exploring the Association between Changing Crop Types and Water Scarcity: A Case Study over West-Central India. Climate, 11(5), p.93. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11050093 (IF: 3.0)

8. Vinayak Bhanage., Kulkarni, S., Sharma, R., Lee, H.S. and Gedam, S., (2023). Enumerating and modelling the seasonal alterations of surface Urban heat and cool Island: a case study over Indian cities. Urban Science, 7(2), p.38. Urban Science 7.2 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7020038 (IF: 2.0)

9.  Vinayak Bhanage, Han Soo Lee, Shirishkumar Gedam, and R. Latha. (2022) "Impacts of future urbanization on urban microclimate and thermal comfort over the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India." Sustainable Cities and Society, 79:103703 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.103703 (IF: 10.69)

10. Hussainzada Wahidullah, Han Soo Lee, Vinayak Bhanage, and GF Khpalwak (2021) "Sensitivity of snowmelt runoff modeling to the level of cloud coverage for snow cover extent from daily MODIS product collection" Journal of  Hydrology, Regional Studies, 36: 100835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100835 (IF: 6.70)

11. Latha R, Murthy B.S, Sandeepan B.S, Vinayak Bhanage, Aditi Rathod, ArpitTiwari, GufranBeig, Siddhartha Singh, (2021) "Propagation of cloud base to higher levels during Covid -19- Lockdown" Science of The Total Environment, 759: 144299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144299 (IF: 10.75)

12.  Vinayak Bhanage, Han Soo Lee, and Shirishkumar Gedam (2021) "Prediction of land use and land cover changes in Mumbai City, India, using remote sensing data and a multilayer perceptron neural network- based Markov chain model" Sustainability, 13(2): 471. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020471 (IF: 3.889)

13.  Latha, R., B. S. Murthy, and Vinayak Bhanage (2018) "Aerosol-induced perturbation of surface fluxes over different landscapes in a tropical region" International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(21): 8203-8221. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1523586 (IF: 3.53)

14. R. Latha, Vinayak Bhanage, B.S. Murthy (2018) "Response of heterogeneous vegetation to aerosol radiative forcing over a northeast Indian station" Journal of Environmental Management, 206: 1224- 1232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.09.047 (IF: 8.91)

International/National Conferences

1.   Vinayak Bhanage., Lee, H. S., Kubota, T., Pradana, R. P., Fajary, F. R., 2024. Generation of Future Typical Meteorological Year Datasets for Major Cities in Indonesia. AOGS 2024, Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, 23 – 28 June 2024.

2.   Vinayak Bhanage., Lee, H. S., Evaluation of Spatial Extent of Urban Heat Island Over Major Cities in Punjab, India. AOGS 2024, Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, 23 – 28 June 2024.

3.   Fajary, F. R., Lee, H. S., Bhanage, V., Pradana, R. P., Kubota, T., & Nimiya, H. Analysis of Past and Future Urban Growth in Java Island (Indonesia) and Its Impacts on Surface Urban Heat Island and Thermal Comfort. AOGS 2024, Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, 23 – 28 June 2024.

4.   Vinayak Bhanage, Han Soo Lee, Shirishkumar Gedam, and Latha R (2021) Impacts of Future Urban Expansion on Urban Climate: A Case Study of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India/ Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore

5.       Sneha Kulkarni and Vinayak Bhanage (2024), Developing a Standardize Water Demand Indicator to Identify the Water Stress and Prioritize Areas for Irrigation in India. AOGS (2024) Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, 23 – 28 June 2024.

6.           Hasan SKN, Vinayak Bhanage, and Lee HS. (2023) Flood risk assessment of Dhaka City by integrated GIS-based storm water Management Model, AGU Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA. 11- 15 December 2023.

7.           Vinayak Bhanage, Pradana R.P., Lee H.S., Kubota T., Putra IDGA, and Nimiya H (2023) Development of future typical meteorological year (TMY) for major cities in Indonesia in a hot and humid climate. IAQVEC2023, May 20-23, Tokyo, Japan.

8.           Vinayak Bhanage (2023) “Generation of the future typical meteorological year for major Indonesian cities: A case study over Jakarta City, Indonesia”. SATREPS DeLCA Semarang International Seminar, 5 – 6 September 2023, Semarang, Indonesia.

9.          Priya Mendiratta, Vinayak Bhanage, Parth Maheshwari, Shirish Gedam, and Han Soo Lee (2021) Simulation of urban growth in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India using Cellular Automata and Neural Networks/ The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Civil and Ecological Engineering Research (ACEER), China

10.            Vinayak Bhanage, Han Soo Lee, Shirishkumar Gedam, and Latha R (2021) Impacts of Future Urban Expansion on Urban Climate: A Case Study of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India/ Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore

11.       Wahidullah Hussainzada, Han Soo Lee, and Vinayak Bhanage (2020) Snow cover mapping for sustainable water resource management in the balkhab river basin in Afghanistan using modis satellite normalized difference snow index (NDSI) products / Proceedings of the 22nd IAHR-APD Congress, Sapporo, Japan

12.       Vinayak Bhanage, Satyavati Shukla, and Shirish S. Gedam (2019) Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urban Heat Island Effect for Different Land Use Land Cover Pattern Over Pune Metropolitan Region, India/ AGU Fall Meeting, USA

13.       Vinayak Bhanage and Shirishkumar Gedam (2018) Analysis and Modelling of the Seasonal Variation in UHI over the Nine Cities of India/ ACRS, Malaysia

14.   Kulkarni Sneha, Shirish S. Gedam, and Vinayak Bhanage (2018) Estimation of Water Stress and Identification of Priority Areas for Irrigation over the Drought Prone Semi-Arid Region of India/ AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Washington D.C, USA

15.   Vinayak Bhanage, R. Latha, B.S. Murthy (2016) Evapo-transpiration, role of aerosol radiative forcing: a study over dense canopy/ Proc. SPIE 9876, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Clouds, and Precipitation VI, 98762N; doi:10.1117/12.2223643

16.   Vinayak Bhanage and Latha (2016) Estimation of water stress over Assam using remote sensing data/ Seminar on Geoinformatics application in Rural Development, NIRD, Assam, India

17.   Vinayak Bhanage (2012) Relation of Land Surface Temperature and NDBI from Remotely sensed data/ The 3rd National conference on environment & biodiversity of India, Pune, India

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