Research Publications

Journal Publications 

1. Byambadorj, A., Lee, H. S., & Bhanage, V. (2026). Quality of urban life across urban development types: Examining the determinants of overall life satisfaction in Ulaanbaatar. Sustainability. (accepted)

2. Bhanage, V., & Lee, H. S. (2026). Effects of nature-based green and cool roof mitigation strategies on the thermal environment: A case study of Sendai city, Japan. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 108236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2026.108236

3. Bhanage, V., Lee, H. S., Kubota, T., Fajary, F. R., Nimiya, H., Pradana, R. P., Putra, I. D. G. A., & Alfata, M. N. F. (2026). Statistical and machine learning-based development of future typical meteorological years using city-specific GCMs for major cities in Indonesia. City and Environment Interactions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cacint.2026.100367

4. Ahmad, T., Lee, H. S., Hussainzada, W., Bhanage, V., & Nayyer, F. (2025). Comprehensive drought assessment based on the SPEI and its impact on crop production and streamflow in Afghanistan. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102893

5. Pradana, R. P., Bhanage, V., Fajary, F. R., Hussainzada, W., Badriana, M. R., Lee, H. S., Kubota, T., Nimiya, H., & Putra, I. D. G. A. (2025). Assessing green strategies for urban cooling in the development of Nusantara Capital City, Indonesia. Climate, 13, 30. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli13020030

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

7. 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, 1202. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15101202

8. Pradana, R. P., Lee, H. S., Kubota, T., Bhanage, V., Fajary, F. R., Nimiya, H., & Putra, I. D. G. A. (2024). Impacts of the Asian Australian monsoon and Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature on urban climates in major Indonesian cities for low-carbon building design. Advances in Hydrology & Meteorology, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.33552/AHM.2024.01.000522

9. Fajary, F. R., Lee, H. S., Kubota, T., Bhanage, V., Pradana, R. P., Nimiya, H., & 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

10. Bhanage, V., 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

11. Kavathekar, V., Tripathy, A. K., Chettri, S. K., Bhanage, V., et al. (2024). Assessment and prediction of urban pollutants and their influence on human health using a deep learning algorithm. 2024 IEEE I2CT, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1109/I2CT61223.2024.10543725

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

13. Kulkarni, S., Kumar, Bhanage, V., & Gedam, S. (2023). Exploring the association between changing crop types and water scarcity: A case study over west-central India. Climate, 11(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11050093

14. Bhanage, V., Lee, H. S., Pradana, R. P., Kubota, T., Nimiya, H., Putra, I. D. G. A., et al. (2023). Development of future typical meteorological year (TMY) for major cities in Indonesia: Identification of suitable GCM. E3S Web of Conferences, 396, 05001. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202339605001

15. Bhanage, V., Kulkarni, S., Sharma, R., Lee, H. S., & Gedam, S. (2023). Enumerating and modeling the seasonal alterations of surface urban heat and cool island: A case study over an Indian city. Urban Science, 7(2), 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7020038

16. Bhanage, V., Lee, H. S., Gedam, S., & Latha, R. (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

17. Hussainzada, W., Lee, H. S., Bhanage, V., & Khpalwak, G. F. (2021). Sensitivity of snowmelt runoff modeling to the level of cloud coverage for snow cover extent from the daily MODIS product collection. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 36, 100835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100835

18. Latha, R., Murthy, B. S., Sandeepan, B. S., Bhanage, V., Rathod, A., Tiwari, A., Beig, G., & Singh, S. (2021). Propagation of cloud base to higher levels during the COVID-19 lockdown. Science of The Total Environment, 759, 144299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144299

19. Bhanage, V., Lee, H. S., & Gedam, S. (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

20. Latha, R., Murthy, B. S., & Bhanage, V. (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

21. Latha, R., Bhanage, V., & Murthy, B. S. (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

22. Bhanage, V., Latha, R., & Murthy, B. S. (2016). Evapo-transpiration, role of aerosol radiative forcing: A study over a dense canopy. Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Clouds, and Precipitation VI, SPIE, 9876, 421-429. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223643

International/National Conferences

1. Bhanage, V., & Lee, H. S. (2026). Green or cool roofs? A numerical assessment of urban heat mitigation. AOGS 2026, Japan.

2. Gandhi, Lee, H. S., Jae-soon, & Bhanage, V. (2026). Regional differences in satellite-based nutrient estimation between the inner and outer Seto Inland Sea using machine learning. AOGS 2026, Japan.

3. Bhanage, V., & Lee, H. S. (2026). Evaluating the microclimatic feedback of citywide rooftop photovoltaic deployment using WRF and a multilayer urban canopy coupled model under extremely hot conditions: A case study of Sendai, Japan. Climes, Uppsala, Sweden, 15-16 March 2026.

4. Bhanage, V., Lee, H. S., Fajary, F. R., Pradana, R. P., Kubota, T., & Nimiya, H. (2025). Machine learning-based typical solar irradiance prediction over major cities in Indonesia. AOGS 2025, Singapore.

5. Fajary, F. R., Lee, H. S., Bhanage, V., Pradana, R. P., Kubota, T., & Nimiya, H. (2025). Assessing MPAS-A performance for urban extreme air temperature simulation and its potential for dynamical downscaling in major Indonesian cities. AOGS 2025, Singapore.

6. Fajary, F. R., Lee, H. S., Bhanage, V., Pradana, R. P., Kubota, T., & Nimiya, H. (2025). The MPAS-A dynamic downscaling on urban climate for future typical meteorological year. AOGS 2025, Singapore.

7. Bhanage, V., & Lee, H. S. (2024). Evaluation of the spatial extent of the urban heat island over major cities in Punjab, India. AOGS 2024, PyeongChang, Republic of Korea.

8. Kulkarni, S., & Bhanage, V. (2024). Developing a standardized water demand indicator to identify water stress and prioritize areas for irrigation in India. AOGS 2024, PyeongChang, Republic of Korea.

9. Hasan, S. K. N., Bhanage, V., & Lee, H. S. (2023). Flood risk assessment of Dhaka City by an integrated GIS-based storm water management model. AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

10. Bhanage, V., Pradana, R. P., Lee, H. S., Kubota, T., Putra, I. D. G. A., & Nimiya, H. (2023). Development of a future typical meteorological year (TMY) for major cities in Indonesia in a hot and humid climate. IAQVEC 2023, Tokyo, Japan.

11. Bhanage, V., Lee, H. S., Gedam, S., & Latha, R. (2021). Impacts of future urban expansion on urban climate: A case study of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India. AOGS 2021, Singapore.

12. Mendiratta, P., Bhanage, V., Maheshwari, P., Gedam, S., & Lee, H. S. (2021). Simulation of urban growth in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India, using cellular automata and neural networks. ACEER, China.

13. Hussainzada, W., Lee, H. S., & Bhanage, V. (2020). Snow cover mapping for sustainable water resource management in the Balkhab River basin, Afghanistan, using MODIS NDSI products. 22nd IAHR-APD Congress, Sapporo, Japan.

14. Bhanage, V., Shukla, S., & Gedam, S. (2019). Spatio-temporal analysis of urban heat island effect for different land use land cover patterns over Pune Metropolitan Region, India. AGU Fall Meeting, USA.

15. Bhanage, V., & Gedam, S. (2018). Analysis and modeling of seasonal variation in UHI across nine cities in India. ACRS 2018, Malaysia.

16. Kulkarni, S., Gedam, S., & Bhanage, V. (2018). Estimation of water stress and identification of priority areas for irrigation over the drought-prone semi-arid region of India. AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA.

17. Bhanage, V., Latha, R., & Murthy, B. S. (2016). Evapo-transpiration, role of aerosol radiative forcing: A study over dense canopy. ACRS 2016, New Delhi, India.

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