Research Publications

Journal Publications 

1. 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     

2. 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 

3. 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 Hydrology, Regional Studies, 36: 100835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100835 

4. Latha R, Murthy B.S, Sandeepan B.S, Vinayak Bhanage, Aditi Rathod, ArpitTiwari, GufranBeig, SiddharthaSingh, (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 

5. Latha, R., B. S. Murthy, and B. Vinayak (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 

6. 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 

7. Vinayak Bhanage, et al. "Enumerating and Modelling the Seasonal alterations of Surface Urban Heat and Cool Island: A Case Study over Indian Cities." Urban Science 7.2 (2023): 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7020038 

 8. Vinayak Bhanage, et al. "City-Wise Assessment of Suitable CMIP6 GCM in Simulating Different Urban Meteorological Variables over Major Cities in Indonesia." Climate 11.5 (2023): 100. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11050100 

9. 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 

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 


International/National Conferences

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. 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 

8. 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

9. 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


Media Coverage 

Providing details about the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) for media