Climate Change Antecedent the Deterioration of Natural Vegetation in Thar Desert, Pakistan

Abstract

This paper assesses the potential climate change in Thar Desert via Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Himalayan atmospheric circulation that enforces drought as environmental hazards. Ultimately seasonal dryness, warm and harsh climate and high temperature an average 30-50 centigrade fluctuation all year cause in serious action in climate. Historical data of climate in this region was tremendously changed and it led toward harsh and temporal in drought and natural vegetation. That relationship is assured to the most dangerous level in natural disaster in Thar Desert. We use of SPI (Standardised Precipitation Index) under the climatic model to investigate the increase of temperature and decrease as well change pattern of rainfall. The long time series of daily and annual meteorological data were baselined actual evidence of drought. The remote sensing data was stratified through normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) it represented the unprotecting and elimination of vegetation. The study suggests the changing in regional hydrology in the monsoon rain is predominantly decreasing with massive rainfall and vegetation and it induces temperature risen at significant level of 1-2.5 centigrade during twentieth century. The result is distinguished to the decreasing of drought.

Presenters

Dr.Sujo Meghwar
Associate Professor, Geography, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Sind (en), Pakistan

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

2023 Special Focus—Responding to the Climate Emergency: Scalable Solutions for the Climate-Nature Intersect

KEYWORDS

VEGETATION,DRYNESS,BASELINED,TROPICAL,CLIMATE,MONSOON,ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION,HAZARD