Impact Of Land Use Change On Rainfall: A Case Study Of Mysore City

  Krishnakumar V,  Dr. Subash S Sannasiddannavar

Cities create their own microclimates through influencing the surrounding atmosphere and interacting with climate process. The growth of the economic development resulting strongly accelerated urbanization and industrialization. During the past several thousands of years, humans have taken an increasingly large role in the modification of the global environment. The main aim of the study is to analyze the impacts of land use change on rainfall of Mysore city. The article studies the land use changes the period of 2001 and 2011 and monthly average rainfall of period from 1981 to 2011 and 30 years of average annual rainfall (1981 to 2010). In the study period farmland, water bodies significantly decreased and on the other hand annual average rainfall of the Mysore city fluctuate from year to year and also rainfall during south west monsoon season decline by period to period.

Keywords- Drought, Rainfall, Moderate, Monsoon, Variability.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1801137
Page Number(s) - 793-797
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 1 | March 2018
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Krishnakumar V,  Dr. Subash S Sannasiddannavar,   "Impact Of Land Use Change On Rainfall: A Case Study Of Mysore City", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 1, pp.793-797, March 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1801137.pdf