ABSTRACT
Climate change in higher Himalaya are very uncertain, that led to a various natural disaster, such as cloudburst triggered flash flood, landslide, debris flow snow avalanches is due to extreme weather condition and are very common in Himalaya region, In the last 50 years, the intensity and frequency of heavy precipitation increased that results in increased flood and larger scale of the landslide. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) shows that the increase in temperature, the intensity of rainfall, storm intensity, and variability are likely to result in global climate change. During the recent studies it is observed that, extreme climate change was mainly due to population growth and deforestation. The global climate change led to an increase in rainfall that may influence the chain of multiple hazards called cascading hazard as flood, landslide, and glacier outburst floods. The aim of this work is to discuss a case study of the 15-17 June 2013, Kedarnath disaster and assess how climate change pattern and rainfall acts as a cascading event for multiple hazards using remote sensing. During 15-17 June 2013 heavy rainfall occurred in Kedarnath led to cause flood in and around the adjoining region and experience massive landslides and debris flow along Mandakini and Bhagirathi basin. We used MODIS Land Surface temperature (LST) to study the climate change impact during the devastating Kedarnath disaster. All the meteorological factors collected from the satellite data, for rainfall analysis GPM satellite data and IMD gridded data are used.
