Change in snow cover area and flow scenario of the brahmaputra and subansiri basins due to climate change

Abstract

In this study the impact of the change in temperature on the snow cover area of both the Brahmaputra and Subansiri River basins has been analyzed from 2002 to 2015 for the months of January April July and October using MODIS data of 500m resolution and HadCM3 GCM temperature data of A2 scenario The method adopted was Normalized Difference Snow Index NDSI Method It has been found that except for the month of January the snow cover area showed decreasing trends with respect to the increasi