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ArticleHeliyon2024

Assessing the impact of sea level rise on the Indus delta in Pakistan: A comprehensive analysis of flooded areas and future vulnerabilities.

Bijoy Mitra, Muhammad Muhitur Rahman, Aftab Ahmad Khan, Syed Masiur Rahman

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Bijoy MitraDepartment of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Muhammad Muhitur RahmanDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, 31982, Saudi Arabia.
Aftab Ahmad KhanDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, 31982, Saudi Arabia.
Syed Masiur RahmanApplied Research Center for Environment & Marine Studies, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This research investigates the impact of sea level rise (SLR) on the Indus Delta, a vital ecosystem increasingly vulnerable to climate change repercussions. The objective of this study is to comprehensively assess the flooded areas under various shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) scenarios based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report. The study employs a GIS-based bathtub model, utilizing historical (1995-2014) and IPCC-projected (2020-2150) tide gauge data from Karachi, Kandla, and Okha stations to identify potential inundated areas threatened by coastal flooding. Additionally, it analyzes LANDSAT-derived multispectral images to identify coastal erosion hotspots and changes in the landscape. A supervised random forest classifier is used to classify major landforms and understand alterations in land cover. Furthermore, neural network-based cellular automata simulations are applied to predict future land cover for 2050, 2100, and 2150 at risk of inundation. The results indicate that under different SSP scenarios, the estimated inundated land area varies from 307.36 km

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Climate changeCoastal vulnerabilityIndus deltaLand cover changeSea level riseSocioeconomic impact

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PMID39021941
PMCPMC11252955

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