Influence of vegetation index to the rainfall intensity in Pasuruan Area, East Java Province, Indonesia (original) (raw)

2024, Journal of applied and natural science

Recently, the global climate is changing very fast. One of the phenomena of global climate change is global warming. This phenomenon is affected by the increase in LST. Increasing LST is caused by several reasons, among them is caused by land use and land cover (LULC) change (Yeneneh et al., 2022 and; Prasetya et al., 2020). In general, LULC change is indicated by the change of land covered by vegetation to land covered by manmade materials such as concrete, asphalt, and other impervious materials. The land covered by concrete can be shown as land covered by parking lot areas, roads, buildings, and other civil structures. Besides that, the land covered by asphalt can be shown as land covered by roads, parking lots, and other civil structures. Consequently, the sunlight will be emitted and reflected directly by manmade materials. The emitted and reflected sunlight energy will increase the air temperature (Fu et al., 2020; Martel et al., 2021). Recently, this phenomenon has happened a lot in urban areas. Based on the worldwide population growth, which is high, urbanization is growing rapidly (Satterthwaite, 2019). Therefore, urbanization has caused an increase in the LST, especially in urbanized areas (Imran et al., 2021). An increase in LST will reduce air's relative humidity (RH). Consequently, the evaporation will increase and will be