Dr. Yunus Ali Pulpadan
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email yunusp(AT)iisermohali.ac.in
Phone +91-9557377666
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Research Area
Geomorphology, Remote Sensing and GIS, Disaster Mitigation
Research Focus

Specialized in geomorphology, remote sensing, machine learning and geographic information systems to analyze natural hazards, particularly rainfall induced landslides and post-seismic landslide controls, as well as understanding cascading geological hazards in glacial, river, and coastal settings from local to regional and global scales. Our group is also interested in understanding the sediment and nutrient dynamics in surface water, lake water, and ocean interfaces, employing latest tools and models.

Currently there is a significant gap in appropriate landslide early warning setup in Indian scenario and there is a necessity for developing accurate rainfall I-D thresholds for landslide initiation condition in different geo-environments. There is also a lack of understanding in glacial retreat caused fluvial changes and hillslope processes in the High Mountain Asia. We aims to study the aforementioned issues in detail, and minimize the impact of natural disasters by setting up an integrated framework for hazard mitigation planning.


Selected Publications
  • AP. Yunus, X. Fan, Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian, Jie Dou, Qiang Xu    Unraveling the drivers of intensified landslide regimes in Western Ghats, India https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145357, Science of Total Environment. 2021
  • Fan X, AP Yunus*, G Scaringi, Filippo Catani, Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian, Qiang Xu, Runqui Huang, Rapidly evolving controls of landslides after a strong earthquake and implications for hazard assessments. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090509 Geophysical Research Letters. 2020
  • AP. Yunus, X. Fan, X. Tang, Jie Dou, Q. Xu, R. Huang    Decadal vegetation succession from MODIS reveals the spatio-temporal evolution of post-seismic landsliding after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111476 Remote Sensing of Environment. 2020
  • A Merghadi, AP Yunus*, J Dou, J Whiteley, B ThaiPham, DT Bui, R Avtar    Machine learning models for landslide susceptibility studies: a comparative overview of algorithm performance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103225  Earth Science Reviews, 2020
  • AP Yunus, Y Masago, Y Hijioka    COVID-19 and Surface Water Quality: Improved lake water quality during lockdown. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139012  Science of Total Environment, 2020