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Evaporation Mitigation Assessment by Self-assembled Nano-thickness Films in Shallow Fresh Water Lake Using Fixed and Semi-Floating Pans
Controlling evaporation plays an essential role in arid and semi-arid water resources systems where it accounts for a considerable amount of...
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Reduction of the wind erosion potential in dried-up lakebeds using artificial biocrusts
The artificial creation of biocrusts can be a rapid and pervasive solution to reduce wind erosion potential (WEP) in dried-up lakes (e.g., Lake...
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Investigating the effects of climate change on stream flows of Urmia Lake basin in Iran
The stream flows lead to erosion and degradation of soil fertility, sedimentation in reservoirs and reduction in water quality of rivers. Therefore,...
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Critical View of Overland Flow Estimation in Semi-arid Catchments Under Land Subsidence with Long-term Field Measurements
An investigation is presented in this paper to predict Overland Flows (OF) from Rain-Falls (RF) and a set of covariates in semi-arid catchments. The...
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Frequency Distribution Analysis of Land Surface Temperature (LST) over Iran Using Remote Sensing Observations from Aqua MODIS
Environmental changes such as ablation of ice and snow, drying of lakes, deforestation, desertification and urbanization may affect the thermal...
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Reconstruction of Hydrometeorological Data in Lake Urmia Basin by Frequency Domain Analysis Using Additive Decomposition
Frequency domain analysis using an additive decomposition method is proposed to reconstruct the missing hydrometeorological data of selected sites in...
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An integrated statistical-graphical approach for the appraisal of the natural background levels of some major ions and potentially toxic elements in the groundwater of Urmia aquifer, Iran
In this study, we attempted to calculate the Natural Background Level (NBL) for 12 selected chemical compounds in the Urmia aquifer, northwestern...
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Linking Hydro-Physical Variables and Landscape Metrics using Advanced Data Mining for Stream-Flow Prediction
In Streamflow prediction the most important triggering/controlling variables are related to climate, physiography, and landscape patterns. This study...
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Urban Sprawl Evaluation Using Landscape Metrics and Black-and-White Hypothesis (Case Study: Urmia City)
The increasing population growth has caused a phenomenon called urban sprawl in most cities in the world. Urban sprawl has imposed adverse economic...
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Source Analysis of Lithium Deposit in Dong-**-Tai**aier Salt Lake of Qaidam Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
The Dong-**-Tai**aier Salt Lake (DXTSL) of Qaidam Basin is known as one of rich lithium reserves in China. However, the source of lithium deposits...
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Radionuclide and trace elements geochemistry of the Urmia Lake Shore of Iran
Urmia Lake is one of the greatest salt lakes in the world and is located in the uppermost northwestern regions of Iran. In this study, in addition to...
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Geochemical constraints on the Zola-Chay river sediments, NW Iran: Implications for provenance and source-area weathering
The Zola-Chay River is one of 14 permanent rivers feeding Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran, and a significant amount of material eroded from...
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The effects of ENSO, climate change and human activities on the water level of Lake Toba, Indonesia: a critical literature review
This research quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes the factors responsible for the water level variations in Lake Toba, North Sumatra Province,...
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Advanced water level prediction for a large-scale river–lake system using hybrid soft computing approach: a case study in Dongting Lake, China
Water level prediction is vital in develo** a sustainable conceptual design of water infrastructures, providing flood and drought control measures,...
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Groundwater salinity and quality assessment using multivariate statistical and hydrogeochemical analysis along the Urmia Lake coastal in Azarshahr plain, North West of Iran
In the present study, the aim was to investigate groundwater quality and salinity in one of the highly affected areas along the hyper-saline Urmia...
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Effect of different detrending approaches on the accuracy of time series forecasting models
Investigating the existence of a trend and reaching a static time series is one of the essential issues in modeling the hydrological time series,...
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Performance comparison of IHACRES, random forest and copula-based models in rainfall-runoff simulation
In this study, two models of Random Forest and copula-based simulation were used to evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of the IHACRES...
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Identification of landslide-prone zones using a GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis and region-growing algorithm in uncertain conditions
Landslides are considered to be one of the most significant natural hazards. Detection of landslide-prone zones is an important phase in landslide...
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Toward coupling hydrological and meteorological drought characteristics in Lake Urmia Basin, Iran
Investigation of precipitation characteristics on daily, monthly, and annual time scales can contribute to gaining important information related to...
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Hydrological basis of the Devils Lake, North Dakota (USA), terminal lake flood disaster
Devils Lake, a terminal lake in northeast North Dakota (USA), has experienced catastrophic flooding since 1993. From January 31, 1993, to December...
