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Water in Central Asia: Reservoir Monitoring with Radar Altimetry Along the Naryn and Syr Darya Rivers
Water is a scarce resource in many regions of the world. In all Central Asian countries, the society depends on the availability of water either for...
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Geochemistry of О, Н, C, S, and Sr isotopes in the water and sediments of the Aral basin
The paper presents original authors' data on the O, H, C, S, and Sr isotopic composition of water and sediments from the basins into which the Aral...
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Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages
Endorheic (hydrologically landlocked) basins spatially concur with arid/semi-arid climates. Given limited precipitation but high potential...
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Carbonate Massifs of Talas Sections in Tectonic Setting of the Middle Tien Shan
AbstractIn the Dzhetym Range, there are well-known Precambrian massifs of marbled limestones and quartzites, which have no analogues throughout the...
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Assessing resource vulnerability quadrants under changing precipitation trends in Uttarakhand, Central Himalayan region
The Central Himalayan region is vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change and characterized by regional climatic conditions. The livelihood...
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Holocene negative coupling of summer temperature and moisture availability over southeastern arid Central Asia
The Holocene moisture–temperature correlation on varying spatial–temporal scales in arid Central Asia (ACA) is still controversial. It has been...
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Disjunctive Dislocations of the Upper Crust of Tien Shan
AbstractThis paper analyzes the rose diagrams of the directions of 439 faults of the Variscian province, 476 faults of the Caledonian province, and...
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Water Chemistry and Stable Isotopes of Different Water Types in Tajikistan
The concentration of major ions and their molar ratios are used to identify sources of the solutes and highlight their hydrochemical evolutions in...
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Development of Principles and Legal Rules Regulating the Use of Transboundary Water Resources by States
AbstractThe study is focused on the step-by-step development of the modern system of legal rules and principles used at the international level to...
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Investigation of coda and body wave attenuation functions in Central Asia
In this study, we evaluate the body and coda wave attenuation characteristics within Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as part of Central Asia. The selected...
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Current and Future Water Scarcity and Stress
Current trends show that numerous water systems which sustain ecosystems, as well as growing human populations, have become stressed. Water sources...
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Overview of Dams and Reservoirs in Evaporites
A number of dams and reservoirs constructed in soluble evaporite rocks all over the world have been affected by dissolution. From the beginning of...
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Features of the Elemental Composition of Aral Sea Suspended Matter in Modern Conditions
AbstractThe paper presents the first data on the contents of 22 macro- and microelements in marine suspended particulate matter (SPM) since the Aral...
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The Saharides: Turkic-type orogeny in Afro-Arabia
A major new Neoproterozoic orogenic system belonging to the larger Pan-African deformational realm, the Saharides, is described in North Africa,...
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The Effects of the Ili River Runoff and Water Regulation Function of the Delta on the Changing Water Level of Balkhash Lake Depending on the Delta Forest Coverage
AbstractThe article describes the Ili River hydrological regime, provides an insight into multiyear and intra-annual changes in the discharge in the...
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Climate-driven change of nitrogen retention–attenuation near irrigated fields: multi-model projections for Central Asia
Agricultural intensification in semiarid regions comes at a cost of relatively high water losses through evapotranspiration and can contribute to...
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From Deserts to Glaciers: Magnetometry in Paleoenvironmental Studies in Central Asia
Central Asia is a vast area extending from the Caspian Sea to the western borders of China, with highly differentiated geography (high mountains,...
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Modeling large-scale human alteration of land surface hydrology and climate
Rapidly expanding human activities have profoundly affected various biophysical and biogeochemical processes of the Earth system over a broad range...
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The future Aral Sea: hope and despair
The Aral Sea in 1960 was a huge brackish water lake (4th in the world in surface area) lying amidst the deserts of Central Asia. The sea supported a...
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Salinity Measurements in Hyperhaline Brines: A Case Study of the Present Aral Sea
Studies in waterbodies with peculiar salinity face problems in determining water salinity (mineralization). The conventional methods of determining...