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Historical flood imprints reveal factors causing catastrophic impacts on modern Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: a case of flash floods versus rapid urbanization
In the Jeddah region of Saudi Arabia, disastrous flash floods frequently occurred during the last few decades. Short-spelled torrential heavy-rains...
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Potential flood risk due to urbanization expansion in arid environments, Saudi Arabia
Urbanization of watersheds is known to increase the flood risk potentials. Since 1970, eastern Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, underwent rapid urbanization due...
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Lack of mitochondrial genetic structure in the endangered giant clam populations of Tridacna maxima (Bivalvia: Cardiidae: Tridacninae) across the Saudi Arabian coast
The present investigation focuses on population genetic structure analysis of the endangered giant clam species Tridacna maxima across part of the...
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Bayesian source identification of urban-scale air pollution from point and field concentration measurements
Air pollution poses a major threat to health, environment, and global climate. Characterizing the emission parameters responsible for air...
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Flash flood susceptibility assessment in Jeddah city (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) using bivariate and multivariate statistical models
The city of Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) has experienced two catastrophic flash flood events in 2009 and 2011. These flood events had catastrophic effect...
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Use of geological and geomorphological parameters in potential suitability assessment for urban planning development at Wadi Al-Asla basin, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
During the planning of urban environment, usually economic and social parameters are taken into consideration. As a result, urban planning areas are...
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Sea Slugs: Unexpected Biodiversity and Distribution
Sea slugs have been making a comeback in recent years, with international research producing papers on their taxonomy, biochemistry, biology, and...
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Landslide susceptibility assessment at Wadi Jawrah Basin, Jizan region, Saudi Arabia using two bivariate models in GIS
This paper presents an evaluation of two bivariate statistical approaches, frequency ratio (FR) and weights-of-evidence (WoE) for landslide...
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Validation of Regional Geoid Models for Saudi Arabia Using GPS/Levelling Data and GOCE Models
To meet increased demands in map**, surveying, geodesy, and large infrastructure projects, an accurate national geoid model for Saudi Arabia is...
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Landslide susceptibility map** at Al-Hasher area, Jizan (Saudi Arabia) using GIS-based frequency ratio and index of entropy models
Mountain areas in the southern western corner of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia frequently suffer from various types of landslides due to rain storms...
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Irrigated agricultural expansion planning in develo** countries: Performance vs. resilience vs. reliability
The conflict between performance measured in terms of economic and income redistribution objectives, resilience and reliability of irrigated...