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The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue”
Urmia Lake in NW Iran was the world’s second largest hypersaline lake until three decades ago, when it began to lose ~ 90% of its surface area due to...
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Evaluating the impact of dam construction on extreme shrinkage of Urmia Lake using spatial data
In this study, the extreme shrinkage of Urmia Lake is investigated, aiming to assess the impact of anthropogenic factors, particularly the...
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Modelling Physical and Chemical Processes of the Hypersaline Lake Urmia: Water Level Decline and Restoration by Water Conveyance
The decrease of the Lake Urmia water level from its peak around 1995 to present has had dramatic consequences for the lake ecosystem. To restore the...
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Comparative Study of the Major Ion Composition in Eurasian Salt Lakes: Lake Urmia, Lake Issyk-Kul, Aral Sea, and Dead Sea
A comparative study of the major ion composition on the base of the same chemical methods was made for the hypersaline lakes: the Lake Urmia, the...
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Salt Load Impact on Lake Urmia Basin Volume
Lake Urmia is a hypersaline terminal lake in northwest Iran which has significant changes in basin volume and water level. Shortage of riverine...
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Numerical investigation of the effects of causeway opening configurations on horizontal currents of Lake Urmia
Unlike Lake Urmia, its two neighbor lakes with similar climate and size have experienced stabilized condition over the past decades. Actually,...
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Hydro-Meteorological Observations in Hypersaline Basin of Lake Urmia
This technical paper describes the challenges of installing and operating two observatory hydro-meteorological stations in a hypersaline lake (Lake...
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Lake Urmia Brine Evolution from 2007 to 2019
Lake Urmia is presently the second-largest hypersaline lake on Earth and is in NW Iran. The lake experiences an extremely rapid water level fall of...
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A multi-criteria remote sensing-based data-driven framework for monitoring lake drying and salinization and map** its environmental impacts
Lakes are natural water resources that are affected by different factors. The increase in soil salinity is one of the major issues created due to the...
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Analysis of the Long-Term Trend of Temperature, Precipitation, and Dominant Atmospheric Phenomena in Lake Urmia
Lake Urmia is one of the largest saline lakes in the world, which its level has gone through significant variations. To study the impact of climate...
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Local Changes in Meteorological Parameters Caused by Desiccation of the Lake Urmia
Changes in land cover have significant impacts on meteorological parameters of the area. The water level of the Lake Urmia has reduced considerably...
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Sediment Distribution Pattern in Lake Urmia
In this paper, we present preliminary results of 12 cores and 7 trenches from Lake Urmia and its coastal area. Data presented here consist of visual...
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Evaluating groundwater level and water-quality variation in Oshnaveh–Naqadeh Plain, Urmia Lake basin, northwestern Iran
The groundwater depth and water-quality deterioration were evaluated at the Oshnaveh–Naqadeh Plain southwest of Urmia lake basin. During the 16 years...
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Determination of nano and microplastic particles in hypersaline lakes by multiple methods
Microplastics and nanoplastics have a range of impacts on the aquatic environment and present major challenges to their mitigation and management....
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Environmental impact assessment of salt harvesting from the salt lakes
Urmia Saline Lake, USL which is registered as an international park by the United Nations, has suffered hypersalinity and serious dryness in recent...
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Integrated Water Resources Management in Iran
Iran is dealing with various water resources challenges. Drying lakes and rivers, declining groundwater resources, water supply rationing and...
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The Vanishing of Urmia Lake: A Geolimnological Perspective on the Hydrological Imbalance of the World’s Second Largest Hypersaline Lake
Urmia Lake was the second largest hypersaline lake in the world and the largest terminal lake in West Asia prior to catastrophically losing about 90%...
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Geophysical, isotopic, and hydrogeochemical tools to identify potential impacts on coastal groundwater resources from Urmia hypersaline Lake, NW Iran
Measurements of major ions, trace elements, water-stable isotopes, and geophysical soundings were made to examine the interaction between Urmia...
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Assessment of the salinization processes in the largest inland freshwater lake of China
Salinization threatens the viability of water resources and is common in many important inland freshwater lakes worldwide, especially in arid and...
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Water management in Iran: what is causing the looming crisis?
Despite having a more advanced water management system than most Middle Eastern countries, similar to the other countries in the region, Iran is...