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Lake Urmia A Hypersaline Waterbody in a Drying Climate
This book provides a holistic review of the environmental status of Lake Urmia in terms of its hydrodynamic, chemical, and ecological properties....
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Introduction: Lake Urmia – A Hypersaline Waterbody in a Drying Climate
Lake Urmia and the main driving components that regulate this lake are introduced in the introduction chapter. A brief comparison of Lake Urmia with...
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Fluorine in the Waters of Hypersaline Water Bodies: Dead Sea, Lake Urmia
AbstractAnalyses of fluorine concentrations in the waters of the Dead Sea and Lake Urmia yielded the values of 5.3 ± 0.1 and 10.5 ± 0.1 mg/L, which...
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Investigating the causes of Lake Urmia shrinkage: climate change or anthropogenic factors?
In the current scenario, Lake Urmia, one of the vastest hyper saline lakes on the Earth, has been affected by serious environmental degradation....
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Future climate-driven drought events across Lake Urmia, Iran
Climate change has increased the vulnerability of arid and semi-arid regions to recurrent and prolonged meteorological droughts. In light of this,...
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Hypersaline Lake Urmia: a potential hotspot for microbial genomic variation
Lake Urmia located in Iran is a hypersaline environment with a salinity of about 27% (w/v). Metagenomic analyses of water samples collected from six...
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Spatiotemporal simulation of annual precipitation in the Urmia Lake basin
Precipitation prediction is one of the most effective management aspects for rehabilitating dried water resources such as Urmia Lake, Iran. This...
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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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Application of Remote Sensing and Spatial Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision Analysis to Identify Potential Dust Sources in Lake Urmia Basin, Northwest Iran
Air pollution as a result of desertification and dust transportation is one of the critical environmental challenges in the arid and semi-arid...
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A comparative study of the surface level changes of Urmia Lake and Aral Lake during the period of 1988 to 2018 using satellite images
Internal lakes are considered as the ecological environments and the monitoring and evaluation of which can be considered as a matter in the national...
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Soil erosion control of Urmia Lake using indigenous ureolytic calcifying bacteria
Land degradation caused by accelerated soil erosion is a significant issue, particularly in arid or semi-arid regions, such as Urmia Lake in...
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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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Climate zoning under climate change scenarios in the basin of Lake Urmia and in vicinity basins
A study of climate change scenarios is presented in this paper by projecting the model of recorded precipitation/temperature data into three future...
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Interactions Between Changing Climates and Land Uses: The Case of Urmia Lake, Iran
Iran is experiencing rapid population growth coupled with the negative impacts of global warming and land-use change. These impacts pose significant...
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Investigation of salt diffusion from Lake Urmia using wind tunnel
During the past years, Urmia Lake has dried extensively. Depot salts created by excessive salt mining in the lake area have become a source of...
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Investigation on biological activities for combating desertification in the western shores of Lake Urmia, Northwest Iran
Lake Urmia, Northwest Iran, has confronted a drying procedure in recent years with losing 90% of its water body. The authorities concerned about...
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Exploring the Effects of Urmia Lake’s Variability on Adjacent Cities and Villages
Environmental crises in Iran, including lack of rainfall and drying rivers, wetlands, and lakes, have caused natural and human hazards and...
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Health and ecological risks assessment of heavy metals and metalloids in surface sediments of Urmia Salt Lake, Northwest of Iran
Urmia Lake, in the northwest of Iran, is the largest body of saline water in the Middle East, which has been desiccated in recent decades. To...
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A hybrid intelligent model for spatial analysis of groundwater potential around Urmia Lake, Iran
The importance of groundwater potential map** (GWPM) is eminent for the proper management of underpinning resources. This research applies...
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Uncertainty Assessment of Surface Water Salinity Using Standalone, Ensemble, and Deep Machine Learning Methods: A Case Study of Lake Urmia
Due to the inherent uncertainty in surface water quality modeling, point predictions of water quality parameters such as total dissolved solids (TDS)...
