Water, salt, and energy balances of the Dead Sea

NG Lensky, Y Dvorkin, V Lyakhovsky… - Water Resources …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The Dead Sea is a hypersaline terminal lake experiencing a water level drop of about 1 m/yr
over the last decade. The existing estimations for the water balance of the lake are widely …

Sea-rain-lake relation in the Last Glacial East Mediterranean revealed by δ18O-δ13C in Lake Lisan aragonites

Y Kolodny, M Stein, M Machlus - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2005 - Elsevier
We investigated the Sea-Rain-Lake relation during the Last Glacial–Holocene in the East
Mediterranean region by comparing the δ18O and δ13C records of authigenic aragonite …

Quantitative assessment of glacial fluctuations in the level of Lake Lisan, Dead Sea rift

EJ Rohling - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
A quantitative understanding of climatic variations in the Levant during the last glacial cycle
is needed to support archaeologists in assessing the drivers behind hominin migrations and …

Seasonal and diurnal evaporation from a deep hypersaline lake: The Dead Sea as a case study

I Hamdani, S Assouline, J Tanny, IM Lensky… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Evaporation plays a major role in lake systems, as it affects the water, energy and solutes
budgets. Water salinity reduces evaporation, and as a result affects the energy budget of the …

Searles Lake evaporite sequences: Indicators of late Pleistocene/Holocene lake temperatures, brine evolution, and pCO2

KJ Olson, TK Lowenstein - Bulletin, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Searles Lake, California, was a saline-alkaline lake that deposited> 25 non-clastic
minerals that record the history of lake chemistry and regional climate. Here, the mineralogy …

Dead Sea evaporation by eddy covariance measurements vs. aerodynamic, energy budget, Priestley–Taylor, and Penman estimates

J Metzger, M Nied, U Corsmeier… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
The Dead Sea is a terminal lake, located in an arid environment. Evaporation is the key
component of the Dead Sea water budget and accounts for the main loss of water. So far …

Diurnal Course of evaporation from the dead sea in summer: A distinct double peak induced by solar radiation and night sea breeze

NG Lensky, IM Lensky, A Peretz… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Partitioning between the relative effects of the radiative and aerodynamic components of the
atmospheric forcing on evaporation is challenging since diurnal distributions of wind speed …

Localisation and temporal variability of groundwater discharge into the Dead Sea using thermal satellite data

U Mallast, C Siebert, B Wagner, M Sauter… - Environmental earth …, 2013 - Springer
The semi-arid region of the Dead Sea heavily relies on groundwater resources. This
dependence is exacerbated by both population growth and agricultural activities and …

[PDF][PDF] Diurnal pressure variation: the atmospheric tide

F Le Blancq - Weather, 2011 - patarnott.com
Those of us who live near the coast are familiar with the tide, that regular ebb and flow of the
sea, more strictly called the 'ocean tide'. At most locations it is a phenomenon with a …

Rising of the lowest place on Earth due to Dead Sea water‐level drop: Evidence from SAR interferometry and GPS

RN Nof, A Ziv, MP Doin, G Baer, Y Fialko… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Dead Sea water‐level has been dropping at an exceedingly increasing rate since 1960,
and between 1993 and 2001, the interval of the InSAR data examined in this study, it has …