Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)

I Neugebauer, A Brauer, MJ Schwab… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The sedimentary sections that were deposited from the Holocene Dead Sea and its
Pleistocene precursors are excellent archives of the climatic, environmental and seismic …

Varves of the Dead Sea sedimentary record

YB Dor, I Neugebauer, Y Enzel, MJ Schwab… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The sedimentary record of the Dead Sea provides an exceptional high-resolution archive of
past climate changes in the drought-sensitive eastern Mediterranean-Levant, a key region …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating evapotranspiration using METRIC model and Landsat data for better understandings of regional hydrology in the western Urmia Lake Basin

M Tasumi - Agricultural Water Management, 2019 - Elsevier
This study estimates the evapotranspiration (ET) from the western part of Urmia Lake Basin,
Iran, to provide quality spatio-temporal evapotranspiration information for use in achieving …

Mapping surface temperature in a hyper-saline lake and investigating the effect of temperature distribution on the lake evaporation

S Sima, A Ahmadalipour, M Tajrishy - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2013 - Elsevier
Remote sensing is an effective tool for capturing spatial and temporal variations of water
surface temperature (WST) in large lakes. The WST of Urmia Lake in northwestern Iran was …

Using satellite data to extract volume–area–elevation relationships for Urmia Lake, Iran

S Sima, M Tajrishy - Journal of Great lakes research, 2013 - Elsevier
Urmia Lake in the northwest of Iran is the second largest hyper-saline lake worldwide.
During the past two decades, a significant water level decline has occurred in the lake. The …

A global assessment of terrestrial evapotranspiration increase due to surface water area change

S Zhan, C Song, J Wang, Y Sheng, J Quan - Earth's future, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface water, which is changing constantly, is a crucial component in the global water
cycle, as it greatly affects the water flux between the land and the atmosphere through …

Seasonal variations of halite saturation in the D ead S ea

I Sirota, A Arnon, NG Lensky - Water Resources Research, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Hypersaline lakes and seas were common in the past, precipitating thick evaporitic salt
deposits. The only modern analogue for the paleolimnology of deep salt‐saturated aquatic …

Effect of water surface salinity on evaporation: The case of a diluted buoyant plume over the Dead Sea

Z Mor, S Assouline, J Tanny, IM Lensky… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Evaporation from water bodies strongly depends on surface water salinity. Spatial variation
of surface salinity of saline water bodies commonly occurs across diluted buoyant plumes …

[HTML][HTML] Desiccation crisis of saline lakes: A new decision-support framework for building resilience to climate change

A Hassani, A Azapagic, P D'Odorico, A Keshmiri… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
River flow reductions as a result of agricultural withdrawals and climate change are rapidly
desiccating endorheic lakes, increasing their salinity and affecting the bio-diversity and …

Sinkholes, subsidence and subrosion on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea as revealed by a close-range photogrammetric survey

D Al-Halbouni, EP Holohan, L Saberi, H Alrshdan… - Geomorphology, 2017 - Elsevier
Ground subsidence and sinkhole collapse are phenomena affecting regions of karst
geology worldwide. The rapid development of such phenomena around the Dead Sea in the …