Groundwater availability and water demand sustainability over the upper mega aquifers of Arabian Peninsula and west region of Iraq

SM Awadh, H Al-Mimar, ZM Yaseen - Environment, Development and …, 2021 - Springer
The current research is devoted to highlight the past, present and future status of
groundwater characteristics over the Arabian Peninsula (AP) and west region of Iraq. The …

Multi-criteria analysis and GIS modeling for identifying prospective water harvesting and artificial recharge sites for sustainable water supply

LK Singh, MK Jha, VM Chowdary - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is a promising tool for supplementing surface water and
groundwater supply to overcome imbalance between water supply and demand under …

Meteorological data mining and hybrid data-intelligence models for reference evaporation simulation: A case study in Iraq

K Khosravi, P Daggupati, MT Alami, SM Awadh… - … and Electronics in …, 2019 - Elsevier
To model an agriculture process for any region, it is significantly essential to accurately
simulate the reference evaporation (ET o) from the available regional meteorological …

[HTML][HTML] A GIS-based approach for identifying potential sites for harvesting rainwater in the Western Desert of Iraq

A Adham, KN Sayl, R Abed, MA Abdeladhim… - International Soil and …, 2018 - Elsevier
People living in arid and semi-arid areas with highly variable rainfall and unforeseeable
periods of droughts or floods are severely affected by water shortages and often have …

A strategy to assess the uncertainty of a climate change impact on extreme hydrological events in the semi-arid Dehbar catchment in Iran

A Sharafati, E Pezeshki - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2020 - Springer
This study presents a robust approach to assess climate change impact variability on future
extreme events (eg, rainfall depth and river discharge) over Dehbar catchment in Iran …

Dam site suitability mapping and analysis using an integrated GIS and machine learning approach

R Al-Ruzouq, A Shanableh, AG Yilmaz, AE Idris… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Meeting water demands is a critical pillar for sustaining normal human living standards,
industry evolution and agricultural growth. The main obstacles for developing countries in …

Prediction of evaporation in arid and semi-arid regions: A comparative study using different machine learning models

ZM Yaseen, AM Al-Juboori, U Beyaztas… - … of computational fluid …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Evaporation, one of the fundamental components of the hydrology cycle, is differently
influenced by various meteorological variables in different climatic regions. The accurate …

Integration of extreme gradient boosting feature selection approach with machine learning models: application of weather relative humidity prediction

H Tao, SM Awadh, SQ Salih, SS Shafik… - Neural Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
Relative humidity (RH) is one of the important processes in the hydrology cycle which is
highly stochastic. Accurate RH prediction can be highly beneficial for several water …

An enhanced version of black hole algorithm via levy flight for optimization and data clustering problems

HA Abdulwahab, A Noraziah, AA Alsewari… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The processes of retrieving useful information from a dataset are an important data mining
technique that is commonly applied, known as Data Clustering. Recently, nature-inspired …

Projection of agricultural water stress for climate change scenarios: a regional case study of Iraq

SA Salman, S Shahid, A Sharafati, GSA Salem… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Assessment of possible changes in crops water stress due to climate alteration is essential
for agricultural planning, particularly in arid regions where water supply is the major …