A review of drought in the Middle East and southwest Asia

M Barlow, B Zaitchik, S Paz, E Black, J Evans… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Middle East and southwest Asia are a region that is water stressed, societally
vulnerable, and prone to severe droughts. Large-scale climate variability, particularly La …

Climate change projections for Turkey: three models and two scenarios

M Demircan, H Gürkan, O Eskioğlu… - Turkish Journal of …, 2017 - dergipark.org.tr
“A scenario is a coherent, internally consistent and plausible description of a possible future
state of the world”. The name “representative concentration pathways–RCP's” are referred to …

Projected hydroclimate changes over Andean basins in central Chile from downscaled CMIP5 models under the low and high emission scenarios

D Bozkurt, M Rojas, JP Boisier, J Valdivieso - Climatic Change, 2018 - Springer
This study examines the projections of hydroclimatic regimes and extremes over Andean
basins in central Chile (∼ 30–40° S) under a low and high emission scenarios (RCP2. 6 …

Hybridized extreme learning machine model with salp swarm algorithm: a novel predictive model for hydrological application

ZM Yaseen, H Faris, N Al-Ansari - Complexity, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The capability of the extreme learning machine (ELM) model in modeling stochastic,
nonlinear, and complex hydrological engineering problems has been proven remarkably …

Late Quaternary glaciations in the eastern Mediterranean

MA Sarıkaya, A Çiner - 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fourteen mountains in the eastern Mediterranean, between southern Turkey and Lebanon,
are high enough to support Quaternary valley glaciers or ice caps. The timing of the …

Climate change: Droughts and increasing desertification in the Middle East, with special reference to Iraq

N Adamo, N Al-Ansari, V Sissakian, KJ Fahmi… - Engineering, 2022 - eprints.ditdo.in
Climate change impacts on Earth's atmosphere have caused drastic changes in the
environment of most regions of the world. The Middle East region ranks among the worst …

A 40-year analysis of the hydrological drought index for the Tigris Basin, Turkey

A Ozkaya, Y Zerberg - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Drought is a natural disaster that occurs globally when water availability is significantly
below normal levels. Drought assessment is important for water resource planning, and …

Global climate change impacts on Tigris-Euphrates Rivers basins

N Adamo, N Al-Ansari, VK Sissakian - Journal of Earth Sciences and …, 2020 - diva-portal.org
Climate change is affecting the hydrological cycle all over the World. The effect on arid and
semi-arid regions is relatively more. The Middle East and North Africa region is one of the …

The Future Snow Potential and Snowmelt Runoff of Mesopotamian Water Tower

A Şensoy, G Uysal, YO Doğan, HS Civelek - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mountainous basins are frequently called “natural water towers” because they supply
essential water to downstream regions for irrigation, industrial–municipal use, and …

Assessment of changes in return levels of historical and projected high and low flows of upper Euphrates basin in Turkey using nonstationary models

R Aziz, I Yucel - Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2023 - Springer
Owning to climate changes and other anthropogenic interventions, the frequency and return
levels of extreme flows cannot be treated as stationary. This study quantifies the changes in …