Quantifying modern recharge and depletion rates of the Nubian Aquifer in Egypt

M Ahmed, K Abdelmohsen - Surveys in Geophysics, 2018 - Springer
Egypt is currently seeking additional freshwater resources to support national reclamation
projects based mainly on the Nubian aquifer groundwater resources. In this study, temporal …

Large-scale total water storage and water flux changes over the arid and semiarid parts of the Middle East from GRACE and reanalysis products

E Forootan, A Safari, A Mostafaie, M Schumacher… - Surveys in …, 2017 - Springer
Previous studies indicate that water storage over a large part of the Middle East has been
decreased over the last decade. Variability in the total (hydrological) water flux (TWF, ie …

Spatial and temporal analysis of drought variability at several time scales in Syria during 1961–2012

S Mathbout, JA Lopez-Bustins, J Martin-Vide… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the observed spatiotemporal characteristics of drought phenomenon in
Syria using the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Standardised Precipitation …

Improving drought simulations within the Murray-Darling Basin by combined calibration/assimilation of GRACE data into the WaterGAP Global Hydrology Model

M Schumacher, E Forootan, AIJM van Dijk… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Simulating hydrological processes within the (semi-) arid region of the Murray-Darling Basin
(MDB), Australia, is very challenging specially during droughts. In this study, we investigate …

A quantitative assessment of groundwater resources in the Middle East and North Africa region

K Lezzaik, A Milewski - Hydrogeology Journal, 2018 - search.proquest.com
Abstract The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the world's most water-stressed
region, with its countries constituting 12 of the 15 most water-stressed countries globally …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating water balance components and their uncertainty bounds in highly groundwater-dependent and data-scarce area: An example for the Upper …

SR Rusli, AH Weerts, A Taufiq, VF Bense - Journal of Hydrology: Regional …, 2021 - Elsevier
Study region Upper region of the Citarum basin in Indonesia. Study focus Assessing water
balance components in data-scarce regions using different approaches could result in …

Data scarce modelling the impact of present and future groundwater development on Jordan multiaquifer groundwater resources

T Rödiger, S Geyer, T Odeh, C Siebert - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapidly growing demands and climate change stresses water resources worldwide and
leads to highly competitive situations between the environment and socio-economic …

Investigation of groundwater potential using gravity data in Wadi Fatimah and its surroundings, Western Saudi Arabia

F Alshehri, A Mohamed - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Water scarcity is becoming a growing problem in the Middle East due to urbanization,
industrialization, and population growth. Saudi Arabia is one of the region's largest …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of intensive agriculture and geological heterogeneity on the recharge of an arid aquifer system (Saq–Ram, Arabian Peninsula) inferred from GRACE …

P Seraphin, J Gonçalvès, B Hamelin… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
This study assesses the detailed water budget of the Saq–Ram Aquifer System (520 000 km
2) over the 2002–2019 period using satellite gravity data from the Gravity Recovery And …

Quantifying temporal variations in water resources of a vulnerable middle eastern transboundary aquifer system

OA Fallatah, M Ahmed, H Save… - Hydrological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater resources in the arid Arabian Peninsula, especially transboundary aquifers
shared by Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Iraq, are of critical environmental and geopolitical …