Fluid Mechanics of the Dead Sea

E Meiburg, NG Lensky - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The environmental setting of the Dead Sea combines several aspects whose interplay
creates flow phenomena and transport processes that cannot be observed anywhere else …

Thermal performance of vertical greenery systems (VGS) in a street canyon: A real-scale long-term experiment

N Zuckerman, IM Lensky - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Outdoor vertical greenery systems'(VGS) thermal aspects have been intensively studied in
recent years; nevertheless, real-scale long-term experiments are scarce in the literature, and …

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 …

Hourly to weekly variations in halite precipitation from the hypersaline Dead Sea: The role of evaporation, water cooling and freshwater plume stability

Z Mor, G Noy, H Eyal, I Sirota, R Ezraty, E Morin… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Thick‐bedded halite sequences in the geological record are characterized by lateral
variations, reflecting spatiotemporal variations in environmental forcing. Although temporal …

Direct measurement of open-water evaporation: a newly developed sensor applied to a Brazilian tropical reservoir

GP Rodrigues, ÍS Rodrigues, A Raabe… - Hydrological …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the sensitivity and uncertainty of evaporation assessment in a
tropical reservoir in northeastern Brazil. For this purpose, four approaches were used …

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 …

Potential evaporation dynamics over saturated bare soil and an open water surface

W Li, P Brunner, HJH Franssen, Z Li, Z Wang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Actual evaporation (E a) can be calculated as a fraction of potential evaporation (PE), which
refers to the evaporation rate if supply water is unlimited. Potential evaporation depends on …

Identifying an evaporative thermal refugium for the preservation of coral reefs in a warming world—The Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba)

S Abir, HA McGowan, Y Shaked… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Coral bleaching events are more frequent and severe as global temperatures rise. However,
analysis of the surface energy fluxes that substantially affect the thermoregulation of shallow …

Energy and vapour transfer in evaporation processes over saturated bare soil and water surface‐lysimeter studies

W Li, W Wang, Y Yang, X Hou, H Ha - Hydrological Processes, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Potential evaporation (PE) is a significant input in many hydrological models for the
estimation of actual evaporation. Evaporation from water (PEw) is generally considered …

[HTML][HTML] Rare earths release from dissolving atmospheric dust and their accumulation into crystallising halite: The Dead Sea example

P Censi, I Sirota, P Zuddas, NG Lensky… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The industrial extraction of Y and lanthanides (hereafter defined as Rare Earth Elements,
REE) often requires the achievement of leaching procedures removing these metals from …