Water management in Iran: what is causing the looming crisis?

K Madani - Journal of environmental studies and sciences, 2014 - Springer
Despite having a more advanced water management system than most Middle Eastern
countries, similar to the other countries in the region, Iran is experiencing a serious water …

Iran's socio-economic drought: challenges of a water-bankrupt nation

K Madani, A AghaKouchak, A Mirchi - Iranian studies, 2016 - cambridge.org
Iran is currently experiencing serious water problems. Frequent droughts coupled with over-
abstraction of surface and groundwater through a large network of hydraulic infrastructure …

Climatic or regionally induced by humans? Tracing hydro-climatic and land-use changes to better understand the Lake Urmia tragedy

B Khazaei, S Khatami, SH Alemohammad, L Rashidi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lake Urmia—a shallow endemic hypersaline lake in northwest Iran—has undergone a
dramatic decline in its water level (WL), by about 8 m, since 1995. The primary cause of the …

Hydropower representation in water and energy system models: a review of divergences and call for reconciliation

DE Rheinheimer, B Tarroja, AM Rallings… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Reservoir-based hydropower systems represent key interactions between water and energy
systems and are being transformed under policy initiatives driven by increasing water and …

Improving long-term streamflow prediction in a poorly gauged basin using geo-spatiotemporal mesoscale data and attention-based deep learning: A comparative …

F Ghobadi, D Kang - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Precise long-term streamflow prediction has always been important in the hydrology field,
and has provided essential information for efficient water-resource management and …

System dynamics evaluation of climate change adaptation strategies for water resources management in central Iran

A Gohari, A Mirchi, K Madani - Water Resources Management, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Zayandeh-Rud River basin, Iran, is projected to face spatiotemporally
heterogeneous temperature increase and precipitation reduction that will decrease water …

A system of systems approach to energy sustainability assessment: Are all renewables really green?

S Hadian, K Madani - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Renewable energies are emerging across the globe in an attempt to slow down global
warming and to improve national energy security in face of the depleting fossil fuel reserves …

Large-scale climate variability controls on climate, vegetation coverage, lake and groundwater storage in the Lake Urmia watershed using SSA and wavelet analysis

A Rezaei, JJ Gurdak - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Lake Urmia has shrunk by 88% since 1995 and is an outstanding example of an
environmental tragedy in the Middle East, and the lake plays a critical role in the …

Projected impacts of climate change on hydropower potential in China

X Liu, Q Tang, N Voisin, H Cui - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2016 - hess.copernicus.org
Hydropower is an important renewable energy source in China, but it is sensitive to climate
change, because the changing climate may alter hydrological conditions (eg, river flow and …

Streamflow trend analysis by considering autocorrelation structure, long-term persistence, and Hurst coefficient in a semi-arid region of Iran

R Zamani, R Mirabbasi, S Abdollahi… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2017 - Springer
Due to the substantial decrease of water resources as well as the increase in demand and
climate change phenomenon, analyzing the trend of hydrological parameters is of …