[HTML][HTML] How much water did Iran lose over the last two decades?

P Saemian, MJ Tourian, A AghaKouchak… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Study area Iran. Study focus Iran, once a pioneer of sustainable water
management, is currently facing water bankruptcy. Aggressive exhaustion of non-renewable …

Characterizing hydrological droughts within three watersheds in Yunnan, China from GNSS-inferred terrestrial water storage changes constrained by GRACE data

H Zhu, K Chen, S Hu, G Wei, H Chai… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The spatiotemporal evolution of drought is often modulated by climate and watershed
characteristics. While numerous drought studies using space geodesy have been conducted …

Rising rainfall intensity induces spatially divergent hydrological changes within a large river basin

Y Wu, X Yin, G Zhou, LA Bruijnzeel, A Dai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Droughts or floods are usually attributed to precipitation deficits or surpluses, both of which
may become more frequent and severe under continued global warming. Concurring large …

Flow regime changes in the Lancang River, revealed by integrated modeling with multiple Earth observation datasets

X Zhang, L Jiang, Z Liu, CMM Kittel, Z Yao… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The flow regime change of rivers, especially transboundary rivers, affected by reservoir
regulations is evident worldwide and has received much attention. Investigating dam …

Interrelations of vegetation growth and water scarcity in Iran revealed by satellite time series

R Behling, S Roessner, S Foerster, P Saemian… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Iran has experienced a drastic increase in water scarcity in the last decades. The main driver
has been the substantial unsustainable water consumption of the agricultural sector. This …

Attribution analysis of multi-temporal scale changes of streamflow in the source area of Lancang River with seasonal scale Budyko model

Z Liu, W Chen, Y Zhang, J Huang, Y Guo… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Under the influence of climate change and human activities, the intra-annual distribution
characteristics of streamflow have changed, directly affecting the exploitation of water …

Monitoring groundwater storage based on satellite gravimetry and deep learning

O Memarian Sorkhabi, J Asgari, TO Randhir - Natural Resources …, 2023 - Springer
Improper abstraction of groundwater in Iran has led to an average annual subsidence rate of
15 cm/yr. The management of Iran's water resources is essential due to its arid and semiarid …

Two Decades of Terrestrial Water Storage Changes in the Tibetan Plateau and Its Surroundings Revealed through GRACE/GRACE-FO

L Xiang, H Wang, H Steffen, L Jiang, Q Shen, L Jia… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has the largest number of high-altitude glaciers on Earth. As a
source of major rivers in Asia, this region provides fresh water to more than one billion …

Investigating terrestrial water storage changes and their driving factors in the Southwest River basin of China using geodetic data

X Li, B Zhong, J Li, H Wang - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The space geodetic technologies [eg, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and Gravity
Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)/GRACE Follow-on (GFO)] provide effective …

Major impact of global climate change in atmospheric, hydrospheric and lithospheric context

M Yadav, HG Gosai, G Singh, A Singh… - Global climate change …, 2023 - Springer
In this century, the rate of global climate change is rapid, and predicted to accelerate in
upcoming generation, will significantly impact the Earth's ocean, biodiversity as well as …