in this research, the daily precipitation data of 1437 synoptic, climatic and rain gauging stations of iran in the time interval 1961- 2004 (equal to 15705 days) was utilized. using kriging geostatistics method, the data were interpolated on the pixels of 15 *15km2, so as an array to the dimension of 15705 * 7187 was formed. to identify the fittest distribution of the days with over 5.0mm preci...

the iranian plateau is characterized by diverse tectonic domains, including the continental collisions (e.g. the zagros and alborz mountains) and oceanic plate subduction (e.g. makransubduction zone). to derive a detailed image of the crust–mantle (moho) and lithosphere–asthenosphere (lab) boundaries in some tectonically units of the iranian plateau, we used a large number of s receiver functio...

medicinal species of mountain’s kelavs, scientifically named (kelussia odoratissmia mozaffar.) is an endemic species in iran. kelussia odoratissima is a perennial species and belongs to the umbelliferae. from the ancient times, the local and nomad societies had believed that the species traditionally have anti-ache, anti-inflation and anti-cough effects. seed and root of this species are boiled...

the zagros fold-and-thrust belt is tectonically active and often has active faults with insensible and slow motions. determining the rate of movement and displacement in these faults requires very precise measurements. one of the measurement methods of fault movements is using geodetic and micro-geodetic studies. this research is focused on one of the active faults in the north of shiraz city, ...

the genus trachylepis fitzinger, 1843 encompasses two-three species in iran: trachylepis vittata (olivier, 1804) distributed in western iran, west of the zagros mountains; t.septemtaeniata (reuss, 1834) in southern regions of the zagros mountains and t. aurata transcaucasica chernov, 1926 from northern to central parts of the zagros mountains. for study of geographic variation in the latter two...

diameter is such a notable characteristic in forest inventory that it is important to have a suitablemethod of its measurement, especially in coppice trees. this seems more important in zagros foreststhat most of them are covered with coppice trees. so this research was aimed to find an efficientmethod in studying the diameter at root collar (drc) of persian oak coppice trees as the mostimporta...

1. introduction mountains are the main sources of turbulence and change in the shape of atmospheric flows, and they can cause airflow upward as well as clouds formation and rain through productive mechanisms such as upslope condensation and convection. they also have an important effect on regional and world precipitation turbulence (banta, 1990; barros & lettenmaier, 1994), and can cause sever...

To evaluate the capability of SPOT5 HRG data for monitoring the pollarding forest areas in northern Zagros, some parts of pollarded forests located at Baneh city were selected. The Pollarding area was determined as ground truth in a 3-year alternation period using a Global Positioning System (GPS). Radiometric and geometric correction, were applied to the image and then the data was pre-process...

The Izeh fault zone is a transverse fault zone with dextral strike slip (and some reverse component) in the Zagros Mountains (Iran). It causes some structural deformations. This fault zone is acting as eastern boundary of Dezful Embayment and forms subsidence of the embayment. The fault has been recognized using remote sensing techniques in conjunction with surface and subsurface analyses. The ...

A methodology for the development of a fuzzy expert system (FES) with application to earthquake prediction is presented. The idea is to reproduce the performance of a human expert in earthquake prediction. To do this, at the first step, rules provided by the human expert are used to generate a fuzzy rule base. These rules are then fed into an inference engine to produce a fuzzy inference system...