As one of the most important geographical units affected by global climate change, lakes are sensitive to climatic changes and are considered “indicators” of climate and the environment. In this study, changes in the spatial-temporal characteristics of the water levels of 204 global major lakes are systematically analyzed using satellite altimetry data (Hydroweb product) from 2002 to 2010. Addi...

The occurrence of flood and drought frequency is highly correlated with the temporal fluctuations of streamflow series; understanding of these fluctuations is essential for the improved modeling and statistical prediction of extreme changes in river basins. In this study, the complexity of daily streamflow fluctuations was investigated by using multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DF...

This study is an attempt to develop an integrated methodology to predict the impact of the Caspian Sea on flooding using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and hydrodynamic modeling. A rise in the sea level might lead to major flooding events, and have a severe impact on the spatial development of cities and regions. The feasibility of simulating a flood event along a drain channel is evaluat...

Coastal areas of the lakes are quite sensitive to climatic, hydrologic, and anthropogenic changes. These also an indicator that reveals interaction between natural driving forces factors. Lake Van coastal region is a dynamic area heavily affected by processes human activities. The present study focuses on coastline evolution associated Van. Natural influencing changes in were determined as rock...

Recent observations and model simulations have highlighted the sensitivity of the forest-tundra ecotone to climatic forcing. In contrast, paleoecological studies have not provided evidence of tree-line fluctuations in response to Holocene climatic changes in Alaska, suggesting that the forest-tundra boundary in certain areas may be relatively stable at multicentennial to millennial time scales....

High-mountain lakes are unique ecosystems with very few examples at tropical latitudes for experimentation. A two-year, high-frequency meteorological and water-column dataset from the crater of Nevado de Toluca volcano, in Mexico, an altitude about 4200 m above sea level, allowed study temporal changes thermal structure, water balance Lakes El Sol La Luna, separated by 500 a lava dome. Annual f...

In the 1990s, water level in the closed-basin Lake Van located in the Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, has risen up about 2 m. Analysis of the hydrometeorological data shows that change in the water level is related to the water budget of the lake. In this study, stochastic models are proposed for simulating monthly water level data. Two models considering monoand multiple-trend time series are develo...