GIS-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) provides a rich collection of techniques and procedures for landslide susceptibility mapping. In this study landslide susceptibility was evaluated by applying different analytical GIS techniques based on Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) criteria. The OWA-MCDA is complemented by a Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) and a Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST)...

Limited water resources with uneven distribution in addition to the growing demands are the main challenges of the water governance in Iran. The Government has planned several water resources development project and due to their complex technical, socio-economical, and environmental outcomes, comprehensive evaluation is needed. To select more adaptive and accountable projects, suitable group de...

although typically small in terms of their spatial footprint, landslide hazards are relativelyfrequent in northern iran. we assess landslide susceptibility for the nearly 20.000 km2 large study area of the urmia lake basin which is dominated by agricultural land use but includes the major settlements areas of the east azerbaijan province, iran. landslide factors are established in form of gis d...

Abstract The existence of reliable rain-gauge networks is a necessity in managing water sources and the relevant environmental issues any basin. present study aimed to investigate network rank stations Tazehkand sub-basin southwest Lake Urmia, Iran, using entropy–copula approach data obtained from six Siminehrood basin Northwestern Iran between 1981 2019. interaction effects were investigated c...

Many saline lakes throughout the world are shrinking due to overexploitation of water in their drainage basins. Among them two world’s largest lakes, U.S.A.’s Great Salt Lake, and Iran’s Lake Urmia. Here we provide a comparative analysis desiccation these that provides insights on management decisions may help save relevant lake worldwide. Urmia were once remarkably similar size, depth, salinit...

Abstract This study investigates the future changes in precipitation extreme indices Lake Urmia Basin during period 2021–2100 compared to base (1987–2016), based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 models. Trend analysis was performed using Mann–Kendall test and Sen's estimator. The output of these models downscaled by Long Ashton Research Station Weather Generator method for repre...

Iran Urmia Lake, the world second largest hypersaline lake, has been largely desiccated over the last two decades resulting in socio-environmental consequences similar or even larger than the Aral Sea disaster. To rescue the lake a new water management plan has been proposed, a rapid 40% decline in irrigation water use replacing a former plan which intended to develop reservoirs and irrigation....

Mahrokh G. Shayesteh , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , and Jawad A. Salehi 2,4 1 Dep. of Electrical Eng., Amir Kabir University of Tech., Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] , [email protected] 2 Dep. of Electrical Eng., Sharif University of Tech., Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] , [email protected] 3 Faculty of Eng., Urmia University, Urmia, Iran 4 Iran Telecommunication Re...

nature has always proven that it is able to overcome its problems. however, humanmanipulation has led to environmental degradations. the dryness of a thousand-year urmia lake(a brine water lake in iran) is an example of environmental degradation that happened due tosuccessive droughts and construction of dams on the basin of this lake. this study examinesmethods for the revival of urmia lake by...