Climate change or irrigated agriculture – what drives the water level decline of Lake Urmia

Climate-informed environmental inflows to revive a drying lake facing meteorological and anthropogenic droughts

(2018) Aneseh Alborzi et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Climate and anthropogenic contributions to the desiccation of the second largest saline lake in the twentieth century

(2018) Suyog Chaudhari et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Interaction of groundwater with Lake Urmia in Iran

(2018) Babak Vaheddoost et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Compounding effects of human activities and climatic changes on surface water availability in Iran

(2018) Samaneh Ashraf et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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

(2018) Bahram Khazaei et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Decline of the world's saline lakes

(2017) Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh et al.   Nature Geoscience

Investigation Anthropogenic Impacts and Climate Factors on Drying up of Urmia Lake using Water Budget and Drought Analysis

(2017) Yusuf Alizade Govarchin Ghale et al.   WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Drip irrigation management for wheat under clay soil in arid conditions

(2017) Harby Mostafa et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Investigating the salinization and freshening processes of coastal groundwater resources in Urmia aquifer, NW Iran

(2016) Vahab Amiri et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Climate change and anthropogenic impacts on the rapid shrinkage of Lake Urmia

(2016) O. Alizadeh-Choobari et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Impacts of climate change and water resources development on the declining inflow into Iran's Urmia Lake

(2016) Somayeh Shadkam et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

Changes in irrigated land and agricultural water use in the Lake Urmia basin

(2016) Ali Hesami et al.   LAKE AND RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT

Meteorological factors affecting the sudden decline in Lake Urmia’s water level

(2016) Foroozan Arkian et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Aral Sea syndrome desiccates Lake Urmia: Call for action

(2015) Amir AghaKouchak et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

A spaceborne multisensor approach to monitor the desiccation of Lake Urmia in Iran

(2015) M.J. Tourian et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Feature: Saving Iran’s great salt lake

(2015) Richard Stone   SCIENCE

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Regional Trends and Shift Changes of Autocorrelated Temperature Series in Urmia Lake Basin

(2015) Arash Malekian et al.   WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Identification of trends in hydrological and climatic variables in Urmia Lake basin, Iran

(2014) Farshad Fathian et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Observed climate variability and change in Urmia Lake Basin, Iran

(2012) A. H. Delju et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Determining the Main Factors in Declining the Urmia Lake Level by Using System Dynamics Modeling

(2011) Elmira Hassanzadeh et al.   WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Environmental impacts of desalination on the ecology of Lake Urmia

(2010) Abdolreza Karbassi et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Use of a standardized runoff index for characterizing hydrologic drought

(2008) Shraddhanand Shukla et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS