New integrated hydrologic approach for the assessment of rivers environmental flows into the Urmia Lake.

ABSTRACT: Recent research has greatly focused on the environmental water supplement of rivers individually and independently. However, a comprehensive and integrated view of all rivers in the basin is simultaneously required in closed basins leading to lakes and wetlands. This has affected Lake Urmia, which is the second largest saltwater lake in the world. It has been in danger of drying up in recent years as a result of not allocating the required environmental flow (e-flow) due to the increase in water resource consumption in the agricultural sector and climate changes. In this study, a method derived from the flow duration curve shifting (FDCS) method is presented in addition to explaining the possibility of providing the e-flow of rivers leading to the lake. The method can make the least amount

SUBMITTER: Mobadersani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9110391 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature