Aral Sea - Wikipedia
WEBThe Aral Sea drainage basin encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. [1] Formerly the third-largest lake in the world with an area of 68,000 km 2 (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.
WEBThis chapter deals with major transboundary rivers in Central Asia which have a desert sink, or discharge either into one of the rivers (or their tributaries) or the Aral Sea or an another enclosed lake. It also includes lakes located within the basin of the Aral Sea.
The impact of climate change and human activities on the Aral Sea Basin ...
WEBNov 15, 2020 · The main reason for this increasing trend is that the lower reaches of the Aral Sea Basin are flat, which enables excessive farmland drainage to flow directly into the surrounding natural depressions due to a large number of old canals and irrigation facilities during the irrigation period.
The Aral Sea disaster: revisiting the past to plan a better future
WEBJan 1, 2023 · The Aral Sea became an iconic case study of a man-made environmental and humanitarian disaster. Its modern regression has been caused primarily by unsustainable use of water resources in the Aral Sea basin for cotton irrigation.
Spatiotemporal variations of ecosystem services in the Aral Sea basin ...
WEBMay 28, 2024 · Investigating the spatiotemporal variations and synergistic trade-offs of ESs in the Aral Sea basin is crucial for fostering the integrated development of the region’s socioeconomic ecology.
The future Aral Sea: hope and despair - Springer
WEBMay 5, 2016 · Introduction. The Aral Sea is a terminal, or closed basin (endorheic) lake, lying amidst the vast deserts of Central Asia (Fig. 1). Its drainage basin encompasses more than 2 million km 2 (Micklin 2014a). As a terminal lake, it has surface inflow but no outflow.
Impact of Climate Change on the Aral Sea and Its Basin
WEBJan 1, 2013 · The Aral Sea drainage basin area is approximately 1,874,000 km 2, of which the individual Amu Darya and Syr Darya catchments constitute a major part, and smaller catchment areas amount to about 321,000 km 2 (Shibuo et al. 2007). Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan share the basin of …
Ecological problems and ecological restoration zoning of the Aral Sea ...
WEBMar 1, 2024 · In this study, we mapped the ecological zoning of the Aral Sea from the perspective of ecological restoration based on soil type, soil salinity, surface water, groundwater table, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), land cover, and aerosol optical depth (AOD) data.
Hydrological responses to climate change and irrigation in the Aral Sea …
WEBNov 15, 2007 · Hydrological model interpretation of the water flow development in the Aral Sea Drainage Basin (ASDB) indicates that the water diversion and irrigation schemes in this region have considerably incr...
Full article: Investigate the relationships between the Aral Sea ...
WEBDec 29, 2020 · To discuss the impact of cropland and reservoir expansion on the Aral Sea crisis, we first analyzed precipitation and streamflow data for the upstream region and the whole basin from the beginning of the Aral Sea crisis in the 1960s to the present.