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Jin, Qinjian, Wei, Jiangfeng, Yang, Zong-Liang, and Lin, Peirong, 2017. Irrigation-Induced Environmental Changes around the Aral Sea: An Integrated View from Multiple Satellite Observations. Remote Sensing, 9(9):900, doi:10.3390/rs9090900.
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@ARTICLE{2017RemS....9..900J,
author = {{Jin}, Qinjian and {Wei}, Jiangfeng and {Yang}, Zong-Liang and {Lin}, Peirong},
title = "{Irrigation-Induced Environmental Changes around the Aral Sea: An Integrated View from Multiple Satellite Observations}",
journal = {Remote Sensing},
keywords = {environmental issues, the shrinking Aral Sea, irrigation, desertification, dust storm, remote sensing, NDVI, GRACE, MODIS},
year = 2017,
month = aug,
volume = {9},
number = {9},
eid = {900},
pages = {900},
abstract = "{The Aral Sea basin (ASB) is one of the most environmentally vulnerable
regions to climate change and human activities. During the past
60 years, irrigation has greatly changed the water distribution
and caused severe environmental issues in the ASB. Using remote
sensing data, this study investigated the environmental changes
induced by irrigation activities in this region. The results
show that, in the past decade, land water storage has
significantly increased in the irrigated upstream regions (13
km$^{3}$ year$^{-1}$) but decreased in the downstream regions
(-27 km$^{3}$ year$^{-1}$) of the Amu Darya River basin, causing
a water storage decrease in the whole basin (-20 km$^{3}$
year$^{-1}$). As a result, the water surface area of the Aral
Sea has decreased from 32,000 in 2000 to 10,000 km$^{2}$ in
2015. The shrinking Aral Sea exposed a large portion of the lake
bottom to the air, increasing (decreasing) the daytime
(nighttime) temperatures by about 1 {\textdegree}C year$^{-1}$
(0.5 {\textdegree}C year$^{-1}$). Moreover, there were other
potential environmental changes, including drier soil, less
vegetation, decreasing cloud and precipitation, and more severe
and frequent dust storms. Possible biases in the remote sensing
data due to the neglect of the shrinking water surface area of
the Aral Sea were identified. These findings highlight the
severe environmental threats caused by irrigation in Central
Asia and call attention to sustainable water use in such dryland
regions.}",
doi = {10.3390/rs9090900},
adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017RemS....9..900J},
adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}
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