Hydrogeochemistry of seasonal variation of Urmia Salt Lake

Alipour, Samad

doi:10.1007/bf02840117

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“…The lake water is supplied by direct precipitation and inflow from thirteen permanent rivers and is geochemically homogeneous due to mixing by strong water currents, particularly during spring (Alipour, 2006). At several locations, abandoned terraces show evidence of large fluctuations in lake level during the Pleistocene (Kelts and Shahrabi, 1986).…”

Section: Physical Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Historical documents and analysis of recent satellite images also show the fluctuations on the order of 1 to 3.5 meters, with an estimated lowest lake level during the Little Ice Age (Kelts and Shahrabi, 1986;Sharifi, 2002;Alipour, 2006). Lake biota are restricted to a few hyperhalophilous phytoplankton and the crustacean macrozooplankton Artemia urmiana, which feeds on decaying algal remains (Eimanifar and Mohebbi, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A late Pleistocene long pollen record from Lake Urmia, Nw Iran

et al. 2008

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A palynological study based on two 100-m long cores from Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran provides a vegetation record spanning 200 ka, the longest pollen record for the continental interior of the Near East.During both penultimate and last glaciations, a steppe of Artemisia and Poaceae dominated the upland vegetation with a high proportion of Chenopodiaceae in both upland and lowland saline ecosystems. While Juniperus and deciduous Quercus trees were extremely rare and restricted to some refugia, Hippophaë rhamnoides constituted an important phanerophyte, particularly during the upper last glacial sediments. A pronounced expansion in Ephedra shrub-steppe occurred at the end of the penultimate late-glacial period but was followed by extreme aridity that favoured an Artemisia steppe. Very high lake levels, registered by both pollen and sedimentary markers, occurred during the middle of the last glaciation and upper part of the penultimate glaciation. The late-glacial to early Holocene transition is represented by a succession of Hippophaë, Ephedra, Betula, Pistacia and finally Juniperus and Quercus. The last interglacial period (Eemian), slightly warmer and moister than the Holocene, was followed by two interstadial phases similar in pattern to those recorded in the marine isotope record and southern European pollen sequences.1 This work is dedicated to Sytze Bottema for his outstanding contribution to late Quaternary palynology of the Near East.2

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Section: Physical Settingmentioning

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Section: Physical Settingmentioning

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A late Pleistocene long pollen record from Lake Urmia, Nw Iran

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“…In 1970 and 1971, in order to control the population of Armenian sheep, two leopards, Panthera pardus, were introduced on Kaboudan Island; however, their corpses were found in 1982. During 1993, 49, and in 1995, 98 Armenian Sheep were transferred from Kaboudan Island to the Islami Peninsula [51,75,85].…”

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“…Also in 1989, six of these deer (three males and three females) were introduced to Kaboudan Island in order to study their ecology [51,75,85]. Table 8 lists the Mammals of Urmia Lake National Park.…”

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Biodiversity of the Hypersaline Urmia Lake National Park (NW Iran)

et al. 2014

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Urmia Lake, with a surface area between 4000 to 6000 km2, is a hypersaline lake located in northwest Iran. It is the saltiest large lake in the world that supports life. Urmia Lake National Park is the home of an almost endemic crustacean species known as the brine shrimp, Artemia urmiana. Other forms of life include several species of algae, bacteria, microfungi, plants, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. As a consequence of this unique biodiversity, this lake has been selected as one of the 59 biosphere reserves by UNESCO. This paper provides a comprehensive species checklist that needs to be updated by additional research in the future.

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“…A number of studies in various parts of the world have linked fluctuating lake levels to climate variability (e.g. Kadıoǧlu et al, 1997;Changnon, 2004;Polderman and Pryor, 2004), and Alipour (2006) has specifically suggested that the reduction in water level of Lake Urmia may be the result of a long period of dry weather. Any investigation of the reasons for the fall in water level of Lake Urmia must therefore begin with an analysis of the likely effects of local and regional-scale climatic forcing on the lake.…”

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The influence of large‐scale atmospheric circulation weather types on variations in the water level of Lake Urmia, Iran

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Kirchner

Livingstone

et al. 2011

Intl Journal of Climatology

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Lake Urmia, a large, hypersaline lake in north-western Iran, experiences large fluctuations in water level, and hence also surface area. At present, the water level is falling and the surface area contracting alarmingly. One important determinant of the water level of the lake is shown to be large-scale atmospheric circulation, expressed in terms of objective circulation weather types (CWTs), acting on the lake via regional precipitation and air temperature (as a proxy for evaporation). Seasonal changes in lake level, along with seasonal gridded precipitation and air temperature data, are shown to be strongly related to the frequency of occurrence of different CWTs.

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Hydrogeochemistry of seasonal variation of Urmia Salt Lake

Cited by 24 publications

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A late Pleistocene long pollen record from Lake Urmia, Nw Iran

A late Pleistocene long pollen record from Lake Urmia, Nw Iran

Biodiversity of the Hypersaline Urmia Lake National Park (NW Iran)

The influence of large‐scale atmospheric circulation weather types on variations in the water level of Lake Urmia, Iran

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