Water, salt, and energy balances of the Dead Sea

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Lensky, N G ^a   Dvorkin, Y ^a   Lyakhovsky, V ^a   Gertman, I ^b   Gavrieli, I ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; FLOW OF WATER; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SALTS;

ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION RATE; SALT ACCUMULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EVAPORATION; FLOW OF WATER; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SALTS;

ENERGY BALANCE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; INFLOW; LAKE DYNAMICS; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 31444455320     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004084     Document Type: Article

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