Rise and demise of the New Lakes of Sahara

Geosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 375-386

  Abdelsalam, Mohamed G ^a   Youssef, Ahmed M ^b   Arafat, Sayed M ^c   Alfarhan, Mohammed ^d  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Sohag University   (Egypt)

^c NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPACE SCIENCES   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Egypt; New Lakes of Sahara; Nubian aquifer; Western desert

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EVAPORATION; LAKE; LAKE LEVEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; LAKE NASSER; NUBIAN AQUIFER; SAHARA;

EID: 41949116068     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00142.1     Document Type: Article

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