Land subsidence in Iran caused by widespread water reservoir overexploitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Motagh, Mahdi ^a,b   Walter, Thomas R ^a   Sharifi, Mohammad Ali ^b   Fielding, Eric ^c   Schenk, Andreas ^d   Anderssohn, Jan ^a   Zschau, Jochen ^a  

^a GeoForschungsZentrum ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SUBSIDENCE; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; COMMON PROBLEMS; FUTURE CLIMATES; GROUNDWATER BASINS; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTIONS; GROUNDWATER LEVELS; INDUSTRIAL USES; LAND SUBSIDENCES; REGIONAL SCALES; SATELLITE RADARS; SEMI-ARID; SEMIARID AREAS; SURFACE DEFORMATIONS; WATER RESERVOIRS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPLOITATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GROUNDWATER; RESERVOIR; SUBSIDENCE; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 56449091355     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033814     Document Type: Article

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