Towards an integrated arid zone water management using simulation-based optimisation

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1381-1394

  Grundmann, Jens ^a   Schütze, Niels ^a   Schmitz, Gerd H ^a   Al Shaqsi, Saif ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Ministry of Regional Municipalities Environment and Water Resources Oman   (Oman)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Density dependent groundwater flow modelling; Integrated water resources management; Irrigation; Multi criteria optimisation

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENTS; ARID ZONES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS; COASTAL AQUIFERS; COMPLEX INTERACTION; DENSITY DEPENDENT; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISATION; EXCESSIVE GROUNDWATER WITHDRAWAL; FAST OPERATION; GROUNDWATER STORAGE; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; IRRIGATION PRACTICES; KEY COMPONENT; LONG TERM PLANNING; MANAGEMENT TOOL; MULTI-CRITERIA; OPTIMISATIONS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PROCESS MODELING; SIMULATION-BASED; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC ASPECTS; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; SULTANATE OF OMAN; SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION; SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES; WATER ALLOCATIONS; WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IRRIGATION; MANAGEMENT; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ARID REGION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COASTAL AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; IRRIGATION; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINITY; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

BATINAH; OMAN;

EID: 84856957416     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1253-z     Document Type: Article

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