A probabilistic forecast of water demand for a tourist and desalination dependent city: Case of Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Desalination

Volumn 294, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-59

  Almutaz, Ibrahim ^a   Ajbar, Abdelhamid ^a   Khalid, Yasir ^a   Ali, Emad ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Mecca city; Monte Carlo simulations; Probabilistic model; Saudi Arabia; Tourist city; Water demand forecast

Indexed keywords

MECCA CITY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SAUDI ARABIA; TOURIST CITY; WATER DEMAND FORECASTS;

DESALINATION; ECONOMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; WATER FILTRATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DESALINATION; FORECASTING METHOD; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION GROWTH; RESOURCE SCARCITY; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

MAKKAH [SAUDI ARABIA]; MECCA; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84860145637     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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