Implications of Climate Change on Water Resources in Saudi Arabia

Chowdhury, Shakhawat; Al-Zahrani, Muhammad A.

doi:10.1007/s13369-013-0565-6

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“…This study applied the regional climate model (PRECIS) for the predictions. Chowdhury and Al-Zahrani [2] showed an increase of temperature by 1.8-4.1 • C in different regions of Saudi Arabia, which was consistent to the global positive trends [6]. Addisu et al [7] reported the extremely variable temperature and rainfall in 17 (out of 109) stations in Ethiopia where the coefficients of variation (CV) were in the range of 20-89%.…”

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“…Using regional models, Hasanean and Almazroui [1] showed the decreasing trends of rainfall in most regions during 1978-2009 while no trend was reported for the southwest region. Chowdhury and Al-Zahrani [2] predicted an increase of rainfall by 15-25 mm/year in the central, western and eastern regions by 2050 while Al-Zawad [3] predicted the rainfall increase by 26-35 mm/year during 2070-2100. In the southwest region, Chowdhury and Al-Zahrani [2] predicted the rainfall increase of 109.7-130.4 mm/year while Al-Zawad [3] predicted an increase of 96.7 mm/year.…”

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“…Understanding the interaction of climatic parameters and environment is likely to reduce vulnerability, such as growing new crops suitable to climate change and efficient management of water resources [13,14]. Increase in temperature might decrease dissolved oxygen (DO) and increase dissolved organic matter (DOM) and salinity in source water [2,15]. Past studies have reported an increase of agricultural water demand by 5-15% during 2050, which was attributed to increased evapotranspiration [2].…”

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“…Increase in temperature might decrease dissolved oxygen (DO) and increase dissolved organic matter (DOM) and salinity in source water [2,15]. Past studies have reported an increase of agricultural water demand by 5-15% during 2050, which was attributed to increased evapotranspiration [2]. An increase of temperature by 1 • C might change the thermal limits of a crop by 10-30%, which could push the crop over the brink and affect crop yields [16].…”

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Trends of Climate Change in Saudi Arabia: Implications on Water Resources

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2018

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Climate change is an important factor for sustainable water resource management in the arid and semi-arid countries. In this study, future trends of temperature and rainfall were assessed for several regions in Saudi Arabia. The linear and Mann-Kendall analyses showed an increase of temperature in all regions and decrease of rainfall in many regions. Following trend analysis, the outputs of the NCAR Community Climate System Model were obtained for three emission scenarios (high: representative concentration pathways RCP8.5; high medium: RCP6; and low: RCP2.6) for the assessment periods of 2025-2044, 2045-2064 and 2065-2084 respectively, and compared with the average values from the reference period (1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005). In all emission scenarios, temperature showed an increase from 1986 to 2005 in all regions. For RCP8.5, increase of temperature are in the ranges of 0.8-1.6 • C, 0.9-2.7 • C and 0.7-4.1 • C during 2025-2044, 2045-2064 and 2065-2084 respectively. However, rainfall showed variable patterns with respect to emission scenarios and assessment periods. In most regions, the RCP6 showed decrease in rainfall from the reference period while the RCP8.5 and RCP2.6 showed variable patterns. The increase of temperature and variable pattern of rainfall may increase uncertainty in developing sustainable water resource management strategies.

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“…The analyses conducted on the subject by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, among others, prove that human activity contributes significantly to the increase in the CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere and that anthropogenic carbon dioxide consequently leads to climate change [1][2][3]. Remaining at the current level of utilization of fossil fuels will increase climate change [4].…”

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Laboratory Studies of Post-combustion CO2 Capture by Absorption with MEA and AMP Solvents

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With regard to the climate policy that has been adopted, the implementation of the carbon capture and storage and carbon capture and utilization technologies seems to be the unavoidable solution to reduce emissions from the energy sector. As most Polish energy is derived from coal, the government has taken steps to reduce CO 2 emissions by initiating a strategic research program-"Advanced technologies for energy generation: Development of a technology for highly efficient zero-emission coal-fired power units integrated with CO 2 capture." This paper presents the results of an investigation of a process for continuous removal of CO 2 from the gas stream on a laboratory unit. This study was conducted at the Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal in Zabrze, Poland. The purpose of the tests that were conducted was to establish the effect of the sorption column load on CO 2 recovery and on the process regeneration heat duty. In the second part of the paper, a simple comparison of three amine solvents is presented as a part of the solvent selection process for further pilot plant tests.

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