Studying the Changes in the Hydro‐Meteorological Components of Water Budget in Lake Urmia

Abstract

Lake Urmia's water level decline and its socio-environmental drawbacks were continuously addressed by many researchers over the last two decades. In the mid-2000s, major changes associated with the lake water level were determined with a jump, initiated in 1993 and a subsequent decline in 1998 (Fathian & Vaheddoost, 2021a, 2021b. Since then, the lake's surface area was continuously degraded that urged decision-makers to take immediate actions. To this end, many studies have been conducted to realize, simulate, and describe the causes and aftermath of the phenomenon. Although no general conclusions are made, several issues are addressed for this drastic decline. The effect of climate change on the Lake Urmia basin was addressed by Abbasian et al. ( 2020),

Investigating lake drought prevention using a DRL-based method

“…Researchers have tried to investigate this drought in different ways. Some have analyzed it qualitatively [6]. And from quantitative perspective, some modeled the drought mathematically [7][8][9].…”