georges comair gis for water resources ut austin-12/02/10 hydrology of the jordan river basin
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Georges ComairGIS for Water Resources
UT Austin-12/02/10
Hydrology of the Jordan River Basin
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1. Location
2. Watershed delineation
3. Volume of water available for run-off
4. Dead Sea water balance
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Location
NASA
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The upper Jordan River catchment
Jordan River
wikipedia googleEarth
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Rivers of the upper Jordan Basin
Hermon (Banias) Dan
Snir (Hasbani)
wikipediawikipedia
wikipedia
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HydroSHEDS Download Site
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Watershed delineation
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Drainage directions from Hydrosheds
15 sec DEM
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Flow accumulation
HydroSHEDS World Basins Clipped DEM
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Isolating the watershed
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Check the total basin area
18,261 km2
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Subwatersheds for each country
Israel
Lebanon
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Transboundary catchments
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Average annual precipitation for the globe on a 0.5 X 0.5 degree global grid
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Calculating volume of potential run-off
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Contributions of each country in %
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The Dead Sea water balance
meddead.org/Save_Dead_Sea.html deadseabody.com
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Results and comparison
“The rate of water level drop over the last 10 years
is about 0.9 m/yr, representing an annual
water deficit of about 600 million cubic meters” Itay Gavrieli, 2005
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QUESTIONS ?
Jerusalemperspective.com