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  • The coastal area of the hypersaline terminal lake of the Dead Sea is a unique area of dry land of the lowest elevation on Earth (−420 m a.s.l.)

  • It is noteworthy that this positive daytime sea surface temperature (SST) trend was observed in the absence of positive trend in surface solar radiation, based on pyranometer buoy measurements (Fig. 4)

  • In order to analyze long-term changes in evaporation during the study period, we focused on the summer months when the observed decrease in the Dead Sea water level cannot be caused by precipitation

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The coastal area of the hypersaline terminal lake of the Dead Sea is a unique area of dry land of the lowest elevation on Earth (−420 m a.s.l.). Solar radiation heats this dry coastal area in the daytime and creates a temperature gradient between the uppermost levels of the land and those of the sea. The Dead Sea has been drying up over the last two decades: the water level dropped at a rate of approximately 1 m yr−1 (Lensky et al, 2005). Based on satellite imagery from 1972 to 2013, El-Hallaq and Habboub (2014) estimated that the Dead Sea water area shrank on average at a rate of ∼ 2.9 km yr−1

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