The Role of Moisture Sources and Climatic Teleconnections in Northeastern and South-Central Iran’s Hydro-Climatology

Ezzat Raeisi,Mojtaba Heydarizad,Raquel Nieto,Luis Gimeno,Rogert Sori

doi:10.3390/w10111550

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https://doi.org/10.3390/w10111550

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Journal: Water	Publication Date: Oct 31, 2018
Citations: 17	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Shiraz University, Universidade de Vigo

Abstract

Iran faces climate disparities due to extreme topographic anomalies, the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf water bodies, influences from diverse air masses and moisture sources, and its considerable area. FLEXPART model has been utilized to determine the main marine and continental moisture sources for south-central (Shiraz box) and northeastern (Mashhad box) parts of Iran. The marine moisture sources directly influenced extreme drought and wet conditions in Shiraz and Mashhad boxes during the wet period, while no correlation was observed during the dry period. In addition to local components, extreme drought and wet conditions have also been influenced by the climatic teleconnections. Extreme drought conditions mainly occurred during the La Niña phase, while wet conditions mainly occurred during the El Niño phase. Scrutinizing the effect of marine moisture sources on the hydrology of water resources demonstrated that the moisture contribution from the Arabian Sea directly influenced the discharges of Chenar-rahdar (in the Shiraz box) and Kardeh (in the Mashhad box) rivers during the wet period. However, the Red Sea inversely correlated with the discharges of both rivers during the dry period. Hydrogeologists, hydrologists, and meteorologists can utilize the outputs of this survey to develop climatology and hydrology models in the future.

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In recent decades, numerous studies have been done to deepen our understanding about the identification of moisture sources and mechanisms controlling moisture transport in the atmosphere [1]as a major component of the water cycle
Water 2018, 10, 1550 the Atlantic Ocean; AO (Arctic Oscillation) and AAO (Antarctica Oscillation) which occur in the polar regions and QBO (Quasi-Biennial Oscillation) which occurs in the tropical stratosphere
The dominant moisture origins have been identified for the Shiraz and Mashhad boxes (Figure 3)

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Numerous studies have been done to deepen our understanding about the identification of moisture sources and mechanisms controlling moisture transport in the atmosphere [1]as a major component of the water cycle. Water 2018, 10, 1550 the Atlantic Ocean; AO (Arctic Oscillation) and AAO (Antarctica Oscillation) which occur in the polar regions and QBO (Quasi-Biennial Oscillation) which occurs in the tropical stratosphere. The influence of these climatic indices on atmospheric and hydrological parameters have been appraised in many studies in Iran [2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and elsewhere in the world [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. Isotope techniques have been widely used in hydro-climatological studies since

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