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Titel (primär) Development of a hydrological trans-boundary model for the Lower Jordan Valley, Israel, Palestine, Jordan
Titel (sekundär) Transboundary Aquifers: Challenges and New directions. ISARM2010 International Conference; 6-8 December 2010; UNESCO Paris, France
Autor Rödiger, T.; Siebert, C. ORCID logo ; Geyer, S. ORCID logo ; Krause, P.
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
Department CATHYD
Seite von 703
Seite bis 705
Sprache englisch
Abstract

The groundwater resources of the Lower Jordan Valley and its tributaries in Israel, Palestine and Jordan are strongly limited by the semi-arid conditions. In addition, the extreme population growth intensifies the lack of available and high quality water resources in the region, where overexploitation of surface- and groundwater is usual. References are the intense drawdown of groundwater levels, the disappearance of springs and saltwater intrusions. To solve that complex issue a smart and integrated strategy to manage all available water resources (IWRM) will be developed. Such an IWRM is the aim of the multilateral SMART-project in the Lower Jordan Valley (www.iwrm-smart.org), where all water resources (groundwater, surface runoff, waste water) will be quanti- and qualitatively evaluated. One major topic of SMART is the generation of a trans-boundary numerical flow model in the scale of the Lower Jordan Valley. Different sub-projects on the local scale were necessary for the achievement of this goal. The study area of the here presented sub-project is one of the northernmost tributaries of the Lower Jordan Valley, the Wadi Al Arab (Jordan). The aim of the sub-project is to evaluate natural resources on catchment scale by combining hydrochemical and hydraulical methods to develop a high precision model. Concerning the quantification of the system, two separated models will be linked: a numerical finite element flow-model for the groundwater passage and a new developed hydrological model JAMS. The challenge of the investigation were the deployment of a conceptional groundwater model based on scarce data and adjustment of empirical equations and input parameters of JAMS onto the semiarid conditions. The results lead to a better understanding of the processes, which are important and necessary for the implementation in the trans-boundary model.[1][1]

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Rödiger, T., Siebert, C., Geyer, S., Krause, P. (2010):
Development of a hydrological trans-boundary model for the Lower Jordan Valley, Israel, Palestine, Jordan
Transboundary Aquifers: Challenges and New directions. ISARM2010 International Conference; 6-8 December 2010; UNESCO Paris, France
UNESCO, Paris, 703 - 705