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    Seasonal Variability - Aral Sea Crisis-Final

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    The Aral Sea shrank dramatically over the past 60 years from 68,478 km2 to around 8,478 km2 due to damming and irrigation of its feeding rivers for cotton farming. This caused the sea to split into northern and southern portions. The northern portion has stabilized due to damming while the southern portion fluctuates seasonally and has become dependent on groundwater. The shrinking of the sea has led to environmental and health issues for the region from salt storms and soil salinization. Action plans propose alternative crops, economic development, and restoration efforts for the northern sea.

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    The Aral Sea shrank dramatically over the past 60 years from 68,478 km2 to around 8,478 km2 due to damming and irrigation of its feeding rivers for cotton farming. This caused the sea to split into northern and southern portions. The northern portion has stabilized due to damming while the southern portion fluctuates seasonally and has become dependent on groundwater. The shrinking of the sea has led to environmental and health issues for the region from salt storms and soil salinization. Action plans propose alternative crops, economic development, and restoration efforts for the northern sea.

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    The Aral Sea shrank dramatically over the past 60 years from 68,478 km2 to around 8,478 km2 due to damming and irrigation of its feeding rivers for cotton farming. This caused the sea to split into northern and southern portions. The northern portion has stabilized due to damming while the southern portion fluctuates seasonally and has become dependent on groundwater. The shrinking of the sea has led to environmental and health issues for the region from salt storms and soil salinization. Action plans propose alternative crops, economic development, and restoration efforts for the northern sea.

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    Seasonal Variability - Aral Sea Crisis-Final

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    The Aral Sea shrank dramatically over the past 60 years from 68,478 km2 to around 8,478 km2 due to damming and irrigation of its feeding rivers for cotton farming. This caused the sea to split into northern and southern portions. The northern portion has stabilized due to damming while the southern portion fluctuates seasonally and has become dependent on groundwater. The shrinking of the sea has led to environmental and health issues for the region from salt storms and soil salinization. Action plans propose alternative crops, economic development, and restoration efforts for the northern sea.

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    Seasonal

    Variablity Aral
    Sea Crisis!

    Max BANKO
    Issam BOUSSATA
    01 02
    GEE DATA
    INTRODUCTION
    ANALYSIS

    03 04
    MAIN CAUSES AND ACTION PLANS AND
    IMPACTS RECOMMANDATIONS
    0
    1
    INTRODUC
    TION
    Abstract
    The Aral Sea (68,478 km2 in 1960) was the world’s fourth largest inland lake in 1960s. However, it shrank sharply over the
    past six decades, and its changes caused a series of severe environmental issues.

    In this presentation, we reconstructed its variations over the period of 1960 to 2018 by using observation data and
    remote sensing data, and analysed their influencing factors. The results show that the area of the Aral Sea shrank
    dramatically by 60,156.50 km2 (about 87.85%) and the total loss of water volume was approximately 1,000.51 km3 over the
    study period.

    In 1986, the Aral Sea broken up into the south and the north parts. Since then, the South Aral Sea
    has shrunk continuously, while both the area and the water volume of the North Aral Sea have had a little change and
    shown a very slightly increasing trend.

    Through comprehensive analysis, it was found that human activities, especially damming and irrigation, are the dominant
    factors influencing the long-term variation of the Aral Sea. The increased precipitation and glacier meltwater could not
    compensate for the water loss of the Aral Sea.
    UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM
    P1
    Semi-arid area, high
    agricultural activity, mostly
    cotton
    P2
    Major and unstable rainfall in
    the far SW of the Lake Basin

    P3
     Former Soviet Union, now 6
    states, political collaboration
    difficult, low ecological and socio-
    ecological level
    Northern Lake

    Dike  Kokoral
    Dam finished in
    2005
    Salty dessert with
    high chemical
    ressidus
    concentrations,
    gas/oil drilling

    Southern Lake
    02
    GEE DATA
    ANALYSIS
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    GEE DATA CONSOLE
    ANALYSIS
    ANALYSIS 1 ANALYSIS 2
    Sea surfaces partly
    High decrease in southern
    permanent, incoming rivers
    part, increasing levels  in
    vanish (southern delta)
    northern river

    ANALYSIS 4 ANALYSIS 3
    Stabilized surface levels due to
    Seasonal flooding of
    Dike Kokoral Dam, fishery
    southern lake, main
    possible
    dependence on groundwater
    ANALYSIS

    ANALYSIS 4 ANALYSIS 3
    Stabilized surface levels due to
    Dike Kokoral Dam, fishery Seasonal flooding of
    possible southern lake, main
    depandence on groundwater
    03
    MAIN CAUSES AND
    IMPACTS
    MAIN CAUSES

    CLIMATE
    CHANGE
    GLACIER
    MELTWATE HUMAN
    R ACTIVITIES
    WATERENVIRONMENTAL
    CORRELATION IMPACTSDUST
    LEVELS OF SALINITY STORMS
    WITH WATER
    LEVEL

    SALINIZATION OF DESERTIFICA
    SOIL TION
    IMPACTS TO LIFE IN THE REGION
    WATER
    DEMOGRAP CONSUMPTI AGRICULTU
    HIC ON RE
    CHANGES

    REGIONAL BIODIVERSI
    HEALTH TY
    04
    ACTION PLANS
    AND

    RECOMMANDATION
    S
    ACTION PLANS

     IRRIGATION ALTERNATIVE
    CANALS COTTON SPECI
    ES
    NON-
    AGRICULTUR ARAL SEA
    AL
    ECONOMIC RESTORATION
    DEVELOPMEN PLAN
    ENERGY-
    RESTORATION NORTH ARAL
    EFFICIENT STRATEGIES SEA
    TECHNOLOGI RESTORATIO
    ES ARAL SEA N WORK
    BASIN
    PROGRAM
    RESOURCES

    ● https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226475728_Water_Scarcity_In_The_Aral_Sea_Drainage_Basin
    _Contributions_Of_Agricultural_Irrigation_Anda_Changing_Climate
    ● https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/AralSea
    ● https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/water/blanks/assessment/aral.pdf
    ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea#Aral_Sea_Basin_Programme_%E2%80%93_1
    ● http://www.icwc-aral.uz/asbp.htm
    ● https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/JRC_GSW1_3_MonthlyHistory?hl=en#imag
    e-properties
    Thank
    s!
    Questions and Remarks
    Session?

    ]]
    Seasonal
    Variablity Aral
    Sea Crisis!

    Issam BOUSSATA
    Max BANKO

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