Reclamation of Arid LandsIt is our pleasure to inform you that Springer International Publisher (2017) has published a book entitled "Reclamation of Arid Lands" in English.This book is the result of joint collaboration between the University of Tehran, University of Kashan and Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, whose authors are as follows:Mohammad Jafari: Professor, Faculty of Natur...

This is the first large-scale study to assess climate change impact on grain yield of rainfed wheat for three provinces contrasting climatic conditions (temperate, cold semi-arid, and hot arid) in Iran. Five integrative scenarios including +0.5°C temperature plus−5% precipitation, +1°C plus−10%, +1.5°C plus−15%, +2°C plus−20%, +2.5°C plus−25% were used evaluated. Nitrogen fertilizer shifting pl...

Large parts of Iran have arid and semiarid regions and one of the important problems of these regions is soil and water salinity. Also heavy metal enters in the soil through the various ways such as: sewage sludge and pesticides. As a result salinity and heavy metals concentration in soil are two major problems in parts of arid and semiarid regions. The aim of this research was studying the eff...

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation (GPM) are the most important widely used data sources in several applications—e.g., forecasting drought flood, managing water resources—especially areas with sparse or no other robust sources. This study explored accuracy precision of satellite products over a span 18 years (2000–2017) using synoptic ground station for thre...

drought detecting is a necessary aspect of drought risk management. it is generally performed usingdifferent drought indices that are effectively continuous functions of rainfall and other hydro- meteorologicalvariables. a number of drought indices have been introduced and used in various countries to date. in thecurrent research, four meteorological drought indices including the standardized p...

more than two third of the world lands are located in arid and semi arid area including iran. unfortunately there is lack of information and consequently poor scientific studies in these areas because of the difficulties which we face for collecting data and doing field studies in such a big areas under hard situations. however, in the recent decades there has been a great progress in using rem...