Multilateral Working Group on Water Resources
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Entry from Directory of Selected Israeli Water-related Publications
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| TITLE: | Fluctuations of the level of the Dead Sea and climatic fluctuations in the country during historical times. In: SBWRM-ISRAEL 85, International Symposium on scientific basis for water-resources management, Jerusalem, 1985. Additional Papers |
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| AUTHOR: | Cippora Klein |
| PUBLISHER: | Eyal (Israel Association of Hydrologists) |
| PAGES: | 197-224 |
| PUBLICATION DATE: | 1985 |
| LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION: | English |
| ABSTRACT: | Annual and periodical changes of the measured Dead Sea level in the present century follow closely the measured annual and periodical changes of the rainfall amount over its drainage basin. Integrating dendrochronology (back to 1115 CE) and contemporaneous documents on the quality of rainfall seasons and periods (back to 2000 BCE) with data on the morphological, archaeological, botanical, sedimentological and chemical indicators of the Dead Sea levels elevation both climatic changes in the country and the Dead Sea levels fluctuations during historical times were reconstructed. The range of fluctuations of the Dead Sea level during historical times was found to exceed 75 meters. The average annual precipitation in Jerusalem was calculated for the different elevations of steady historical Dead Sea levels. |
| ADDRESS FROM WHICH THE PUBLICATION CAN BE OBTAINED: | Library, Hydrological Service, P.O.Box 6381, Jerusalem 91063, Israel |
| AVAILABILITY: | At request |
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