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Seasonal Variability - Aral Sea Crisis-Final

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

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?

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Seasonal
Variablity Aral
Sea Crisis!

Issam BOUSSATA
Max BANKO

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