Figure 5
From: Climate change or irrigated agriculture – what drives the water level decline of Lake Urmia
Development scenarios for Lake Urmia. Climatic best-case (mean precipitation, potential evaporation and inflow of period 3), status quo (mean of period 6) and worst-case (mean of seasons 1999/00 to 2000/01) scenarios. (a–c) Scenarios assuming current irrigation water extraction. (d–f) Scenarios assuming a reduced irrigation water extraction by 1.2 km3a−1 (50% of current surface water extraction for irrigation). (Plots and maps are generated using MATLAB R2019b, www.mathworks.com).
