On the drying trends over the Mena countries using harmonic analysis of the enhanced vegetation Index

Wenzhao Li; Hesham M. El-Askary; Mohamed Qurban; Mohamed Allali; K. P. Manikandan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01440-7_57

On the drying trends over the Mena countries using harmonic analysis of the enhanced vegetation Index

Wenzhao Li, Hesham M. El-Askary^*, Mohamed Qurban, Mohamed Allali, K. P. Manikandan

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Applied Research Center for Environment and Marine Studies

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Abstract

Arid and semi-arid environments characterize the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Climate change posed significant effects in these regions making them drier and suffer water scarcity especially in recent years. In this research, we used the enhanced vegetation index (EVI) as an indicator of this drying trend over the MENA region the past 20 years. We used harmonic analysis model for comparison with observation data to reveal trends in some capital cities within the MENA region, namely, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The models performed well and different vegetation changes among these countries were observed. The results revealed a changing behavior over different areas among the MENA region. For instance regions such as Iraq and middle Saudi Arabia suffer drier climate, whereas parts of Iran is more humid.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	243-245
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01440-7_57
State	Published - 2019

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Name	Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation
ISSN (Print)	2522-8714
ISSN (Electronic)	2522-8722

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Keywords

Cloud platform
EVI
Global warming
MENA
Vegetation

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Environmental Chemistry

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