D. Chinarro, J.L. Villarroel, J.A. Cuchí Group of Technologies in Hostile Environments (GTE), Aragon Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), University of Zaragoza, Spain chinarro@unizar.es   Abstract The set of the meteorology and the karst hydrology constitutes a coupled system, with an internal interaction determined by a few parameters correlated. The study of the aquifer behavior […]

Mihai Doroftei*, Marian Mierla Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Tulcea, Romania doroftei@indd.tim.ro   Abstract Research has been conducted in the entire area covered by the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Romania). Within this protected site, the Black Sea coastline as well as the area between Chilia and Sf. Gheorghe branches has been studied […]

Mr.K.M.Taj-Biul Hasan Dhrupad Communication-media for education and development, Bangladesh kmtaj_hasan@yahoo.com   Abstract  Bangladesh is one of the poorest and most densely populated (160 million UN 2008), country of South Asia in the world and on the front lines of climate change. Bangladesh is 10 meters above the sea level, located on the Bay of Bengal […]

DJORET Daira1, SARA Vassolo2 1 Lake Chad Basin Commission, Ndjamena (LCBC), Tchad, Ndjamena 2 Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hanover, Germany, djoreda@yahoo.fr   svassolo@yahoo.fr   Abstract The Lake Chad Basin is a large endorheic basin of some 2,400,000 km² that occupies part of Chad, Cameroon Nigeria, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Sudan and the Central African Republic. […]

Marko, Ćirović , Nataša, Petrović Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia petrovicn@fon.bg.ac.rs   Abstract The control of climate changes is one of the greatest historical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Warming of the climate system is well documented: increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of […]

D.Lauva1*, I.Grīnfelde1, 2, A.Veinbergs1 1 Department of Environmental Protection and Water management, Faculty of Rural engineering, Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia 2 Scientific Laboratory of Forest and Water Recourses, Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia didzis@lauvadidzis.com   Abstract The annual regime of shallow groundwater levels significantly impacts agricultural and forestry production. To adapt to climate changes […]

Ya. Chapanov1, M. Temelkova1 1National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgaria  astro@bas.bg   Abstract  The solar activity cycles excite periodical and pseudo periodical variations of all Earth systems, including climate, water cycles, rainfalls, streamflows, groundwater etc. The water cycles have short term, seasonal, interannual and long term periodicities with different local revealing. The interannual […]

 Y.H.Alghifari1,2 ,M.Abdel Wahab2 and K.Fahmy3 1 Meteorology and Environmental in Saudi Arabia 2 Dept. Astronomy and Meteorology Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt 3 Egyptian Meteorological Authority, Egypt amushtaq12008@live.com   Abstract Dust storms are atmospheric phenomena that have recently been recognized as having a very wide range of environmental impacts. The study is based on […]

M. Szwed Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland  mszwed@man.poznan.pl   Abstract From the last decade of the 20th century the significant global warming has been being observed according to a report from the UK Met Office. Central Europe, including Poland, is not an exception. What is more, climate […]

Filiz Dadaser-Celik* and Eda Cengiz Erciyes University, Dept. of Environmental Engineering, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey fdadaser@erciyes.edu.tr   Abstract The objective of this study was to determine the strength of the relationships between stream flow and climatic variables in Turkey. Stream flow data from 64 gauging stations in 24 river basins of Turkey were used in the […]