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Agricultural drought assessment in data-limited arid regions using opensource remotely sensed data: A case study from Jordan

Authors: Al-Kilani, M.R., Al-Bakri, J., Rahbeh, M, Cody Knutson, Tsegaye Tadesse & Qasem Abdelal 2025

Journal: Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-024-05339-1

Dam Breach Risk Analysis and Mapping: A Case Study of the Wala Dam, Jordan.

Authors: Al-Weshah, R. A., Tarawneh A., and AlSalahat M2025

Journal: Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering

Doi: DOI: https://doi.org/10.14525/JJCE.v19i1.09

Flood Hazard Mapping from Dam Break: A Case Study of King Talal Dam, Jordan

Authors: Al-Weshah, R. A., AlSalahat M. and Al-Omari S2025

Journal: Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Doi: https://jjees.hu.edu.jo/files/Vol16/No1/JJEES_Vol_16_No_1_P4.pdf

Interrelation of dams sustainability with the local communities and water quality

Authors: A Al-Afeshat, MM Zoubi, QY Abu-Afifeh, H Al-Jawaldeh, TA Qutishat, AMN Masoud, M Rahbeh2025

Journal: Global J. Environ. Sci. Manag

Doi: https://doi.org/10.22034/gjesm.2025.01.10

Sediments Transport Mitigation and Management in Wadi Shu'eib Dam

Authors: Al-Weshah, R. A., Al-Smadi, K., and Taany, R2025

Journal: Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Doi: https://jjees.hu.edu.jo/files/Vol16/No3/JJEES_Vol_16_No_3_P2.pdf

Adaptation strategies for winter wheat production at farmer fields under a changing climate: Employing crop and multiple global climate models

Authors: Muhammad Rizwan Shoukat, Jingjing Wang, Muhammad Habib-ur-Rahman, Xin Hui, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Haijun Yan2024

Journal: Agricultural Systems

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104066

Assessment of meteorological drought impacts on rainfed agriculture using remote sensing–derived biomass productivity

Authors: Muhammad Rasool Al-Kilani, Jawad Al-Bakri, Michel Rahbeh, Qasem Abdelal, Seleshi Yalew, Marloes Mul2024

Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-13061-8

Building Socioeconomic Resilience in a Climate-Pressured Water-Energy-Food System in Underdeveloped Rural Agricultural Farms in Lebanon

Authors: Rania Bou Said, Rabi H Mohtar, Roger Moussa2024

Journal: EGU24

Doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-22390

Characterization of hydro-meteorological droughts based on dynamic future scenarios and effective rainfall over Central Malawi

Authors: Sylvester Richard Chikabvumbwa, Nasrin Salehnia, Ayda Gholami, Sohrab Kolsoumi, Seyed Jafar Mirzadeh & Gerrit Hoogenboom 2024

Journal: Theor Appl Climatol 155, 1959–1975

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04715-7

Dam break risk analysis and flood inundation mapping: a case study of Wadi Al-Arab Dam

Authors: Murad Al-Salahat, Radwan Al-Weshah, Saif Al-Omari2024

Journal: Sustainable Water Resources Management

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-024-01051-0

Drought, disturbance and river resilience in the southern Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

Authors: Ross M Thompson, Shaun C Cunningham, James R Thomson, Ralph Mac Nally2024

Journal: Resilience and Riverine Landscapes

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91716-2.00023-6

Estimating Soil Heat Flux in Jordan Based on ERA5 Parameters and NCEP/NCAR Energy Outputs: Definite Radiative Forcing of Climate Change Using PCA

Authors: Al-Shibli F., W. Maher, M. A. Ottom, J T. Al-Bakri2024

Journal: Earth Systems and Environment

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-024-00374-4

Fire and water: water quality impacts of landscape-scale disturbance by wildfire.

Authors: Mark David Shenton, Ross M Thompson, Ben J Kefford2024

Journal: Research Square

Doi: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4591610/v1

Flash Floods Assessment Urban Area: A Case Study Wadi Abdoun Basin, Jordan

Authors: Radwan Abdullah Al-Weshah, Zaid ayyash Sakarnah2024

Journal: Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences

Doi: https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v51i2.5119

From Agricultural Waste to Energy: Assessing the Bioenergy Potential of South-Central Texas

Authors: Ömer Ertuğrul, Bassel Daher, Gülden Özgünaltay Ertuğrul, Rabi Mohtar2024

Journal: Energies

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/en17040802

Hydrogeomorphology Creates Heterogeneous Landscapes – but do Fish Care?

Authors: Munique C Reid, Michael A Reid, Cara Miller, Ross M Thompson2024

Journal: Freshwater Science

Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/729358

Improving soil moisture prediction with deep learning and machine learning models

Authors: Fitsum T Teshome, Haimanote K Bayabil, Bruce Schaffer, Yiannis Ampatzidis, Gerrit Hoogenboom2024

Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2024.109414

Modelling the impacts of climate change on the sustainability of rainfed and irrigated maize in Pakistan

Authors: Shahzad Hussain Dahri, Irfan Ahmed Shaikh, Mashooque Ali Talpur, Munir Ahmed Mangrio, Zakir Hussain Dahri, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Jerry W Knox2024

Journal: Agricultural Water Management

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2024.108794

OLIVE PITS ACTIVATED CARBON AS AN EFFECTIVE ADSORBENT FOR WATER TREATMENT USING H3PO4 AND H2SO4 ACTIVATING AGENTS

Authors: Ahmad Jamrah, Heba Al-Jawaldeh, Tharaa M. Al-Zghoul, Arwa Hamaideh, Motasem M Darwish, Emad Al-Karablieh2024

Journal: Journal: Water Conservation and Management

Doi: http://doi.org/10.26480/wcm.04.2024.415.419

Performance of CHIRPS for estimating precipitation extremes in the Wala Basin, Jordan

Authors: Safaa Al-Shamayleh, Mou Leong Tan, Narimah Samat, Michel Rahbeh, Fei Zhang2024

Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change

Doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2024.611

Projection of Future Temperature Variations in River Basins under Climate Change Scenarios Using General Circulation Models

Authors: H. Hroub, M. Rahbeh,, M.M. Zoubi, Q.Y. Abu-Afifeh, H. Al-Jawaldeh, N. Obeidat2024

Journal: Global Jourbnal of Environmental Science and Management

Doi: https://doi.org/10.22034/gjesm.2025.02.03

Rainwater and fog harvesting from solar panels

Authors: I Alazzam, K Shatanawi, R Al-Weshah2024

Journal: Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management

Doi: https://doi.org/10.22034/gjesm.2024.03.02

Rice-Wheat System

Authors: Mukhtar Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmad, Ghulam Abbas, Sajjad Hussain, Gerrit Hoogenboom2024

Journal: Cropping Systems Modeling Under Changing Climate

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0331-9_3

Soil hydrostructural parameters under various soil management practices

Authors: Maryam Tanha, Rabi H Mohtar, Amjad T Assi, Ripendra Awal, Ali Fares2024

Journal: Agricultural Water Management

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108633

Southern Ocean humpback whale trophic ecology. II. Influence of fasting and opportunistic feeding on skin stable isotope values of migrating whales

Authors: Kylie Owen, Ross M Thompson, David Donnelly, Michael Noad, Sarah J Bury, Matthew H Pinkerton, Rebecca Dunlop2024

Journal: Marine Ecology Progress Series

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14539

The heat-mortality association in Jordan: Effect modification by greenness, population density and urbanization level

Authors: L Luque-García, S Bataineh, J Al-Bakri, FA Abdulla, WK Al-Delaimy2024

Journal: Science of The Total Environment

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176010

The potential of agrivoltaic systems in Jordan

Authors: Osama Ayadi, Jawad T. Al-Bakri, Mohammed E.B. Abdalla, Qasim Aburumman2024

Journal: Applied Energy

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123841

The Role of the Law in Prompting Environmental Stewardship for Farms Located Near Phosphate Mines

Authors: Abdullah Banikhalid, Michel Rahbeh2024

Journal: Sustainability

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031140

Trends in the Water–Energy–Food Nexus Research

Authors: Ali Rhouma, Jerome El Jeitany, Rabi Mohtar, José Maria Gil2024

Journal: Sustainability

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031162

Using Treated Wastewater Sludge to Improve Soil and Growth characteristics of Rain-fed Wheat under Semi-Arid Conditions

Authors: Lena Abou Jaoude, Rabi H Mohtar, Farah Kamaleddine, Razan Dbaibo, Rania Bou Said, Imad Keniar, Sandra F Yanni2024

Journal: EGU24

Doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-22474

A Historical–Projected Analysis in Land Use/Land Cover in Developing Arid Region Using Spatial Differences and Its Relation to the Climate

Authors: Nivin Abdelrahim Hasan, Dongkai Yang, Fayha Al-Shibli2023

Journal: Sustainability

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032821

A Review on the Impact of Sustainable Agriculture Practices on Crop Yields and Soil Health

Authors: Fluturim Saliu, Muhammad Luqman, Hasan Salem Alkhaz’leh2023

Journal: International Journal of Research and Advances in Agricultural Science

Doi: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370591891_A_Review_on_the_Impact_of_Sustainable_Agriculture_Practices_on_Crop_Yields_and_Soil_Health

Adaptive water management in response to climate change: the case of the southern Murray-Darling Basin

Authors: Ben Gawne, Ross Thompson2023

Journal: Australasian Journal of Water Resources

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2023.2181844

Comparison of Climate Change Effects on Wheat Production under Different Representative Concentration Pathway Scenarios in North Kazakhstan

Authors: Zhanassyl Teleubay, Farabi Yermekov, Arman Rustembayev, Sultan Topayev, Askar Zhabayev, Ismail Tokbergenov, Valentina Garkushina, Amangeldy Igilmanov, Vakhtang Shelia, Gerrit Hoogenboom2023

Journal: Sustainability

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su16010293

Dam sustainability’s interdependency with climate change and dam failure drivers,

Authors: Qusay Abu-Afifeh, Michel Rahbeh, Aya Al-Afeshat, Saif Al-Omari, Tala Amer Qutishat, Ali Brezat, Ali Alkayed2023

Journal: Sustainability 2023, 15(23),

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su152316239

Editorial: Water-Energy-Food-Health Solutions and innovations for low-carbon, climate-resilient drylands

Authors: Rabi H Mohtar, Mirella Aoun, Bassel Daher, Chrysi S Laspidou, Hyunook Kim, Virender K Sharma2023

Journal: Frontiers in Environmental Science

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1153671

Effect of Irrigation with Treated Wastewater on Potatoes’ Yields, Soil Chemical, Physical and Microbial properties

Authors: Hasan Alkhaza’leh, Ahmad Abu-Awwad, Mohammed Alqinna2023

Journal: Jordan Journal of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Doi: https://doi.org/10.35516/jjas.v19i2.164

Effect of Irrigation with Treated Wastewater on Squash Yields, Soil Chemical and Microbial Properties

Authors: Ahmad Moh'd Abu-Awwad and Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Qinna Hasan Salem Alkhaza'leh2023

Journal: Jordan Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Doi: https://doi.org/10.35516/jjas.v19i2.164

Influence of hydroperiod on aquatic food-web structure and energy production in a floodplain wetland: implications for environmental flow management

Authors: Lindsey K Frost, Sarah J Mika, Ross M Thompson, Ivor Growns2023

Journal: Marine and Freshwater Research

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/MF23163

Remote Sensing for Agricultural Water Management in Jordan

Authors: Jawad T. Al-Bakri, Guido D’Urso, Alfonso Calera, Eman Abdalhaq, Maha Altarawneh, Armin Margane2023

Journal: Remote Sensing

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15010235

SPI and SPEI Drought Assessment and Prediction Using TBATS and ARIMA Models, Jordan

Authors: Nivin Abdelrahim Hasan, Yang Dongkai, Fayha Al-Shibli*2023

Journal: Water

Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w15203598

The Future of Data Storytelling for Precipitation Prediction in the Dead- Sea-Jordan Using SARIMA Model

Authors: Mohammed S. Atoum3 Mohammad Ashraf Ottom1*, Fayha Al-Shibli22023

Journal: International Journal of Membrane Science and Technology

Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15379/ijmst.v10i1.2794

Urban FEW Nexus Model for the Otun River Watershed

Authors: Camilo Torres, Margaret Gitau, Jaime Lara-Borrero, Diego Paredes-Cuervo, Bassel Daher2023

Journal: Authorea Preprints

Doi: https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.169008310.09765430/v1

Between Fixed and Extending Means for Quantifying Historical Drought Events

Authors: Muhammad Rasool Al-Kilani, Jawad Al-Bakri, Michel Rahbeh2022

Journal: Research Square

Doi: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2192100/v1

Medical Waste Management in Jordanian Healthcare Institutions and their Effect on Human and Environment ( Analytical Study)

Authors: Shahed Al-Soud, Ahmad Jamrah, Radwan Al-Weshah2022

Journal: Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences

Doi: https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i5.2781

National and International Funding for Financing Sustainable Development Goal 6: Case of Jordan

Authors: Konstantinos Pappas, Bassel Daher, C Silva Hamie, Julie Roth, Mijat Barjaktarevic2022

Journal: SDGs in Africa and the Middle East Region

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91260-4_53-1

Spatial distribution of sulfur accumulation in urban dust and its societal implications in Al Hashemiya, Jordan

Authors: Kholoud Mashal, Yahya Ali, Mohammed Al‐Qinna, Mohammed Salahat, Yahya S Al‐Degs2022

Journal: Environmental Quality Management

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/tqem.21755

Spatial variations of urban soil salinity and related ions in arid and semiarid areas

Authors: Kholoud Mashal, Mohammed Al-Qinna, Mohammed Salahat, Yahya S Al-Degs, Samer M Hamzeh2022

Journal: Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10540-5

The Future of Water for Food

Authors: Rabi H Mohtar, Ali Fares2022

Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.880767

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION CALCULATION METHODS WITH ERA-REANALYSIS CLIMATE MODELS’ PROJECTIONS IN WESTERN ASIA, JORDAN

Authors: FM Al-Shibli, MA Ottom, H Saoub, R Al-Weshah2021

Journal: Applied Ecology & Environmental Research

Doi: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15666/aeer/1906_48494879

Evaluation of Remotely Sensed Precipitation Estimates from the NASA POWER Project for Drought Detection Over Jordan

Authors: Muhammad Rasool Al-Kilani, Michel Rahbeh, Jawad Al-Bakri, Tsegaye Tadesse & Cody Knutson2021

Journal: Earth Syst Environ 5, 561–573

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-021-00245-2

AIR QUALITY INDEX USING MACHINE LEARNING – A JORDAN CASE STUDY

Authors: Khalid MO Nahar, Mohammad Ashraf Ottom, Fayha Alshibli, Mohammed M Abu Shquier2020

Journal: Compusoft

Doi: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Khalid-Nahar/publication/344438674_AIR_QUALITY_INDEX_USING_MACHINE_LEARNING_-A_JORDAN_CASE_STUDY/links/5f758e03299bf1b53e03745c/AIR-QUALITY-INDEX-USING-MACHINE-LEARNING-A-JORDAN-CASE-STUDY.pdf

The DSSAT crop modeling ecosystem

Authors: Gerrit Hoogenboom, Cheryl H Porter, Kenneth J Boote, Vakhtang Shelia, Paul W Wilkens, Upendra Singh, Jeffrey W White, Senthold Asseng, Jon I Lizaso, L Patricia Moreno, Willingthon Pavan, Richard Ogoshi, L Anthony Hunt, Gordon Y Tsuji, James W Jones2019

Journal: Advances in crop modelling for a sustainable agriculture

Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.19103/AS.2019.0061.10

Characterization of preferential flow in soils near Zarqa river (Jordan) using in situ tension infiltrometer measurements,

Authors: MichelRahbeh2019

Journal: PeerJ 7:e8057

Doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8057

Complexity versus simplicity in water energy food nexus (WEF) assessment tools

Authors: Jennifer Dargin, Bassel Daher, Rabi H. Mohtar2019

Journal: Science of The Total Environment Volume 650, Part 1

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.080 1566-1575

Numerical and conceptual evaluation of preferential flow in Zarqa River Basin, Jordan

Authors: Michel Rahbeh, Raghavan Srinivasan, Rabi Mohtar2019

Journal: Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2019.04.001

Simulation of Crop Growth: CROPGRO Model

Authors: Kenneth J Boote, James W Jones, Gerrit Hoogenboom2018

Journal: Agricultural systems modeling and simulation

Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781482269765-18

Towards the optimization of sustainable food-energy-water systems: A stochastic approach

Authors: Ebrahim Karan, Somayeh Asadi, Rabi Mohtar, Mahad Baawain2018

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.051

Water–energy–food (WEF) Nexus Tool 2.0: guiding integrative resource planning and decision-making

Authors: Bassel T Daher, Rabi H Mohtar2018

Journal: Sustainability in the Water energy food nexus

Doi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508060.2015.1074148

Potential of Treated Wastewater Usage for Adaptation to Climate Change: Jordan as a Success Story

Authors: Mohammed A Salahat, Mohammed I Al-Qinna, Raed A Badran2017

Journal: Water Resources in Arid Areas: The Way Forward

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51856-5_22

Community based adaptation options for climate change impacts on water resources: The case of Jordan

Authors: Nezar Hammouri, Mohammad Al-Qinna, Mohammad Salahat, Jan Adamowski, Shiv O Prasher2015

Journal: 26 (V11-IX)

Doi: 10.1515/jwld-2015-0013

Sustainability in the water–energy–food nexus

Authors: Anik Bhaduri, Claudia Ringler, Ines Dombrowski, Rabi Mohtar, Waltina Scheumann2015

Journal: Water International

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2015.1096110

Means and extremes: building variability into community-level climate change experiments

Authors: Ross M Thompson, John Beardall, Jason Beringer, Mike Grace, Paula Sardina2013

Journal: Ecology Letters

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12095

Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity

Authors: Ross M Thompson, Ulrich Brose, Jennifer A Dunne, Robert O Hall, Sally Hladyz, Roger L Kitching, Neo D Martinez, Heidi Rantala, Tamara N Romanuk, Daniel B Stouffer, Jason M Tylianakis2012

Journal: Trends in ecology & evolution

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2012.08.005

Methodologies for simulating impacts of climate change on crop production

Authors: Jeffrey W White, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Bruce A Kimball, Gerard W Wall2011

Journal: Field Crops Research

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2011.07.001

META-ANALYSIS: TROPHIC LEVEL, HABITAT, AND PRODUCTIVITY SHAPE THE FOOD WEB EFFECTS OF RESOURCE SUBSIDIES

Authors: Laurie B Marczak, Ross M Thompson, John S Richardson2007

Journal: Ecology

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2007)88[140:MTLHAP]2.0.CO;2

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