Investigation of the impact of desalination on the salinity of the Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (also known as the Arabian Gulf) is a shallow marginal sea located in a region of Southwest Asia with arid climate. Because of this aridity, evaporation from the Gulf is extremely high (1.84 meters per year) and far exceeds the sum of freshwater inflow to the Gulf, mainly from precipitation and some from river flow. A residual circulation exists between the Gulf and the Indian Ocean such that saline water flows into the Gulf from the Indian Ocean in order to balance the freshwater deficit due to high evaporation rate; and since evaporation only removes freshwater, the salt associated with this inflow from the Indian Ocean is removed in dense saline water that naturally sinks to lower layers and exits the Gulf into the Indian Ocean.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Ibrahim, Hamed D.(Hamed Dare)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Elfatih A.B. Eltahir.

• Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113478

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/113478