Research Paper
All other Geographic fields of studies , Interdisciplinary
Sajjad Bagheri Seyed Shakeri; Abbas Alipour; saman maroofpour; Seyed Moustafa Hashemi
Abstract
Introduction The exploitation of natural water resources requires recognition of the quantity and, in particular, its quality. It is important to study the quality and quantity of flow in the river in order to evaluate its locative changes for its various uses. Usually the flow crossing the river is ...
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Introduction The exploitation of natural water resources requires recognition of the quantity and, in particular, its quality. It is important to study the quality and quantity of flow in the river in order to evaluate its locative changes for its various uses. Usually the flow crossing the river is a source of water supply in various sectors of consumption, including drinking, agriculture and industry. Therefore, knowing the changes in the quality of river flow can have a significant impact on management and planning at harvest time and water consumption, especially drinking. Various studies have been done to predict and study water quality, but in terms of the quality of surface water, less attention has been paid to smart modeling. The superiority of smart models is determined in solving nonlinear and bulky problems that cannot be solved with high precision. Najah et.al (422: 2009) also emphasized the ability of neural networks to predict Malaysian ink's river water quality indices and the ability to estimate electrical conductivity (EC) and total dissolved solids (TDS) values and opacity in this basin. Kunwar et.al (95: 2009) has also used perceptron neural networks to model the quality parameters of the biological oxygen demand (BOD) and dissolved oxygen (DO) of Gottmy river in India and has emphasized its proper efficiency.The main objective of the present research is to construct a soft calculation model for estimating the salinity of the Nisa river flow at the site of the Yalkhary hydrometric station using various input scenarios which in areas such as the present study, there is the problem of data deficits, information, as well as lack of facilities and enough cost, can be done by using an estimation model with acceptable water quality accuracy.
Research Paper
All other Geographic fields of studies , Interdisciplinary
faramarz barimani; Mehdi Ramezanzadeh; Nazanin Tabrizi; sahand nozarasl
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Worldwide studies show that health is a vital stimulus that encourages older people to participate in tourism (Horneman et al., 2002), and the type of tourism that is encouraged and promoted by health is health tourism. Therefore, the services needed for health tourism are important. Today, health tourism ...
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Worldwide studies show that health is a vital stimulus that encourages older people to participate in tourism (Horneman et al., 2002), and the type of tourism that is encouraged and promoted by health is health tourism. Therefore, the services needed for health tourism are important. Today, health tourism is spreading in a variety of sites, including hot springs, mineral water springs, seas and areas with suitable climate (Pollock et al., 2000), and many countries are competing in this regard. Health tourism is a comprehensive journey focused on developing, maintaining and improving the body, mind and soul (Smith&Kelly, 2006). This type of trip is usually attractive for people over 50 who are economically rich and looking at health tourism as a lifestyle and also have experienced work stress (Smith & Puczko, 2009). Therefore, these activities are intended for the comfort of "people over the age of 50", "older people" and "elderly tourists". (Chen et al., 2013). Therefore, considering the significant global growth of tourism in the hot springs and the natural resources inside the country, it is necessary to make further efforts to achieve a suitable regional and global position in various health tourism branches such as hydrotherapy. Iran has over 1000 mineral springs and Mazandaran province with 40 hot and mineral springs has most resources after West Azerbaijan province. One of the influential and active hubs of the province in this regard is Ramsar.
Research Paper
Urban Planning
Mohammadreza Pourmohammadi; Rasoul Ghorbani; ali akbar taghipour
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Using the quantitative tools, methods and techniques in various sciences has been expanded during the recent years. The quantitative methods’ utilization in different branches of Humanities, especially the urban and regional planning have been always faced to various challenges. The reason ...
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Using the quantitative tools, methods and techniques in various sciences has been expanded during the recent years. The quantitative methods’ utilization in different branches of Humanities, especially the urban and regional planning have been always faced to various challenges. The reason of generated challenges is the complex nature of the human behaviors. Ordinary least Squares (OLS) is one of the popular methods in spatial model domain. It is supposed, in this method, that there is no spatial anisotropy among the observations and the spatial dependence doesn’t exist among the noise terms. It can be seen, in spatial data, using of the general regression methods such as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and will cause the model parameter dispersion. So it is necessary to use some other spatial modelling methods such as Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR). The experimental studies, have been done in this domain, reveal that the spatial regression methods can consider the spatial anisotropy among the observations and the noise terms dependence and will cause the estimations without the swearing and compatible with the parameters of the statistical society.
Research Paper
Urban Planning
Akbar Rahimi
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use it, is the most important issues in urban planning. Urban development and land conservation policies in the surrounding cities, has been the main challenges for urban planners in recent decades and Infill development strategy, that is the form of smart growth, new urbanism and sustainable development, ...
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use it, is the most important issues in urban planning. Urban development and land conservation policies in the surrounding cities, has been the main challenges for urban planners in recent decades and Infill development strategy, that is the form of smart growth, new urbanism and sustainable development, pay attention to this subject. This study aimed to identify potential development in inner area of city, to explain the development and application of this policy in the future development of Tabriz city, using systemic analysis. Using this method, infill development potential map in Tabriz for allocating urban further development were prepared. Result show that, the urban expanded to periphery in last decades, in the neglect of inner potentials. Analyzing of infill development potentials, such as incompatible land use, vacant and abandoned land, building components with low density (one floor) and tissue damage indicate that, there are approximately 4974 hectare of potentials for future development. The results of this study show that using of infill development strategy for further development of Tabriz, not only the destruction of farm lands and orchards around the city will be reduced, but also the economic costs, establishment of urban infrastructure costs and etc. will decreased and spatial dynamic form will be using the removal of incompatible and inefficient land uses, Improvement and renovation of old and informal district.
Research Paper
Urban Planning
Zahra Kamelifar; shahrivar rostaei
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What is happening today at the dawn of the 21st century as a crisis in our cities and changes the cities to an ugly and unhappy places and makes citizens tired and prosaic is the breakdown of human-nature transplantation which has unfortunately been neglected in recent years in urban development and ...
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What is happening today at the dawn of the 21st century as a crisis in our cities and changes the cities to an ugly and unhappy places and makes citizens tired and prosaic is the breakdown of human-nature transplantation which has unfortunately been neglected in recent years in urban development and the urbanization system of the country. The importance of social health in today's densely populated and polluted cities is one of the main factors in attention to urban green spaces. Today, in many cities in the world, the development of health and social welfare policies in cities has emphasized on the availability of urban green spaces in the closest accessible areas for residential areas and workplaces. In the present study the optimal deployment of urban green spaces in the zone 8 of Tabriz has been assessed. Zone 8 as the central texture of Tabriz which has mainly a commercial-residential role (given the prevailing commercial role) receives a massive population from different parts of the city and even the province during certain times of the day. However only a few pieces of green space have been built in this zone. Regarding this issue, it is necessary to pay attention to the construction and optimal location of urban green space in accordance with demographic needs of the region.
Research Paper
Geomorphology
Mohammad Ali Zanganeh Asadi; Abolghasem Amirahmadi; ali akbar shayan yeganeh
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Geotourism, encourages tourism into geosite and conservation of geodiversity and an understanding of earth sciences. One way to effectively protection and conservation geodiversity is that valuable parts such as geoheritage (geological and geomorphological heritage) are protect and conserved. Most ...
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Geotourism, encourages tourism into geosite and conservation of geodiversity and an understanding of earth sciences. One way to effectively protection and conservation geodiversity is that valuable parts such as geoheritage (geological and geomorphological heritage) are protect and conserved. Most of human-scale geological materials are non-renewable. Geoparks are special territories with a development plan that their aim is protection of geological heritage (and other natural resources) while preserving the cultural identity of local communities. Iran has a wide range of geological and geomorphological phenomena that geotourism recently formed and located during the early stages of development. The paper attempts to analyze and evaluate based on geomorphosites and geosites in West of Khorasan Razavi, one of the common methods (method Brilha), could be offered the optimal mechanism for the protection and benefit of geodiversity (geoconservation).
Research Paper
Climatology
Kamran Zeinalzadeh; Neda Khanmohammadi
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Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is one of the important factors to determine crop water requirement. Accurate estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) value has a very important role in water resources management and optimizing agricultural water consumption. In other words, calculating the ...
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Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is one of the important factors to determine crop water requirement. Accurate estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) value has a very important role in water resources management and optimizing agricultural water consumption. In other words, calculating the accurate values of this parameter plays an important role in irrigation planning and consequently existent water resources management.
Research Paper
Jalile Shams; Albrous Alizadeh
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Massive movements, especially landslides, are one of the most important natural disasters. Landslides endanger people's lives with environmental degradation, their resources and assets. Existence of factors such as prerequisites for roughness, uncontrolled exploitation ...
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Massive movements, especially landslides, are one of the most important natural disasters. Landslides endanger people's lives with environmental degradation, their resources and assets. Existence of factors such as prerequisites for roughness, uncontrolled exploitation of forests, non-observance of technical principles for the construction and maintenance of forest and rural roads, lack of proper management and unconditional exploitation of existing resources have exacerbated it. Landslides cause significant damage financially and morally compared to natural hazards such as volcanoes and floods (GOSTI 2005: 408). The landslide every year causes many deaths and injuries in many parts of the world (Abedini et al., 2013), which necessitates the attention to this dangerous phenomenon. The research area in the area of about 9000 square kilometers of the Azerbaijani desert along the east and west to the north of the Aras and the west of the valley of Diz and its east is Qarshou and in the south of Ahar, and from Kasba to the Dare Dize valley along the northwestern slopes of the southern Karnatagh is.
Research Paper
Climatology
amanollah fathnia; hamid rahimi; Shoaieb Abkharabat
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Siberian high pressure (SHP) is synoptic system that during the autumn and winter seasons on Asia is religious (Msaudian and Kaviani, 2009: 15). In the cold term of the year, the vast Siberian territory due to the clear sky and away from water sources, the more energy through the long wave radiation ...
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Siberian high pressure (SHP) is synoptic system that during the autumn and winter seasons on Asia is religious (Msaudian and Kaviani, 2009: 15). In the cold term of the year, the vast Siberian territory due to the clear sky and away from water sources, the more energy through the long wave radiation loses, thereupon the around air of land gradually adjacent to becomes cold high-pressure center.
Research Paper
Climatology
Yousef Ghavidel Rahimi; Manuchehr Farajzadeh; masood salehian
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Nowadays, Climate change is a hot topic engaging the scientists around the world as a cause for future human and environmental crises. It has been generally accepted that the main cause for climate change should be increases in the content of atmospheric carbon dioxide due to excessive burning of fossil ...
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Nowadays, Climate change is a hot topic engaging the scientists around the world as a cause for future human and environmental crises. It has been generally accepted that the main cause for climate change should be increases in the content of atmospheric carbon dioxide due to excessive burning of fossil fuels, esp. in industrial countries. In the 19th century, scientists realized that gases in the atmosphere cause a "greenhouse effect" which affects the planet's temperature. These scientists were interested chiefly in the possibility that a lower level of carbon dioxide gas might explain the ice ages of the distant past. At the turn of the century, Svante Arrhenius calculated that emissions from human industry might someday bring a global warming. Other scientists dismissed his idea as faulty. In 1938, G.S. Callendar argued that the level of carbon dioxide was climbing and raising global temperature, but most scientists found his arguments implausible. It was almost by chance that a few researchers in the 1950s discovered that global warming truly was possible. In the early 1960s, C.D. Keeling measured the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: it was rising fast. Researchers began to take an interest, struggling to understand how the level of carbon dioxide had changed in the past, and how the level was influenced by chemical and biological forces. They found that the gas plays a crucial role in climate change, so that the rising level could gravely affect our future.
Research Paper
Geomorphology
Somayeh Soltani-Gerdefaramarzi; Somayeh Asgari Varzideh; Mehdi Tazeh
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River morphology is the science of knowing the river system in terms of general shape, dimensions and characteristics of hydraulic geometry, the direction and longitudinal profile of the bed, as well as the mechanism of its changes. Morphological study is needed to understand the current conditions and ...
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River morphology is the science of knowing the river system in terms of general shape, dimensions and characteristics of hydraulic geometry, the direction and longitudinal profile of the bed, as well as the mechanism of its changes. Morphological study is needed to understand the current conditions and the potential for future river changes in the future, and perhaps it is only that it is possible to predict the natural behavior of the river in relation to natural changes or actions arising from the implementation of various river engineering projects. Most of the water structures such as dams, bridges and pumping stations are located in the margins of rivers that can be affected by changes in river morphology. Application of remote sensing images and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) can be effective to achieve a more accurate analysis. Today, land use change, vegetation cover and morphological changes of rivers in River Engineering Sciences are of great importance using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Yamani and Sharafi (2012) showed that morphological changes and erosion of the Herrud River from the upstream downstream has decreased. Also, the geological and lithological structures of the bed and river bank are the most important factors in the stability of the bed. Yousefi et al. (2013). In order to investigate the changes of some Meander parameters in the Karun River using Landsat satellite images, morphological parameters of 20 Meanders were determined in an interval of 128 km length of Karun River after the preparation of a land use map for each period. Rashidi et al. (2016) studied geomorphologic changes of the Karoon River bed and its causes from 1334 to 1391. The results indicate significant changes in river morphology including latitudes, meanders, and sedimentary islands due to the decrease in the discharge, the construction of multiple bridges along the path, geological factors and vegetation. The study of past research shows that the study of river morphology in other countries has also been of great importance. Clerici et al. (2015) examined the morphological changes of the Taro River in Italy over the last two centuries and showed that human beings have made the most of the changes for agricultural and industrial purposes, the construction of multiple bridges and casualization. According to the research, the main issue of this research is to investigate the changes in the Gamasiab River, which in recent years has threatened the communication paths, landscapes and, in summary, human structures along the river banks. Therefore, the objective is to study the variation of the morphology of the Gamasiab river from the point of view of the central radius and angle, and the number of archs during the 1990-2013 period, and the extent of the development of the piers.
Research Paper
malihe golzadeh; Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh; KARIM AMININIA; samad medadi
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Tourism is an important industry in almost every region of the planet. It touches the lives of most of the world’s population, employing numerous workers and contributing considerable percent of the global GDP. Tourism has long been identified as a powerful tool for development, spurring economic ...
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Tourism is an important industry in almost every region of the planet. It touches the lives of most of the world’s population, employing numerous workers and contributing considerable percent of the global GDP. Tourism has long been identified as a powerful tool for development, spurring economic growth, increasing foreign exchange, smallholder investment, and local employment. As increasing the importance of developing the tourism sector to facilitate the achievement of economic development, attention to different attractions of tourism such as sports tourism has increased in recent decades. Sport tourism as main part of tourism sector has attracted growing concern from in relation to multiple aspects, such as sustainable development and diversification of the national economy. To address these concerns, it is necessary to investigate planning for sport tourism development. It is widely acknowledged that planning is crucial to successful sport tourism development and management; and planning has been a widely adopted principle in sport tourism development at both regional and national. As such, experts suggest strategic planning can be considered in the planning process; and a strategic plan be practically made for this purpose. Current research aimed to investigate the role of role of infrastructures of Arasbaran area, East-Azerbaijan in the development of sports tourism and formulate appropriate strategies for improvement and greater use of the region''''s tourist attractions.
Research Paper
Zohreh Maryanaji; shima Rezaeei; Hamed Abbasi
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Frost refers to conditions in which the air temperature reaches zero or zero degrees Celsius at an altitude of about one to two meters from the ground. Almost every part of the economy may be affected by unexpected frostbite And in most cases, freezing occurs negatively. Freezing temperatures are zero ...
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Frost refers to conditions in which the air temperature reaches zero or zero degrees Celsius at an altitude of about one to two meters from the ground. Almost every part of the economy may be affected by unexpected frostbite And in most cases, freezing occurs negatively. Freezing temperatures are zero or less than zero. The term "frost" means that the temperature is zero or less than that in a given region. Because of the importance and application of forecast freezing and regional economic development planning Attempts were made to investigate the changes and the beginning and end of the ice in the western regions of Iran during a twenty-year period, using the general data of the atmospheric circulation data and its changes.
Research Paper
Climatology
Reza Mokarian; Hossein Sedghi; Samira Nemati; Hossein Babazadeh
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Evaporation is the important factor that affects temperature, drought severity and water storage in the hydrological cycle and plays an important role on managing the water resources projects such as agricultural irrigation. Classification of datasets is useful for concisely system modeling purposes. ...
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Evaporation is the important factor that affects temperature, drought severity and water storage in the hydrological cycle and plays an important role on managing the water resources projects such as agricultural irrigation. Classification of datasets is useful for concisely system modeling purposes. By classification, a large number of datasets is reduced to a small number of groups. In the field of hydrological systems, classification of meteorological stations into homogeneous groups will be useful to consider a different scale of measure, which is suitable to each group. Such classification can lead to choice methods appropriate for each group for management of water resources in various regions. Classification will also be useful for prediction of events such as droughts. Moreover, in the case of estimating missing data, the corresponding data of the representative station determined using a classification technique can be successfully substituted (Raju and Kumar 2007). stations. Dikbas et al. (2011) applied the FCM method to classify the precipitation series and identify the hydrologically homogeneous groups in Turkish. Regional homogeneity test results showed that regions determined by the FCM approach are sufficiently homogeneous for regional frequency analysis. In the present study, the practical applicability of two classification methods, namely fuzzy c-means (FCM) cluster analysis and Kohonen artificial neural networks (KANN), is examined for grouping 97 evaporation stations in Iran into homogeneous groups. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. First, a description of the case study is presented. After introducing the applied methods, results obtained are presented and discussed and conclusion drawn.
Research Paper
Climatology
Mahmoud Houshyar; Behrooz Sobhani; Seyed Asaad Hosseini
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With the seriousness of the climate change debate in the world, the study of parameters and elements of the climate has been widely considered. With changes in climate patterns and changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, other components such as runoff and soil moisture, which are important ...
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With the seriousness of the climate change debate in the world, the study of parameters and elements of the climate has been widely considered. With changes in climate patterns and changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, other components such as runoff and soil moisture, which are important for natural and human systems, will undergo metamorphosis. Therefore, long-term prediction of climatic variables has been considered by many scientific communities worldwide in order to know about their changes and considering the necessary measures to moderate the adverse effects of climate change. The phenomenon of climate change is of increasing importance due to its scientific and practical dimensions, since human systems dependent on climatic elements such as agriculture, industry and the like are designed and operated on the basis of the stability and stability of the climate. Accordingly, general circulation models (GCMs) have been developed. Although these models represent significant results on the atmospheric and continental spatial scales, they combine a large part of the complexity of the planet's system, but they are inherently unable to control the dynamics and forms with a fine grid Local scalability. Therefore, an assessment of the effect of climate change on a local scale requires an interim and spatial gap between large-scale climatic variables and meteorological variables with local scale, in which case the main approach is the same downscaling models. The SDSM model is one of the most widely used statistical microscopic instruments, which has many uses in meteorological, hydrological, geographic and environmental studies. Because in this method, large-scale daily circulation patterns are used on a stationary scale; and when used for the rapid and cost-effective estimation of climate change, and for randomized meteorological generators and modified functions, have given acceptable results. Given that global models have generally simulated climatic elements until the year 2100, it is possible to use global model data to simulate the desired variables such as precipitation and temperature on a station scale. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has used its latest assessment report (AR5) on new scenarios for the RCP as representatives of different levels of greenhouse gas emissions. The new emission scenarios have four key paths RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6 and RCP8.5, which are named after their radiation in 2100, Future Perspective. The variation of the maximum temperatures of the synoptic station of Urmia during the period (2021-2050) of the CanESM2 global model has been used under three scenarios RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5.
