Article
Long-Term Spatiotemporal Evolution of Annual and Seasonal Aridity Across Saudi Arabia
2026-04-20
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Understanding long-term aridity variability is critical for sustainable water-resource management in arid regions. This study assesses spatiotemporal trends and abrupt regime shifts in the annual and seasonal aridity index (AI) across Saudi Arabia during 1985–2022 using data from a multi-station meteorological network. The AI was calculated as the ratio of precipitation to potential eva...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3e8498fb-6298-56e5-8429-0d3a9c0750ad
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9238358/v1
