NDLI: Projected climate change impacts upon dew yield in the Mediterranean basin.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Abou Najm, M. Beysens, D. El-Fadel, M. Alameddine, I. Bou Zeid, E. Tomaszkiewicz, M.
Description	Country affiliation: Lebanon Author Affiliation: Tomaszkiewicz M ( Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.); Abou Najm M ( Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. Electronic address: majdian@aub.edu.lb.); Beysens D ( Physique et Mecanique des Milieux Heterogenes, UMR 7636 CNRS - ESPCI, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Universite Paris Diderot, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France); Alameddine I ( Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.); Bou Zeid E ( Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States.); El-Fadel M ( Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.)
Abstract	Water scarcity is increasingly raising the need for non-conventional water resources, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. In this context, atmospheric moisture can potentially be harvested in the form of dew, which is commonly disregarded from the water budget, although its impact may be significant when compared to rainfall during the dry season. In this study, a dew atlas for the Mediterranean region is presented illustrating dew yields using the yield data collected for the 2013 dry season. The results indicate that cumulative monthly dew yield in the region can exceed 2.8mm at the end of the dry season and 1.5mm during the driest months, compared to <1mm of rainfall during the same period in some areas. Dew yields were compared with potential evapotranspiration (PET) and actual evapotranspiration (ET) during summer months thus highlighting the role of dew to many native plants in the region. Furthermore, forecasted trends in temperature and relative humidity were used to estimate dew yields under future climatic scenarios. The results showed a 27% decline in dew yield during the critical summer months at the end of the century (2080).
ISSN	00489697
Journal	Science of The Total Environment
Volume Number	566-567
e-ISSN	18791026
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2016-10-01
Publisher Place	Netherlands
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Discipline Environmental Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Environmental Chemistry Waste Management and Disposal Pollution Environmental Engineering

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