Final results are summarized in the form of 21 Technical Notes and available for the following topics and sub-projects:
Groundwater recharge
- Groundwater recharge estimation for the Western Mountain Aquifer with the Soil & Water Assessment Tool
- Hydro-Pedo-Transfer Functions (HPTFs) for prediction of groundwater recharge in karst aquifers under Mediterranean climate
- Development of a neural network to calculate groundwater recharge in karstified aquifers
- Comparison of methods to calculate groundwater recharge for the karstic Western Mountain Aquifer
Groundwater flow
- A Karst Conduit Probability Map for the Western Mountain Aquifer using a stochastic modeling approach
- Single-continuum MODFLOW model of the Western Mountain Aquifer
- Variably saturated dual-continuum flow modeling to assess distributed infiltration and storage in the vadose zone
- Comparison of modeling approaches for the simulation of surface and subsurface flow dynamics in complex fractured-porous karst aquifers
Ecosystem services
- Current and future ecosystem services provided by the Western Aquifer Basin
- Quantification of ecosystem services flows to Israel
Virtual water
- Quantification of Israel’s virtual water fluxes
- Energy and carbon balance of Israel’s domestic and imported virtual water supply
Water management
- Comparison of 3km and 8km-resolution climate simulations with COSMO-CLM for the recharge zone of the Western Mountain Aquifer until 2070
- Scenario analysis for the prediction of future groundwater resources in the Western Mountain Aquifer
- Mooflow: A generalized framework for basin-scale multi-objective simulation-optimization with MODFLOW
- Concept of a web-based Decision Support System and live-processing tool
Global transfer
- Characterization of the Mount Soprano-Vesole-Chianello karst aquifer in southern Italy for modeling groundwater recharge and flow
- Impact of climate change on a Mediterranean karst aquifer under active management: the example of the Lez spring in southern France
- Creating high-resolution land use and soil moisture maps from remote sensing data
- Development of a classification scheme for carbonate aquifers in the Mediterranean region
- Calculating groundwater stress of Mediterranean karst aquifers and estimating their vulnerability to climate change on a global scale
A collection of all Technical Notes can be downloaded in the form of the final MedWater report.