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• TITLE: Watershed Characterization of Wadi Aurnah, Western Arabian Peninsula

  AUTHORS: Mashael AL SAUD

  KEYWORDS: Watershed, Topographic Maps, ASTER, Arabian Peninsula

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Water Resource and Protection, Vol.1 No.5, November 24, 2009

  ABSTRACT: The Western part of Arabian Peninsula constitutes a shield-like mega-structure, in which mountain chains are oriented in the NW-SE direction. Along this mountainous region, surface runoff is almost diverted to-wards the Red Sea in the west. Thus, several catchment topographic units exist to capture rainfall water among them. Even tough, the precipitation rate in the Western part of Arabian Peninsula is low (i.e.