“From a hydrologic point of view, has been identified as the hottest place on earth,” he says. He says the Lut Desert is one of the “exceptional” places in the world and has “special features.” He says they learned that underground water resources existed in some areas in Lut, but that, “We don’t know the volume and size of these desert water resources.” In an interview with the Persian-language Khabar Online news agency, the researcher weighed in on a whole range of issues related to his expertise, including reports that he has discovered subterranean water resource in Iran’s Lut Desert.Īghakouchak said he along with a research team had toured the desert several times to conduct research work. The results of his surveys have been published in well-known magazines. Moreover, those who set up camps are well rewarded when the sun sets to prepare the ground for a very bright moon and extremely vivid stars to show off in the absolutely clear sky of the desert.Aghakouchak, an associate professor at the University of California, is one of the most renowned researchers and experts in hydrologic sciences and has managed key research projects in the field of hydrology, including drought. Some visitors to Lut say it feels almost like walking across a seabed without water. The wintertime is itself a perfect excuse for a vacation but to some people, visiting a desert region sounds like “something else”. Nevertheless, the property possesses flora and fauna adapted to the harsh conditions including an interesting adapted insect fauna,” the UN body said. “The region has been described in the past as a place of ‘no life’ and information on the biological resources in this area is limited. It is home to giant Nebkha dune fields (dunes formed around plants) as well. The Lut Desert displays a wide variety of forms, including linear-, compound crescentic-, star-, and funnel-shaped dunes. Those areas consist of active dunes some reaching heights of 475 m and are amongst the largest dunes in the world. Consequently, the area possesses what is considered the world’s best examples of aeolian yardang landforms, as well as extensive stony deserts and dune fields.” “These long periods of strong winds propel sand grains at great velocity creating transportation of sediment and aeolian erosion on a colossal scale. A steep north-south pressure gradient develops across the region in spring and summer causing strong winds to blow across the area between June and October each year. The results will be announced by Friday, she added.Īs mentioned by the UN cultural body, the desert is situated in an interior basin surrounded by mountains, so it is in a rain shadow and, coupled with high temperatures, the climate is hyper-arid. The project is part of a program to commemorate the 6th anniversary of Lut Desert’s registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list, the official said. Based on the research, it was the hottest during 5 of the 7 years and had the highest temperature overall: 70.7☌ in 2005. Seven years of satellite temperature data analyzed by NASA showed in 2005 that the Lut Desert was the hottest place on Earth. It is the first time that a team of experts inside South Khorasan province start measuring Lut’s temperature, the director of the World Heritage said on Sunday. Known as one of the hottest places on Earth, the desert is encircled by the provinces of Kerman and Sistan- Baluchestan, and South Khorasan. TEHRAN – Early on Sunday, a team of experts commenced a mission to measure the temperature of the UNESCO-registered Lut desert.
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