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Israeli Hydrological Service
Israeli Meteorological Service
Israeli Soil Erosion Research Station
Jordanian Meteorological Department
Ministry of Water and Irrigation-Jordan
Palestinian Meteorological Office
Palestinian Water Authority

Compiled by the
U.S. Geological Survey

for the
Executive Action Team,
Middle East Water Data Banks Project

Click here to download a pdf file of the report (about 6 Mbytes).

Multilateral working groups, to advance the Middle East Peace Process, were formed in January 1992. One of these groups, the Working Group on Water Resources, endorsed the Water Data Banks Project in November 1994. The Water Data Banks Project consists of a series of specific actions to be taken by participating Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians (Core Parties) that were designed to foster the adoption of common, standardized data collection and storage techniques among the Parties, to improve the quality of the water-resources data collected in the region, and to improve communication among the scientific communities in the region. The project is managed by an Executive Action Team (EXACT) composed of water experts from Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian water-management agencies. Technical and financial support to EXACT is contributed by donor countries that include the United States, European Union, France, and the Netherlands. The authors of this report are Joseph Morin and Shmuel Arbel of the Israeli Soil Erosion Research Station, Avner Furshpan of the Israeli Meteorological Service, Gavriel Weinberger of the Israeli Hydrological Service, Efrat Morin of Hebrew University, Issa Al-Nsour, Zakaria Haj-Ali and Najib Sabbagh of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation-Jordan, Moh'd Semawi and Khaled Sewafteh of the Jordanian Department of Meteorology, Yousef Abu Asad and Ali Abu Eid of the Palestinian Meteorological Office, and Sami Hamdan and Adel Yasin of the Palestinian Water Authority. Numerous other members of the above-named institutions contributed to this project. Contributions from the Core Parties were compiled by Charles Parrett and Daniel J. Goode of the U.S. Geological Survey. Ted Campbell of the U.S. Geological Survey (now at North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources) provided technical leadership throughout this project. The software described in this report was developed in cooperation with Ron Eaglin of the University of Central Florida and Or Cohen of the Israeli Soil Erosion Research Station.

2006

Click here to download a pdf file of the report (about 6 Mbytes).

Click here to download a pdf file of a supplemental radar analysis of rainfall intensity in the Mujib Basin (about 700 Kbytes).

All data and basemaps from the authors' respective water agencies.