The Aral Sea, Central Asian Countries and Climate Change in the 21st Century

to the drop in sea level and contraction of its water surface, is characterized by changes in Unfortunately, the problem of the Aral Sea is not the Aral Sea region climate and defined as arid the only one of its kind; it is part of the global warming with the continuing probability of cold process of desertification and loss of natural periods [Zavyalov P. [...] the world at over 4 million km2 and is bordered in the northwest by Russia, in the south by Iran Geographical location of the region in the zone and Afghanistan, and in the east by Russia and of inland deserts and its remoteness from the China. [...] The Aral Sea basin includes the the west to the Sarykol and Kakshaal Too basins of the rivers Amu Darya, Syr Darya, Chu, ridges, Kungei Alatau and Zailiski Alatau ridges Talas, Assy, Sary-Su, Turgai and a number of in the east, from the watersheds of the Atrek, small undrained rivers, as well as the basins of Tejen, Murgab rivers and the Hindukush the Tejen and Atrek rivers [Baidal M. [...] mountain range in the south to the watersheds However, the northern provinces of Afghanistan of the Turgai and Ubagan rivers and the and Iran are still factored into the water balance Mugodzhar hills in the north. [...] The length of the river from in its upper reaches, the main features of the the confluence of the Naryn and Karadarya Naryn and Karadarya Rivers' regime.