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Numbers represent approximate surface area during normal conditions per year. The Caspian Sea while conventionally seen by some as a lake is excluded on a technicality of having a terrain and ecosystem of a small ocean or sea rather than a lake.
Music used: youtube.com/watch?v=vj050yBo0iY
Sources on data of shrunken lake sizes:
- Miscellaneous Series, Issue 89. United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920.- Narama, Chiyuki & Kubota, Jumpei & Shatravin, V.I. & Duishonakunov, Murataly & Moholdt, Geir & Abdrakhmatov, K. (2010). The lake-level changes in Central Asia during the last 1000 years based on historical map. Proceedings of International Workshop on "Reconceptualizing Cultural and Environmental Change in Central Asia: A Historical Perspective on the Future. 11-27.- Rodionov, S. Global and Regional Climate Interaction: The Caspian Sea Experience. Netherlands: Springer Netherlands, 1994.
- Zhang, Yujie, Ninglian Wang, Xuewen Yang, and Zhonglei Mao. 2022. "The Dynamic Changes of Lake Issyk-Kul from 1958 to 2020 Based on Multi-Source Satellite Data" Remote Sensing 14, no. 7: 1575.
Numbers represent approximate surface area during normal conditions per year. The Caspian Sea while conventionally seen by some as a lake is excluded on a technicality of having a terrain and ecosystem of a small ocean or sea rather than a lake.
Music used: youtube.com/watch?v=vj050yBo0iY
Sources on data of shrunken lake sizes:
- Miscellaneous Series, Issue 89. United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920.- Narama, Chiyuki & Kubota, Jumpei & Shatravin, V.I. & Duishonakunov, Murataly & Moholdt, Geir & Abdrakhmatov, K. (2010). The lake-level changes in Central Asia during the last 1000 years based on historical map. Proceedings of International Workshop on "Reconceptualizing Cultural and Environmental Change in Central Asia: A Historical Perspective on the Future. 11-27.- Rodionov, S. Global and Regional Climate Interaction: The Caspian Sea Experience. Netherlands: Springer Netherlands, 1994.
- Zhang, Yujie, Ninglian Wang, Xuewen Yang, and Zhonglei Mao. 2022. "The Dynamic Changes of Lake Issyk-Kul from 1958 to 2020 Based on Multi-Source Satellite Data" Remote Sensing 14, no. 7: 1575.
