Monitoring and forecasting groundwater storage dynamics in arid Wadi systems using GRACE/GRACE-FO satellite observations and XGBoost machine learning: Wadi El-Assiuti, Egypt (2003–2030)
Progressive groundwater depletion in arid regions represents one of the most critical water security challenges of the twenty-first century. Despite intensive agricultural abstraction in Egypt’s Wadi El-Assiuti since the 1990s, a continuous basin-scale assessment of groundwater storage dynamics has remained lacking. Th...