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Lake Urmia, the largest domestic lake in Iran due to climate change and lack of attention to sustainable development in the past two decades, has lost a significant part of its area. The contaminated bed of dried lakes is one of the main centers of dust generation.These materials are transported along with the wind to distant areas and have an irreversible impact on human health and the environment, so it is very important to determine the sources of dust production on the lake of Urmia to reduce the adverse effects of it.In this study, after determining the arid areas in the Lake Urmia basin using the Angstrom Exponent (AE) and the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), an index has been introduced...