Hydrological response of a catchment to climate and land use changes in Tropical Africa: Case study south central Ethiopia

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 67-85

  Legesse, Dagnachew ^a,b   Vallet Coulomb, Christine ^a   Gasse, Françoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrological modelling; Land use change; Model calibration; Sensitivity analysis; Tropical Africa

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER RESOURCES;

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE CHANGE; MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

(CENTRAL); ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0037466502     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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