Falling Lake Victoria water levels: Is climate a contributing factor?

Climatic Change

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 281-297

  Awange, Joseph L ^a   Ogalo, Laban ^b   Bae, Kwang Ho ^a   Were, Paul ^c   Omondi, Philip ^b   Omute, Paul ^a   Omullo, Monica ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre ICPAC   (Kenya)

^c MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; DROUGHT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FLUID MECHANICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

BASIN DISCHARGE; BUSINESS MEDIA; CLIMATE INDICATORS; CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATIC INDICATORS; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; CYCLIC TRENDS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM (DFT); HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATIONS; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE VICTORIA; LAKE VICTORIA BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGES; STRONG CORRELATIONS; TREND ANALYSIS;

LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; RAINFALL; RIVER DISCHARGE; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 48749104232     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9409-x     Document Type: Article

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