Modeling blue and green water availability in Africa

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Schuol, Jürgen ^a,b   Abbaspour, Karim C ^a   Yang, Hong ^a   Srinivasan, Raghavan ^c   Zehnder, Alexander J B ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOW OF WATER; FLUID MECHANICS; FORECASTING; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEQUENTIAL SWITCHING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; AQUIFER RECHARGING; BLUE WATER; FOOD SECURITY; GREEN WATER; GREEN WATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL-BASED; SEQUENTIAL UNCERTAINTY FITTING; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOLS; SOIL-WATER; SUB BASINS; VIRTUAL WATER TRADE; WATER SCARCITY; WATER YIELDS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; PREDICTION; RECHARGE; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER YIELD;

AFRICA;

EID: 53649110148     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006609     Document Type: Article

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