Comparing available rainfall gridded datasets for West Africa and the impact on rainfall-runoff modelling results, the case of Burkina-Faso

Water SA

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 529-536

  Mahe, Gil ^a   Girard, Sabine ^a   New, Mark ^b   Paturel, Jean Emmanuel ^c   Cres, Agnes ^a   Dezetter, Alain ^c   Dieulin, Claudine ^a   Boyer, Jean François ^a   Rouche, Nathalie ^a   Servat, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Database; Rainfall; Rainfall runoff modelling; Runoff; West Africa

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; RAIN;

BURKINA FASO; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERPOLATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION GRIDS; RAINFALL - RUNOFF MODELLING; RAINFALL SIMULATIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WEST AFRICA;

RUNOFF;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 55249107164     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v34i5.180650     Document Type: Article

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